Personal Narrative: A Career In My Acting Career

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One of my suggested jobs is to be an Actor. Actors typically read scripts and meet with agents and other professionals before accepting a role, Audition in front of directors and producers, Research their character’s to better portray them to an audience, Memorize and rehearse their lines, discuss their role with the director and other actors, And to perform the role. To be an actor you need to earn a bachelor's degree in theater arts! You are more likely to earn a more important role if you have a degree in theater arts. Actors, on average, get payed 46$ an hour, that is almost 97,000 a year! In high school I might want to take theater to prepare me in my acting career!
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