5 Things I Learnt From Luke Cook
Luke Cook is an Aussie actor best know for his work on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Katy Keene and Guardians of the Galaxy 2. What people don’t tend to know about Luke is just how...
Posts by: Patrick Cullen
An Actor’s Guide to Student Films
To be a successful actor you need three things; training, experience and luck. The very best place to get some experience when you are first starting out is in student films. Student films present an...
What Is the Difference Between an Agent and a Manager?
The debate over what agents and managers do, where the line is between their roles and which one you need is a debate that has confused actors, managers and agents for a long time. It...
Biggest Acting Regrets
I really wish I was one of those people who could get ‘NO REGRETS’ tattooed in bold on the back of my hand, so every day I would wake up and see it, realize that...
Punctuation for Actors
Punctuation. Oh, man. Punctuation is absolutely vital to an actor’s performance, it is the writer communicating with you the actor about who this character is, how they relate to the world around them and the...
How to Deal with a Bad Reader
This is one of the most common questions we get at StageMilk. At least once a day someone will email or comment and ask us how they can combat a bad reader in a self-tape...
What is an Inner Monologue?
You may have read some alarming news recently that not everyone has an inner monologue, an internal thought process that is constantly ticking over that if you were to print it out would read like...
How to Prepare your First Acting Class
So you have got a gig as an acting teacher! Great work friend. Proud of you. Welcome to the wonderful, rewarding, powerful and enthralling work of training actors. Finally, you get the chance to impart...
What are ‘Beats’?
Beats. One of the most common terms in acting training and also one of the most amorphic. It seems like every acting teacher you speak too will have a slightly different interpretation of what exactly...
How to Act on Zoom
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it many things, most of them unimaginable terrors, but a few of them have in a weird way – been kind of better than the way we used to...