Starting Your Career as an Actor
eBook - ePub

Starting Your Career as an Actor

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Starting Your Career as an Actor

About this book

This practical and entertaining guide readies the uninitiated actor to navigate the ridiculous, impossible, and often heartbreaking world of the acting industry. This book will expose actors to the ins and outs of the world's (second) oldest profession. Topics include how to be "discovered, " what to expect from training programs, the grunt work of starting a career, how to persevere in the face of rejection, the new digital world for actors, and much more.Experienced actor and screenwriter Jason Pugatch offers a fresh, hip, and invaluable industry perspective, with sidebar quotations, charts, and timelines, and a quick-reference appendix of the acting trade. Packed with myth-shattering anecdotes and told in a personal tone, Starting Your Career as an Actor is the backstage guide that every aspiring actor must read.

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Information

Publisher
Allworth
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781581159110
eBook ISBN
9781621532330
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Contents
  9. INTRODUCTION Acting Is a Job
  10. Chapter 1 A Brief History of the Actor [or How to Respond to the Statement, “I’m Doing a Restoration Comedy, Mom”)
  11. Chapter 2 The Lay of the Land, Part One The Neon Lights May Need Replacing: About the Theater Industry
  12. Chapter 3 The Lay of the Land, Part Two Hurry Up and Wait: The Film and Television Business for the New York Actor
  13. Chapter 4 To Train or Not to Train
  14. Chapter 5 Beauty or Beast: Typecasting
  15. Chapter 6 One in a Million: Starting Out
  16. Chapter 7 These Are the People in My Neighborhood: Agents and Other Necessities
  17. Chapter 8 The Casting Game
  18. Chapter 9 Job Hunting: A Day in the Life of an Actor
  19. Chapter 10 On Set, On Stage: On the Job
  20. Chapter 11 Los Angeles
  21. Chapter 12 Turkey Dogs and the Economic Realities of Acting
  22. Chapter 13 Don’t Call Us: Dealing with Rejection
  23. Chapter 14 The Rewards: Charting Your Success
  24. Appendix A A Few Online Resources
  25. Appendix B The Actor’s Dictionary
  26. Index
  27. Backmatter

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