Tom Hanks Acting Advice
While his Twitter bio reads, “I’m that actor in some of the movies you liked and some you didn’t,” most of us would describe Tom Hanks quite differently. Regarded as an American cultural icon, Hanks...
While his Twitter bio reads, “I’m that actor in some of the movies you liked and some you didn’t,” most of us would describe Tom Hanks quite differently. Regarded as an American cultural icon, Hanks...
Recently, despite having been on countless commercial castings in my career, I left a particular audition with a sly, swagger of certainty: I was gonna book that one for sure! … Didn’t happen! And I...
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...
A Bit About Dennis Kelly Dennis Kelly is renowned in the theatre for writing gritty and sometimes controversial plays, and has been writing consistently for theatre, film and television throughout the past 20 years. Kelly...
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...
There are so many different routes to success as an actor. The path of least resistance usually involves being the offspring or relation of a famous director or producer, but not everyone has uncle Scorsese...
What is a problem play? That’s a great question. Scholars, actors and directors alike have debated and theorised for centuries over the exact definition of what a problem play is, and which works fit the...
27 minutes and 31 seconds. That’s how long it took me to learn a 14 line Shakespeare sonnet. I don’t go in for memory tricks, and I actually think using them can be a real...
There sure is a lot of jazz out there about life and career planning right now. However, the concept of five-year planning was introduced to me a few years back while I was still studying....
Whether she’s the last living Tudor Monarch of England and Ireland, the Elven Lady of Light that rules Lothlorien, or some true-blue-hundy-percent-fair-dinkum Aussie royalty, all will bow to the queenly greatness that is Cate Blanchett....