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Peter Messaline

Canada

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Career advice for high-school students and beginning performers. Canadian tax advice for artists of all sorts. Research resources for those looking for performance-related answers.

Experience in the area

I am a Canadian performer, tax preparer and writer.
I have supported myself as an arts entrepreneur for thirty-five years.
I am the most-published writer in the business of being a Canadian artist.
I have written on arts tax matters and prepared performer taxes for fifteen years.

Publications

CAEA Newsletter
ACTRA Branchline
The Agents Book
Actor's Survival Kit
Tax Kit 2000+
Making It (Federal government career management for culture workers)

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Almost all actors, worldwide, rely on a regular job to pay their bills.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Very few actors know how to turn their vocation into a living.

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Recent Reviews from Users

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Gilda	09/16/09	10	10	10	10
Gilda	09/14/09	10	10	10	10
Katelyn	09/01/09	10	8	10	10	Very prompt and polite reply. Thank you .....
Brandie	08/13/09	10	10	10	10	thanks this really helped i think ill .....
Peter	06/10/09	10	10	10	10	Thanks Peter, You scored a perfect ten .....

Recent Answers from Peter Messaline

2009-09-14 pay for screen test?:

Good choice, I'd say. Better to have a ten percent chance of something that's all right, than to have a one-millionth chance of something earth-shattering. Keep those résumés going out, and search your

2009-09-14 pay for screen test?:

I compliment you on your courtesy. 35 independent film credits! Perhaps you should go the directorial route and self-produce video. Do you find Bethlehem is too close to NYC to fully develop itself?

2009-09-14 pay for screen test?:

I should say that I know of nowhere where this is normal and accepted. However, who knows what is the custom in places like LA or NYC, where it seems impossible to get any sort of foothold at all.

2009-08-29 Actor's Tax Kit 2000+:

I'm delighted that you are interested. We have moved on from Tax Kit 2000+, with its basic information and nifty receipt pockets, to a CD or downloaded Kit, packed with information and links. We think

2009-08-28 Acting - 18 years old:

My thanks for your question. I think you may be looking out of what feels like the constricted cell of design work at the freedom and self-actualisation of acting. I'm here to tell you the grass on

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