Should I Get an Acting Coach?
It’s always nice to have someone in your corner, isn’t it? It’s particularly nice in these here creative industries—where so much of our business and lives are driven by rugged individualism. You’d think we were...
It’s always nice to have someone in your corner, isn’t it? It’s particularly nice in these here creative industries—where so much of our business and lives are driven by rugged individualism. You’d think we were...
Realistic acting. It’s the holy grail, isn’t it? After all the preparation—all of the anguish that goes to discovering a character, preparing a role, rehearsing and bringing it to life on stage or on screen—you...
The author Truman Capote once wrote: “The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.” If you transplant this idea to the context of a career in the arts, there...
They say writing is a lonely profession; indeed, the same may be said for acting. Since the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic, casting directors and directors around the world have had the grand realisation...
Want to learn everything there is about genre as an actor? Fill in the blank at the end of this excerpt: INT. BATHROOM – NIGHT SALLY steps into the pristine, white bathroom of her inner-city...
It’s that time of year again… All over the world, actors are beginning their prep for a drama school audition that may well change the course of their careers—hell, their entire lives. And while we...
Are you starting out on your acting journey? Are you looking for material to help you kick this whole thing off? Then you’ve come to the right place: a page full of beginner scripts tailor-written...
The voice is one hell of an instrument. I mean, how many guitars can do a Scottish accent, or a perfect recreation of Gollum’s eerie tones? There’s nothing else on the planet quite like it....
Actors, be they emerging, established or even aspiring, tend to carry anxiety around money and finance. It’s not hard to see why, given the job’s famous lack of any security. And it’s particularly true for...
In Peter Yates’ excellent 1983 film The Dresser—perhaps one of the best films about the theatre ever made—Albert Finney delivers an iconic, three word line that sums up everything you need to know about the...