Going Solo: Creating Your Own Dynamic One-Person Show, Paperback

GOING SOLO is the industry's best and most effective guide at teaching the craft and business of solo theatre. Whether you are a novice or trained professional, it is a complete course containing valuable techniques that take you through the entire process of brainstorming, developing, writing, acting, producing, negotiating, advertising and marketing your own successful and powerful one-person show. By following the proven exercises outlined in this book, internationally award winning solo artist/writer/director/teacher, Aaron Braxton, guarantees you will thoroughly complete your first solo draft in a matter of weeks

Want to win in today's saturated theatre market? Want to jumpstart your acting career, increase the odds of success, and save thousands on expensive coaching? What is the story you want to tell? Whatever the subject, no one has your life experiences. No one can authentically create your story better than you. GOING SOLO, shows you exactly how to capitalize on the framework by which you think and transform the invisible into the visible. You will create, one-of-a-kind, unique stories with engaging plots and 3 dimensional characters who have substance, depth, and move audiences. Packed full of insights and tricks of the trade, GOING SOLO is for anyone who desires the critical tools to write comedy and drama, perform single or multiple characters, quickly raise money, negotiate contracts with theatres and directors and much, much, more

"Without commitment, you'll never start. Without consistency, you'll never finish. Share your gifts." - Denzel Washington.

"It's a chance to figure yourself out." - George C. Wolf

"There are no gatekeepers in theatre. All you have to do is write a great story and they will come." - John Leguizamo

The real purpose of your life is to fulfill your dreams. What is in your heart? What are you dying to release to the world and when are you going to get out of your way, turn your "dreams" into "actions" and take your pain from, "passion" to "profits"? With GOING SOLO, the time is "now," to strengthen your creativity and finally step into your true artistic greatness.

About the Author:

Aaron Braxton's multi-faceted career spans the genres of theatre, television, film, and education. As a writer and performer, his critically acclaimed one-person show, DID YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK? (One teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom) garnered several national and international awards including a NAACP Theatre Award and Romanian International Gala Star from Bacau, Romania. Hailing from Roxbury, MA, and growing up in Santa Rosa, California, he currently makes his residence in Los Angeles, CA. A highly sought-after teaching artist and former educator with the Los Angeles Unified School District, he received a BA in Speech Communications from San Diego State University and a MA in Curriculum Writing and Teaching from the University of Southern California. A true renaissance man, he has also authored several books including: DID YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK? IS NOT ENOUGH! (Seven Motivating Principles for the Comprehensive Success of Parents and Their Children), THE HOMEBOY'S GUIDE TO SOUTHERN COOKIN', and JESSE AND THE CATERPILLAR WHO GO ITS WINGS. In addition, Aaron wrote and directed BELAFONTE UNAUTHORIZED, a one-person show about artist/activist Harry Belafonte as well as several historical plays for young adults, articles, essays, webisodes, and screenplays. He has directed numerous one-person shows written by and starring other artist. A talented actor, Aaron has also starred, guest starred or co-starred in many popular television and film projects and has graced the stage in several professional theatre productions. Current projects include THE SUB, a half-hour television adaptation of his one-person show, BROKEN; a dramatic stage play about a damaged woman who accidentally kills her 17-year-old son, and A CONDITION OF FAITH, a screenplay about a pastor so jaded with life, family, and circumstances that he burns down his church.