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The Profession And The Working Actor (PFA-111)

Semester:	Spring 2024
Number:	0192-111-001
Instructor:	James Oneil
Days:	Tuesday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Note:	Traditional In-Person Class
Location:	Garden City - Performing Arts Center 145
Credits:	2
Notes:	For majors only
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Description:	Focus of this course will be obtaining work in the professional theater. The major actors' unions will also be covered. Putting together a picture/resume, actors' relationships to agents and managers, and making the rounds. Contracts, riders, and residuals. (Distribution Reqs:Arts)
Learning Goals:	0192-111: THE PROFESSION AND THE WORKING ACTORStudents will:1) use this course to make an intelligent and informed transition into the ‘business’ of show business and professional performance;2) meet agents, directors and other professionals to gain their insights;3) meet with successful and working graduates of our programs to find out how they have made their choices in the profession;4) travel to New York City to explore theatre’s capital, the location of agents’ offices, and gain a general familiarity with the City;5) put previously learned skills, like resume-creation and the investigation of audition sources, to learn how to find work;6) learn about the acting unions and their relationship to a life spent in the arts;7) acquire a fully adult and professional ‘presentation’ as a professional in the art. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

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