Category: News & Advice
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What’s Your Vocal Range and Voice Type?
Our quick guide to helping you figure out your vocal range and voice type so you can add them to your Spotlight Profile. Casting professionals will often search for singers whose vocal range and voice type suit a particular role. Clearly indicating these fantastic skills on your CV is integral to landing that perfect job.…
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Family Relationships Emerge as Key Theme at London Film Festival 2022
Looking at the key themes filmmakers are showcasing in their work at the BFI London Film Festival 2022. The BFI London Film Festival provides a platform for filmmakers to showcase their work from all corners of the world. Films are categorised into over 15 strands, from the ‘Experimental strand’ which features new ways of experiencing productions…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Future Focus
This guided meditation is all about the future and getting some focus on where you’re going. The idea of this is that if we can visualise our future, we’re much more able to consciously create it. This guided meditation was written for one of our Powerful Pause meditation sessions, where we come together to meditate…
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Co-operative Acting Agencies: An Insider View
What you need to know about co-operative acting agencies and how they work. There’s a buzz of excitement. One of us has just come off the phone with a well-known casting director’s office. Having reviewed a self-tape from one of our actors, they’d like to see them in person for a Lantern Entertainment film, directed…
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Disability and Accessibility in Theatre with Robert Softley Gale
We speak to theatre-maker and performer Robert Softley Gale about accessibility in the Arts and making theatre in Scotland. In this episode of The Spotlight Podcast, we talk to Robert Softley Gale. Robert has worked in the Arts for over 20 years and sits on the board of the National Theatre of Scotland. Robert is…
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7 Headshot Tips from Casting Directors
Casting directors explain what makes for a good headshot and what they look for in a photo. As a professional performer, your headshots are vitally important. They’re how you’re represented on Spotlight and are the first thing a casting director sees when selecting performers to audition so it’s essential that your photo looks like you and truly…
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10 Ones to Watch from the London Film Festival 2022
As this year’s BFI London Film Festival comes to a close, we look at the stand-out films and performances from this year’s line-up. Boasting over 160 feature-length films, short subject animations, documentaries and much more from Europe, North and South America and Asia, the mix of talent and cultures at the London Film Festival 2022 is…
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A Guide to Working in the EU If You’re a UK National
What you need to know if you’re a UK citizen who is auditioning or working in the EU. Updated on 17 October 2022. The UK has officially left the European Union and as you’d expect, this has caused changes to the rules and regulations around travel and work on the continent. Whilst the Brexit deal…
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‘Into the Spotlight’ Monologue Competition Winner and Finalists
We are excited to announce the winner and our other finalists for the first-ever ‘Into The Spotlight’ competition! We were completely overwhelmed by the response for our first round and the team here at Spotlight were blown away by the entries we received. The team watched every monologue performance and we genuinely struggled to narrow the…
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How Lighting Affects Actors
How the world of lighting impacts actors, the characters they play and the scenes they’re in. The magic is rarely under the spotlight, it’s in the mystery surrounding it. Lighting is a powerful tool I always pay attention to, not only when watching a play or a film but also as something I can harness…