What to Avoid in an Acting Agent
I get a few emails a week saying “I want an agent but I can’t afford it”. WHAT?! You should never pay an upfront fee to an agent! It’s emails like this that terrify me....
Posts by: Andrew Hearle
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...
How to Develop your Acting Skills
Acting is a skill. Like most skills it’s helped by natural talent, but that’s not enough. So how do you develop your acting skills and become the confident, captivating actor that you dream of? By...
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...
Can You Learn Acting Online?
When we started our online acting course last year we got a number of emails and comments declaring “you can’t possibly learn acting online!” Though we were proud of what we’d created, we too were doubtful...
The Government Inspector
We constantly harp on about the importance of reading plays, even going as far to say that you should be reading 8 plays a week! But I want to make a confession – I wasn’t...
Can You Become An Actor Later in Life?
Acting is a disease. Usually you catch it early in life. Perhaps you’re in primary school and it’s dress up time and you’re the first to delve through the piles of extravagant clothes, or it’s...
Show Us Your Work!
We get hundreds of emails from actors around the world wanting to audition for major TV shows and films. They want to be famous, and they want it now. We usually encourage these actors to...
Why Actors Have to Keep Training
Actors usually fall into one of two brackets: those who think they don’t need any more training and those who are addicted to attending every masterclass in town. We’re looking for a happy medium. I...
Best Drama Schools in the UK
Many of you are looking to audition for drama school this year. It can be tough to work out which schools to approach. Most school have an audition fee, and every audition takes time, so...