The Actor’s Business Plan: A Career Guide for the Acting Life

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Preface
	Mrs Brody’s guide to a happy career and life
Note to Teachers
Introduction
	Entrances
	Becoming a part of an imaginary world
	Conflict
	Entering a career
	Cooling your jets
1 Dreams for Your Life Play
	Section one: committing your dreams to writing
	Section two: real life dreams
	Pondering a day job
	Paying off student loans and planning for the future
	Pondering financial dreams: five years
	Pondering personal dreams and family
	Pondering education dreams
	Pondering community service dreams
2 Given Circumstances of Your Life Play: Obstacles
3 Your Life Play’s Five- year Plan: Objectives, Events, Tactics, Beats, and Tasks
	Your five-year plan: how to do it
	My five-year plan
4 Making Your Five-Act Life Play Happen
	Logical actions to make the agency thing happen after doing your research
5 Handling the Obstacles in Your Life Play
	Student loans
	Private student loans
	Credit card debt
	Necessary and expected expenses: the cost of doing business
	Printing of headshots, per 100: from $50 to $300
	Retouching
	SAG-AFTRA: paying your initiation fee
6 Access to the Fulfillment of Your Life Play
	Contacting agents and casting directors
7 The Cast of Your Life Play: Casting Directors, Agents, and Managers: Who TheyAre and What They Do
	Casting directors
	Personal talent managers and agents
8 Building a Character: Type Versus Brand
	Adjusting to yourself
9 Doing Your Life Play: Action!
	1 Maintain a database of all your industry contacts
	2 Maintain ongoing communication with industry contacts
	3 Take classes and coaching
	4 Be in shows
10 Your Life Play: Résumés
	Your credits
	Other factors in choosing how to structure your credit lists
11 The Album ofYour Life Play:Pictures, Reels, Websites
	Reels
	Websites
12 Learning Your Lines andShowing Up for Your Life Play:Auditions
	Monologue presentation and selection
	Prepared scenes
13 The Location of Your Life Play: Markets
	Chicago: City of Big Shoulders, the Windy City, the Second City
	Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota: lovers of the arts in the Land o’ Lakes
	New York City: Broadway, the Big Apple, the heart of American theatre
	Los Angeles: Hollywood, the Big Orange, Tinseltown
	The Chesapeake Bay Area, DC and Baltimore
	Austin, TX: Hippie Haven in the Red Star State! Keep Austin weird!
	Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love, Ben Franklin’s home, the Place with the Cracked Bell
	Atlanta, GA: Hotlanta! The Big Peach
14 Finale
Index