Make Acting Work The Practical Path to a Successful Career [Paperback]

An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career - A really useful book for every actor to own (Prunella Scales)

Make Acting Work is an essential guide for anyone wishing to develop a career in this exciting but unpredictable profession. It offers a level-headed appraisal of the challenges that actors face and identifies a wide range of opportunities that exist for the resourceful. Practical advice is given on all the critical elements, including preparing a CV, photographs, demo-tape and showreel, getting an agent, and auditioning. The different requirements of theatre, radio, film and tv are explained, as well as a comprehensive survey of less traditional work, such as voice-overs, corporate training and role play. This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury (Annette Badland)

An invaluable, practical guide to an acting career. A really useful book for every actor to own Prunella Scales

This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury Annette Badland

Chrys Salt teaches regularly at the Actors Centre in London. She is a freelance writer and theatre d irector and is Artistic Director of Bare Boards... and a passion Theatre Company. She has made numer ous appearances on stage, television and radio, as a performer, directed extensively in theatre and sound, and written several books, theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries. Her book Here We Go: Women's Memories of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike won a National Media Award.