The training manual presents the system of education of the actor, based on the legacy of K. C. Stanislavsky and summarizing more than twenty years of practical experience of the author in training the actors of the workshop of Professor V. M. Filshtinsky and L . workshop In. Gracheva St Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts . In addition, the results of 10 years of activity of the laboratory of psychophysiology of performing arts created by L. are presented. In. Gracheva in the walls of the Academy of Theatre Arts together with the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Psychophysiological study of the mechanism of influence of many exercises and directions of training of actors confirms their effectiveness in the development of the psychophysical apparatus of the actor in the process of training. The manual is intended for students of theatrical universities . The book is also of interest to both theater and stage pedagogic practitioners and specialists in the field of psychophysiology of creativity .. ;Griff:Recommended by the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts as a training manual for the program "Acting skills"