Casting Websites Canada
In recent years, Canada has become a filmmaking mecca on par with only L.A. The sheer number of productions being made over there is staggering and the influx of actors from round the world to...
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Sleep: The Actor’s Secret Weapon
Warning: this post is likely to amuse many of us who feel hitting the recommended sleep targets are but a wishful utopian ideal. I hear you, I do, but I’m going to stick by...
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Maintaining an Acting Career Post-Pandemic
Yeah, everything kinda sucks right now – I feel ya. But hopefully this little think piece might help you to see the bright side of all the suffering and stress in the world right...
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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...
Acting Information and Resources
Meryl Streep Acting Advice
If you’re like me, you probably hear the name ‘Meryl Streep’ and instantly fall to your knees, bow up and down in grovelling praise, all the while passionately wailing: “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!”...
Biggest Self-Tape Mistakes!
As a coach for the StageMilk Scene Club, every month I watch a lot of self-tapes. Probably somewhere in the region of 50 tapes a month, and it is incredibly frustrating to watch actors sabotage...
Stella Adler Acting Technique
The first thing you need to know about Stella Adler, is that she was never dogmatic about a singular method or approach to acting. The “system” taught at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting aims...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Monologues
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the play that made me fall in love with Shakespeare. Granted at the age of 11 I had no idea what was going on, but something in the magical world...
Best Comedic Scenes for Actors
Want to spice up your showreel? Looking for great scenes to show off your comedy chops? Or stuck at home for extended periods and just want to have a good ol’ fashioned chuckle at some...
Best Plays of Eugene Ionesco
One of the truly most creative, surreal and fascinating playwrights of the 20th century Eugene Ionesco stands tall amongst a sea of brilliant existential surreal absurdist playwrights of his time. His works are visceral, hilarious,...
The Best Plays of August Wilson
You don’t get a theatre named after you by chance. August Wilson was the first and only (to date) African-American playwright to get a theatre named after him. Born in Pittsburgh into a diverse community...
Ten Great Plays for Actors in their Twenties
I think all young actors have had those moments when we’ve needed a new monologue or scene to work on in class and haven’t known where to look. We don’t often see plays at major...
Best One-Person Plays
Sometimes, less is more. One-person plays, often called one-man or one-woman shows (which we think is perhaps a bit reductive, so we’re going to call them one-person plays) are a unique spin-off to the modern...