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Actors Agents

To become one of many actors agents, you are going to need some sort of training. You can not simply assume that because your best friend is a great actor that you will be able to take her far in the industry without knowing all of the strings to pull and how to pull them. You need to start out by getting some experience working in the office of an agent.

Agents need assistants, and although you may want to start out as an agent, if you are going to ever want to be good enough to have assistants of your own, you definitely need to start out by working as one. As an actors agent assistant, you will have a chance to see how the industry works – you can also decide if you indeed truly do want to become an actors agent.

Agent’s assistants also get a chance to build up their own contacts for the time when they are unleashed onto the world as full blown actors agents. An actors agent’s assistant gets a chance to get to know casting directors and to get known by them, too. A good actors agent has many, many contacts – they have to know casting directors and directors and other agents if they want to get their own clients a part. Often times in life, and especially in the show business industry, it is all about who you know.

Working as an actors agent’s assistant will not be fully rewarding work – at least not at the time. Agents’ assistants do not get paid very much, but they do a lot of work. They are also expected to go to theater every night. In the end, though, because of the contacts an agent’s assistant makes and because of the knowledge that an actors agent’s assistant gains, it is well worth becoming an agent’s assistant to get started in show business.

Basically, the first step to getting your foot in the door to becoming an actors agent is to become an agent’s assistant first. From this point on, you will learn everything else you need to know.