Acting is Your Business

How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

Wendy S. Kurtzman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2024
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-38578-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Wendy S. Kurtzman is an adjunct professor at Chapman University and Pace University, USA, guest lecturer at UCLA and NYU, and an Emmy-nominated casting director with more than 35 years of experience in television and film. Her extensive credits include Independence Day, Auto Focus, Stigmata, The Replacement Killers, and many others. www.wendykurtzman.com.

List of Illustrations
‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: THE BOARDROOM

Chapter 1. Meet the Boardroom
Chapter 2. The CEO
Chapter 3. The CFO
Chapter 4. Head of Human Resources
Chapter 5. Head of Marketing/Branding
Chapter 6. Head of Business Development (Biz Dev)
Chapter 7. Head of Representation
Chapter 8. Head of Creative Development
Chapter 9. Head of Outreach
Chapter 10. Putting it All Together

PART TWO: INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Chapter 11. Casting FAQ

Chapter 12. Interviews: Let’s Get Down to Business
Casting Professionals
Michael Sanford CSA, CCDA Sanford Casting, A Closer Look at Commercial Casting
Carol Dudley, CDG (Casting Director Guild of Great Britain and Ireland) Casting Director, Cannon, Dudley & Associates “The British Invasion” and What the Brits Know that we Don’t…
Lisa Zambetti, Casting Director: The World of Motion Capture Casting
Candido Cornejo Jr. Casting Director: Diversity in Casting and Learning the Language of a Casting Director
Cassandra Han, Casting Director, Casting Perspective from Central Europe
Nikki Barrett, Casting Director, Barrrett Casting Australia, Meet Nikki Barrett!
Marci Liroff, Casting Director/Intimacy Coordinator, An Intimate Conversation About Intimacy on Set
Writer/Producer
Jonathan Prince, Writer/Producer/President PhilmCo Media, Importance of Creating Original Material
Mindset and Study of Craft
Ben Whitehair, Actor, Entrepreneur, Coach, Benwhitehair.com. I’m An Actor, Now What?
Jordan Ancel, Writer, Director, Producer thrivingactor.com, Leveling Up Your Career
Howard Fine, Acting Coach, Howard Fine Acting Studio, Criteria for the Professional Actor

Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Introductions to Theatre
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
ISBN-10	1-350-38578-6 / 1350385786
ISBN-13	978-1-350-38578-8 / 9781350385788
Zustand	Neuware