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The Actors' Yearbook 2007
By Simon Dunmore and Andrew Piper
A & C Black
£14.99
341 pages
Dateline: 19th September, 2006
For many, many years writers have had access to a wide range of essential
information about their business, updated annually, in The Writers'
and Artists' Yearbook. In 2005 its publishers, A & C Black,
produced a similar book for actors, which is now in its third edition.
Its subtitle, " The essential resource for anyone wanting to work
as an actor" is no exaggeration: in these pages are everything
you could need to know about acting as a profession, from training to
agents to theatre companies to casting directors to photographers to
organisations and publications, and much more besides.
Like its sister publication, much of the book is taken up with those
all-essential lists: training for under-18s, drama schools, university
courses, sort-term and part-time courses, agents (of all kinds), casting
directors, producing theatres, independent managements and theatre producers,
middle and smaller scale companies, fringe theatres, children's, YP
and TIE companies, festivals, role-play companies, TV companies, TV,
video and film production companies, film schools, radio and voice-over,
media festivals, disabled companies, Equity, casting directories and
information services, photographers and repro companies, showreel and
voice demo companies, accountants, funding bodies, publications, libraries
and booksellers, organisations, associations and societies, a bibliography
and a webography.
All essential information for actors, especially (but no only, not
by any means) those who are just setting out in the profession.
However the book has more to offer than this. There are short articles
on all aspects of working as an actor , from starting your own company
to surviving on tour, from the life of a director to keeping sane!
Here at the BTG we get emails by the score asking for the kind of information
that is contained herein. For under £15 actors can now have it
on their bookshelves. No actor should be without it!
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