Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud -- Stanislavsky and politics : active analysis and the American legacy of Soviet oppression / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Actor training meets historical thinking / Jonathan Chambers -- The politics of Western pedagogy in the theatre of India / Chandradasan -- Degrees of choice / Leigh Woods -- Training artists or consumers? Commentary on American actor training / Lissa Tyler Renaud -- Changing demographics : where is diversity in theatre programs in higher education and national associations? / Donna B. Aronson -- The wild, wild East : report on the politics of American actor training overseas / Lissa Tyler Renaud -- Beyond race and gender : reframing diversity in actor-training programs / David Eulus Wiles -- "Typed" for what? / Mary Cutler -- "They accused me of bein' a homosexual" : playing Kerry Cook in The exonerated / Derek S. Mudd -- Identity politics and the training of Latino actors / Micha Espinosa and Antonio Ocampo-Guzman -- Keeping it real without selling out : toward confronting and triumphing over racially-specific barriers in American acting training / Venus Opal Reese -- Disability and access: a manifesto for actor training / Victoria Ann Lewis -- Arrested or paralyzed? Reflections on the erotic life of an acting teacher / Ellen Margolis.