How to tackle your acting career in 2019
It’s 2019. A brand new year, a fresh start, a chance to recalibrate and plan ahead. A chance to give your acting career a kick in the butt and get the ball rolling. Mindset First...
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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
The Envy Advantage
I want to talk about something we don’t tend to want to talk about: Envy. Jealousy. Comparison. I know. Words and feelings we have been told to suppress and avoid like the plague, lest we...
Actor, How Will 2019 Be Different?
Year Of The Inner Child “To be an actor you have to be a child.” – Paul Newman The American Comedian and Actor, W.C. Fields, infamously said in Hollywood “Never work with animals or children”....
What Makes a Great Voice Over Demo?
If you are keen on pursuing a career in voice over it all begins with a great voice demo. For those of you who are keen to know more about what makes great voice demos,...
How to start booking commercial work
We all want to book more commercial work. A big paycheck, for only a few days work. The problem is, it’s highly competitive out there. Sometimes in an audition you could be going up against...
What to do in your first 6 months as an actor
Well, here we are. You’ve made the decision to pursue acting. Welcome to the tribe! I’m sure as soon as the euphoria wears off, the doubts and anxieties will start to creep in. What do...
Matt Damon’s Acting Advice
Real, and interesting… What you’re not understanding, Sydney, is that real is good. Interesting is better. Yesterday I was listening to the latest episode of Off Camera, a great podcast where Sam Jones (photographer and...
What to do in the moment before you start acting
The moment before you perform is sacred. Larry Moss, whom we had the pleasure of interviewing earlier this year, dedicates an entire chapter of his book, ‘The Intent to Live’ to The Moment Before. That’s...
Some Great Poems to Snuggle up to
As many of you know I am a passionate poetry fan. And I want to share that love with you all. But I’m not just forcing poems down your throats because I can, poetry is...
How to Prepare for Your Drama School Audition
I am fortunate enough to coach actors all around the world as they prepare for arguably the most important audition of their lives – drama school. Though I have done 100’s of auditions in my...