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    Scenes for Teens, by Teens: A Collection by Diane Christiansen
    Scenes for Teens, by Teens: A Collection by Diane Christiansen
    Scenes for Teens, by Teens: A Collection by Diane Christiansen
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    Scenes for Teens, by Teens: A Collection by Diane Christiansen

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    Perhaps more than any other time of life, the teen years are a period associated with distinct social norms, and language patterns are especially important to the social dynamics of teenagers. Their characteristic communication style is their trademark; its one of the things that give this time of life such a unique flavor. For teenagers, their vernacular literally gives them entrance into the various subgroups of a culture that depends greatly on particular modes of communication.

    So what better way for a young actor to prepare than with the language of their peers? The up-to-date communication style in these sceneswritten by teens, for teensis what makes them so accessible to the teenaged actor.

    These scenes are playable and organic, with topics that are real and intuitive, and characters that are familiar to teens of the 21st Century. They can slip into these roles as readily as they slide into their own social circles.

    This is what todays teens can understand and relate to.

    Diane Christiansen has compiled scenes with the lingo, attitude, and content that provide much of the drama and comedy of a teenagers life.

    If you would like to contact Diane, please visit her website at: http://www.dianechristiansen.com/
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 17, 2010
    ISBN9781450218795
    Scenes for Teens, by Teens: A Collection by Diane Christiansen
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    Diane Christiansen

    Diane Christiansen began coaching actors in 1992. Recently voted "The #1 Top Rated Coach in Hollywood" by Children in Film. Acting coach on TLC's show FAKING IT & Danny Bonaduces My Kids A Star. Guest Director at Cal Arts, and recent recipient of the Mercy Award for a play festival in Santa Monica, CA. Her career spans three decades as actress, coach, director, dancer , writer. Diane coaches many acclaimed actors on shows like GLEE, Wizards of Waverly Place, GOOD TIME CHARLIE, SONNY WITH A CHANCE, CRIMINAL MINDS, GHOST WHISPERER, LOST, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, 24, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BEJAMIN BUTTON, STAR TREK, HOUSE, ALIAS, LAW & ORDER, COLD CASE, NYPD BLUE, ER, WITHOUT A TRACE, CAT IN THE HAT, BRUCE ALMIGHTY, 13 GOING ON 30, & ANTWONE FISHER to name a few. With students on 100's of commercials and recipients of Kids Choice, Golden Globe, C.A.R.E, Young Artist & SAG awards.

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      Scenes for Teens, by Teens - Diane Christiansen

      Scenes

      for Teens, by Teens

      Diane Christiansen

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      Scenes for Teens, by Teens

      A collection by Diane Christiansen

      Copyright © 2010 Diane Christiansen

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4502-1878-8 (pbk)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 5/12/10

      Table of Contents

      * Acknowledgements

      Scenes for Two Girls

      * TV Talk

      * My Tadpole Brother

      * What About Jordan?

      * My Dad Is …

      * Mom Needs a Man

      * What Happened to the New Guy?

      * Models and Comedians Don’t Mix

      * The Third Person

      * Diet Craze

      * Just Friends

      * Guys Don’t Listen

      * Saturday Night

      Scenes for Two Boys

      * Best Friends

      * Bet On Love

      Scenes for a Boy and a Girl

      * At Least I’ve Got a Date

      * Jacky and Chad

      * The Fight

      * Geeks and Jocks

      * Money Rules

      * Family TV Talk

      * " Tech Support

      I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

      - William Butler Yeats

      Acknowledgements

      I am grateful to a number of talented and visionary individuals for their assistance in completing this book. Because it is a collection of scenes written by my gifted and fabulous teen-aged acting students, I would like to thank them individually by listing their names under the scenes they wrote for this book, please note them by name as you read each scene. Many are working actors here in Hollywood. Each scene represents a chapter of their lives shared so generously with all of us and now to you. I feel this to be sacred work and I hold unconditional love for young actors so willing to reveal so much of themselves so completely. So, to each of them I am endlessly grateful. To the parents and families who provided lessons and drove them to classes and to auditions week after week to further their dreams and their careers. I wanted to thank you for your love, support, commitment to them and to our work. The young actor in Hollywood is not unlike any other teenager in America, with the same issues, the same growth patterns, the same desires and experiences. The only difference is that we hold it up to the light for all to view, on the big screen, the Television, in videos and on stage. This takes

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