About the Author

Cathy Haase, a native New Yorker and actress, has landed major roles in vehicles running the filmmaking gamut from Berlin avant-garde to Hollywood action. She is at home in a variety of roles, such as the stripper Danny Lee in a gritty adaptation of Jim Thompson’s The Kill-Off, the wisecracking bartender in Another 48 Hrs., the stoic pioneer of The Ballad of Little Jo, or the Austrian ambassador on CBS’s Madame Secretary. A complete list of her on-camera work can be found on IMDb.com.

She has taught all levels of acting for stage and screen at many prestigious institutions, including the School of Visual Arts, City College, and Marymount College in New York City, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In Europe, her intensive workshops in character development and improvisation can be found at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (Dffb) and as part of the Film Acting Workshops at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in collaboration with the region’s acting academies.

She is a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio, where she has also taught sense-memory workshops. She resides in Manhattan and is married to artist, fisherman, and scientific illustrator Steve Thurston. This is the second edition of her first book, Acting for Film.