This is the definitive insider's guide to getting ahead in the worlds of theater, film, and commercials. Packed with both innovative strategies and practical advice, it covers how to obtain the perfect headshot; prepare for interviews and auditions; select flattering monologues; create professional-looking resumes and cover letters; compose promotional mailings and videos; produce an original play, video or film; launch a theater company; and much more. New sections include information on actor training; voice, speech and voiceovers; using the Internet for self-promotion; daytime serials; and interviews with working professionals from every realm of entertainment.
• "Those looking for the best ways to create, maintain, and strengthen their industry relationships should look no further. An important book. I highly recommend it!" -Bernie Tesley, casting director
Glenn Alterman is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is the author of numerous books, including An Actor's Guide - Making It in New York City (1-58115-213-2) and Creating Your Own Monologue (1-58115-038-5). He lives in New York City.
Glenn Alterman is a multi-award winning playwright, the author of 22 theater related books (including eight books of original monologues), a screen writer, an actor, a top New York City commercial print model, and a highly respected monologue/audition acting coach. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a bar-owning father and house-wife mother. For many years he was a relatively succesful New York actor. One day, while frustrated about trying to find a monologue for an important upcoming audition, he decided to try write his own. He had no idea how to do this so he just took a huge leap of faith and did. That first monologue took several days to write, but ended up being a huge hit hit, winning him many auditions and opening the door to a new career, writing. Fate and good fortune lead to the publication of his first book of original monologues, Street Talk. Many books of original monologues (about 400 monologues) followed. His books include: An Actors Guide- Making It In New York (and the recently released, completely revised "Second Edition"). The Perfect Audition Monologue, Glenn Alterman's Secrets To Successful Cold Readings, Sixty Seconds To Shine--101 One Minute monologues, Creating Your Own Monologue, Promoting Your Acting Career, Two Minutes and Under (Original Monologues for Actors, Volumes 1, 2, and 3), Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for Actors), Uptown (More Original Monologues For Actors), The Job Book: One Hundred Acting Jobs for Actors, The Job Book 2: One Hundred Day Jobs for Actors, What to Give Your Agent for Christmas, and Two Minute Monologues. Two Minutes and Under, Street Talk, and Uptown were the number one best-selling books of original monologues in 1992, 1993, and 1995 and, along with Creating Your Own Monologue, Promoting Your Acting Career, The Job Book, The Job Book 2, and Two Minutes and Under, were all "Featured Selections" in the Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater and Stage and Screen Division"). Most of his published works have gone on to multiple printings. As a playwright, Mr. Alterman is the recipient of the first Julio T. Nunez Artist's Grant, The Arts and Letters Award in Drama, and scores of playwriting awards. His play The Pain in the Poetry was published in 2009 The Best Ten Minute Plays For 2 or More Actors. Mr. Alterman's plays, Like Family and The Pecking Order, were optioned by Red Eye Films (with Alterman writing the screenplay). His play, Solace, was produced off-Broadway by the Circle East Theater Company (formerly Circle Rep Theater Company). Nobody's Flood won the Bloomington National Playwriting Competition, as well as being a finalist in the Key West Playwriting Competition. Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda won the Three Genres Playwriting Competition twice, two years in a row! The prize included publication of the play in the Prentice Hall textbook, used in college theater departments all over the country. Mr. Alterman wrote the book for Heartstrings: The National Tour (commissioned by DIFFA, the Design Industries Foundation for Aids), a thirty-five city tour that starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas, and Sandy Duncan. Other plays include Kiss Me When It's Over (commissioned by E. Weissman Productions), starring and directed by André De Shields; Tourists of the Mindfield (finalist in the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition at New Dramatists); and Street Talk/Uptown (based on his monologue books), produced at the West Coast Ensemble. Goin' Round on Rock Solid Ground and Unfamiliar Faces were finalists at the Actors Theater of Louisville's playwriting competition. Spilt Milk received its premiere at the Beverly Hills Rep/Theater 40 in Los Angeles and was selected to participate in the Samuel French One-Act Festival. The Danger of Strangers won Honorable Mention in the Deep South Writers Conference Competition, was a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest, was selected to be in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and has had over 35 productions, including at Circle Rep Lab, the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring James Gandolfini), the Emerging Artists Theater Company's one-act marathon, the Vital Theater Company in New York, and, most recently, with the Workshop Theater Company. There have been several major productions of his original monologues play, God In Bed, both in the United States and in Europe. Mr. Alterman's work has been performed at Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), Circle in the Square Downtown, HERE, LaMaMa, in the Turnip Festival, at the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, at several theaters on Theater Row in New York, as well as at many theaters around the country. Mr. Alterman has been a guest artist and given master classes and seminars on "Monologues" and "The Business of Acting" at such diverse places as the Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia, the Edward Albee Theater Conference (Valdez, Alaska), Southampton College, Western Connecticut State College, Broadway Artists Alliance, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen Actors Guild, the Seminar Center, in the Boston Public School System, and at many acting schools and colleges all over the country. In 1993, Mr. Alterman created the Glenn Alterman Studios, where actors receive monologue/audition coaching, as well as career preparation. He was named "Best Monologue/Audition Coach in the Tri-State Area" by Theater Resources Magazine and first runner up as "The Best Private Acting Coach In New York", by the readers of Back Stage. He presently lives in New York City, where he's working on several plays, works on TV commercials, and coaches actors. On the Web, he can be reached at www.glennalterman.com.
This review is from: Promoting Your Acting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening the Right Doors (Paperback)
I have read a lot of these books about the business of acting and this is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! Mr. Alterman's book is a bible for every actor. It's insightful, very down to earth and inspirational. You feel like he's right there guiding you the whole time. I've bought this book for several of my friends who are in the biz. Kudos to Glenn Alterman for writing the definitive book about the business
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This review is from: Promoting Your Acting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening the Right Doors (Paperback)
I have owned this book for a while and it is my go to book for the business side of things for New York. I am not a New York actor yet, but most of the east cost can use this book. I do feel this book could have expanded on the subject of marketing(typecasting, branding) by adding more about casting and image. Otherwise it is an excellent book. It is also alot less expensive than a trip to see Mr. Alterman himself. His fee is something like $500. I would only suggest consulting with a business coach once you have exhausted all other possible sources.
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