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What are the tools and techniques you need to make a successful career in television commercials? Does stage training help? How does one organize and market oneself to the people doing the hiring? How do you handle auditions? What do you do when the director wants different interpretations of the same material? And how do you handle those shoots when nothing seems to go right? Actress and writer Pat Dougan, who has worked in hundred of commercials, gives you the tools to answer these and other questions necessary for the actor who seriously wants to make the move into this fast-paced and lucrative field.
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PAT DOUGAN is an actress, teacher, trainer, and director. She has appeared in over 650 national and regional commercials, industrials, voice-overs, television shows, and plays, co-starring as Olympia Dukakis's daughter on the TV drama Rachel's Dinner , and in Against the Law and Spenser: For Hire . She attended the Neighborhood Playhouse where she studied with Sanford Meiser, and later with Uta Hagen at HB Studio. Dougan teaches private on-camera acting classes and also teaches in the MFA Professional Theatre Training Program at Brandeis University, conducts presentation and communication skills workshops, and does one-on-one coaching with professionals from many industries. She is a co-founder of StageSource, The Alliance of Theatre Artists and Producers in Boston.
What are the tools and techniques you need to make a successful career in television commercials? Does stage training help? How does one organize and market oneself to the people doing the hiring? How do you handle auditions? What do you do when the director wants different interpretations of the same material? And how do you handle those shoots when nothing seems to go right? Actress and writer Pat Dougan, who has worked in hundred of commercials, gives you the tools to answer these and other questions necessary for the actor who seriously wants to make the move into this fast-paced and lucrative field.
About the Author
PAT DOUGAN is an actress, teacher, trainer, and director. She has appeared in over 650 national and regional commercials, industrials, voice-overs, television shows, and plays, co-starring as Olympia Dukakis's daughter on the TV drama Rachel's Dinner , and in Against the Law and Spenser: For Hire . She attended the Neighborhood Playhouse where she studied with Sanford Meiser, and later with Uta Hagen at HB Studio. Dougan teaches private on-camera acting classes and also teaches in the MFA Professional Theatre Training Program at Brandeis University, conducts presentation and communication skills workshops, and does one-on-one coaching with professionals from many industries. She is a co-founder of StageSource, The Alliance of Theatre Artists and Producers in Boston.
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