An Actor Prepares to Live in New York City: How to Live Like a Star Before You Become One - Softcover

Wroe, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879109866 ISBN 13: 9780879109868

Publisher: Limelight, 2004

Synopsis

A guide for actors, and everyone else, to getting the best for less and surviving, thriving and living the good life in the Big Apple. Here is the ultimate guidebook for the hordes of aspiring young performers who arrive in the Big City determined to climb the ladder to stardom. But the purpose of Craig Wroe, an actor himself, is not to provide instruction on how to refine acting, singing or dancing talents or how to land a job in the chorus of The Producers. Plenty of other books do that. His aim is far broader – to help you survive in the crowded, frantic, expensive maelstrom that is New York. From finding a decent, reasonably inexpensive place to live to finding competent, reasonably inexpensive dental care, from getting computer training to organize your day-to-day existence to joining a gym to harden your body, from eating well to dressing better – all on a tight budget – there is virtually no aspect of life in New York that is not covered in this book. And it not only names names; it gives addresses and phone numbers as well. And keep in mind that newly-arrived lawyers, accountants, models, writers–you name them–need these things too.

About this title

About the Author

Wroe is an actor, writer and teacher who has lived in New York City since 1984. He teaches acting at the School for Film and Television.

Review

...full of joie de vivre and joie de New York... hardheaded practical advice for achieving both forms of joie. -- Kathleen Chalfant, actress, May 2003

An Instant Drama Book Shop bestseller!...Indispensable! -- The Drama Book Shop, August 2003

Craig Wroe's popular new title...is useful for anyone looking for advice on settling into an affordable lifestyle in NYC. -- Meredith Lee, Show Business Weekly, July 2003

Craig has written with grace, style, objectivity and humor. We all owe him a great debt. Bravo! -- Earle Hyman, actor, May 2003

Practical as salt...a wealth of information that will benefit any New Yorker hewing to a budget. -- Charles Wright, TheatreMania.com, July 2003

This is a superb book for all young actors preparing to live in New York. -- Mercedes Ruehl, actress, April 2003

Very helpful...up to date and timely. -- Janet Coleman, WBAI Radio, June 2003

What a useful book for us fiscally challenged writers and artists who dream of living and working in Manhattan. -- Alphonse Vinh, NPR, July 2003

[This book proves] it doesn't have to cost a fortune to live in NYC. -- Saturday Today in New York, NBC TV, July 2003

[this book] is the best guide to the trials and trails of New York life I have ever read. -- Arthur Penn, actor, April 2003

Edition details

• Publisher: Limelight
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879109866
• ISBN 13: 9780879109868
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354