KAYLA FELDMAN
Writer & director
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recommended reading
One of the questions I get asked the most by my students is what books and plays I recommend, because it can be a bit daunting if you don't know where to start. If I've left any off these lists that you think are incredibly important, feel free to get in touch.
ActinG
The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan
The Actor's Art and Craft by Damon DiMarco and William Esper
Actions: The Actor's Thesaurus by Marina Calderone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams
Tackling Text [and Subtext] by Barbara Houseman
The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart
Maybe I Don't Belong Here by David Harewood
DIRECTING
Different Every Night by Mike Alfreds
Notes On Directing by Frank Hauser and Russell Reich
The Director's Craft by Katie Mitchell
The Field of Drama by Martin Esslin
The Art of the Artistic Director by Christopher Haydon
Creating Worlds: How to Make Immersive Theatre by Jason Warren
A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart
Directing by Rob Swain
The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
Taking Stage by Helen Manfull
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
Contemporary Women Stage Directors by Paulette Marty
WRITING
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
How To Be A Poet by Jane Commane and Jo Bell
100 Essays I Don't Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl
Playwriting by Stephen Jeffries
The No Rules Handbook For Writers by Lisa Goldman
Into the Woods by John Yorke
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
Being A Playwright by Chris Foxon and George Turvey
Plays
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs by Iman Qureshi
Original Death Rabbit by Rose Heiney
Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Shook by Samuel Bailey
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
This is War by Hannah Moscovitch
Love Steals Us From Loneliness by Gary Owen
Acceptance by Amy Ng
Hookman by Lauren Yee
Bottleneck by Luke Barnes
No One Will Tell Me How to Start a Revolution by Luke Barnes
Heroine by Nessa Muthy
Freak by Anna Jordan
My Mum’s A Twat by Anoushka Warren
Posh by Laura Wade
Wolfie by Ross Willis
The High Table by Temi Wilkey
Love and Other Acts of Violence by Cordelia Lynn
Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn
Blank by Alice Birch
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Violence and Son by Gary Owen
Julie by Polly Stenham (after Strindberg)
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
I’m Not Running by David Hare
A Hundred Words For Snow by Tatty Hennessy
Blood Knot by Athol Fugard
Downstate by Bruce Norris
Ramona Tells Jim by Sophie Wu
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye
The Duke by Shôn Dale-Jones
Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Midnight Movie by Eve Leigh
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Bull by Mike Bartlett
Barbecue by Robert O'Hara
What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill
Consent by Nina Raine
Linda by Penelope Skinner
The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi
Poet In Da Corner by Debris Stevenson
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind
Woyzeck by Georg Buchner
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Since U Been Gone by Tabby Lamb
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Lungs by Duncan MacMillan
Overflow by Travis Alabanza
Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
Indecent by Paula Vogel
Rotterdam by Jon Brittain
An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch