Natasha Raymond

162 articles
The Essentials
The Essential Dos and Don’ts for Voice Work

Top tips for getting started with voice work and acting.

accents
starting out
video
The Essentials
Tips on How to Choose Your Monologue

Stage director Natalie Abrahami and Spotlight Prize performers share their top tips for choosing a great monologue that’s right for you. Whether you’re choosing a monologue for a showcase, an audition, or even our very own ‘Into the Spotlight’ monologue competition, the search for a piece that perfectly shows off your acting skills can be daunting. There […]

auditions
graduates
interview
The Essentials
Tips for Planning Your Edinburgh Fringe Show

What to keep in mind when you’re planning to bring a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Taking a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe isn’t something to be done on a whim. It takes months of preparation and planning to make sure everything runs smoothly, and even then, there’s plenty that can be forgotten or overlooked. […]

edinburgh fringe
festivals
scotland
Getting Work
Top Tips on How to Write Your Own Show

Mark Thomas, Simon Longman, Vinay Patel, Luke Barnes and Georgia Christou share their top tips for writing your own work When opportunities don’t come your way, you need to go out and create your own. For actors, this can mean writing your own show to perform in. As screenwriter and playwright, Vinay Patel (Murdered by […]

film
interview
making work
The Essentials
Accessibility at the Edinburgh Fringe

Top tips for making an inclusive, accessible Edinburgh Festival Fringe show and how to communicate your access needs as a performer. Making theatre accessible and inclusive is vital, but it isn’t always easy – especially when it comes to putting on a show in a historic city like Edinburgh when old, often inaccessible buildings become […]

accessibility
edinburgh fringe
festivals
Lifestyle & Wellbeing
5 Things Performers Can Do Between Roles

Rob Brydon, Bella Ramsey, Harry Trevaldwyn, Asim Chaudhry, Toheeb Jimoh, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Laura Donnelly share how they keep themselves active between acting jobs No one, no matter how talented or famous, can spend every moment of every day acting. It’s important for us to have other passions to pursue in our spare time, especially […]

interview
video
wellbeing
The Essentials
Promoting Your Show at the Edinburgh Fringe

Tips for marketing and promoting your Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. After all the hard work of funding, budgeting, and bringing your show to the Edinburgh Fringe, you’re finally ready for an audience. You have tickets to sell, seats to fill, and interviews to give, but none of this comes without marketing and promoting your show. It’s important to […]

edinburgh fringe
festivals
marketing
The Industry
Tips for Dealing with Rejection

Performers Bella Ramsey, Jennifer Saunders, Laura Donnelly, Rob Brydon, Toheeb Jimoh, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Asim Chaudhry offer advice on dealing with rejection.

acting advice
actors
auditions
The Essentials
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Top Tips for Costing Your Show

Budgeting tips for costing your Edinburgh Festival Fringe show.

edinburgh fringe
festivals
finances/legal
The Industry
2023 BAFTA TV Awards Nominations Announced

‘The Responder’ and ‘This is Going to Hurt’ lead the nominations at this year’s TV BAFTA Awards The nominations for the annual TV BAFTA Awards have been announced and with a huge variety of categories, the television drama genre reigns supreme with the most nominations. The BAFTA Television Awards will take place on Saturday 14 […]

awards
BAFTAs
news