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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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Best Shakespeare Villains

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    Hero, villain. White-hat, black-hat. Goodie, baddie. When it comes to the creation of compelling protagonists and antagonists, nobody did it quite like William Shakespeare. Shakespeare understood that a story is only as good as...

Acting Information and Resources

The Best Actor/Director Partnerships

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Actor/director partnerships—the continued collaboration between an actor and a director across multiple projects in their careers—are behind some of the best, most exciting projects ever filmed. Sometimes, the connection is immediate and obvious, like some...

What is an EGOT?

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In February 2023, American actor Viola Davis became the just 18th person in history to join a very exclusive club. Davis was awarded a Grammy for the audio book narration of her memoir Finding Me. While...

Film Set Etiquette

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The morning has finally arrived! You get up at the nasty time of 4am, down that cold coffee you tactfully left beside your bed last night and jump in the shower. After spending way too...

Best Theatre Actors

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We wouldn’t have actors if it weren’t for theatre— the magical medium that kicked off our species’ collective obsession with make-believe, performance and story thousands of years ago. And while that sentence might read like...

How to Work with a Director

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The actor/director relationship is one of the most interesting, mystifying dynamics in all performing arts. It’s peak creative symbiosis—a delicate balance that often spells triumph or defeat for any given project. We hear a lot...

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 that...

What is In-yer-face Theatre?

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Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Prepare yourself for violence, for sex, for shock and sorrow, the explicit of all things. If you’ve ever asked yourself “what is in-yer-face theatre?” You’ve got every reason...