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  • being an actor in 2024, learning from 2023

    Being an Actor in 2024

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    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

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    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...

  • Subtext

    What is Subtext in Acting?

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    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...

  • Romantic Comedies

    Best Romantic Comedies for Actors

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    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...

  • working internationally as an actor

    How to Work Internationally as an Actor

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    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

Best Plays of Dennis Kelly

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A Bit About Dennis Kelly Dennis Kelly is renowned in the theatre for writing gritty and sometimes controversial plays, and has been writing consistently for theatre, film and television throughout the past 20 years. Kelly...

What is an Inner Monologue?

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You may have read some alarming news recently that not everyone has an inner monologue, an internal thought process that is constantly ticking over that if you were to print it out would read like...

Should I Go to Drama School?

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There are so many different routes to success as an actor. The path of least resistance usually involves being the offspring or relation of a famous director or producer, but not everyone has uncle Scorsese...

What is a Problem Play?

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What is a problem play? That’s a great question. Scholars, actors and directors alike have debated and theorised for centuries over the exact definition of what a problem play is, and which works fit the...

Cate Blanchett Acting Advice

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Whether she’s the last living Tudor Monarch of England and Ireland, the Elven Lady of Light that rules Lothlorien, or some true-blue-hundy-percent-fair-dinkum Aussie royalty, all will bow to the queenly greatness that is Cate Blanchett....