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Coming to the Virtual Channel Network this fall!

"Inside the Business of Acting"

An exciting, new Web TV series, hosted by Brad Lemack, featuring exclusive interviews with successful, working actors talking about their personal career journeys, turning points and lessons learned along the way!

Brad Lemack, AuthorWelcome to The Business of Acting!

You are visiting the companion Web site for The Business of Acting, an interactive, eye-opening and empowering book for professional actors and those people who want to become professional actors. The book is available in bookstores everywhere. However, you can also order the book right now by clicking on the links to one of our e-retailer partners.

The Business of Acting is written by talent manager and entertainment publicist Brad Lemack, based on his more than 25 years in the business, as well as his popular college classes, seminars and workshops for students of the performing arts.

There is a significant difference between talent and skill. The Business of Acting will teach you the critical business skills that every actor needs to learn to effectively begin and then to maintain a prolific and successful career.

 

The Business of Acting will also teach you:

  • How to be pro-active in ways that serve you, not derail you
  • Rules of casting director protocol
  • How to get a perfect headshot
  • How to market your career
  • How to seek talent representation
  • How to create a personal business plan that will give you focus and perspective all along your career journey
  • How to achieve and maintain financial fitness

Take a Chapter-by-Chapter tour of the book to have a complete look at what is covered and what you will learn from reading it. The book also contains helpful, interactive forms that will serve as the templates for organizing the business details of your career.

The Business of Acting is published by Ingenuity Press USA.

This site is your one-stop for:

  • Information about the book
  • Notes from the book
  • Helpful Web sites, online resources and other services for actors
  • Regularly updated entertainment industry news of interest to actors
  • Details about The Business of Acting seminars that will be presented in numerous cities and at many colleges throughout the year