SOAP OPERA WEEKLY
"The only authoritative source for aspiring actors who want to work specifically in Daytime TV........"
"....Almost everything you ever wanted to know about working in the TV Soap industry in covered in this book..."
“The ABC’s of SOAPS provides a fresh, informative, unique and positive approach to the world of DAYTIME TV…”
"...doesn’t sugarcoat the obstacles actors presently face when trying to break into the medium, but outlines in simple language how to overcome them and be a WINNER!”
THE ABC'S OF SOAPS: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV, is now in its fourth printing. The book is the only text of its kind that is readily available to both aspiring actors and theatre majors who wish to know all the ins and outs of working in Soaps on Daytime and Primetime Television.
It 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, many colleges and universities are now including THE ABC'S OF SOAPS: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV as required text for the BFA/MFA Theatre Degree curriculum.
THE AUTHOR, Gwyn Gilliss, a classically trained theatre actress (Carnegie Mellon University) 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 G.B. Shaw, Moliere to Arthur Miller, Tennesee Williams to Noel Coward), TV pilots, Primetime TV series and films.
