Best TV Shows About Acting
There is nothing I love more than watching TV shows about acting and actors. There’s something cathartic about seeing situations on screen that we can relate to. Not all shows do this successfully and with...
StageMilk Acting Blog
Andrew Hearle, StageMilk founder and editor, shares his personal acting insights on the StageMilk Blog. A personal acting blog on what it’s like to be a young, mostly out of work, actor in a big city.
Andrew graduated from the acting course at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and has worked professionally in Film, TV and Theatre.
This acting blog looks at how to stay empowered in an industry that can be quite defeating. All we have as actors is our craft; our ability to tell stories. Everything else is out of our control.
If you can take one thing from this acting blog it’s to enjoy acting in and of itself, to become a master at the skill of acting, and to accept the rest as a game of chance.
Latest Blog Posts
Ultimate Theatre Superstitions
The theatre is a superstitious place, somewhere between the imagined dreams of the writer and the collective conscious of the audience sits the actors, the crew and their work. In the midst of this, a...
How you Rehearse, is how you Perform
This one acting hack is my greatest discovery so far: rehearse how you want to perform. Yesterday I was coaching one of my students. She was stressed, agonising over how to write an accurate backstory,...
The Challenges of Acting
There are many different acting challenges, but I wanted to work though some of those that I have faced everyday as an actor and a teacher. Each of us are blessed with strengths. Some actors...
Acting: The Career You Can Just Walk Into
Jennifer Lawrence was spotted by a talent agent in Union Square when she was 12. Charlize Theron was at the bank arguing with a Bank Teller, aged 18, when her moment came. Harrison Ford was...
Matt Damon’s Acting Advice
Real, and interesting… What you’re not understanding, Sydney, is that real is good. Interesting is better. Yesterday I was listening to the latest episode of Off Camera, a great podcast where Sam Jones (photographer and...
Am I Any Good at Acting? (or has everyone been lying?)
I’ve know many actors who’ve stayed in the game too long. They’re simply not good actors, and they’ve thrown away their lives in pursuit of a dream that is difficult even for the most talented...
Forget you Went to Acting School (Immediately)
Acting school is incredible. It’s 40+ hours a week of intense training, you make life-long friends, learn about yourself, and if you’re lucky, become a much better actor. They say that an acting degree is...
For the love of it: An Actor’s Duty
Acting is not a terribly lucrative or kind industry – to state the obvious. The sensible enter with an open mind and whole lot of hope; the deluded pursue fame. Yet nearly all actors get...
Stop Trying to Live in the Moment
“ Live in the moment!” This is a line acting teachers (including myself) have been peddling for years. And it’s a line that I totally understand. One of the most exciting aspects of the work...