Tahlia Norrish

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Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens as 'Ilene Andrews' and 'Trapper' in 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' standing on a sandy beach in filming location Australia
How to Start Your Acting Career in Australia

How to become an actor in Australia, find auditions and acting jobs, and how UK performers can apply to live in Australia. If you’ve ever dreamed of stepping into the spotlight Down Under, you’re in for a treat. Australia’s artistic landscape is as diverse as its geographical landscape. With renowned drama schools, thriving theatre scenes […]

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Meet the Maker: Writer, Director and Producer Vanessa Alexander

Vanessa Alexander talks to us about her career journey to becoming a director, producer and award-winning writer. Vanessa Alexander defies categorisation. An award-winning writer, director, and producer, Alexander has worked on projects as wide-ranging as Power Rangers, Love Child, The Great, and Vikings: Valhalla. Her citizenship status follows suit. Born in New York to a New Zealand father and […]

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Lifestyle & Wellbeing
Don’t Be An Ass: Why We Set One Goal at a Time

Actor and Writer Tahlia Norrish explores the nature of decision-making, and what happens when we aim to achieve too many goals at once. Warning: this post is going to feature some real talk. Earlier this year I uncovered something pretty confronting: in several aspects of life, I was making decisions from a place of fear. […]

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The Industry
Career Longevity: An Interview with Paul Bazely

Paul Bazely’s Practical Advice for Building a Long-Acting Career We speak to Paul Bazely about his early days as an actor, as well as the powerful mantras and practices that have enabled him to work at the highest level for so long. While perhaps best known as Troy from hit comedy series Benidorm, Paul Bazely […]

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Reframing Feedback

Actor and writer Tahlia Norrish explains how performers can reframe this feedback to progress in their career. Intellectually, we appreciate the purpose of feedback is to make us better. Emotionally, it can still be hard to take. As actors, however, our ability to effectively integrate feedback (direction) can be the defining factor in whether we […]

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The Industry
Fame: Quickly Won, Quickly Lost

Performer and coach Tahlia Norrish talks about the complex topic of fame, how quickly won fame can be sustained and how quickly this fame can be lost. Fame. A complex topic, yes, but one we’d like to attempt to tackle here regardless. It’s been a surprisingly frequent – and often subconscious – pain-point amongst coaching […]

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Young Performers
Success from Stage to Screen

Performer Tahlia Norrish shares her career journey from stage to screen to inspire young performers who want to make the transition. The purpose of acting is to effectively communicate a story through character, but stage and screen are distinctly different means of doing so. One of the greatest delights of being an actor is the […]

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The Actor’s Sandpit: Knowing What’s In Our Control

Performer and coach Tahlia Norrish talks about taking ownership of what’s in our power as actors, letting go of the things we have no control over, and knowing the difference between the two. Imagine how much more progress we could make if we stopped giving energy to anything and everything outside of our control. Last […]

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The Industry
Ready Player One: Voicing Video Game Characters

The world of video games is a flourishing industry. Tahlia Norrish shares her experience voicing a video game character and why you should give it a go. For me, gaming work is so attractive because the storytelling possibilities feel almost infinite. The realm of potential exceeds that of stage or screen. As someone who grew […]

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Dealing with a Bad Performance

Tahlia Norrish shares her experience of giving a bad performance and the valuable lessons she learnt. A blow to our ego can be tough, especially when it’s resulted from coming up short in our craft. It can seem so enticing to make excuses or throw in the towel completely, but we can choose to profit […]

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