Acting Is a Job: Real Life Lessons about the Acting Business - Softcover

Pugatch, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581154380 ISBN 13: 9781581154382

Publisher: Allworth, 2006

Synopsis

How to cope with the realities of life as an actor—if you don’t laugh, you'll cry • In-depth interviews with actors, agents, casting directors. In this hip, warts-and-all look at acting, author Jason Pugatch shares his insights as a working "day player" to give an unvarnished look at theater, film, and television: how to be "discovered," what to expect from training programs, the grunt work of starting a career, how to keep going despite constant rejection, and much more. Packed with myth-shattering anecdotes and told in an intriguing personal tone, Acting Is a Job is the backstage guide that every aspiring actor must read.

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About this title

About the Author

Jason Pugatch has appeared on Law & Order and Guiding Light, as well as commercials and off-Broadway productions. A short-story writer and a contributor to the London Review of Books, he lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

Actors will also learn what they need to know the first day on the set and how to stay afloat amidst a stream of rejection. Acting Is a Job is a must-have for both aspiring and working actors.

From the Inside Flap

Acting Is a Job offers interviews with other working actors, managers, agents, accountants, and casting directors sharing anecdotes and insight to the hilarity and heartbreak of a thespian trying to find work.. Chapters cover:

An overview of the current state of live theater and film and television industries
Effective networking and self-promotion
Finding a "money job" that allows you the freedom to work your "real job" auditioning
What to expect before, during, and after an actor training program
The economic realities of acting
How to make typecasting work for you
Working with agents, managers, and casting directors

Edition details

• Publisher: Allworth
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581154380
• ISBN 13: 9781581154382
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225