Your LIFE in THEATRE: a self-help guide for all stages of your career - including theatre jobs, drama schools and how to plan your journey through your creative career to work in theatre: 1 - Softcover

Chris Grady

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910202487 ISBN 13: 9781910202487

Publisher: ChrisGrady.org, 2014

Synopsis

YOUR LIFE IN THEATRE - A self-help guide to all stages of your career by Chris Grady.

How can you make the most of the skills you have during a lifetime of working in theatre? Its a wonderful life. It can be a lonely life. This book gives you a wealth of very personal insights into the business.

Never under-estimate how little we know. This book is filled with useful tips and experiences, some of which you will have heard or experienced already, some of which you will completely disagree with and some of which will inspire you.

A no-nonsense guide to the pitfalls of a difficult profession from a man who knows the business inside out: chatty, informative and intensely personal. Gregory Doran - Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company

Drawing on 30 years experience across many facets of the theatre business, this book brings to the page the mentoring advice Chris Grady offers in his CGO Surgeries. One-to-one CGO surgeries have been offered to creative artists since 2005 on a pay-what-you-can basis.

The sessions continue, but now you can explore where you are in your artistic life using this book as a provocation. Main Features:

• 120 pages of powerful, personal advice
• A wealth of transferable skill-sharing, across all creative careers
• Time-tested suggestions for marketing yourself and your business
• Uses the Shakespeare Seven Ages of Man as a model for your creative journey
• Includes an A-Z of preparing for drama school
• Explores the power of Open Space Technology
• Includes a few examples of how not to do it, and what to avoid in your career!

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Review:

A no-nonsense guide to the pitfalls of a difficult profession from a man who knows the business inside out: chatty, informative and intensely personal. -- --Gregory Doran - Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company

Chris Grady is a good, kind and wise man who has written a good, kind and wise book about being a theatre practitioner at every stage of your career and none. This is for when you are stuck or tired or astonished at how brilliantly it s going, and terrified it s all going to come crashing down around you. It s about all of that and about making a difference with all of that. Grady s book is about being an artist and about being human and about how, ideally, our humanity feeds our art and our art feeds humanity. (And it s way more practical than that sounds.) Making theatre that is inspiring and accessible is hard. Writing a book that is inspiring and accessible is hard. Luckily Chris Grady has done the latter so we can do the former. Theatre, money, art, penury, love, marketing, passion, audiences, success, failure, mistakes, lucky breaks, despair, and joy. A full artistic life has them all Chris Grady s book tell us what to do with them. --Stella Duffy /Author and Theatremaker / July 2014

Just published by Chris Grady Organisation (CGO), Grady s paperback Your Life in Theatre leads the reader through his or her career via Shakespeare s seven ages of man speech. It is readably chatty, includes a pithy A-Z about preparation for drama school and is very strong on pitfalls to avoid as you try to build a career. Grady, who has 30 years of experience in arts management, started his coaching consultancy in 2007. His useful, sometimes witty, sometimes rueful and always truthful new book shares much of the advice he offers in his popular one-to-one or group sessions. It s all very constructive and positive without raising absurd, unreal expectations. --Susan Elkin / The Stage / 2nd October 2014

About the Author:

Chris Grady has run, built, marketed, and created theatres and festivals over the UK for 30 years including senior roles at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds; Pleasance Theatres London and Edinburgh; Cameron Mackintosh Ltd (UK and International); Buxton Opera House (creating the first International Festival of Musicals); Theatre by the Lake in Keswick; Edinburgh International Festival; Plymouth Theatre Royal and Bristol Hippodrome.

He established Musical Theatre Matters (now MTN) & the MTM Awards in Edinburgh, ran the Vivien Ellis Prize, Stagefair for the Society of London Theatre, and was engaged by the BBC to create the Cardiff Festival of Musical Theatre. He has recently led the MA in Arts Management at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, and is now creating the MA in Creative Producing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

His international consultancy includes work for Stage Entertainment Holland, Kolomna Pastila in Russia, DxL Creations and Studio Life in Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: ChrisGrady.org
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1910202487
• ISBN 13: 9781910202487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186