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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.

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...

How to Prepare for a Challenging Role

Actors love stepping into the shoes of a complex character—an immoral figure, a conflicted soul, a true blue villain. It’s likely due to the sense of freedom that comes from breaking one’s everyday mould: you...

Using Adverbs in Acting

Psst. Looking for an acting tip? Something juicy? Something simple to learn that pays off for years to come? Of course you are: what performer isn’t?! The funny thing about this concept is that it...

How Performing Shakespeare Improves Your Acting

You’ve probably heard a riff on the above title once or twice before in your life. It might’ve been from a teacher at drama school, or perhaps a veteran actor who sounds like they go...

How to Get Cast in Game of Thrones

Alright folks: House of the Dragon Season Two is well underway and I don’t care what TikTok says, I think it’s one of the strongest instalments in the Game of Thrones franchise yet. Dragons, battles,...

A Comprehensive Guide to Acting in Horror Movies

My parents never let me watch horror movies growing up. So whenever my friends with cooler parents invited me to a sleepover, the first thing we did was find the scariest movie we could and...

Do I Need Talent to Become an Actor?

As a person who spends a lot of their time teaching and training artists, I really hate the word “talent.” I believe that it does describe something, well, indescribable at times. And there are people...

How to Start a Play Reading Club

Every month of every year I tell myself that I’m going to commit to reading a play each week. And every month of every year I successfully do that about, well, 40% of the time....