Promoting Your Acting Career A Step-By-Step Guide To Opening The Right Doors

Glenn Alterman is the author of The Perfect Audition Monologue, Two Minutes and Under (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for Actors), Uptown, The Job Book: One Hundred Acting Jobs for Actors, The Job Book 2: One Hundred Day Jobs for Actors, What To Give Your Agent For Christmas, Two-Minute Monologs, Creating Your Own Monologue, and An Actor's Guide: Making It in New York City. Two Minutes and Under (Volumes 1 and 2), Street Talk, Uptown, Creating Your Own Monologue, Promoting Your Acting Career, One Hundred Acting Jobs For Actors, The Job Book 2, Two Minutes and Under, and An Actor's Guide: Making It in New York City were all Featured Selections in the Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater and Stage and Screen Division). Most of his published works have gone on to multiple printings. His book, The Perfect Audition Monologue, was recently honored by the National Arts Club in New York City. His plays Like Family and The Pecking Order were recently optioned by Red Eye Films (with Alterman writing the screenplay). His latest play, Solace, was produced Off-Broadway by Circle East Theater Company and presently has several European productions. Solace was recently optioned for European TV. Nobody's Flood won the Bloomington National Playwriting Competition and was a finalist in the Key West Playwriting Competition. Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda won the Three Genres Playwriting Competition twice, including publication of the play in two separate editions of the Prentice Hall college textbook, Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, by Stephen Minot. It has received several New York productions. He wrote the book for Heartstrings: The National Tour (commissioned by the Design Industries Foundation For AIDS), a thirty-five-city tour that starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas, and Sandy Duncan. Other plays include Kiss Me When It's Over (commissioned by E. Weissman Productions), starring and directed by Andre DeShields; Tourists of the Mindfield (finalist in the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition at New Dramatists); and Street Talk/Uptown (based on his monologue books), produced at the West Coast Ensemble. Goin' Round On Rock-Solid Ground, Unfamiliar Faces, and Words Unspoken were all finalists at the Actor's Theater of Louisville. Spilt Milk received its premiere at the Beverly Hills Rep/Theater 40 in Los Angeles and was selected to participate in The Samuel French One-Act Festival. It's had over twenty productions, most recently with the Emerging Artists Theater Company in New York. The Danger of Strangers won an Honorable Mention in both the Deep South Writers Conference Competition and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and was also a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest. There have been over fifteen productions of The Danger of Strangers, including shows by Circle Rep Lab, the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring The Sopranos' James Gandolfini), and the Emerging Artists Theater Company's One-Act Marathon. It was performed most recently at the Vital Theater Company on Theater Row in New York. His work has been performed at Primary Stages, Circle in the Square Downtown, the Turnip Festival, HERE, La MaMa, the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, and several theaters on Theater Row in New York, as well as at many other theaters around the country. He is one of the country's foremost monologue and audition coaches, having helped thousands of actors in their search (and preparation) of monologues, as well as creating their own material for solo shows. Glenn has lectured and taught at such diverse places as the Edward Albee Theater Conference (Valdez, Alaska), Southampton College, Governors School For the Arts (Old Dominion University), the School For Film and Television, Western Connecticut State College, Star Map Acting School of Long Island, the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen Actors Guild, the Seminar Center, and the Boston public school system, as well as at many acting schools all over the country. In 1994, he created the Glenn Alterman Studio (www.glennalterman.com), and through its auspices has worked privately as a monologue and audition coach and at colleges, universities, and acting schools all around the country. His latest book of original monologues, Two Minutes and Under, Volume 3 (Smith and Kraus), will be on the bookshelves in early 2005. He presently lives in New York City, where he is working on a new commissioned play, writing a new screenplay, coaching actors, giving seminars, and occasionally working in film and TV.Alterman, Glenn is the author of 'Promoting Your Acting Career A Step-By-Step Guide To Opening The Right Doors', published 2004 under ISBN 9781581153910 and ISBN 1581153910.