Best of all, [Brian O'Neil] writes well and knows how to communicate, making Acting As a Business the perfect instrument for someone who has his/her act together and wants to do their thing.
—The Coast Book Review
With the original publication of this book, Brian O'Neil changed the way actors viewed their field by providing them with clear-cut guidelines on how to approach acting as a business. Any number of books had told actors they must be persistent, but this was the first time a book actually told actors how to be persistent. Now, O'Neil keeps pace with the industry, updating this indispensable work.
In Acting As a Business, New Edition, you will find: How to put together a theatrical résumé for both the East Coast and the West Coast actor • Specific examples of cover letters and other correspondence • Practical ways of joining the performer’s unions • How to prepare for and answer the questions most often asked by agents in an interview, techniques for auditioning in the agent’s office, and the art of effective interview follow-up • Strategies for finding work in the theater, on soap operas, and in independent films • Tactics for getting an agent and finding out casting information well in advance of casting • A chart showing an easy way to keep records of which casting directors know your work • How to interview a prospective personal manager • A discussion of the "League" schools
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