The Thriving Artist

Name: The Thriving Artist
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138888494
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Saving and Investing for Performers, Artists, and the Stage & Film Industries

By David Maurice Sharp

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The Thriving Artist by David Maurice Sharp demystifies finance for performing artists, from actors and dancers to lighting technicians and stagehands. It offers clear, approachable guidance on investing, saving, and creating a stable financial portfolio despite the irregular income common in the arts. With practical strategies and good humour, Sharp helps artists integrate financial awareness into their creative lives to achieve greater security.
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Ideal for performing artists including actors, dancers, costumers, and stage crew who seek practical financial guidance tailored to the uncertainties of creative professions. Also valuable to those new to investing and financial planning within the arts.

The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether you’re an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified and stable financial portfolio.

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The old cliché about the "starving" artist may have a basis in reality, but it isn’t set in stone! The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether you’re an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified and stable financial portfolio.

Written specifically for artists who have fluctuating, uncertain, and sometimes limited streams of income, this book promotes an understanding of finances and the investment world for the artist by offering clear, basic explanations of how finances work and instruction on how to participate in them as an investor. It also provides unique strategies for integrating financial awareness and planning into your life as an artist, and how that can help to provide a better sense of financial security.

With The Thriving Artist, author David Maurice Sharp guides you with unflappable good humour through the tricky financial waters that come with following your passion.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

'This is a book about money. All actors need some, elusive as it often is in an overcrowded profession, so a book about how to get it and manage could be very useful... Although Sharp is an American with a foot in both performing arts and finance camps, almost everything he says is equally valid in Britain. The principles are universal.' - Susan Elkin, The Stage

'Sharp has provided an accessible and easily readable text for smart beginners... The tone is casual and also comprehensible without becoming too dry or pedantic... I plan to return to it in pieces as I continue to evaluate my own financial life as an artist.' - Natalie Robin, Stage-Directions

'Sharp’s dual understanding of both the fields of finance and performance is a benefit to the entertainment professional looking for an entry into the financial markets. He cleanly weaves the worlds of theatrical artistry and monetary sustainability by providing helpful analogies and inspiring anecdotes… The Thriving Artist is likely to stay on my bookshelf, close within reach, for many more years to come.'

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138888494

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 March 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 14 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 208

Collections

Arts & Culture David Maurice Sharp Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Non-Fiction

About the Author

David Maurice Sharp is a Lecturer at HB Studio, one of the original acting conservatories in New York City, holding financial planning and investment workshops. As a financial professional, he was the Director of the Public Securities Group for KCC LLC New York branch and a Vice President of Epiq Systems – Financial Balloting Group LLC. He is also an actor, dancer, and choreographer, having guest taught classes at universities including NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film School.