Stephen Book, 267, pages, 6x9, ISBN: 978-1-879505-89-6 As someone who has worked on both sides of the business, I can tell you firsthand that Stephen Book gets it exactly right. If you want to walk into a meeting or an audition with the kinds of tools and knowledge that give you the confidence to be your absolute best, The Actor Takes a Meeting is a book you should study and enjoy.â Grant Heslov, Academy Award-nominated Producer of Good Night and Good Luck
If you are not happy with where your career is at, it might not be your talent; it might be your meeting skills. The Actor Takes a Meeting is the first complete and comprehensive guide to insure a successful meeting. Bravo! â Mary Goldberg, Manager, former Casting Director for New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater
Actors must take meetings to advance their careers. Seeking representation, management, auditions, or work in specific projects, they meet with agents, managers, producers, and casting directors. However, these important meetings are often unsuccessful because the actors present themselves inadequately. Lacking self-awareness and authenticity, actors frequently conduct themselves as victims or manipulators, which leads to their being seen as undesirable working partners, regardless of their acting abilities and credits.
The Actor Takes A Meeting: How to Interview Successfully with Agents, Managers, Producerd, and Casting Directors is the first book to address the actorâs self-presentation at an interview or meeting. It shows the actor how to be the host of a meeting and the initiator of an exciting experience that may lead to offers of representation, auditions, and project participation.
In The Actor Takes a Meeting, actors will learn startling, myth-busting truths: They'll learn that they will "blow it" if interviewers look at their résumés during meetings or if they answer questions with prepared riffs about themselves or if they are on their best behavior! Most importantly, they will learn how applying Stephen Book's practical teachings can bring about remarkable transformations of their meeting skills.
Stephen Book is an acting coach, teacher, and director whose students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies and Grammys. He is the author of Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television. A former long-time faculty member of The Juilliard School and the University of Southern California, he continues to teach and coach at his workshop in Hollywood. The Actor Takes a Meeting grew out of his workshopâs curriculum.
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