Take Your Shirt Off and Cry (eBook, ePUB) - Balbirer, Nancy
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One woman's laugh-out-loud account of the oddities, indignities, and outright absurdities of a life in show business.
In this strikingly candid memoir, Nancy Balbirer distills two decades of drama school, auditions, bit parts, cameos, and off-Broadway plays into an account by turns hilarious and horrifying . From studying theater in college under the searing purism of David Mamet ("Being a woman in [show] business, you'll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play: take your shirt off and cry. That's it. Take your shirt off and cry.") to weathering advice from her…mehr

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One woman's laugh-out-loud account of the oddities, indignities, and outright absurdities of a life in show business.

In this strikingly candid memoir, Nancy Balbirer distills two decades of drama school, auditions, bit parts, cameos, and off-Broadway plays into an account by turns hilarious and horrifying . From studying theater in college under the searing purism of David Mamet ("Being a woman in [show] business, you'll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play: take your shirt off and cry. That's it. Take your shirt off and cry.") to weathering advice from her brazenly insensitive L.A. agent ("I didn't think it was possible. But you managed to bore Luke Perry") to scoring a Saturday Night Live audition based on a drunken Debra Winger impersonation, Balbirer's adventures are sometimes bizarre, sometimes painful, and always unforgettable. Between run-ins with an eccentric cast of all-too-real characters, including an infatuated acting teacher who introduces Nancy to the joys of firearms, a former sex symbol desperately seeking a toilet, and a jazz musician who fancies himself a reincarnated Jack Kerouac, Balbirer wrestles with her own ambitions and disappointments, struggling to determine what she really wants and who she really is. She may not be destined for Hollywood stardom, but as "Take Your Shirt Off and Cry" makes clear, she is definitely a one-of-a-kind talent.

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Autorenporträt
Nancy Balbirer is the author and star of the critically acclaimed solo show I Slept With Jack Kerouac and Other Stories, and the co-creator of the cult reading series, Cause Celeb! She has co-starred on Seinfeld and MTV's Remote Control, performed off-Broadway, and appears regularly in New York City's alternative cabaret scene. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the co-owner, designer and doyenne of the West Village boite, Pasita. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.