ACTOR MUSCLE: Craft. Grit. Wit. A Professional Guide to the Business of Acting
NOW UPDATED WITH 2013 RATES AND SERVICES. From Broadway to Soundstage, Bev Leech offers 30 years of professional insight to the business of acting in Los Angeles and beyond. Begin, maintain, and sustain an exhilarating career as a performing artist in stage, television and film. Each successive chapter lays out the actor's next move in building an acting career: the actor's game plan, building your resume, getting representation, taking meetings and understanding contracts, differentiating audition techniques for stage, television and film, script breakdown, scams, and more. Whether you are new or an established professional, this book provides a solid and legitimate foundation of professional taste and insight to help you find work in this industry through all of its ever-changing tastes, and survive its “feast or famine," “crickets or cannonballs” energy. "Building an acting career is not an exact science. You won't find any hard and fast rules, but there are basic, established methods and protocol. I've shared those that I've found most useful, to show you a path toward a career worth having. Above all, don't strive to 'make it.' Strive to pave your own road and walk it like a warrior -- a road warrior. Good show, break a leg, and Carpe Diem!" ~ Bev Leech The companion audio CD of the chapter segment 'Nuts and Bolts' is also available separately on Amazon, "Actor Muscle: Nuts and Bolts of Audition Technique for Television and Film."
The Story Behind This Book
This 252-page book is written especially for an actor to begin, maintain and sustain an exhilarating career, offering the game plan, audition techniques, and the most up-to-date practices on the professional front. Actor Muscle: Craft. Grit. Wit. can show the path for a career worth having. Starting with a realistic game plan, each successive chapter is the actor’s next move. It lays out every stage of the game: from headshots and resumes, to getting an agent, talent contracts, comprehensive methods of submissions and auditioning for stage, television, and film, unions, scams, and hard-won wisdom of the open road. “Actors by nature are renegades. We don’t want to conform – we want to act, and that’s all. We’ll plunge the dangerous depths of psychological menace in a role, but mew like a stray cat over a cold call to an agent … The purpose of this book is for young actors to reach for legitimate skills and services to find work in this industry; to survive its ever-changing tastes, and crickets-or-cannonballs energy.”