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...
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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
Realistic Acting
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...
Setting Deadlines
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...
How to Self-Direct
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...
Genre for Actors
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...
Essential Drama School Audition Advice
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...
Beginner Scripts for Actors
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...
How to Do a Million and One Character Voices
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....
Is Becoming an Actor Expensive?
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...
The Power of Voice for Actors
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...