A selection of reviews and comments on Your Life In Theatre. Please share and offer more comments as you read this book. Thank you. [You can order it online from Amazon or Kindle ` or even better get your local bookshop/theatre to contact me for a small stock chris [at] chrisgrady [dot] org ]
“Theatre, money, art, penury, love, marketing, passion, audiences, success, failure, mistakes, lucky breaks, despair, and joy. A full artistic life has them all – Chris Grady’s book tell us what to do with them. Making theatre that is inspiring and accessible is hard. Writing a book that is inspiring and accessible is hard. Luckily Chris Grady has done the latter so we can do the former. “
Stella Duffy / Novelist and Fun Palaces creator
“Advice on promoting you and your art oozes out of every word”
Rachel Johnson / Choreographer and Filmmaker
“A no-nonsense guide to the pitfalls of a difficult profession from a man who knows the business inside out; chatty, informative and intensely personal.”
Gregory Doran / Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
“Fantastically useful reference. (A great distraction from what I’m supposed to be doing!)”
Thomas Hewitt-Jones / Composer
“I can’t remember the last time I read a book that had so much information that I wanted – in fact, needed. It’s fantastic”
Jo Fletcher-Cross / Playwright and Journalist
“Useful, sometimes witty, sometimes rueful and always truthful new book …very constructive and positive without raising absurd, unreal expectations.”
Susan Elkin / The Stage Newspaper review October 2014
“Chris has been there, done that and shares his experience generously….He encourages a sharing, networking approach (and gives you the tools to make this happen). “
Jackie Elliman / Legal Officer ITC review for members August 2014
“This isn’t one of those stuffy academic books that lose you by page three. It is written with a light hand and has really good advice for the aspiring thespian.
Nick Wakeham / Musical Theatre Review
“Been reading “Your life in theatre”…inspiring. Any theatre peeps, especially graduates should get a hold of it”
Marc Folan / Musical Theatre composer (London and New York)
“I loved it, couldn’t get enough, read it in 2 days which says it all really“
Nicky Raby / Actor and Personal Coach
“Just finished ‘Your Life in Theatre’ by Chris Grady Inspiring, energising and strangely moving. Whether or not you work in theatre specifically I recommend it to everyone. Truly brilliant.”
Poppy Burton-Morgan / Metta Theatre & Opera Director and Writer
You can order it online from Amazon or Kindle ` or even better get your local bookshop/theatre to contact me for a small stock chris [at] chrisgrady [dot] org. I would also love to offer any translator the opportunity to create a country adapted / local language version of the book. Do get in touch.