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Acting: The Business
 The Actor's Survival Guide: How to make your way in Hollywood
Jon S. Robbins
As a handbook, the Actor's Survival Guide provides a compilation of the most current professional resource information: maps, charts, appendices, documents, and glossaries. Topical information is organized to anticipate the reader's questions. As a guidebook, it provides an insider's experiences of living and working within the Hollywood film and television industry that few college programs teach and that would take a Hollywood newcomer years to learn on his or her own. This advice should be helpful to all aspiring actors with Hollywood on their minds. Softcover, 200 pp. $23.95.
 The TCG Theatre Directory 2006-2007
Theatre Communications Group
TCG's annual pocket guide to theatre's and related organizations includes: personnel information, addresses, performance seasons, a variety of indices. Softcover, 261 pp. $21.00.
 Acting is Everything: An Actor's Guidebook for a Successful Career in Los
Angeles
Judy Kerr
In this 11th Gold Classic Edition, Judy Kerr will guide you toward fulfilling
your dreams, giving you important information about developing the
actor inside you. Softcover, 644 pp. $38.95.
 The Actor's Other Career Book: Using Your Chops to Survive and
Thrive
Lisa Mulcahy
Actors everywhere want work, but acting often does not offer a consistent,
dependable paycheck. This inspiring guide shows actors that they
can parlay their multitude of skills -- vocal, physical, social,
intellectual, and spiritual -- into careers that go beyond waiting
tables and mixing cocktails. This book features interviews with more
than fifty actors who have found satisfying other careers that improve
their quality of life, pay the rent, and sharpen their acting skills.
Softcover, 207 pp. $24.95.
 Hitting
Your Mark: Making a Life and a Living as a Film Actor
Second Edition
Steve Carlson
Here's an authoritative book that reveals what it takes to work consistently
and successfully on a Hollywood set. A veteran of TV and film, Steve
Carlson covers information that is very difficult to come by, yet
every actor is expected to know the first time he or she steps in
front of the camera. This second edition goes further, focusing on
the realities of life as an actor, answering questions the author
has been asked hundreds of times by readers of the first edition.
Softcover, $29.95.
 Ask
an Agent: Everything Actors Need to Know About Agents
Margaret Emory
Actors at every stage of their careers have a lot of questions, and Ask
an Agent has a lot of answers. Do I need an agent? How do I get one?
What will an agent do for me? What should I be doing for him? When is it time
to switch agents? Margaret Emory is the agent to ask. Step by step, Emory shares
experienced agent advice on the process of career-building within the industry,
especially with respect to the actor-agent partnership. Softcover, 193 pp. $22.95.
 How
They Cast It: An Insider's Look at Film and Television Casting
Rob Kendt
Providing this little-known window into the needs of each new television
show or feature film, Breakdown Services is proud to present this unique
glimpse at how the biggest films and TV shows matched their actors with
the roles they went on to make famous. Actors and actresses will find
this to be a instructional and inspirational read. Softcover, 159 pp.
$24.95.
 Dramatists
Sourcebook
23rd Edition
Theatre Communications Group
This fully revised 23rd edition of the Dramatists Sourcebook contains more
than 950 opportunities for playwrights, translators, composers, lyricists and
librettists, including script-submission procedures for 380 professional theatres,
137 prizes and scores of publishers, fellowships, residencies, developmental
programs, agents, service organizations, state art agencies and reference publications.
The sourcebook is thoroughly indexed and contains an invaluable calendar of
submission deadlines. Softcover, 348 pp. $31.95.
 Promoting
Your Acting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening the Right Doors
Glenn Altermann
This is the definitive insider's guide to opening doors in the
world of theatre, film, and television. Newly revised and expanded, Promoting
Your Acting Career is filled with invaluable advise for both beginning
actors and seasoned professionals. Softcover, 245 pp. $24ß.95.
 This
Business of Broadcasting
Leonard Mogel
Although finding work in the broadcast industry is a daunting task,
getting the information necessary to launch an effective job search
and land the job that's right
for you doesn't have to be. This Business of Broadcasting provides all
the necessary industry backround and career advice needed for you to secure an
entry-level position or to make a mid-career change in television or radio. Softcover,
334 pp.
$39.95.
 An
Actor's Business
Andrew Reilly
If you want to find work as an actor, look no further than this
thorough and
lucid instructional text. An Actor's Business describes acting opportunities
-- on stage, in film and television, and in commercials -- in 25 regions all
over the United States, and devotes entire chapters to Hollywood and New York.
No matter where you live, you won't want to be without this indispensible guide
to marketing
yourself as an actor. Softcover, 288 pp. $23.95.
 The
Back Stage Actor's Handbook
Sherry Eaker
Here, in one convenient volume, is everything that you need to know about launching
your career and breaking into new performance venues. Included is essential insider
information on: finding the best acting teacher, getting the right headshot and
resume, promoting yourself on the web, getting an agent, auditioning, finding
work, and much more. Softcover, 415 pp. $29.95.
 An
Actor Prepares... To Live in New York City
Craig Wroe
Thinking of pursuing an acting career in New York? Sure you've got the talent
and the drive, but how are you going to survive in the unforgiving metropolis?
Look no further than this book. Author Craig Wroe is an actor, writer and teacher
who has lived in New York City since 1984. Herein he discloses all of the need
to know information that actors will need to survive and thrive as comfortably
and inexpensively as possible
in New York City. Softcover, 351 pp. $24.95.
 Seeking
Representation: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding a Talent Agent (In Canada)
Valerie L. Poulin
When Poulin wrote the first draft of Seeking Representation in 1995 there
were few, if any, books available to guide industry newcomers and emerging actors
through the process of finding a talent agent. From the detailed introduction
to the business to the nitty-gritty details of getting paid for your work, this
book will aid any aspiring performer in need of a helpful guide. Coil-bound,
111 pp. $14.95.
 Self-Management
for Actors
Getting Down to (Show) Business
Bonnie Gillespie
Actors are frequently on the quest for representation. The assumption
is that one needs a manager to help guide one through the process of
becoming a working actor.
In Self-Management for Actors, author, actor and career counselor Bonnie
Gillespie offers an exciting alternative. This book guides the actor through
the process of taking control of his/her career from the business side of things.
Softcover, 246
pp. $25.95.
 The
New York Agent Book
7th Edition
K Callan
Callan, in this the New York edition of the Agents series,
identifies and illuminates the business skills that all actors, sooner
or later, must learn. This edition not only provides detailed listing
of agencies and their representatives in New York, but also contains
chapters on everything from how one should dress for a meeting to what
to do when it is time to look for a new agent. Callan takes the fear,
loathing and mystery out of finding the agent who's going to help make
you
the working actor you deserve to be. Softcover, 262 pp. $27.95.
 The
Los Angeles Agent Book
8th Edition
K Callan
Callan, in her Los Angeles edition of the Agents series,
identifies and illuminates the various business skills that all actors
have to learn at different times. With detailed agent's listings and
chapters on everything from self-knowledge, to children in the business,
to research and follow-through, Callan takes the fear, loathing and
mystery out of finding the agent who's going to help make you the working
actor you deserve to be. Softcover, 304 pp. $25.95.
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