Visitors want more acting tips! (Poll Results)
Thanks you to everyone who voted in our most recent poll. It was great to get some feedback from our visitors about what they want to see more of on the site. We will definitely...
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The First Thing To Do With Your Script
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...
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Setting Goals as an Actor in 2025
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...
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How to Take Constructive Criticism
“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...
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How to Recharge as an Actor
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...
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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...
Acting Information and Resources
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is one of Sophocles seven surviving plays. It is widely considered on of the best plays of all time. For any actor, this is an essential play to read. Antigone Synopsis The Palace of...
Iago Crowned (Poll Results)
The cunning and deceptive Iago takes the top spot as your favourite Shakespeare character. Lady Macbeth came a close second, followed by Beatrice from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. We have taken the polling results and...
Best Shakespeare Characters
After our recent poll we felt it was time we put together a list of best Shakespeare characters. The Bard created some of the most interesting and unique characters in all of Western literature, and...
Best Euripides Plays
About Euripides… One of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece, Euripides has given us some of the greatest plays of all time. Medea, the number one on our list of best Euripides plays, is...
Best Christopher Marlowe Plays
About Marlowe… Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Born in fact in the same year, he was an eminent playwright of the Elizabethan era. Though today his name doesn’t share the same familiarity...
Best Bertolt Brecht Plays
Bertolt Brecht is one of the great pioneers of modern theatre. He was a poet, playwright and director. He saw theatre as a tool for change and created a unique form of theatre that’s goal...
Hamlet
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Good Jobs for Actors
The Dilemma What on earth can an actor do to make money? Certainly not acting. Too negative? Well: look what you’re currently reading. If you were merely befuddled by the title and are struggling to...
Best Shakespeare Sonnets
Here is a list of my favourite Shakespeare sonnets. As is often the case with these ‘best of’ lists, the audacious title is backed by little more than a one man’s love for Shakespeare. These...