Blown Sideways Through Life

Author: Claudia Shear
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573628009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Dubbed The Ultimate Working Girl by Newsweek, Claudia Shear takes readers on a wild adventure through the American work force in Blown Sideways Through Life. Have you ever held down a job for money rather than love? Put up with an impossible boss? Been told when and how often to visit the restroom, get a drink, use the phone? Struggled to remember that who you are doesn't depend on what you do? Meet Claudia Shear, a misfit from Brooklyn who grew up dreaming of adventure. Shear rode a wild wave of employment (sixty-four jobs in all) on her way to realizing her dream of becoming an actress. Before landing the starring role in the upcoming film, Body Language, and scoring a deal with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg for her own sitcom, she worked as (among other things) a pastry chef, a nude model, a waitress (a lot), a receptionist in a whorehouse, a brunch chef on Fire Island, a proofreader on Wall Street (a lot), and an Italian translator. On the surface her life makes for a hilarious tour de resume. But underneath is a universal lesson learned about life in the workplace.

Theatre World 1993-1994

Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832368
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

Female Bodies on the American Stage

Author: J. Mobley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137428945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.

Creating Your Own Monologue

Author: Glenn Alterman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621531066
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
In the second edition of this popular guide, actors learn to use their skills to write monologues, performance art pieces, and one-person plays. Updated to include exclusive interviews and tips on marketing, this guide helps actors create their own exciting performance opportunities and follow in the footsteps of Elaine Stritch, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, and other stunningly successful writer-performers of one-person shows. The author, an award-winning actor, breaks down the writing process into simple steps, coaching the reader through each stage of the creative journey.

Indianapolis Monthly

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Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.

Blown Sideways Through Life

Author: Claudia Shear
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 9780440313120
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Languages : en
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Dollars to Donuts...

Author: Sudie Gal
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1639033815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Everyone loves a captivating story, but seldom do we recognize God calling us to live one! Especially while wading through the floodwaters. The Gospels reveal the real cost of following Jesus. It cost the disciples dearly to follow Him--cost in terms of their families, jobs and livelihoods, their fortunes, securities in the familiar, even their lives... When Sudie Gal was reborn in the Holy Spirit in July of 1977, she never could have imagined then the painful cost of following Jesus the rest of her days. He would eventually ask nearly everything of her as she found herself caregiving for her defiant, elderly mother in her dementia. God may call you to one day leave all the people and things you love most. Perhaps He already has. If so, possibly He's guiding you to be the character that overcomes in the great story of your life! Just remember, you are never alone! He is with you always! Let Jesus be your Rock! He is available. Able. And amazingly, all that you need! Here now in this testimony of joyously surviving by His Divine Guidance, Sudie shows us through her torturous trials, the tremendous cost of her faith walk--even carried by Jesus, on His great shoulders through the floodwaters to high ground. Rescued, released, redeemed! "Godspeed!" ("Prosperous journey!") is this author's prayer for you! By our trials and scars we become most assuredly one of His Overcomers! Hallelujah! "Dollars to donuts"--an old-world expression meaning a certainty, a pseudo-betting term. "I'll bet my dollars to your donuts (or buttons, cobwebs--whatever you have of no value) that I'm right!" was one of her mother's favorite sayings--as she was always "right," and everyone else could just go, well, they could just go.

Play the Scene

Author: Michael Schulman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318796
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.

The Autobiographer's Handbook

Author: Jennifer Traig
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805087130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
"... You're invited to a roundtable discussion with today's most successful memoirists"--P. [4] of cover.

New York Magazine

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Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.