How to Play A Character You Don’t Relate To
Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes (or about a kilometre and a half if you use the metric system.) Not only is this a good—albeit cliché—piece of wisdom for everyday life,...
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When to Quit an Acting Project
“I quit” are two words we may never expect to have to use as actors, unless they’re written in a script. These fated words seem like they would be reserved for muggles: the corporates, the...
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...
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....
How to Audition for Vikings
Oh man, is there anything more gripping than Fever Ray’s “If I Had a Heart” thrumming along to scenes of longships battling furious wind and waves, a great heathen horde spilling onto the shores of...
What is Dramaturgy?
When I took my first leap into the great unknown of independent theatre, the teams usually consisted of the following: a director, a designer, the cast, a stage manager and a mysterious fifth person… They’d...
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 have...
How Long Does it Take to Become a Successful Actor?
I was introduced to a rather well-established Australian director a few years ago. When I told him I was an actor, he said: “Awesome. It takes a while, you know.” It was a refreshing break...
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...
How to Become a Triple Threat
You can act: that much you’re sure of. You’ve been to drama school, you’ve done a few screen acting workshops and you’re reading a lot of plays/preparing monologues/doing daily warmups. But what’s this? Your housemate...