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...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That is, of course, unless you’re an actor staring down 2025 with little thought to what you’re going to do… December and January can be tough...
“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...
Actors are incredibly hard workers. They develop their craft for years, they pour time and effort into maintaining skills. The nature of the industry means that over 90% of actors in any given market...
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...
Indie theatre made on a shoestring budget. Improv. Circus acts. Stand-up comedy. One-person shows about personal trauma—with puppets. Every imitator of Fleabag under the sun. With the Edinburgh Fringe Festival well underway, we thought it was...
If we can throw one positive the way of our post-COVID, perpetually-online era of human existence, it’s that information is more accessible than ever. This access afforts us opportunities to pursue concepts, skills and careers...
Great question, and power to you for asking it! It’s something that most actors find themselves asking at some point in their lives, particularly when they start to ‘git gud’ and find themselves wanting more....
“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...
If you want to become a great actor, do what all great artists do. Regardless of their craft—be it performance, writing, sculpting or boardwalk caricatures—they take time in their lives to soak up the creations...
It’s always nice to have someone in your corner, isn’t it? It’s particularly nice in these here creative industries—where so much of our business and lives are driven by rugged individualism. You’d think we were...
Realistic acting. It’s the holy grail, isn’t it? After all the preparation—all of the anguish that goes to discovering a character, preparing a role, rehearsing and bringing it to life on stage or on screen—you...
The author Truman Capote once wrote: “The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.” If you transplant this idea to the context of a career in the arts, there...
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...
Want to learn everything there is about genre as an actor? Fill in the blank at the end of this excerpt: INT. BATHROOM – NIGHT SALLY steps into the pristine, white bathroom of her inner-city...
