Bella Merlin

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research interests: acting, Shakespeare, Directing, verbatim, song-writing
affiliation: University of California, Riverside
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Bella Merlin, PhD, is an actor, writer and professor of acting and directing at the University of California, Riverside. Acting includes Mente Revolver by award-winning filmmaker Alejandro Ramirez; seasons at Shakespeare & Company, Massachusetts; Colorado Shakespeare Company; the National Theatre, UK;, Out of Joint Theatre Company, UK. Publications include Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence with Tina Packer (Routledge 2020); Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright (Nick Hern Books, 2016); Acting: The Basics (third edition forthcoming; 2023); The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (revised edition, 2014); Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Actor-Training (Nick Hern Books, 2001) and Konstantin Stanislavsky: Routledge Performance Practitioners (second edition, 2018). Original works include: Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love (directed by Miles Anderson with soundscape by David Roesner) and Nell Gwynne: A Dramaticke Essaye on Acting and Prostitution (directed by Miles Anderson).

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  • The Document as Music. Exploring the musicality of verbatim material in performance (2018) author(s): David Roesner, Bella Merlin published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    During a four-week fellowship at the LMU Munich in 2016, Bella Merlin (UC Riverside, USA) and David Roesner (Theatre Studies, LMU Munich) investigated the relationship between original interview material and its (musical) staging. In particular, they explored the ethics and aesthetics that musicalisation might present in relation to the speech patterns, vocal inflections and rhythms of their interview partners from across three generations in three different countries. In this article they will draw conclusions from their working process, which address questions about verbatim theatre and musicality beyond their particular study.
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