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The celebrated survival guide for the working actor - now completely updated and expanded with a foreword by Tony award-winning actor Joe Mantegna!
Renowned for more than two decades as the most comprehensive resource for actors, How to Be a Working Actor is a must-read for achieving success in The Business. Now this "Bible of the Biz" has been completely revised and greatly expanded to address new markets, ever-changing opportunities, and the many new ways today's actors find work. Talent manager, teacher, and career coach Mari Lyn Henry and actress, author, and spokeswoman Lynne Rogers combine their extensive skills and years of experience to cover all the essentials of how to market yourself, land roles, and manage a successful career. They also include expert advice from scores of other industry experts - well-known actors, agents, managers, casting directors, and teachers.
How to Be a Working Actor is loaded with advice on how to-
- put together a professional wardrobe
- get a head shot that brings out the real you
- create a resume that really works
- find the training to develop your talents
- communicate effectively with agents and managers
- use the internet to promote your business and explore new opportunities
- get the most value out of union membership
- excel at auditions and screen tests
- discover how to get work in regional markets
- cope with success
How to Be a Working Actor takes a no-nonsense approach to the whole business of being a working actor, with detailed information on how to live on a budget in New York and Los Angeles, what the acting jobs are and what they pay, even how to find a survival strategy that will augment your career. And an extensive section on script analysis shows you how to investigate the depth of a character to create a memorable audition for roles in theatre, film, and television.
Author Notes
Mari Lyn Henry is a partner at Henry Downey Talent Management LLC and is nationally known for her workshops on audition techniques, cold reading skills, script analysis, and marketing strategies.
Lynne Rogers ' extensive career on stage, in film, and on television includes a leading role on Guiding Light. She has been the voice for many nationally advertised products, and her other books include The Love of Their Lives, a behind-the-scenes look at the soap opera industry.
Reviews (1)
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This new edition of How to Be a Working Actor by Henry (talent manager) and Rogers (actor) leaves no stone unturned in its attempt to prepare aspiring actors for a career in show business. Revised and 60 pages longer than the previous edition, it offers an extensive breakdown of every component of a working actor's career--financial planning, living arrangements, personal appearance, getting an agent, promoting oneself, head shot and resume, auditions, and the unions, along with sound advice on what to expect once one has the job. This edition discusses topics that are both specific and wide-ranging, including child performers, film and television auditions, how to analyze a script, how to avoid scams, and how to showcase one's talent; it even touches on the potential impact of YouTube and MySpace in casting. Although geared toward the New York and Los Angeles areas, it includes an expanded section on regional markets. In the "Cyberbiz" section, the authors list some of the more prominent casting-related Web sites; they include a short list of recommended reading. Actors should welcome this book as a gentle but necessary myth-buster for any notions of instant stardom or accidental success. No book can guarantee a job, but this is a great primer for any actor who wants to establish a solid working basis for employment in a shockingly tough industry. Some of the better complementary resources on the subject include Bonnie Gillespie's Self-Management for Actors (2nd ed., 2006), Andrew Reilly's An Actor's Business (1996), and Tom Logan's How to Act and Eat at the Same Time (2nd ed., 1988). Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. E. D. Bochinski Fairfield University
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Part 1 Nuts and Bolts | p. 8 |
| 1 What You Will Need to Get Started | p. 9 |
| 2 Getting Your Act Together | p. 39 |
| 3 The Tools of the Trade | p. 65 |
| 4 Buyers and Sellers | p. 91 |
| 5 Training Is Everything | p. 109 |
| 6 Looking for Work | p. 143 |
| 7 Cyberbiz | p. 165 |
| 8 Survival Strategies | p. 179 |
| 9 Understanding the Unions | p. 189 |
| 10 It's About Jobs! | p. 209 |
| 11 Performers with Disabilities | p. 219 |
| 12 Regional Markets | p. 229 |
| Part 2 The Breaks | p. 252 |
| 13 Finding a Vehicle to Showcase Your Talent | p. 253 |
| 14 Interview and Follow-up | p. 269 |
| 15 Auditions and Screen Tests | p. 281 |
| 16 Congratulations! You've Got a Job! | p. 309 |
| 17 Child Performers | p. 327 |
| Part 3 How to Analyze a Script | p. 354 |
| 18 Suggestions for Script Analysis | p. 355 |
| 19 The Theater Audition: Creating Characters for a Monologue | p. 363 |
| 20 The Soap Opera Audition: Creating Characters for Daytime Dramas | p. 373 |
| 21 The Prime-Time Series Audition: Creating Characters for Episodic Television | p. 381 |
| 22 The Film Audition: Creating Characters for Movies | p. 403 |
| Epilogue | p. 411 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 412 |
| Index | p. 414 |