How to Be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theatre, Film and Television

by Marilyn Henry (Author), Lynne Rogers (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.24

  A handbook for actors. Co-written by a casting director/agent and a seasoned actress/author, it provides a comprehensive guide to the business of acting, informed throughout with an insider's view of how casting decisions are actually made. This updated and expanded fourth edition features new information on such topics as on-line ways to promote your picture, resume and video performance clips; enhancing your image; jobs in new and emerging markets; interviewing and auditioning tips for the new crop of young actors; and more. The book taps the expertise of dozens of industry professionals for authoritative advice on financial survival, developing and marketing your talent, auditioning, networking, agents, the performing unions, assembling a wardrobe, and how to prepare for a role.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $26.61

  This celebrated survival guide for actors is still considered the Bible of the Biz -- the most comprehensive book on the business of acting, informed by an inside view of how casting decisions are actually made -- and it has now been updated and expanded to cover new on-line ways actors can promote their picture, resume and video clips; interviewing and auditioning tips for the new crop of young actors; enhancing one's image; and finding jobs in emerging markets. Of course, the book still draws from dozens of industry professionals for authoritative advice on financial survival, networking, meeting agents and casting directors, the performing unions, selecting a wardrobe, studying a role -- all the essential information actors have steadily relied on since 1987.