Why Haven’t I Heard Back About My Audition?
What’s worse than rejection as an actor? What’s worse than thinking you put in a great audition only to be told that you’re not the one? Hearing nothing at all. You spend time on audition...
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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...
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What is Subtext in Acting?
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
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
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
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
Why you Should be Acting in Indie Theatre
Here at StageMilk, we get asked a lot about things actors can pursue in their careers that they might not otherwise consider. Of all the suggestions we make, acting in indie theatre would come out...
How to Choose an Acting Technique
One mild summer’s eve, a friend of mine asked me: “Frazer, what is good acting?” Admittedly, the question stumped me. So rather than answering their question, I got to thinking about why it was difficult...
How to Communicate as an Actor
You want to hear the one piece of advice we give at StageMilk more than anything else? “Communicate with your fellow actor.” Simple as that. In fact, it’s so simple, it’s often the one thing...
Extra Work for Actors
“We’re actors; a day spent on set is better than a day spent anywhere else.” That line comes from Carolyn Minnott, played by Jacki Weaver, in The Disaster Artist. If you agree with the sentiment,...
Benefits of Scene Study for Actors
Looking for something to improve your acting skills? Searching for something you can do with your peers/friends? Crossing all your fingers and toes that it’s cheap-to-free? Well you are in luck, because today we are...
How Much do Actors Get Paid?
When I was young and announced to my family that I was going to become an actor, the first thing my cousin said was: “Can you buy me a yacht?” And I said: “Yes.” My...
Different Ways to Learn Lines as an Actor
Ever had the actor’s dream? Not one where you’re naked onstage. Not the one where the audience is naked (jeez, there’s a lot for Freud to unpack in the actor brain…) We’re talking about the...
How to Get Better at Auditioning
Even actors of the highest calibre agree that auditioning is hard. We’ve all been in an audition where we’ve stuttered while introducing ourselves, dropped lines, lost connection to what we’re saying and said a very...
How to Raise the Stakes in your Acting
“Nice performance, really well acted … but any chance you can raise the stakes a little bit?” It’s a fairly common piece of feedback for an actor to get—especially from a director or casting director...