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...
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Being an Actor in 2024
Buckle up, friends: this one’s a biggie. In this article, we’re talking about the year that lies ahead, and everything you can put towards being an actor in 2024. With most people winding down...
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Side Hustles For Actors
So you have started acting. This is it! You’re gonna be a damn millionaire: starring in feature films, touring the world for press—hell yeah, you’re living the dream! Literally, the dream. Waking up from...
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What is Subtext in Acting?
Words unspoken. Meaningful silences. Talking around the subject. In all of human interaction, subtext can be found wherever we need to convey our thoughts and feelings but don’t want to come right out and...
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Best Romantic Comedies for Actors
Romantic Comedies. Some people absolutely love them and herald performances by some of the greatest actors of all time as the focal point of their value. Other people completely despise them as vacuous, lowest...
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How to Work Internationally as an Actor
So you wanna follow those thousands of actors before you, pack your life into a suitcase, jump on a bus/boat/plane and go international to really take your acting career to the next level? Love...
Acting Information and Resources
How Do I Start Writing a Play?
This article is going to kick things off with a few assumptions about you, dear reader. It’s going to assume that you’ve got a killer idea for a play in your head. Fantastic! It’s also...
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...
Early Career Actor Tips
So, you wanna be an actor, huh? You wanna strut your stuff on the stages and screens of the world under dazzling lights in front of adoring crowds? Well, kid, you’ve come to the right...
“The Moment Before” Acting Technique
There are few things as frustrating as watching an actor enter a scene with no motivation. It’s like a clip from The Walking Dead: they shuffle into view, aimless, expressionless, devoid of energy or light...
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....
Costume for Actors
You can tell a lot about a character from the clothes they wear. A crown on a head can signify royalty, just as a patch on the knee of a pair of jeans might allude...
Good Acting vs Bad Acting
“How to act good” is one of the most popular questions from actors all over the world. It’s so popular that entire schools have been founded to teach it, and people have become famous for...
How do I Start Writing a Short Film?
“How do I start writing a short film?” Simple! You think up an idea, punch out a coupla drafts, get some friends to read it out loud, and- “No no no, how do I start?...
Finding Your Process as an Actor
What is acting? Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on this topic. What are the tangible, definable tools of the craft that we all must understand and implement accordingly? It’s a hard one....