Category: Lifestyle & Wellbeing
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Benefits of Mentoring for Performers
If you’re starting off the new year with the resolution of focusing more on you and your career goals, then mentoring could be just what you’re looking for. I see a mentor as a hybrid between an older sibling, counsellor and tutor. Someone you feel comfortable enough with to share your worries and fears but…
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Four Ways Coaching Can Support Your Acting Career
If you’re looking to invest in your professional career, here are four reasons why coaching could help you meet your goals. Every character you’ve ever played had an objective they were trying to achieve. They had the circumstances before the scene, and the obstacles, in both the outside world and within them that were holding…
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Am I Enough? Dealing with Self-doubt
As performers, it’s easy to doubt ourselves and question if we’re enough but forming new habits and thought patterns can help us recognise our self-worth. When you relieve yourself from the expectations and pressures of acting, enjoyment can become the focus once more When you begin your career as an actor, the highs and lows…
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Supporting Your Mental Health and Wellbeing
Resources to help support your mental health and wellbeing. Our members are at the heart of everything we do and we continue to be inspired by the passion, innovation and resilience of our industry. We are all in this together and we are here to support you. Wellbeing in the Arts Spotlight has partnered with…
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Putting the Spotlight on Mental Health
Raffaella Covino, actress and Founder and Director of triple award-winning organisation Applause for thought, talks about mental health awareness, support and training as a mental health first aider. Mental health should be at the forefront as we navigate our way out of the turbulent waters of 2020 Back in December 2017, after four years working…
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Working Between Roles: The Reality of Life as an Actor
After the recent job-shaming of actress Katie Jarvis by a tabloid newspaper, Samantha Rea explores the reality of an actor’s working life and the importance of keeping busy. While the viewing public might struggle to understand how an actor might need to work in a shop after a role on prime time television, it comes as…
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Network is Important, Community is Essential
Feeling part of something is key for everyone but what if you work in one of the most competitive industries in the world? How do you work towards and finally feel like you really belong? Actor Katherine Kerman shares her story and advice. As a London based American actor, I know a thing or two…
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How to Navigate Being the Only Creative in Your Family
Acting and performing can be a lonely career path. If you are also the only creative in your family, how do you discuss your craft with family members? Abiola Ogunbiyi provides some sage advice. As the only performer or arts professional in your family, gatherings and get-togethers can feel like an endless wait in the…
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How Yoga Can Calm Your Nerves Before an Audition
Need to get your nerves under control before your next audition? Yoga is the answer. A successful audition can be a sliding doors moment that takes you from pouring pints or temping on reception, to starring in a West End musical or strolling into the Queen Vic as a long-lost love child. It can mean…
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Top Tips for Preparing to Tour
TheatreDigsBooker give their tips on selecting suitable accommodation for when you’re on tour… If you love visiting new places and meeting new people, then you are probably about to embark on one of the best journeys of your life. Being cast for your first tour is an incredible experience and opens the door to a…