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An Actor’s Guide: Your First Year in Hollywood (3rd Edition)

6 x 9, 272 pages, Paperback
ISBN 1-58115-448-8
Publication Date: July 2007 This title qualifies for FREE SHIPPING on orders of $50 or more

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An Actor’s Guide: Your First Year in Hollywood: (Third Edition)

by Michael Saint Nicholas

The third edition of this indispensable companion provides all the essential information you’ll need to launch your film or TV career in Hollywood. Actor and writer Michael Saint Nicholas reveals not only how to survive your first year, but also how to keep your finances, acting skills, and even your health and well-being on the right track. You’ll discover how to:

• Find a place to live and a job to pay the bills
• Work as an extra
• Get an appropriate headshot
• Put together a professional résumé
• Find places to study your craft
• Ace the audition
• Acquire a SAG card
• Snag a top-notch agent
• Build credits and gain exposure
• Handle contracts
• Be prepared once you land the part

Top industry professionals and successful actors provide detailed, first-hand advice and the thorough appendixes make contacting agents, studios, soap operas, and game shows a breeze.

Reviews

“Stresses practical and business matters, and has ‘picked the brains’ of dozens of industry professionals to provide answers to questions from the basics of getting to know Los Angeles to what to do when a part is landed.”
—Equity News

“Encouraging but mostly realistic. Helpful to those who will not be dissuaded from moving to the coast in search of glamour.”
—Library Journal

“Packed full of great advice and enlightening interviews, this book tells you exactly what to do, who to contact, and where to go to successfully begin a Hollywood acting career.”—Eric Morris, Acting Coach, Author of No Acting Please, Irreverent Acting, and Acting & Imaging

“If I was coming from another city and beginning my first year in Hollywood, I would hope that I had found this book before I arrived.”
—Jay Bernstein, Top Personal Manager