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The Los Angeles Agent Book: 7th Edition, Get the Agent You Need for the Career You Want K Callan The Bible for actors who take their business seriously, The Los Angeles Agent Book is the prototype for any actor's guide to agents. From basic contact information to background on the agents and agencies, there is no other book that is so meticulously researched and filled with so much information. Profiles of nearly 100 Los Angeles theatrical agents include their contact information, background, size of their client lists, and names from their client list. This easy-to-read guide explains what agents do, the clients they are looking for, how to evaluate agents, how to be your own first agent. |
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How to Agent Your Agent Nancy Rainford Nancy Rainford takes the reader behind the scenes to reveal the techniques, politics, and unspoken rules of agenting. Agents and managers are the gatekeepers and power brokers to getting work in Hollywood. With an easy style, Rainford candidly delivers uncensored insight into the mechanics and motivation of agents and managers at work. Get the tools you need to protect yourself, build a career, and train your agent to work FOR YOU. Rainford delivers familiar and surprising scenarios in each chapter filled with industry anecdotes and uncensored descriptions and accounts of show-biz players. A glossary of terms and definitions will educate and entertain all readers, so that every actor and screenwriter in whatever stage of STARDOM or STARVEDOM from the unsuspecting novice, to the been-around-the-block star can make practical use of How To Agent Your Agent. |
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Play Goes On: A Memoir Neil Simon Regardless of whether you're a struggling writer or a fan of such staples of the American stage as The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Lost in Yonkers (which won the Pulitzer Prize in '91,) you will undoubtedly enjoy the candor and wit with which the prolific playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon relates the humorous, often painful, but always entertaining story of his life and career as the most successful American playwright of all time. The Play Goes On is a follow-up to his intensely private and revealing 1996 memoir, Rewrites. Anyone remotely interested in American theatre should add this captivating book to their summer reading list. (Available in Hardcover from Simon & Schuster) |
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Meisner on Acting Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell If you were trained as a Method Actor, and reared on the writings of the great Russian Master Constantin Stanislavski, you will find Meisner's alternative approach to be both illuminating and refreshing. Sanford Meisner was head of New York's The Neighborhood Playhouse, and founding member of The Group Theatre. This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, chronicles the progress of an acting class over a period of fifteen months, from the most basic acting exercises through their final, well-executed scene work. If you're a student of acting, this book is an indispensable addition to your library, as it goes beyond the often stodgy academic tone of many books written on the craft of acting, and places emotional truth and the act of "doing" of paramount importance in the development of an actor. (Available in Paperback from Vintage Books) |
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Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part By Michael Shurtleff with a Foreword by Bob Fosse Michael Shurtleff’s vast experience as both teacher and casting director for such Broadway megahits as Chicago and such classic feature films as The Graduate, make this insider’s view of the casting world an indispensable addition to any serious actor’s bookshelf. In no-nonsense, straight-forward prose, Shurtleff relates valuable information on the audition process that will not only benefit the absolute beginner, but also the seasoned professional. This is a book that you will pick up and read time and again, regardless of your experience and success with auditioning because of its insightfulness, simplicity and common-sense advice on the life of a working actor. (Available in Paperback from Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group) |
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and False By David Mamet From one of the most fruitful minds working in the American Theatre today, comes this refreshingly clear-headed book full of sage advice for actors. If you’ve been confused and frustrated by the often conflicting advice offered in acting classes and from directors in rehearsal, this is a book you will absolutely devour. Screenwriter, director and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet shoots straight from the hip here, as he preps actors on how to tackle auditions, deal with agents and directors, and overcome problems in rehearsal and performance. Critically admired for his ability to thrill and challenge audiences with his terse, razor-sharp language and thought-provoking theses, True and False is part candid criticism of the methods used for teaching acting, part profound revelation on how actors can empower themselves. (Available in Paperback from Random House, Inc.) |
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