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A Life in Acting: The Actor's Guide to Creative and Career Longevity
A Life in Acting: The Actor's Guide to Creative and Career Longevity
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Author: Lisa Mulcahy Publisher: Allworth Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 169 Pub. Date: 2014 ISBN-10: 1621534332 ISBN-13: 9781621534334
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About the Book: A Life in Acting: The Actor's Guide to Creative and Career Longevity is
a practical guide for aspiring and established theatre actors looking
to make a consistent living doing meaningful, creative work on the
stage. Author Lisa Mulcahy communicates her advice through a
series of interviews and "war stories" that will have you
taking notes and laughing until your sides hurt. The sage advice of
veteran performers and an entertaining writing style make this a
terrific tool to build career longevity. The veteran thespians who
give advice are and sustain themselves as artists and professionals
through the sage advice of veteran performers who have already done
it and continue to do so. Each industry veteran who contributes to
these pages is renowned for their talent, is vastly respected by
their peers, and has worked consistently in the theatre for decades.
Actors will learn how some of the industry’s most successful and
longest-surviving members have developed invaluable traits that have
kept them in show business, including:
• Recognizing
personal strengths
• Developing versatility
•
Marketing oneself effectively
• Earning a paycheck
•
Pursuing the most valuable opportunities
• Choosing the
right kind of training
• Finding a mentor
• Making
important connections
• Dealing with success and failure
• And much, much more
A
Life in Acting is a must-read for career stage actors. It
is a book that will serve as the ultimate guide that can be
referenced again and again. Learn how the best actors in the business
have made their built a life on the stage, and how you can too!
What people say:
"Lisa
has written a tremendously inspirational and incredibly reassuring
book. The successful actors interviewed here are generous with their
stories and Lisa pulls out the wisdom contained in them all to help
readers build a career worth having." — Stage
Directions
magazine
"Inspiring!
Whether you’re a fledgling actor or a seasoned veteran, A
Life in Acting
offers a wealth of sage insights and best practices guaranteed to
immeasurably improve one’s life. With celebrated masters sharing
their pearls of wisdom about maintaining sanity in a business that
can often be as chaotic as it can be heartbreaking, these lessons are
welcome mania to actors and professionals in other sectors alike."
— Iris
Dorbian,
author of Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater
About the Author:
Lisa Mulcahy is a theater
teacher, director, performer, and multimedia writer. Her articles
have been published in such magazines as Stage Directions,
Teaching Theatre, Marie Claire, Glamour, and
Seventeen. She lives in New York City.
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