Theater careers : a realistic guide / Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donahue, Tim, 1952-

Contributor:

Patterson, Jim (Jim Aris)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Vocational guidance--United States.

Theater.

Acting--Vocational guidance--United States.

Acting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Armed with this information, readers will be better equipped to pursue choices that best lead to satisfying and secure employment in the rewarding field of the dramatic arts.

Contents:

The many jobs in professional theater

Theater education offers many paths

Choosing a university, consider time and money

Theater income varies

Theatrical unions make rules but not jobs

Theater jobs are everywhere . . . but mostly in New York

Many choose many careers

Find current facts

Afterword: love theater without a career in theater

Appendix A: the American community survey

Appendix B: the National Science Foundation's "National survey of college graduates"

Appendix C: IATSE local types

Appendix D: IATSE stage employee locals.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-159) and index.

ISBN:

9781611170801

161117080X

9781611171976

1611171970

OCLC:

854585697