ACTOR MUSCLE - Craft. Grit. Wit.: A Professional Guide to the Business of Acting

2017 - ALL NEW UPDATES to the The New York and Los Angeles Edition. ~ Expanded to both markets for Auditions in Stage, Television, and Film, Casting Protocols, Rates, and Legitimate Services for the Working Actor. Each successive chapter lays out step-by-step actions for the actor's next move in building their career: the actor's game plan, portfolio, getting representation, taking meetings and understanding contracts, audition techniques, script breakdown, scams, and more. Whether you are new or an established professional, this book provides a solid and legitimate foundation of professional taste and insight to help you find work in this industry through all of its ever-changing tastes, and survive its “feast or famine," “crickets or cannonballs” energy. Take the path toward a career worth having. The companion MP3 download/Audio CD of "Actor Muscle: Nuts and Bolts of Audition Technique for Television and Film" is also available on all outlets, including Amazon.

As a Leading Lady/Character Actress, Beverly Leech is a 30+ year acting professional of stage, film, and television. She studied directly with the late, great Stella Adler, and her film and television credits include series regular, recurring and guest star roles on "NCIS," "Modern Family," "Rizzoli & Isles," "Criminal Minds," "Mad Men," "Six Feet Under," and cult classic, "Mathnet." Her national ad campaigns include Microsoft Windows Phone, Honda, Old Navy, Taco Bell, Jenny Craig, Soft Sense, AT&T, and Diet Coke. Beverly's stage credits include Broadway, as Alaura Kingsley in "City of Angels", Denver Center Theatre Company, as Sarah Bernhardt in "Ladies of the Camellias", Cabrillo Music Theatre as Miss Hannigan in "Annie", and at the Los Angeles Theatre Center as Trudy in "Club Termina". Full on-camera credits are online at IMdB. She has been teaching professional actors since 2000 at The Stella Adler Studio, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and South Coast Repertory, along with offering private instruction through her company Actor Muscle. Beverly Leech is a member of The Actors Gym, a professional writers and actors lab run by Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida State University and is a member of ATHE.