Category: News & Advice
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9 Practical Tips to Manage Your Injury
Helpful tips on how performers can recover from injuries as quickly and sustainably as possible The need for injury management is inevitable in the demanding life of a performer. Ideally, we avoid injury at all costs, but even with implementing regular prevention practices, it’s likely that you’ll be dealing with one at some point in…
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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…
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Headshot Tips for Young Performers
Headshot photographer Robin Savage shares his advice for finding the right photographer and getting the most out of your headshot session. Robin Savage has been a professional photographer for 15 years, photographing around 1,000 young performers per year. Like many headshot photographers, Robin also used to be a performer, and so has a brilliant understanding of…
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Tips for Dealing with Rejection
Performers Bella Ramsey, Jennifer Saunders, Laura Donnelly, Rob Brydon, Toheeb Jimoh, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Asim Chaudhry share their advice for dealing with rejection. We caught up with some of our guest-presenters at this year’s CDG Awards, and asked them how they handle rejection as actors, along with what advice they’d give to others when it comes…
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Spotlight’s Bursary Scheme
We recognise that one of the biggest barriers to entry into our industry is financial and we want to provide more options to help performers on their journey. We have introduced a flexible monthly Direct Debit subscription, which is available to both new joiners and existing performers. We are pleased to announce that Spotlight’s Bursary…
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Finalists Announced for 2023’s Spotlight Prize
We’re excited to announce the finalists and directors for this year’s Spotlight Prize The Spotlight Prize is our annual event where selected graduate nominees showcase their talents in front of industry professionals. Since the 50s, it’s been an exciting opportunity for graduates to perform in front of an audience of leading industry figures – helping to…
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The Spotlight Podcast: A Podcast for Actors and Performers
The Spotlight Podcast, brought to performers and actors from the home of casting, shares industry news, expert advice and personal acting stories from the world of performing arts and entertainment. The Spotlight Podcast is for actors and performers navigating the performing arts and entertainment industry. Brought to you by Spotlight, the home of casting, our…
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8 Top Tips for Bonding with a New Cast
Industry advice for getting on with your fellow company members and creating lasting bonds Meeting new people in any context can be daunting. Unlike most professions, actors’ careers involve hundreds of first days at the proverbial office. Our job requires working closely – sometimes intimately – with colleagues we’ve only known for a few weeks. In…
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Cost and Budgeting Tips for the Edinburgh Fringe
Top tips for costing and budgeting for your show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. How much does it cost to bring a show to the Edinburgh Fringe? It’s the hopefully not-a-million-dollar-question asked by every ambitious creative wishing to bring a show to the festival. Unfortunately, it’s also very much a ‘how-long-is-a-piece-of-string’ kind of question, and the answer…
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Olivier Awards 2023: My Neighbour Totoro and Jodie Comer among winners
‘My Neighbour Totoro’ leads the Olivier Awards with six wins, whilst ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’ wins Best New Musical Since 1976, the Olivier Awards have been celebrating the best in British theatre. This year, at the glamorous Royal Albert Hall, star of stage and screen Hannah Waddingham hosted the prestigious ceremony. Steeped with show-stopping…