How to Start Your Own Theater Company

How to Start Your Own Theater Company
Author: Reginald Nelson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2010
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1556528132

With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty-gritty details--such as managing rent, parking, and safety issues; determining tax status and calculating budgets; and finding flexible day jobs--that are often overlooked amid the zeal of artistic pursuit. Inspired by Congo Square's own unique inception, the valuable how-to also speaks directly to the many underserved audiences who want to create their own companies, including African American, Asian American, Latino, physically challenged, and GLBT communities. With lists of Equity offices, legal advisers, and important organizations, this complete resource is sure to help ambitious theater lovers establish and maintain their own successful companies.

Mythical Flower Stories

Mythical Flower Stories
Author: Marilyn Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1847535216

This title tells the wonderful history and mythology behind your favourite flowers. 40 of the most well known flowers in our gardens are collected here and their origins, myths and legends are told.

The GCSE Drama Coursebook

The GCSE Drama Coursebook
Author: Andy Kempe
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780748767731

The GCSE Drama Coursebook is firmly based on practical explorations of how to make, perform and respond to drama. The resources used to stimulate drama are exciting and varied, ranging from photo-love stories and poems to fine art and contemporary plays.

Drama Workshop

Drama Workshop
Author: Chuck Neighbors
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781695208230

"Every theatre director should have this valuable guide on their bookshelf." - John Lee Welton, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus Of Theatre, Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, Tennessee Jump-start your drama troupe, class, or next theatrical production with this fun, hands-on, interactive workshop to train your actors. The workshop covers the essential acting lessons that every actor needs to be at ease on stage. Easy to lead and implement, Drama Workshop will: Serve as basic training for your actors. Even if you have team members with previous experience in theatre, the workshop will get everybody on the same page. Give you an opportunity to establish the rules of the stage and rehearsal, and define the roles of the actor and the director. Allow you to scope the talent in your group and can serve as informal audition. Promote team-building. The very experience of being together for a day/week of intense training will accomplish much in unifying your team and building trust among the members. Drama Workshop is the training that Chuck Neighbors has conducted for theater companies, schools, and church drama groups in 18 countries on 6 continents over the past 45 years. The workshop has helped train hundreds of actors, from beginners just starting out, to professional performers working in stage and film. It is a great resource drama teachers and directors, theater troupes, schools, churches and homeschool groups. Note: this book is an updated version of Drama Now! (Lillenas Publishing 2005).

Working Actor

Working Actor
Author: David Dean Bottrell
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 039958191X

Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including: - Capturing the perfect headshot - Starting (and maintaining) your network - Picking an agent - Audition do’s and don’ts - Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA) - On stage vs on screen - Paying the bills - Self-promotion - Late bloomers - When to get out David Dean Bottrell has worn many different hats during his decades in showbiz: television actor with appearances on Boston Legal, Modern Family, The Blacklist, Mad Men, True Blood, NCIS, and Days of Our Lives; screenwriter for Paramount and Disney; respected acting teacher at UCLA and AADA; and regular expert columnist for esteemed acting site Backstage. In Working Actor, Bottrell offers a how-to manual jammed with practical information and insider advice, essential reading for any artist (aspiring or established) in need of insight or inspiration. Mixing prescriptive advice ("Getting Started," "Learning Your Craft," "Finding an Agent") with wisdom drawn from Bottrell's own professional highs and lows and those of his acting compatriots, this book's humorous, tell-it-like-it-is tone is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to successfully navigate show business.

The Impossible Theater

The Impossible Theater
Author: Herbert Blau
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1964
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The author critiques contemporary American theater.

You Can Write a Play!

You Can Write a Play!
Author: Milton E. Polsky
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557834850

(Applause Books). Do you have an idea for a play? A situation or experience from your home or work life? Fantasy? With helpful, clear examples, taken from his own experiences in teaching, directing and playwriting, Milton Polsky shows how to find and shape a dramatic idea and bring it to fruition. In addition to providing many practical exercises, suggestions and tips, he discusses and illustrates with examples from established playwrights "the importance of giving shape to your idea so that what is in your head and heart can be expressed to the fullest." To facilitate this creative process, there are "What if?", "Just for You," "Playwright's Page" sections; diagrams, journal exercises; and for this revised edition, end of chapter "Suggested Activities for the Classroom" (solo and group); addditional appendices, including one on feedback; and over 50 new photos. This invaluable and basic guide to writing plays is ideal for teachers, students, camp counselors, community theatre leaders and for anyone who knows there's a play inside, trying to get out!