Checking In: Acting and Reacting
You’ve probably heard the old saying that good acting is all about reacting. And it’s not untrue: you are at your best as a performer when you communicate with others in a scene. However, this...
Acting Tips
Welcome to the Acting Tips section of the site. Listed here are all our latest Acting Tips. These tips are written by our core writers Andrew Hearle, Luke McMahon, Jim Harwood and James Waters as well as many others. All our writers are trained, professional actors. These guilt free acting snacks aim at helping actors develop their craft, rethink there personal methodology and inspire confidence.
If something works for you use it, if not don't try to force one of our acting tips to work; every actor is different. Please let us know your thoughts on any of the Acting Tips listed here. If you have a question about any element of your acting, let us know and we will endeavour to help you out in any way we can.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Acting
Abandon all hope ye who enter here… That’s certainly how it can feel to label (or be labelled) a “bad actor”. There’s something so damning, so final about the term that makes it seem like...
How to Stop Being Stiff as an Actor
“Yeah, that last take was fine … but can you loosen it up, a bit?” It’s a bummer of a note to get, isn’t it? Worse still is when the note comes from within: the...
Dealing with an Acting Job you Hate
A wise man once said: they can’t all be winners. Eventually, in a long and illustrious acting career, you’re going to take on a job that you start to really resent—even actively despise. First of...
How to Act Angry
Emotions and acting are a dangerous combination. While you can’t really have one without the other, both concepts constantly threaten to overwhelm its counterpart—resulting in an acting performance that feels either totally unhinged or far...
How to Find Theatre Auditions
If you’ve ever spent time as part of the community here at StageMilk—as a member, reader of our articles or an actor who dips into our free script resources—you’ll know all about our attitude towards...
How to Act an Iconic Role
Do you have any idea how many actors are intimidated by performing Shakespeare? It’s an overwhelming number—hell, you might include yourself in that camp. There’s a sense that the material is somehow lofty, important. Actors...
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 nickel...
What I Learned Watching 900+ Self Tapes
Each month, right here at StageMilk, I watch and give notes to members of our Scene Club on monologues and duologues they submit for feedback. It’s an extremely rewarding task, as I get to see...
Seeing Theatre as an Actor
“So what else can I be doing?” It’s a simple question, and one that you might well have asked a teacher, mentor or colleague in the acting industry. It’s a question I hear a lot...