Story Behind The 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.”
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<p>Bev is as good as it gets. She’s smart, hardworking and a true craftsman – which is a bigger compliment than most people would think. I adore her as an actress and enthusiastically endorse her views in her Professional Guide to the Business of Acting. <strong>~ <span style="line-height:1.6em;">Bobby Moresco, Academy Award Winning Writer/Director, </span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">Crash, Million Dollar Baby.</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Bev is the perfect actress who practices all she preaches. She’s a wonderful, energetic, positive actress, whose work is exemplary. <strong>~ <span style="line-height:1.6em;">Al Onorato, Manager, and Co-founder of CSA Casting Society of America</span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Bev is not only a fine actress, but a top-notch teacher. She knows the business of acting more than most do and is not afraid to share it. Bev’s a terrific coach and instructor and her book includes all the tips and tricks, and do’s and don’ts that actors really need in the business. <strong> ~ <span style="line-height:1.6em;">Val Jobara, </span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">Rush, Kickass, The Bronx is Burning</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>In all my years as Co-Artistic Director of the Actors Gym in Los Angeles, I’ve come across very few artists as passionate and devoted to the pure craft of acting as Bev. She is such an amazing person to have in your artistic circle. <strong>~ <span style="line-height:1.6em;">Amanda Moresco, Writer/Producer</span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>I wish there was a book like this when I was starting out! Bev Leech simplifies the hard truths of the business from the heart of her creative soul ... She explains to the serious actor how to keep their eye on the prize and enjoy! The pursuit of acting has been called 'the lonely road'. Read this book and take Bev Leech along for the ride. Your journey will never be lonely again! <strong>~ <span style="line-height:1.6em;">Mike Rispoli, <em>Magic City, </em></span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">While You Were Sleeping, The Soprano's, The Rum Diary</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Beverly Leech has done a masterful job of moving the reader from the beginning of their journey as an actor to the audition ... If you are a young actor, Actor Muscle, A Professional Guide to the Business of Acting is not a book you should think about picking up, it is a book that you must purchase! You will not find a better resource for the business side of acting ... and a "must read" for that matter in many vocations. ~ <strong>Joe Montague</strong>, <strong>Riveting Riffs Magazine</strong></p> <p> </p>