The Best Plays of Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage, born in Brooklyn in the sixties has become one of the most prominent playwrights of her generation. She focuses her attention on the marginalized groups in society, a topic given extra weight in...
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$250 Self-Tape Set Up for Actors
So you’re on a budget, and you’re putting down, say 1 or 2 self-tapes every couple months. It might not be the right time for you to invest thousands of dollars in a professional...
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Anxious Times Call for Actionable Measures
Well, here we are. In the midst of the most uncertain times we have ever seen in our life. Life is changing on the daily and our new ‘normal’ is anything but. Our generation...
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Acting in Isolation: A Survival Guide
On a scale from one through to terrifying, the world is pretty terrifying right now. I am writing this in early March of 2020 and the COVID-19 virus has been wreaking havoc across the...
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Ultimate Showreel Guide
Welcome to our definitive guide to actor showreels. We’ll cover the importance of a showreel, finding a great scene and right down to editing it all together. Already have a showreel? Here’s why your...
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How to Stay Audition Fit
Auditions. They’re like the mythical creatures that Eddie Redmayne keeps in his suitcase, the minute one leaps out you’ve got to be ready to drop everything, take it down and make it your own....
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The Best Plays of August Strindberg
The Yin to Henrik Ibsen’s Yang, August Strindberg is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. A contemporary to Chekhov and Ibsen, Strindberg offered something totally different to both of those great writers. Dreams,...
The Best Plays of Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn is one of the most extraordinary playwrights in history. A mystery, wrapped in an enigma, drenched in poetry and social commentary. A spy during the Dutch-Anglo war, a former prisoner and the first...
The Best Plays of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talk about an over-achiever – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a statesman, a poet, a scientist, an author and a playwright. In retrospect, calm down Johann, calm down! You’re making the rest of us look...
Top 10 Female Shakespeare Roles
While the female roles were played by male actors in Shakespeare’s day, the Bard proved time and time again that he could write complex, meaty roles for both genders. His female characters are at points...
Is your Thespiological Clock ticking?
Many actors all alike in ethnic ambiguity, in fair audition waiting room, where we lay our scene… It was a typically overcast London evening, my fourth year of living abroad in the pursuit of my...
Henry V Monologues
Henry V is one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated history plays. We ranked this play in the top 15 Shakespeare’s plays. This play is a gift for actors and there are plenty of awesome speeches to...
Julius Caesar Monologues
Julius Caesar is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. It is so good in fact that we ranked it No. 8 on our list of Best Shakespeare Plays. It’s a classic tale, full to the...
Professional Self Tape Set Up for Actors
Self-tapes are fast becoming the film and television industry’s main audition currency. A lot of actors are putting down anywhere between 2 and 15 self-tapes every week. So it makes sense that you should invest...
Can you have a full-time job and still pursue acting?
This is a question we get a lot here at StageMilk and I get a lot as a scene coach – do I have to quit my job to fully focus on being an actor,...