E. Katherine Kerr, an award-winning actress, translates her unique keys of acting into how to manifest a fulfilled life. It is based on her 30 years experience teaching acting and a two-day transformational workshop called The Creative Explosion. Tony award winning actress, Faith Prince declared, "I enrolled in her powerful Creative Explosion workshop. My career and my life have never been the same. I now know how to be fully present on stage and off. The Four Principles are life altering. Do yourself a favor and read this book." Kerr taught acting in New York City and master classes at NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Queen's College in Ontario, and International Centre at Herstmonceux, England. After 30 years helping actors, singers, writers, and people not directly related in the arts manifest their dreams and hearts' desires, Kerr puts her experience and expertise into this powerful book. It is personal, humorous, and as full of compassion as Kerr is.
About the Author: E. Katherine Kerr won an Obie, a Villager Award, and a Drama Desk nomination in New York City for her portrayal of three characters in CLOUD 9 Off B'way. She was nominated again for a Drama Desk award for playing all the women in Christopher Durang's LAUGHING WILD. Also at Playwrights Horizons she played two characters in David Greenspan's SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY, and in a rare single role, appeared as Tess in Keith Bunin's THE CREDEAUX CANVAS. Perhaps the greatest number of roles she played in one play were the 14 characters in Jane Wagner's SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE at the Hanger Theatre in Ithaca, NY. No stranger to multiple roles in life as well as on stage, Kerr is not only an actress, director, and author; she is an acting teacher and seminar leader. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Yale, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Playwright's Horizons Theatre School, and at the International Centre at the Herstmonceux Castle in England. Expanding on the four principles Kerr developed for teaching acting, she created a two day seminar entitled THE CREATIVE EXPLOSION. This powerful workshop applies these same principles she teaches in acting for self-empowerment. The workshop has been ongoing four or five times a year in Connecticut for the last 30 years. It is the basis for her book THE FOUR PRINCIPLES: APPLYING THE FOUR KEYS OF AUTHENTIC ACTING TO LIFE. As a writer, Kerr's play, JUNO'S SWANS, a comedy about sisters, was produced at Second Stage in New York City. Combining writing with directing, Kerr staged a workshop of her play INTELLIGENT DEZYNE: A DIVINE COMEDY at the Fairfield Theater Company in 2007. She wrote and starred in her comedy, THE EDGE OF CHAOS presented at the Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her one-woman show, ON THE ZIP LINE was performed at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York City and in Kingston, Canada at Queen's College. As an actress, Kerr's film roles include Harriet Tollman in SONGCATCHER, the Attorney General in THE SIEGE, Congresswoman Grace Comisky in SUSPECT, Gilda Schultz in SILKWOOD, Mary Lee Ochs in CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, Irene Furman in POWER, and Lucille Haxby in REUBED, REUBED, among others. She has appeared many times on LAW AND ORDER and in recurring roles on GUIDING LIGHT, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and ALL MY CHILDREN. On Broadway, her leading roles include Dee Jacobson, in NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY, Blanche Cooke in NIGHT WATCH, and Nell, opposite Frank Langella in PASSION.