Acting Books
'An Agent Tells All' is an uncensored look at the business of acting from the perspective of a working Hollywood agent. There is no other book on the market written by someone who is currently employed as an agent.
In a frank and humorous tone, Tony Martinez lays out a detailed business plan to help actors achieve their goals. Some of the topics covered include:
Tools of the Trade
The Right Way to Get an Agent
How a Meeting Can Go Horribly Wrong
The Secret to Being a Good Client
Do You Really Need A Manager?
The Truth About Pilot Season
It's time to stop listening to all the wrong people. 'An Agent Tells All' is the one book you need to take charge of your acting career.
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Mel Churcher has the distinct advantage of extensive personal experience and has produced a quarry of useful tips and resources.
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A Guide For Actors, and Everyone Else, To Getting The Best For Less and Surviving, Thriving and Living The Good Life in the Big Apple. Here is the ultimate guidebook for the hordes of aspiring young performers who arrive in the Big City determined to climb the ladder to stardom. But the purpose of Craig Wroe, an actor himself, is not to provide instruction on how to refine acting, singing or dancing talents or how to land a job in the chorus of The Producers. Plenty of other books do that. His aim is far broader–to help you survive in the crowded, frantic, expensive maelstrom that is New York. From finding a decent, reasonably inexpensive place to live to finding competent, reasonably inexpensive dental care, from getting computer training to organize your day-to-day existence to joining a gym to harden your body, from eating well to dressing better–all on a tight budget–there is virtually no aspect of life in New York that is not covered in this book. And it not only names names; it gives addresses and phone numbers as well. And keep in mind that newly-arrived lawyers, accountants, models, writers–you name them–need these things too.
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This really is the ultimate guidebook for actors who are determined to initiate and sustain a successful acting career in Los Angeles or in their hometowns. Filled with practical advice, Acting Is Everything helps beginners avoid scams so they can get down to the business of getting work. Written by a renowned acting coach, it helps actors do it right the first time-saving them time, money and heartache. Enlisting the thoughts and advice of many Hollywood insiders, Kerr teaches actors to approach acting as an art, a business and a career, and gives them the tools to succeed in all three areas. Kerr's essential book covers it all, including :
Developing your talent, Breaking into the biz, Places to work as an actor, Career team, Career tools, Personal tools: style and image, Acting in everything, Child actors, Becoming geographically desirable.
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Free to Act presents a holistic approach to actor training that integrates physical and psychological technique. This text makes the complexities of acting intelligible and accessible to the beginning actor through its system of more than 150 progressively developed exercises with guides for self-analysis and journal entries. Its integrated approach emphasizes the idea that the body informs the mind and that emotion is rooted in physical action. Providing a carefully developed system of training, Free to Act guides the student-actor through the complex process by which an actor is formed.
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For actors by an actor of rare subtlety and imagination; for directors by a brilliant versatile director. Richard Boleslavsky's knowledge of the theatre was based on wide experience. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre and director of its First Studio, he worked in Russia, Germany and America as actor, director and teacher. On Broadway, he produced plays and musical comedies and he was a leading Hollywood director.
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Now in a fully revised and expanded new edition, Accents: A Manual For Actors by professional actor and dialect coach Robert Bluemfeld is a 425 page compendium of detailed and "student friendly" instruction for actors seeking to learn how to perform their lines in anyone of more than a hundred different dialects. Superbly organized into nine broad categories (The British Island and Commonwealth; North America; Romance Languages; Germanic Languages, Slavic Languages; Miscellaneous European; Middle Eastern; African; and Asian), each individual section provides an intensive breakdown of the accents found within the broader category. Enhanced with two accompanying CD discs, Accents is a complete and highly recommended single volume course which will prove to be an invaluable addition to any personal, professional, community theater, or school theater department's reference collection.
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