Drama Book Shop Event-ABCs of Soaps with Gwyn Gilliss

Time: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:00 p.m.
Location: The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Title of Event: ABCs of Soaps with Gwyn Gilliss

Celebrate the publication of the 3rd edition of ABCs of Soaps with Gwyn Gilliss.

The book includes how to interview, audition, and book work as an actor, contract player, writer, and director- all with potentially high six-figure incomes on one or more of the many network daytime TV Dramas. Recognized in the TV industry as The Manual on the subject of Daytime TV. Many colleges and universities are now including...The ABCs of Soaps: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV as required text for the BFA/MFA Theatre Degree curriculum.

Gwyn Gilliss, a classically trained theatre actress (Carnegie Mellon and Syracuse Universities) has appeared in over 18 contract and recurring roles on ABC's daytime series, including: All My Children, One Life to Live, Loving and Ryan's Hope, NBC's As the World Turns, and most recently as Edwina Forrester on CBS's Guiding Light. Ms. Gilliss' career spans over two decades during which time she has worked both on and off-Broadway (Circle in the Square, Cherry Lane Theatres), in American Repertory Theatres (from Shakespeare to Shaw, Moliere to Miller, Tennesee Williams to Noel Coward), TV pilots, Primetime TV series and films. As the Executive Director of the marketing and consulting firm, The Actor's Market, she is in demand by colleges and universities throughout the U.S. to lecture on subjects relating to the Performing Arts and Television Industries.