The essential, one-stop handbook for actors, with everything you need to survive and thrive, from the team behind the internationally successful Surviving Actors conventions.

Being an actor is a vocation, but it's also a real-life job. Talent, determination and passion are vital, but will only get you so far. In addition to developing the craft of acting, actors have to remember that it is a career, and so the business side needs to be taken just as seriously.

This manual covers the day-to-day essentials you need to succeed in the industry, with sections that cover:

• Establishing your personal brand and business plan
• Getting great headshots, showreels, voicereels and a website
• Dealing with agents, casting directors and auditions
• Developing your networking skills
• And managing your money

Honest, straightforward, but also empowering, it will help you unlock your potential and focus on being the best, most employable - and, hopefully, successful - actor you can be.

Compiled by the team at Surviving Actors, and drawing on a wide range of other experienced professionals, the Surviving Actors Manual is designed to help you develop and sustain your career and to create your own new opportunities.

Felicity Jackson and Lianne Robertson both trained as actors. Together they run Surviving Actors, founded in 2009 to help and encourage other actors in all areas of their professional lives.

About the Author

Felicity Jackson attended The Court Theatre Training Company, where she gained a BA (Hons) in Acting. After graduating, inspired by her fellow thespians, she founded Surviving Actors Ltd, and within a year, she founded Casting Days Ltd. Initially launched as a dedicated acting showcase company, it has evolved and secured a continuing relationship with StarNow to support their UK casting professionals, as well as running affordable workshops for actors.

Felicity is best known for her appearance in Series 7 of BBC's The Apprentice, where she beat 72,000 people to reach the final sixteen candidates. She continued to excel above the other candidates before being 'fired' in week four.

Lianne Robertson is originally from Fraserburgh, a small fishing town in Scotland. She has always had a love for performing, and studied Acting and Performance at college, then went on to gain her BA (Hons) in Acting. Following graduation, she worked in a disabled children's orphanage in Thailand, facilitating arts workshops, then moved to live and work as an actor in London.

Her work has included productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Road, Romeo and Juliet, various short films, national and international commercials, corporate work, regular role-play work at various establishments throughout the UK, and presenting.

As one half of the Surviving Actors team, she strives to make Surviving Actors bigger and better by using her creative skills and is proud to have developed the US version of the event, Actors Pro Expo.

Reviews

'a useful book about how to stay alive in this ruthless industry... helpful, accessible and practical'

* The Stage *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848424159
Author Felicity Jackson
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books