Acting is Your Business
eBook - ePub

Acting is Your Business

How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Acting is Your Business

How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

About this book

After training and studying for years, you've earned a degree: now what? How to get a job and have a career as an actor is the number one question facing emerging artists and one which this book answers for you.

While performing arts schools do a great job of teaching how to act, most don't teach you how to launch and sustain a career. This book addresses this fundamental aspect of your creative journey, delivering a precise formula to help you organize the next chapter of your life. It helps you to find work and proactively build a career by providing the tools you'll need to connect with working professionals within the industry.

If acting is your business, you must run it as a business. Positioning you as CEO of your own company, this book uses a boardroom table as a visual model. At that table are 7 key positions, each representing an area of action and expertise that you must understand to build a successful career. With worksheets and tools, supplemented throughout with interviews with industry professionals from North America, the UK and Europe, and Australia, and further supported by a companion website, this action plan will empower and equip you to achieve your career goals.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781350385788
eBook ISBN
9781350385818

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Praise Page
  5. Series Page
  6. Title Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. How to use this book
  10. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
  11. Introduction
  12. Part I The Boardroom
  13. 1 Meet the Boardroom
  14. 2 The CEO
  15. 3 The CFO
  16. 4 Head of Human Resources
  17. 5 Head of Marketing/Branding
  18. 6 Head of Business Development (Biz Dev)
  19. 7 Head of Representation
  20. 8 Head of Creative Development
  21. 9 Head of Outreach
  22. 10 Putting It All Together
  23. Part II Industry Insights
  24. 11 Casting FAQ
  25. 12 Interviews: Let’s Get Down to Business
  26. Further Reading
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Index
  29. Copyright