Acting As A Business is a one-on-one career development and coaching service for actors. Sessions are conducted privately by former talent agent and personal manager Brian O'Neil, who helped launch the careers of hundreds of actors including Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick. Brian is the author of New York's #1 selling performing arts book, Acting As a Business: Strategies for Success, currently in its Third Edition and 25th printing and contracted in January 2009 to be published by Random House in all future printings. 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. He created the advice column "Actor's Cues and A's" for Back Stage, and his books are required or recommended reading in many conservatory training programs, including Yale and Juilliard. Brian lives in New York City and is the country's foremost lecturer on self-marketing techniques for actors. Featured in a March 2009 article in The Wall Street Journal, Brian is also a guest speaker/guest faculty member at every top drama school across the nation (including The Yale University School of Drama, The Juilliard School, The Graduate Acting Program at New York University, The University of California, San Diego/LaJolla Playhouse, Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium, Harvard University/ART, Syracuse University, Temple University, The University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre Professional Actor Training Program, George Washington University/Shakespeare Theatre, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, The University of Delaware, and The National Theatre Conservatory at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts). For more information about Brian's career planning sessions and details of the over 2,000 actors who have found representation and employment after working with Brian.