Acting: Make It Your Business
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Acting: Make It Your Business

How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success as a Working Actor

Paul Russell

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eBook - ePub

Acting: Make It Your Business

How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success as a Working Actor

Paul Russell

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About This Book

In ACTING: Make It Your Business, Second Edition, award-winning casting director Paul Russell puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium—stage, film, television, or the Internet—directly into the hands of the actor.

This blunt and practical guide offers a wealth of advice on auditioning, marketing, and networking, combining traditional techniques with those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and powerful agents and managers make cameos throughout, offering newcomers and working professionals alike a clear-eyed, uncensored perspective on survival and advancement within the entertainment industry. This second edition has been updated and expanded to include the following:

  • More stars of screen and stage sharing acting career strategies



  • Digital audition techniques for screen and stage, including how best to self-tape



  • New tools to master modern marketing, both digital and traditional with innovation



  • Expanded actor resource listings



  • Additional bicoastal talent agents and managers spilling secrets for obtaining representation, and tips for successful actor-to-representation partnerships



  • New insights on audition techniques



An excellent resource for career actors, beginning and amateur actors, as well as students in Acting I and II, Auditions, and Business of Acting courses, ACTING: Make It Your Business provides readers with invaluable tools to build a successful, long-lasting acting career.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781351382045
Edition
2
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

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    Citation styles for Acting: Make It Your Business

    APA 6 Citation

    Russell, P. (2020). Acting: Make It Your Business (2nd ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1683921/acting-make-it-your-business-pdf (Original work published 2020)

    Chicago Citation

    Russell, Paul. (2020) 2020. Acting: Make It Your Business. 2nd ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1683921/acting-make-it-your-business-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Russell, P. (2020) Acting: Make It Your Business. 2nd edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1683921/acting-make-it-your-business-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Russell, Paul. Acting: Make It Your Business. 2nd ed. Taylor and Francis, 2020. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.