Category: News & Advice
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Joining Spotlight: Changes to our gender options when applying for your membership
We are delighted to announce that from today performers wishing to join Spotlight will no longer be required to select a gender option when making an application. Once a profile is up and running we will ask you to provide more information, including gender, to ensure casting directors can easily find you. When providing information…
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5 Top Tips for Acting in Tokyo
Performer Faye Butler’s top tips for anyone looking to work as an actor in Tokyo. Working as a British actor in Tokyo, Japan, comes with its trials and tribulations, but boy does it give you the satisfaction of feeling challenged! On one hand, you’re working with less competition, as there are a limited number of…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Inner Leader
If you’re feeling like you need to take some time out to pause and reset, then this meditation is for you. When we’re faced with challenges, stress or uncomfortable situations, our saboteur or inner critic can be activated. The saboteur or inner critic’s purpose is to ensure our survival by keeping us safe, but we…
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Teen Actors: Why Didn’t I Get Into Drama School?
Performer Isabelle Martin shares her experiences of auditioning for drama school and what to do if things don’t go the way you planned. Throughout our lives, it feels as if society keeps drawing us towards a particular path, whether we want it or not. Perhaps you feel pressured to follow an academic route in school…
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Are Sci-fi and Fantasy Helping to Level the Acting Playing Field?
Actor Sam Otto explores how fantasy and science fiction could be leading the way in creating space for racially diverse performers. There’s been something of a paradigm shift over the past few years in our media in terms of racial inclusivity. Battered into the cultural consciousness by political movements such as #MeToo, #OscarsSoWhite and BLM,…
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Nigel Seale Spotlight Bursary 2021
In memory of Spotlight’s Nigel Seale, we created the Spotlight Bursary in 2020 as a lasting legacy in his honour. As a passionate supporter of new acting talent Nigel was instrumental in setting up Spotlight Graduates to ensure those performers just leaving drama school had a dedicated focus at the point at which they entered the…
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The Spotlight Prize Winner 2021
Sam Peace, a graduate of Italia Conti, has been named Best Screen Actor for this year’s Spotlight Prize and will receive the £2000 award. Sam was one of 20 students nominated from the UK’s leading drama schools who competed for the Spotlight Prize 2021. Huge congratulations to Sam – we look forward to seeing him progress…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Light
A meditation to support you to slow down, to listen to your own needs and to be receptive to change. In this meditation we take our inspiration from the soothing, receptive and cooling qualities of the moon. So on days when you’re feeling depleted or overstimulated, this meditation will help you to tap into a…
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Actor in Isolation: A Survivor’s Guide
Mentor Charlotte Thornton’s guide to keep actors positive and entertained while they’re isolating. Yes, you are isolated, but you can still reach out… Socialise virtually with those you love. Charlotte Thornton It’s exciting that the industry is moving again, and any actor who has a gig is naturally pleased about it. But the prospect and…
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Five Steps to Set Effective Career Goals
How many times have you set career goals that never came to fruition? I’ve fallen into this trap myself in the past, from monologues left unlearnt to dream jobs not landed. But why is that? Review your long-term goals at least once a year. Are they still relevant to you? It’s likely that what you…