The Comedy Group Book

by Diz White

This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to easily create a successful comedy group. By following the techniques in this book, actors will be able to do an end run around casting directors by casting themselves in their own group’s productions. Create a Comedy Group is filled with practical advice, production information, resource guides, tips, short cuts, and amusing war stories culled from the author’s fifteen plus years of experience in running her own group. By covering every aspect of forming and running a comedy group, this book shows how to develop a profitable acting career by writing, touring, and selling stage shows as comedy product for Cable TV, Network TV, and for film. The author’s own experience of creating a group led to her winning a New York Critic’s Drama Desk Award for starring in her group’s Off-Broadway show El Grande de Coca-Cola, which was televised as an HBO comedy special. Next, Bullshot Crummond was televised by Showtime and then produced as a feature film by George Harrison’s HandMade Films under the title Bullshot. Based on her own experience, the author also explains how an actor can go on to leverage a successful solo career using the exposure and experience gained from creating a comedy group.

251 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2007

About the author

Diz White is the author of Cotswolds Memoir :Discovering a Beautiful Region of Britain on a Quest to Buy a 17th Century Cottage (Larrabee Libraries) a travel/humor book. She divides her time between the Cotswolds and Hollywood where she also pursues a career as a comedy writer and actress. In addition, Diz is the author of Haunted Cotswolds (The History Press), The Comedy Group Book (Smith and Kraus), El Grande de Coca-Cola and Bullshot Crummond published by Samuel French Playscripts. More books Diz has written are shown on her website http://www.DizWhite.com; Diz’s acting credits include: Star Trek: Next Generation and the lead role in Bullshot the feature film, produced by ex-Beatle George Harrison’s HandMade Films, which she co-wrote.