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Acting is Your Business
How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career
Wendy S. Kurtzman
- 232 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Acting is Your Business
How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career
Wendy S. Kurtzman
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Praise Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- How to use this book
- âInvictusâ by William Ernest Henley
- Introduction
- Part I The Boardroom
- 1 Meet the Boardroom
- 2 The CEO
- 3 The CFO
- 4 Head of Human Resources
- 5 Head of Marketing/Branding
- 6 Head of Business Development (Biz Dev)
- 7 Head of Representation
- 8 Head of Creative Development
- 9 Head of Outreach
- 10 Putting It All Together
- Part II Industry Insights
- 11 Casting FAQ
- 12 Interviews: Letâs Get Down to Business
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Copyright