C. Stephen Foster 
Awakening the Actor Within 
A Twelve-Week Workbook to Recover and Discover Your Acting Talents

‘Awakening The Actor Within’ is a 12-week workbook aimed at helping actors recover and discover their highest goals and ambitions. It’s ‘The Artist’s Way’ for actors!
It focuses on the subject of helping actors heal from acting ‘blocks’ and getting the courage to act again after being discouraged or disappointed.
A spirited workbook that initiates creative expansion and growth for actors. It aims to free an actor’s creativity and build a healthy ‘acting’ foundation with a simple, friendly, approach called Acting Practice.
The user-friendly workbook teaches actors to form healthy acting habits and rebuild confidence as it guides actors through a series of daily and weekly exercises that empower them with practical tools to overcome their ‘blocks’ (fear, anger, self-loathing, jealousy, self-sabotage, and money).
The workbook is set up in a 3 act ‘screenplay’ structure.
ACT ONE: Weeks 1-4 focus on dismantling old blocks and creating a solid foundation
ACT TWO: Weeks 5-6 focus on working on scripts, character, acting technique and AUDITIONS
ACT THREE: Weeks 7-12 focus on marketing and branding your talents.

About the author

C. Stephen Foster is an actor/writer currently living in Hollywood . He has performed in theater, TV and film. He is the lead in the independent movie ‘Off Hollywood’ and working on a TV pilot called ‘Exposed.’ As a stand-up comedian he’s played the Comedy Store, Improve and Laugh Factory. He wrote and starred in ‘Legends and Bridge, ‘ ‘Attitudes and the Dance, ‘ and ‘Divanalysis’ which earned rave reviews and award nominations. Foster’s screenplay ‘Rainbow Sticker’ was a finalist in the Hollywood Gateway Screenplay Contest, the Find the Funny Screenplay Contest, and the Page International Screenplay contest. Foster co-wrote the book to the hit musical ‘The Green Room’. He has taught the workshop of this course for over a decade.