Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without feedback from the hundreds of students who attended my directing workshops at Columbia University. Their probing questions and impassioned work forced me to constantly clarify my teaching to better serve them, and I thank them one and all. I am also immensely grateful to my colleagues for their support, especially Bette Gordon and Tom Kalin, and for any of their wisdom I may have purloined without attribution.

I owe sincere gratitude to my colleague James Goldstone for his dedicated reading of the manuscript and for his valuable suggestions, and to Andy Pawelczak and my son Ted Proferes for their astute editorial contributions. I thank the following students: Branislav Bala for his ...

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