Simon Dunmore's Books

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Examples of mistakes that actors make in their search for work

This is the most detailed and comprehensive guide for actors, in their continuing search for work, ever written. Acting is a vastly overcrowded profession and individuals have to work harder at getting work than actually doing it. A very, very few famous names will simply be offered work, but the vast majority - of all ages - have to go through in marketing themselves (on paper and in person) throughout their careers.

This book not only covers almost every aspect of getting work as an actor - starting from trying to get into drama school - but it does so with great sympathy for the actor's plight at constantly having to go through this often humiliating process.

"The writer has enormous experience of employing actors and has drawn on this and the experiences of numerous other professionals for a book which should become a standard work of reference for actors everywhere."

drama schools
audition speeches and sight-readings
letters, CVs and photographs
finding and working with an agent
auditions for musicals
the fringe
interviews
TV, commercials and films
voice-overs
the internet
Equity

and much more...

Previous editions

First edition published by Macmillan in 1991
Actor's Guide... 1

Second edition published by A&C Black in 1996
Actor's Guide... 2

Third edition published by A&C Black in 2001

Actors' Yearbook - updated every year

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Whether you are already working as an actor or just embarking on your acting career, Actors' Yearbook is an invaluable resource. It contains detailed entries and guidance for all aspects of the acting world, from agents to production companies, while essays and commentaries provide additional advice and insights into the profession.

Packed with all the latest information on the industry, Actors' Yearbook is the essential reference guide for actors and anyone working in television, film and theatre.

Topics covered include:
Training Opportunities
Agents
Casting Directors
Producing Theatres
Independent Managements/Theatre Producers
Middle & Smaller-Scale Theatre Companies
Children's, Young People's and Theatre in Education Companies
BBC, ITV Network and other TV and Radio Companies
Showreel and Voice Demo Companies
Photographers

and much more...

Alternative Shakespeare Audition Books

Auditioners often complain of seeing the same speeches over and over again. Director Simon Dunmore has seen well over ten-thousand audition speeches performed, and has drawn on his experience to select and edit these new collections of fascinating, fresh and unusual speeches from Shakespeare's plays.

Each speech is accompanied by a helpful character description, brief explanation of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references - all written from the viewpoint of the auditioning actor.

Each book contains 50 'alternative' Shakespeare audition speeches.

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This book brings together fifty speeches for women from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles and Love's Labour's Lost. It also includes good, but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays such as Diana from All's Well That Ends Well, Perdita from The Winter's Tale and Hero from Much Ado About Nothing.

List of female Shakespeare speeches too often used in audition

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This book brings together fifty speeches for men from plays frequently ignored such as Titus Andronicus, Pericles and Love's Labour's Lost. It also includes good, but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays such as Octavius Caesar from Antony And Cleopatra, Leontes from The Winter's Tale and Buckingham from Richard III.

List of male Shakespeare speeches too often used in audition

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This book brings together a further fifty speeches for women from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and Henry VIII. It also includes good, but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays such as Hostess Quickly from Henry IV, part 2, Maria from Twelfth Night and Charmian from Antony and Cleopatra.

List of female Shakespeare speeches too often used in audition

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This book brings together fifty speeches for men from plays frequently ignored such as Cymbeline, King John and Henry VIII. It also includes good, but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays such as Kent from King Lear, Tranio from The Taming of the Shrew and Ferdinand from The Tempest.

List of male Shakespeare speeches too often used in audition

All published by A&C Black in the U.K. and Routledge in North America

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