How to approach a one-day role on set
If you’re auditioning for film and TV, it’s more than likely that your first job or two will likely be a one-dayer, a day-player or also known as a 50-worder. This is a part that...
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10 lessons that made me a better actor
Here we go, 10 lessons that made me a better actor – and hopefully they will work for you too! #1 Punctuation matters When I first went to acting school, I was a pretty...
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50 Great Acting Quotes
Okay here we go, 50 of the greatest acting quotes we’ve ever come across. And we’ll always be adding more and more to the list… Enjoy! Philip Seymour Hoffman “Study, find all the good...
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What to expect at a Film or TV audition
Film and TV auditions are the big ones when it comes to career progression as an actor. More than anything else success here can have a roll-on effect to other jobs. As with all...
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How to Get More Auditions
All actors want more auditions. Ok, some of us probably would prefer to never audition again and just get offered the damn role, but generally speaking more auditions lead to more roles. So here...
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18 Ways to be a Happier Actor
We’ve all been there. Nothing’s going your way, you’re exhausted, and you just can’t be bothered to help yourself anymore. Oh, and you just spilt yoghurt all over the floor. We thought we’d write...
Acting Information and Resources
5 ways to piss off a director
Directors – they have been kind enough and perceptive enough to give you a gig, best decision of their lives right? Well, maybe and maybe not. There are definitely some behaviours from actors that can...
The five theatre roles I wish I could play
Let us take a step into dreamland, and take a moment to imagine what it would be like to play some of the great stage roles. This list is not exhaustive and some of the...
How to stop feeling like you’re ‘Acting’
It’s a horrible feeling, being on a job or in an audition and thinking to yourself, ‘Holy moly there’s a lot of acting going on here’ or ‘I’m not doing enough’ or ‘Reign it in!...
Is acting just about confidence?
This month we’ve been exploring the work of Anthony Meindl in StageMilk Drama Club. Anthony calls his process the ”non-method” way of acting, emphasising that his process uses no substitutions, sense memory, or repetition. So...
An Actor’s Workout
Actors are emotional athletes, we go through the same range of emotions and effort on a daily basis that some people do in a lifetime. Just like athletes we need to regularly work on our...
Talking down the self-talk
The most powerful influence over our feelings, thoughts and actions are our own words: the things that voice in our head says to us. We actors often find ourselves in our heads, stressed, overthinking and...
50 Great Acting Quotes
Okay here we go, 50 of the greatest acting quotes we’ve ever come across. And we’ll always be adding more and more to the list… Enjoy! Philip Seymour Hoffman “Study, find all the good teachers...
Vancouver Acting Agents
Please note this list is not exhaustive. There are many more agents in Vancouver than this, but these are the ones we looked at primarily. Here we go, a list of acting agents in Vancouver!...
5 Things I learnt from Steppenwolf
In June of 2018, I spent four amazing days with Audrey Francis and Amy Morton from the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. It was their first time in Australia teaching a variation of Meisner technique...