Best Two-Hander Plays
Lights up: two actors share a stage. No frills, no flash, no cast of thousands … just two people coming together to talk, argue, clash and quarrel until one emerges victorious. Nothing quite like it,...
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Being an Actor in 2024
Buckle up, friends: this one’s a biggie. In this article, we’re talking about the year that lies ahead, and everything you can put towards being an actor in 2024. With most people winding down...
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Side Hustles For Actors
So you have started acting. This is it! You’re gonna be a damn millionaire: starring in feature films, touring the world for press—hell yeah, you’re living the dream! Literally, the dream. Waking up from...
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What is Subtext in Acting?
Words unspoken. Meaningful silences. Talking around the subject. In all of human interaction, subtext can be found wherever we need to convey our thoughts and feelings but don’t want to come right out and...
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Best Romantic Comedies for Actors
Romantic Comedies. Some people absolutely love them and herald performances by some of the greatest actors of all time as the focal point of their value. Other people completely despise them as vacuous, lowest...
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How to Work Internationally as an Actor
So you wanna follow those thousands of actors before you, pack your life into a suitcase, jump on a bus/boat/plane and go international to really take your acting career to the next level? Love...
Acting Information and Resources
10 Outstanding Film Performances Under 10 Minutes of Screen Time
If you ever had a tiny role in a high school play and dared to complain about your meagre number of lines, I suspect there was someone present who smugly put you in your place...
Being an Actor on Tiktok
At the end of 2021, social media platform TikTok surpassed Facebook and Google as the most visited site on the internet. It boasts 689 active million monthly users, and racks up one billion (with a...
Acting “Talent”
Ah, talent. It can be a bit of a dreaded word, can’t it? It’s a force which is feared, praised and desired by actors all over the world. We all know someone who has it,...
Best Prose Monologues by Shakespeare
Shakespeare is famously known for his masterful and downright revolutionary use of blank verse. Blank verse put simply; is un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare, of course, was not the only playwright in his...
How to Read Shakespeare: 6 Techniques
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights the world has ever seen. Certainly in the Western canon, his works are rivalled by few. For an actor, Shakespeare is the pinnacle of our...
Best City to Be an Actor In: Top 6 Acting Cities
So what is the best City to live in if you want to be an actor? Well it’s a bit of a tricky question and to answer it we have to take into account a...
How to Act “Emotionally”: 5 Ways to Access Emotion
Ok, here we go. This question is asked by actors and those curious about acting a lot. In every film, TV show or play there is usually some actor letting their heart bleed onto the...
The Art of Listening as an Actor
So much of what we focus on developing as actors are the output skills of performance. These are the things which are clearest for us to see in our favourite actors: accents, voices, physicality, costuming...
What Is My ‘Actor Type’ or Typecast?
Without a doubt, this is one of the most contentious points in the modern acting world: Does typecasting exist? If so, what is my type? How do I find my type? What type of roles...