Category: Getting Work
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A Journey to Edinburgh Fringe: Standing Out from the Crowd
From Andre Agassi, to Haruki Murakami, to my school’s old career advisor, the world is not short of people who insist that image is everything. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is perhaps the epitome of this notion, as the city is awash with posters and advertisements. Your pockets certain to be stuffed full of flyers after…
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How to Get Gigs: Tips for Aspiring Comedians
Maureen Younger offers her advice for budding comedians on how to secure gigs and get your start on the comedy scene In the old days, you’d buy a copy of Time Out, scan the Comedy pages, and ring up those listings looking for ‘interested acts’ to give them a call. Now, of course, it’s all…
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An Actor’s Guide To Producing Your Own Audio Play
Katie Redford demystifies the process of creating your own stories via the medium of audio! Voices, sound effects and your imagination can take you anywhere. For instance, I’ve just written a play about a kitchen appliance – just a normal guy in a normal world. Apart from the fact that he’s a whisk. #andwhat Katie…
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How Writing Can Help With Your Acting
How embracing his inner writer helped Kieran Knowles overcome his lack of representation as an actor… …with a group of friends, and fellow graduates we started to toss about the idea of writing a play where we could each play a dynamic human, with backstories and hopes, dreams, wishes and objectives, just as we’d trained…
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The #ShowreelShareDay Competition: Advice and Personal Reviews on Your Showreels!
Casting Associate Ri McDaid-Wren and Spotlight’s Emma Dyson Review Your Showreels Thousands of you entered our #showreelshareday competition on Wednesday 21st February, for the chance to win one of three showreel reviews by Ri McDaid-Wren. Due to overwhelming demand, we asked Spotlight’s resident careers expert and former agent, Emma Dyson, to also review four more! Watch the…
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How to Develop a Comedy Persona
Where actors are required to put on a new character with every role, performing standup is all about developing a single consistent ‘persona’ to adopt and grow each time you take to the stage. Developing your comedy persona is the lynchpin to becoming a good comedian. In short, it is learning how to be you…
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How You Can Stand Out from the Crowd
Casting director of Mata Hari and Night Train to Lisbon discusses international casting, and standing out at auditions. Portuguese casting director Patricia Vasconcelos spoke to Spotlight at Subtitle Film Festival about how actors can network and market themselves, what she looks for at auditions, and how the international casting process works.
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Dos and Don’ts of the Audition Room with Manuel Puro
Casting Director of Moon, Manuel Puro, Shares His Insights Enter the room in character, and don’t turn up drunk! Casting director of Moon, Manuel Puro, shares with us his audition experiences with actors, how he wants you to turn up to castings, and his advice for relaxing beforehand. Check out Puro Casting for more tips and advice from…
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Fionnula Flanagan’s Tips for Actors
‘Lost’ Actress Reveals What She’s Learned Through Her Career Fionnula Flanagan is an actress from Dublin with a career spanning over 50 years, including starring roles in Lost, Defiance, The Others and many more. Spotlight spoke to her at Subtitle Film Festival where she reflected on her career highlights, what every actor needs, and the advice she would…
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Audition Tips from the Casting Director of The Mindy Project
CSA member Jeanne McCarthy shares her insights Jeanne McCarthy is a casting director based in California and a member of the Casting Society of America. Jeanne has cast 21 Jump Street, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Mindy Project, Silicon Valley, and much more. We spoke to Jeanne at Subtitle European Film Festival in…