Acting as a Business: Strategies for SuccessThis work advises actors on how to function as business persons and provides the information and resources necessary to do so, including: discussions of league schools and independent film makers; ways of joining the performers' unions; and tactics for getting an agent. |
Contents
Chapter One From Stage to Screen | 1 |
Chapter Two The Arsenal | 9 |
Chapter Three About the Unions | 19 |
Copyright | |
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