How to Write a Scene for your Showreel
It’s an all too familiar scenario. You’re missing out on auditions, your agent is harassing you and your online profile is gathering cobwebs. All because you can’t find the right scene for your showreel. “To...
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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
What is Clowning?
I’ve always wondered what exactly makes clowns so terrifying for some people. Is it the nose? The face paint? The crazy wig? The fact that it’s an adult human being behaving like a child in...
Scenes for Three Actors
Three-handers are strange beasts. There’s something unusual about the energy—the dynamic between three characters when all you really need for good drama are two. Writers have to work harder to justify that pesky third person,...
Why You Don’t Need to Go to Drama School
Drama school can feel like an essential part of becoming a successful actor. For this reason, a lot of people, like me, spend years auditioning under this assumption. However, this is only one path on...
How to Act Well with Bad Writing
A new script falling into your hands is one of the most exciting parts of the acting journey. It represents a new start—whether it be an audition side, a theatre piece, or a full 90...
What are Residuals?
It all started when I came home from my morning walk (yes, I’m that kind of person) and found a strange letter in the mail. Hands shaking, nervous, curious, excited, I opened the letter with...
Why Actors Should Learn How to Play an Instrument
When I was a kid, my parents forced me to take up piano lessons and, oh boy, was I unhappy about that. Every Wednesday afternoon on the way to the lesson, I would think: “Why...
Impostor Syndrome for Actors
Let’s be honest: an alternate title to this article is just “Being an Actor.” Impostor syndrome for actors is something that can permeate every part of our lives and careers: auditioning for roles, pursuing opportunities/networking, taking...
How to Avoid Over-Acting
“To be!? Or not! To be!?” I shouted at the top of my lungs—using all of my projection skills, hands waving in the air like I was trying to hail a taxi. “Whether ’tis nobler...
How Playing Dungeons & Dragons Improves Your Acting
I’ll come clean straight away: I’m a nerd. A big one. So much so that I often introduce myself to people as a nerd first, actor second. By now, you’ve probably heard about this niche...