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.
- ISBN10 0823088944
- ISBN13 9780823088942
- Publish Date 1 September 2000 (first published 1 May 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
- Imprint Back Stage Books,U.S.
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English