Finding Your Interpretation of a Character
Good news: the part is yours! The director loved your tape—full of those ideas you used to stand out from the pack and grab their attention. But now that the contract is signed and the...
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The First Thing To Do With Your Script
Where on earth does time go? I’m typing this in 2025, and yet it feels like mere moments ago I was spiralling into existential dread during a script analysis class in 2020. How times...
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Setting Goals as an Actor in 2025
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That is, of course, unless you’re an actor staring down 2025 with little thought to what you’re going to do… December and January can be tough...
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How to Take Constructive Criticism
“How do I become a better actor?” is one of the all-time classic questions we field here at StageMilk. Every one of our team members has a slightly different answer—and if I had a...
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How to Recharge as an Actor
Actors are incredibly hard workers. They develop their craft for years, they pour time and effort into maintaining skills. The nature of the industry means that over 90% of actors in any given market...
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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...
Acting Information and Resources
Should I Use AI as an Actor?
“Should I?” is an important question for actors to ask themselves throughout their careers. Whether it’s working for free, playing a potentially controversial role or appearing nude on stage or screen, the question of “should”...
How to Play A Character You Don’t Relate To
Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes (or about a kilometre and a half if you use the metric system.) Not only is this a good—albeit cliché—piece of wisdom for everyday life,...
When to Update Your Showreel
For many actors in our industry, the very existence of a showreel represents a monumental achievement: the end of a long and difficult battle to get the thing researched, compiled, rehearsed and shot. And it...
Working with Heightened Text
What is it about working with heightened text that fills some actors with fear? Is it the departure from regular, everyday speech? The breadth of study and preparation it often requires? Perhaps it’s the fear...
Feelings and Emotions: An Acting Intervention
Actors? Take a seat. Get comfy. Help yourself to donuts and coffee if you like. We need to have a talk. Nobody here is judging, and everything being said is coming from a place of...
A Gap Year for Actors
It’s an exciting time of year for actors. To those just starting out, it’s drama school audition season for prestigious institutions all around the world. For established players, it’s tune-up time for headshots, showreels and...
An Actor’s Guide to Fringe Festivals
Indie theatre made on a shoestring budget. Improv. Circus acts. Stand-up comedy. One-person shows about personal trauma—with puppets. Every imitator of Fleabag under the sun. With the Edinburgh Fringe Festival well underway, we thought it was...
Can you Learn to be an Actor Online?
If we can throw one positive the way of our post-COVID, perpetually-online era of human existence, it’s that information is more accessible than ever. This access afforts us opportunities to pursue concepts, skills and careers...
Am I Ready to be a Professional Actor?
Great question, and power to you for asking it! It’s something that most actors find themselves asking at some point in their lives, particularly when they start to ‘git gud’ and find themselves wanting more....