title: How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love With You: Expert Advice on Acting Technique, Script Analysis, and Taking Risks
author:  Deryn Warren 
description: Deryn Warren is the author of the Heinemann Drama title How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love with You. She is an accomplished theater and feature film director, and she teaches professional actors in Los Angeles. Contact her at DerynWarren.com. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Deryn has directed three feature films, all of which were financial successes and were brought in on time and on budget. Deryn Warren's thriller, "Black Magic Woman," was released under the Trimark label. The film starring Mark Hamill and Apollonia was produced by Marc Springer and Deryn Warren with Deryn Warren directing. It had a theatrical release in the US and in Europe, where it continues to do well. Since its release, "Black Magic Woman" has trebled its original investment. Her previous two productions, "To the Devil a Son" and "Mirror of Death," both made more than four times their original investment. In addition to United Sates and international sales the films were also shown on Showtime and HBO. Deryn has co-written screenplays and can adapt them to meet the parameters of specific budgets. She also produces the film through post-production. Deryn Warren is "bondable" on even low budget features. This is unusual for low-budget filmmaking and is added protection for the investor.Deryn Warren has also worked as an actress in London, New York and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she directed prize winning plays including Angelica Huston in "A Garden Full of Snow." She is known for her ability to bring out exciting performances from actors, for her sense of story and for the pacing of her films. SIn addition to teaching at her own studio, she has taught The Art of Directing Actors at Arts Center in Pasadena..Streetlife Productions recently hired Deryn Warren to direct a comedy short to be used as a promo for funding a feature film. The short, "Sweet Tessie and Bags," is now being submitted to film festivals.
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  ## [Acknowledgments](9780062409287_Contents.xhtml#rack)
  
  
  Aside from a few Christmas pageants in my youth, I’ve never been part of a
  theater production in any form. In high school, though, I did have an odd
  tendency to date actors, and when I reached adulthood I had the good sense to
  marry an actor/singer/stage manager/managing director who cheerfully served as
  both the inspiration and the technical adviser for the book you hold in your
  hands (or on your screen). She’s the one to whom I sent a random text one
  afternoon asking if it would serve as a realistic story premise if I wrote
  about an extremely talented high school stage manager who was adamantly anti-
  actor, who then fell for an actor in spite of herself, and she’s the one who
  texted back, “Oooooooh, SURE.” And thus, after lots and lots of collaborative
  brainstorming and trips to watch local productions and an embarrassing number
  of hours spent watching performances on YouTube, _The Love Curse of Melody
  McIntyre_ came into b