1st Edition
Answers from The Working Actor Two Backstage Columnists Share Ten Years of Advice
Acknowledgments
Preface
Starting Out
Training and Craft
Where to Live
Marketing: Branding
Marketing: Materials
Marketing: Promotion and Networking
Auditions and the Casting Process
Agents and Managers
Unions
Scams, Shams and Ripoffs
On the Job
Financial Matters
Ethics and Etiquette
Sticky Situations
Personal Relationships and Family Matters
The Nature of the Career
Closing Thoughts
Appendix
Recommended Reading
Index
Biography
Jackie Apodaca is a professor of theatre at Southern Oregon University. She has worked as an actor, director, and producer in theatre, film, and media, with companies such as the Roundabout, Denver Center, National Geographic, filmscience, Modern Media (head of production), Venice Theatre Works (associate artistic director), Shakespeare Santa Barbara (producing director), and Ashland New Plays Festival (associate artistic director). She spent more than a decade at Backstage, where she was a contributing editor and wrote the advice column "The Working Actor." Jackie earned an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory, under the guidance of RSC founding member, Tony Church.
Michael Kostroff is an established actor best known for his five seasons on HBO’s The Wire and a long list of other television roles. He’s toured nationally in The Producers and Les Misérables, an experience which he chronicled in his book, Letters from Backstage (Allworth Press, 2005). From 2006 to 2012, he shared writing duties with Jackie Apodaca on Backstage’s advice column, "The Working Actor." A teacher as well as an actor and writer, he’s presented his popular Audition Psych 101 workshop all over the country, and recently authored a book by the same name (Dog Ear Publishing, 2017).
