Working in Commercials: A Complete Sourcebook for Adult and Child Actors

* Interviews with top professional talent agents, casting directors, commercial producers * Interviews with successful commercial actors * Key insider information on what to do and what to avoid while seeking commercial parts * Unique insights
into the peculiarities of this lucrative, and potentially satisfying, entertainment option.


This book is a complete sourcebook for on-camera and voice-over commercials, live and taped industrials and commerical print. Readers will discover inside knowledge to learn how to `break the rules' successfully. This book enlightens readers about such
topics as how not to get ripped off, when and when not to spend money, how to assess an agent and the benefits and drawbacks to freelancing. Elaine Keller Beardsley worked in New York for the Abrams Artists and Associates commercial talent agency. She
has acted Off-Broadway and produced plays for the II Villagio Players in Greenwich Village. She lives in West Islip, New York.