An Actor S Business

Author : Jane Drake Brody
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472573704

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The Actor's Business Plan by Jane Drake Brody Pdf

The Actor's Business Plan is a self-directed practical guide for actors graduating from formal training programs, as well as for those already in the business whose careers need to move ahead more successfully. Using the familiar language of acting training, the book offers a method for the achievement of dreams through a five-year life and career plan giving positive steps to develop a happy life as an actor and as a person. It assists performers to flourish using the same kind of business/career planning that is a necessary part of life for entrepreneurs and business people. This introduction to the acting industry provides essential knowledge not only for how the business actually works, but also describes what casting directors, agents, and managers do, demystifies the role of unions, discusses how much things cost, and offers advice on branding and marketing strategies. It differs from other such handbooks in that it addresses the everyday issues of life, money, and jobs that so frequently destroy an actor's career before it is even begun. While addressing NYC and LA, the guide also gives a regional breakdown for those actors who may wish to begin careers or to settle in other cities. It is loaded with personal stories, and interviews with actors, casting directors, and agents from throughout the US. The Actor's Business Plan is the answer to the common complaint by students that they were not taught how to negotiate the show business world while at school. It is the perfect antidote for this problem and can easily fit into a ten or a thirteen-week class syllabus. Offering support as a personal career coach, empowering the actor to take concrete steps towards their life and career dreams, The Actor's Business Plan: A Career Guide for the Acting Life is a must-have book for actors who are determined to be a part of the professional world .

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Back Stage Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307875273

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Acting -- Make It Your Business by Paul Russell Pdf

Acting: Make It Your Business, written by an award-winning, veteran casting director, puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium - stage, film, TV, or the Internet - directly into the hands of the actor. This blunt, wise, and often hilarious guide overflows with cutting-edge audition, marketing, and networking strategies, combining traditional techniques with those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and powerful agents make cameos throughout, offering newcombers and working professionals alike a clear-eyed, uncensored perspective on survival and advancement within the entertainment industry. "Huorous and witty . . . Actors everywhere who are trying to succeed in the business, young or old, on stage or on camera, in New York or anywhere in the world, take note: This is your road map." - Bernard Telsey, casting director (Rent, Sex & The City: The Movie, Wicked) "All the right questions asked and answered . . . and with a generous portion of good humor." - Suzanne Ryan, casting director (Law & Order) "Paul's book made me proud to be a part of the acting community in this business we call 'show.'" - Karen Ziemba, actress, Tony and Drama Desk Award Winner From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Brian O'Neil
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345807083

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Acting as a Business by Brian O'Neil Pdf

An essential handbook for actors–a modern classic–in a newly updated edition. Since its original publication, Acting as a Business has earned a reputation as an indispensable tool for working and aspiring actors. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O’Neil provides clear-cut guidelines that will give actors a solid knowledge of the business behind their art. It’s packed with practical information–on everything from what to say in a cover letter to where to stand when performing in agent’s office–including: •How to craft a winning theatrical résumé •The most effective ways to join the performer’s unions •Tactics for getting an agent •Strategies for finding work in the theater, on daytime television, and in independent films •Navigating the different customs and cultures of New York and Los Angeles O’Neil has updated Acting as a Business to keep up with the latest show-business trends, including how best to use the Internet, making this new edition no actor should be without.

Author : Jonathan Flom
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810891609

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Act Like It's Your Business by Jonathan Flom Pdf

Many actors treat their profession as a purely artistic endeavor, rarely conceding that there is more to making a living than simply showing up on stage or in front of a camera. By refusing to seriously acknowledge that self-promotion is vital to their livelihoods, many performers can get quickly discouraged by the vicious circle of audition and rejection. However, with a little foresight and planning, actors can learn how to become their own best advocates for a career in the business of show. In Act Like It’s Your Business:Branding and Marketing Strategies for Actors, Jonathan Flom helps actors and others in the arts understand the power of branding. This guide walks the reader through the process of creating a personal brand for a small business and then marketing that brand and broadcasting it through every step of the process—from choosing clothing, arranging headshots, and designing resumes to selecting a repertoire, building a website, obtaining business cards, and networking. Flom also offers advice on such real-world issues as goal-setting, finances, contracts, and day jobs and provides insight and guidance on how to approach agents, auditions, and casting directors. A book of empowerment meant to shift the balance of control to actors themselves, Act Like It’s Your Business is aimed atprofessional performers as well as students who are getting ready to transition from college to career. Structured logically and step by step, this accessible guide will become the standard for nearly anyone hoping to build an enduring career in the performing arts.

Author : Carole Zucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136691249

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In the Company of Actors by Carole Zucker Pdf

In the Company of Actors is a wonderful ensemble of entertaining and illuminating discussions with sixteen of the most celebrated and prestigious actors in contemporary theatre, film and television. The impressive list of actors includes: Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Brenda Fricker, Nigel Hawthorne, Jane Lapotaire, Janet McTeer, Ian Richardson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Anthony Sher, Janet Suzman, David Suchet, and Penelope Wilton. Carole Zucker covers a wide range of topics including the actors' main childhood influences, their actor training, early acting experience, preparation for roles and sound advice for coping with actors' problems such as creative differences with other actors or directors.

Author : Bonnie Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0972301976

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Self-management for Actors by Bonnie Gillespie Pdf

"Self-Management for Actors will guide you through the process of taking control of your career from the business side of things. There is no secret method, there is no password entry system to the Working Actor Club. What does exist is a simple, self-management concept that allows you to handle the business of your acting career without losing the ability to be a creative artist."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert Woods
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781493059102

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Everyday Law for Actors by Robert Woods Pdf

Everyday Law for Actors is a resource and reference book, providing both professional working actors, and those who aspire to be, with clear, easy-to-read information about the everyday laws they need to know. The book is intended for actors just starting out, for those who have been making a living at acting for a long time, and for every actor in between. All actors can benefit from knowing more about the everyday law that affects their trade. Even well-established "stars" with a full team of lawyers, agents, managers, and business managers will still find this book useful because they can learn all about that "legalese" and "business mumbo jumbo" that maybe they never fully understood. Everyday Law for Actors features short chapters, numerous examples of legal principles in plain, understandable language, practical explanations about contract provisions and how to negotiate them, and useful and concise information about actors' unions, working with agents and managers, employment laws, landlord-tenant laws, and more. Actors are artists. But actors must also be smart business people. They don’t call it "show business" for nothing. With this book in hand, actors will be much better prepared to work the "business" side of "show business," and will have easy reference in one manageable volume to the wide variety of legal information they need to advance their careers.

Author : Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
Publisher : WBCSD
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 9782940240647

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A Business Guide to Development Actors by Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum Pdf

Author : Paul Clayton
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1848422814

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So You Want to Be a Corporate Actor? by Paul Clayton Pdf

A practical guide for actors who want to find work in the corporate sector, by a veteran with over 1400 corporate events to his credit. Thousands of actors in the UK make their living not from treading the boards but in the conference centres and training rooms of the nation's corporate sector. In this, the first book to be published about the increasingly accessible and lucrative business of corporate acting, Paul Clayton shows how this sort of work - training, coaching, role-plays, Forum Theatre and live events - can keep you in paid employment, and your skills sharp, whilst you look for other acting opportunities. He takes you through every aspect of the industry, with a series of practical examples and invaluable tips at every stage, including: What sort of work is available - and how you can get it The various role-play techniques you'll encounter The dos and don'ts for offering constructive feedback to your clients What Forum Theatre is - and how to do it How to handle live events - and escape with your dignity intact Written with humour and great insight, So You Want To Be A Corporate Actor? encourages you to look at your skills from a business point of view, enabling you to take control over your own career. It is a must-read for any actor wishing to broaden their skills and make themselves more employable at all stages of their career. 'For actors wishing to utilise their theatrical skills within the corporate world, this book should be their bible. It is crystal clear, informative and irreverent - and lays out in simple terms how actors need to think and present themselves to be employable.' Janet Rawson, Co-founder of Steps Drama Learning Development

Author : Andrew Reilly
Publisher : Venture Press (GA)
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1878853546

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An Actor's Business by Andrew Reilly Pdf

This book provides self-marketing techniques that will help actors find work. It also tells actors how to turn themselves into small businesses and helps them understand how they fit into the larger stream of show business. Includes information on film studios, the casting process, agents, Equity, SAG, headshots, resumes, regional markets, and more.I am awe-struck by the amount of research that went into this book, which presents the most practical approach to the business of acting. -- Michael Shurtleff, author of Audition

Author : Justina Vail
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1477522212

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How to be a Happy Actor in a Challenging Business by Justina Vail Pdf

Why a book for ACTORS on the subject of HAPPINESS? Actors face a unique set of challenges. No matter what level a career has reached, uncertainity, rejection, judgment, and disappointment are all part of being an actor, and happiness is often placed in the hands of what happens 'out there.' Yet the truth is, happiness is an inside job. Being generally happy and fulfilled is absolutely essential to the success and longevity of an actor's career. In Happy Actor you will learn practical and transformational steps to help you, the actor, boost your happiness levels while navigating the worlds of stage, film, and television. You will hear personal stories of Hollywood actors as they have adopted these powerful keys, as well as inside perspectives from some of our top award-winning industry professionals, including: producer/director David Nutter, actress Christine Lahti, casting director Marck Teschner, and casting director/acting coach Risa Bramon Garcia.

Author : Andrew Reilly
Publisher : Sentient Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591810209

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An Actor's Business by Andrew Reilly Pdf

A thorough and well-written resource for anyone wanting to understand all facets of the acting business. It covers everything from unions to marketing yourself.

Author : Brad Lemack
Publisher : Ingenuity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0971541000

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The Business of Acting by Brad Lemack Pdf

Talent is not the deciding factor for acting success because talent can't be acquired, but the skills to propel an actor forward can be. With 14 photos and illustrations, this insightful guide teaches actors the critical skills they need for successful, fulfilling and professional careers.

Author : Jeff Seymour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692210253

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The Real Life Actor by Jeff Seymour Pdf

There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance

Author : K. Callan
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0961733624

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How to Sell Yourself as an Actor by K. Callan Pdf