Author: Katie Redford

  • An Actor’s Guide to Reconnecting with Your Purpose

    An Actor’s Guide to Reconnecting with Your Purpose

    Feeling out of touch with your passion for acting? Not sure on your direction right now? Katie Redford gives us her guide to reconnecting to the fire in your belly… Has anyone else watched one of those motivational videos on YouTube? You know the ones with clips of random members of the public staring out…

  • An Actor’s Guide to Motivating Yourself Through Uncertainty

    An Actor’s Guide to Motivating Yourself Through Uncertainty

    Katie Redford offers the advice you need to get through the inevitable uncertainty of the acting world… Accept that you feel uncertain and give yourself credit for doing so. Trying to fight against it and worrying about things that haven’t even happened yet won’t make things any easier. Katie Redford For those of you who…

  • An Actor’s Guide to Good Etiquette

    An Actor’s Guide to Good Etiquette

    Katie Redford’s guide to making a positive first impression as you step out into the industry… My favourite story regarding an actor contacting a casting director was the one when they sent a single shoe with a note attached saying, “Just trying to get my foot in the door”. Now, I can’t speak for casting…

  • An Actor’s Guide to Getting Radio Work

    An Actor’s Guide to Getting Radio Work

    Katie Redford’s insider guide to breaking into radio I really do believe radio is one of the most creatively fulfilling mediums to work in. It’s a lot of fun, you get to play an enormous range of characters that you’d never be able to in any other medium, plus you get to wear your PJs to work!…

  • The Actors’ Guide to Audition Prep

    The Actors’ Guide to Audition Prep

    The insider guide to successful preparation, to ace that upcoming audition. Acting auditions can be sudden and stressful. Here are Katie Redford’s top hints and tips to making the most of that precious audition prep time – whether you’ve got only got a few hours, or have been blessed with a few days! One of the first…

  • An Actor’s Guide to Surviving January

    An Actor’s Guide to Surviving January

    Jesus, I’m craving another Lindor. And a job. Happy New Year, actors! I had this image in my mind that I’d wake up on the first day of the new year and start as I meant to go on; go for a run, sip green tea and write a goals list for the year ahead.…