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Book Synopsis The Actor's Business Plan by : Jane Drake Brody
Download or read book The Actor's Business Plan written by Jane Drake Brody and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .
Book Synopsis Act Like It's Your Business by : Jonathan Flom
Download or read book Act Like It's Your Business written by Jonathan Flom and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 at professional 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.
Book Synopsis Self-management for Actors by : Bonnie Gillespie
Download or read book Self-management for Actors written by Bonnie Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Acting as a Business by : Brian O'Neil
Download or read book Acting as a Business written by Brian O'Neil and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Everyday Law for Actors by : Robert Woods
Download or read book Everyday Law for Actors written by Robert Woods and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis An Actor's Business by : Andrew Reilly
Download or read book An Actor's Business written by Andrew Reilly and published by Venture Press (GA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis How to Sell Yourself as an Actor by : K Callan
Download or read book How to Sell Yourself as an Actor written by K Callan and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callan's no-nonsense book provides both newly arrived and long-arrived actors the nuts and bolts information about how to be more saleable to casting people, agents, producers and directors. More importantly, she encourages you to call upon your courage, vision and entrepreneurial skills to take your career in your own hands and stop waiting to be asked to work. As rough and as honest as she is, she still offers a way of thinking about this business that will help you retain your sense of humor and your sanity.
Book Synopsis An Actor's Business by : Andrew Reilly
Download or read book An Actor's Business written by Andrew Reilly and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Self-management for Actors by : Bonnie Gillespie
Download or read book Self-management for Actors written by Bonnie Gillespie and published by Cricket Feet Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guiding actors through the process of taking control of the business side of their careers, the author maintains there is no secret method for joining the Working Actor's Club. What does exist is a simple, self-management concept that doesn't eliminate one's ability to be a creative artist.
Book Synopsis The New Business of Acting by : Brad Lemack
Download or read book The New Business of Acting written by Brad Lemack and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best actor never gets the role. But the right actor always gets hired and if you want to be the right actor, you need to create a well-paved pathway through the traffic jam that can slow you down, divert your attention and create stress behind the wheel of the career you're committed to driving forward. It's your journey and it's time for a career tune up, even if you're just starting out In this revised and expanded Next Edition to his popular book for actors, talent manager, educator and author Brad Lemack tackles the tough challenges actors face in seeking, building and maintaining rewarding careers in the new landscape. From the role of personal ethics and integrity to landing the role of a lifetime, Lemack teaches readers how to navigate through and thrive in a continually changing landscape in an industry challenged to redefine itself and how it does business. Whether you're new to the business or in need of a professional career rebranding, The New Business of Acting: The Next Edition will empower you with a critical perspective on how to create, map out and embark on a life-long journey that will earn you the career-building opportunities you seek.
Book Synopsis Acting with Power by : Deborah Gruenfeld
Download or read book Acting with Power written by Deborah Gruenfeld and published by Currency. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.”—Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? There is so much we get wrong about power: who has it, what it looks like, and the role it plays in our lives. Grounded in over two decades’ worth of scientific research and inspired by the popular class of the same name at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Acting with Power offers a new and eye-opening paradigm that overturns everything we thought we knew about the nature of power. Although we all feel powerless sometimes, we have more power than we tend to believe. Power exists in every relationship, not just at the top of big institutions. It isn’t merely a function of status or hierarchy, either. It’s about how much we are needed and how well we take care of other people. We often assume that power flows to those with the loudest voice or the most commanding presence. But, in fact, true power is often much quieter and more deferential than we realize. Moreover, it’s not just how much power we have but how we use it that determines how powerful we actually are. Actors aren’t the only ones who play roles for a living. We all make choices about how to use the power that comes with our given circumstances. We aren’t always cast in the roles we desire—or the ones we feel prepared to play. Some of us struggle to step up and be taken more seriously, while others have trouble standing back and ceding the spotlight. In Acting with Power, Deborah Gruenfeld shows how we can get more comfortable with power by adopting an actor’s mindset. Because power isn’t a personal attribute. It’s a part we play in someone else’s story.
Book Synopsis Acting as a Business by : Brian O'Neil
Download or read book Acting as a Business written by Brian O'Neil and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the enormously successful first edition of Acting as a Business. Brian O'Neil updates his indispensable work to reflect recent changes in the show business industry. What hasn't changed, however, is the book's trademark of not only telling actors to be persistent but also telling them how to do so effectively.
Book Synopsis 101 Business Tips for Actors: The Things They Never Told You by : Ron Bush
Download or read book 101 Business Tips for Actors: The Things They Never Told You written by Ron Bush and published by Wheelman Press. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting is a business and there are too many actors who don't understand how the business side of show biz works. 101 Business Tips for Actors gives actors business related tips dealing with such topics as talent agents, casting directors, money, life and how to handle being on the job while also networking. After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of how to market yourself as an actor and how to utilize your marketing materials such as business cards, postcards, headshots and resumes to maximize their impact on your acting career. Even if you attended a college and earned your BFA, you probably were not required to take any business related classes. This book will give you basic instructions on how to keep your acting career from stalling out. As an actor, you often think that taking a scene study or other acting instruction related class is what you need to jumpstart your acting career, when it may be that you are an excellent actor, but the right people do not know it. This book will help by teaching you some basic marketing related strategies to get noticed by talent agents and casting directors, which will lead to more work. Many wonderful actors leave the business every day because the casting directors and talent agents don't know who they are, so the actors are not going on enough auditions and are not booking jobs. Most leave the business completely. The successful ones learn the business of acting. After reading 101 Business Tips For Actors, you will be in a better position to make yourself one of those successful actors who has a long and fruitful career in the entertainment industry.
Book Synopsis Business Regulation and Non-State Actors by : Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Download or read book Business Regulation and Non-State Actors written by Ananya Mukherjee Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainability? This volume examines more than 20 initiatives or institutions associated with different regulatory and development approaches, including the business-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, ‘corporate accountability’ and ‘fair trade’ or social economy.
Book Synopsis Challenge For The Actor by : Uta Hagen
Download or read book Challenge For The Actor written by Uta Hagen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-08-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself -- and to do so takes an insatiable curiosity about the human condition. from the Prologue Uta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned stage actresses, has also taught acting for more than forty years at the HB Studio in New York. Her first book, Respect for Acting, published in 1973, is still in print and has sold more than 150,000 copies. In her new book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher. She raises the issue of the actor's goals and examines the specifics of the actor's techniques. She goes on to consider the actor's relationship to the physical and psychological senses. There is a brilliantly conceived section on the animation of the body and mind, of listening and talking, and the concept of expectation. But perhaps the most useful sections in this book are the exercises that Uta Hagen has created and elaborated to help the actor learn his craft. The exercises deal with developing the actor's physical destination in a role; making changes in the self serviceable in the creation of a character; recreating physical sensations; bringing the outdoors on stage; finding occupation while waiting; talking to oneself and the audience; and employing historical imagination. The scope and range of Uta Hagen here is extraordinary. Her years of acting and teaching have made her as finely seasoned an artist as the theatre has produced.
Download or read book Rule Breakers written by Valorie Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teaches professional actors how to create and operate their acting career as a successful business. Of utmost importance is how actors must change their mindset about the impact and value they bring to their work, including viewing themselves as part-time extras to full-time professionals."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Actor's Business Plan by : Jane Brody
Download or read book The Actor's Business Plan written by Jane Brody and published by . This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-directed practical guide for actors graduating from formal training programmes, as well as for those already in the business whose careers need to move ahead more successfully. Using the familiar language of acting training, it 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.
