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Drama School Stories: Bow Street
Actor Patrick Flannery on the ins and outs of training in Ireland, and why he chose Bow Street Coming from America to study in Ireland, Spotlight asked Patrick Flannery, graduate from Bow Street, Dublin, to contribute his POV on his training experience. With plenty of great insight on offer in this series, read the rest of our…
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Drama School Stories: A Degree vs Drama School Training
Melissa Dalton on her undergraduate experience in a drama degree, versus a formal drama school programme This is the first in our series of perspectives from members on training as an actor in the UK/Ireland. To help you learn more about the training on offer out there, Spotlight asked Melissa Dalton, graduate of Trinity College Dublin…
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FAQs for Finding and Documenting Your Vocal Range
Correctly identifying your vocal range on your Spotlight profile Spotlight provides two different ways to describe your singing voice on your performer CV. Skills Under skills, you will find a Music and Dance section, with various descriptions of singing voices. You’ll find options for your voice type – bass, baritone, contralto, soprano and so on.…
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Audiobooks: What You Need to Know
By Christina Care Audiobooks are a very unique part of the possible voice work out there, and we spoke to Alice Lee from ID Audio about all the essentials you need to know to come to understand audiobook work and production better! Scripts are sent to the production house directly from the publishers of the…
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Spotlighters Share Their Drama School Stories
With applications for drama schools about to open, we thought we’d share our funny and embarrassing stories from our time there! Ease the audition nerves and take a look…
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6 Tips for Creating the Perfect Graduate Profile
Start your career on the right foot with the best possible Spotlight profile! 1. Select your best headshot and production images Your headshot is your ‘hello’ to the world, so it’s important to get right. Pick something in colour for your main picture, but feel free to include additional black and white images as well if…
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Alternative Training with Fourth Monkey
We speak to Artistic Director Steve Green about Fourth Monkey and their training programmes. Based in London and Bristol, Fourth Monkey is a contemporary drama school offering three full-time professional, accredited training courses: CertHE Acting and Theatre Making, BA (Hons) Acting and MA Collaborative Theatre. The training programmes are founded on the principles of ensemble and are designed…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Performing Comedy with Evelyn Mok
By Christina Care Evelyn Mok makes her hour debut this year with her show ‘Hymen Manoeuvre’. Spotlight spoke to her about her show, the challenges of comedy at the Fringe, and performing comedy in the UK versus her home country of Sweden. I’ve always been a comedy fan, I think, since I was little – my…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Writing and Performing Your Own Work
Theatre creators and performers joue le genre on their latest play What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors – what you need to know to take your own show to the Fringe Emma Bentley and Camille Favre are the artistic directors of joue le genre, taking their second production to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Spotlight spoke…
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Edinburgh Fringe: A Survival Guide
Having hit the halfway mark, you might be starting to find a little depleted in your energy levels at the Edinburgh Fringe – or you might have the dreaded Fringe Flu! Fear not, here is Katie Elin-Salt to give you the low down on how to survive this busy (and exciting) time. I arrived at Kings…