Your Dog Ate My Shoe

This is the first book in the series of short one to three-minute exercises for young actors. This first volume contains one hundred eleven scenes of different levels of difficulty for actors as young as six years old to late teens and young adults.

Each generation deserves its own voice. Therefore, in contrast to other acting books written for teens by adults, this book was written by their peer.

Each scene is provided with a b-code that describes for what age range and gender identification it is suitable to be performed. Scenes were constructed in a way that it would be easy for the young actor to perform them with their acting coach, parent or colleague.

All scenes are formatted according to the standard script formatting guidelines and are ready to be copied and handed over to other actors if required for reading. Please note for environmental reasons, both sides of the page are used.

The book is intentionally printed on non-glossy paper and is meant to be scribbled on. Please make it your own, take it with you to your acting lesson, and put your thoughts and findings in pencil or ink.

Please note this book is published not-for-profit but for practical reasons, as it is easier to have scenes in this form.

At the time of publishing (October 2023) All of scenes in this book can be downloaded for free from the official website https://www.bcacting.com where they were originally published between April and September 2023.

"Your Dog Ate My Shoe" is a citation from one of the very first scenes written for this book. The subtitle of the book "Etudes For Young Actors Op. 1" is inspired by music books, étude in French means an exercise, and opus is a collection of works. As actors use their bodies as an instrument to perform truthful emotions, there's no better subtitle that I could imagine.