Brian is the author of Acting As a Business: Strategies for Success, Fifth Edition, published by Random House, currently in its 40th printing. Acting As a Business is now considered such a vital resource that it recently won a spot on Entertainment Weekly Magazine’s exclusive list of Top Ten “Show-Biz Industry Bibles.” Brian is also the author of the book Actors Take Action: A Career Guide for the Competitive Actor.

 

 

His books are required or recommended reading in many conservatory training programs, including Yale and Juilliard. Brian is the country’s foremost lecturer on self-marketing techniques for actors. He lives in New York City and works with actors at all stages of their careers. Since 2010 alone, actors who have worked with Brian have become the stars of major motion pictures (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Inside Llewyn Davis, Robin Hood, Drive, and the Columbia Pictures release Great Hope Springs with Meryl Streep); been the recipients of Emmys and a Golden Globe (The Big Bang Theory); have become the stars of such television series as: Netflix’s Sense8, Orange Is The New Black, HBO’s True Blood, Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management, Stargate Universe, and Outsourced. Also in the recent past, Brian’s clients have landed leading and supporting roles in such Broadway productions as Frozen, the eight-time Tony Award winning Once, the five-time Tony winner Peter and the Starcatcher, Ching-lish, Al Pacino’s The Merchant of Venice, Robin Williams’s Bengal Tiger, American Idiot, Enron and Next Fall.

 

 

Actors who have worked with Brian have later signed with agencies including: Creative Artists Agency (CAA), William Morris/Endeavor, ICM, Paradigm, Gersh, Innovative Artists, Abrams Artists, Don Buchwald & Associates and many others.

 

 

Brain and Mike discuss what actors need to know and how to prepare for meeting with agents, one of the most vital meetings of their careers.