How to Act & Eat at the Same Time, the Sequel: The Do's and Don'ts of Landing a Professional Acting Job

by Tom Logan

This essential update to the classic book from the ultimate insider, Tom Logan, contains everything you need to know about the profession of acting from both sides of the camera.

Previously a highly successful working actor, Tom Logan brings that experience to this updated and expanded edition of How to Act & Eat at the Same Time, the Sequel, but through the unique lens of now being an extremely successful working TV, film, and commercial director, writer, and producer.

You’ll learn that ultimately, success in an audition has absolutely nothing to do with acting. Rather, it’s having the essential audition skills—which you won’t find in a “how to” audition book. That’s what you’ll learn from a master who has spent a career in and around the universe of auditions and the casting process.

All sixteen chapters have been brought up-to-date, making this book a must read for today’s aspiring and working actors. And all of the appendices containing the essential practical information an actor needs in his toolbox has been updated too – resource websites; SAG, AFTRA, and Equity locations; rules and requirements for joining SAG, AEA, and Equity; plus, an updated glossary.

326 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sara Wiser · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is definitely more for actors who are just starting out. It's a little outdated but some of the info is good.

[Helen Delphia · Rating 4 out of 5]

very informative about the acting and performing business and is pretty up to date despite being originally written in the 2000s, nice and useful book for my train commute