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Actor’s Advertising Campaigns – When to Stay in Touch and When to Bang Your Drum

In order to help advance their careers, actors must learn how to use the two basic methods of publicity.

In the world of marketing, there are two distinct kinds of advertising campaigns – an “Ongoing Campaign” and a “Promotional Campaign.” These two kinds of campaigns work hand in hand to create a sense of recognition and momentum for a business (or an actor) which, in turn, can create opportunities ..

is Gripping but Overly Metaphorical

Playwright Kenneth Lin says he needed to write this play---about a concentration camp prisoner, Curt Herzstark, who is being kept alive because he has invented the world's first hand-held four function calculator.

The most difficult problem in creating the calculator seems to be the problem of performing subtraction.

Lin often uses this as a metaphor in his gripping play about the Holocaust.

�Or to walk with Kings - nor to lose the common touch�
-Rudyard Kipling

It�s become a luxury item of the elite.

..It�s like caviar, fur coats and health insurance, something reserved
strictly for the wealthy citizens of this land of ours.

..That�s the problem. And I hate it. ...
It�s not how theatre started out.

Our guest Columnist this month is S.P. Miskowski who shares their writer�s perspective on producing in the Arts in Seattle. We felt, that this post could just as well have been discussing Houston.

With permission we proudly reprint from the popular blog:
Hick With a Masters Degree a post titled Starving the Local Artist
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Starving the Local Artist
by S. P. Miskowski

For many years I have written short stories. Most of them have been published somewhere, in large or small circulation literary magazines, in print and online. I�ve written for zines, Web sites, and newspapers. And for about a dozen years I wrote plays, several of which ...

My first two questions: What is a "super"? And an actor asks how to deal with a dilemma involving their scene partner..