Category: News & Advice
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How Embracing Creative Avenues Other Than Acting Can Help You Be a Better Performer
Everywhere you look, you see actors making their own incredible work. I now find the idea that I wouldn’t make my own work strange, but I haven’t always felt like that, particularly as I never had any intention of being an actor-writer. Apart from a few pretty emo poems tapped into my phone notes here and…
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Tips for Preparing for a Showcase
We asked Spotlight Prize nominees from 2019 to share the advice they’d give to anyone preparing for a showcase this year. Here’s what they said… “Pick a piece that excites you. It’s great when it sparks something in you personally. One of my acting tutors always said with any script, you have to ask yourself…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Silence
In this meditation we spend some time getting grounded and centred by relaxing the whole body before going on a short journey to a place of inner-silence and calm. In this meditation we explore our relationship with silence. Is silence something you welcome into your life? How does silence make you feel? Can you think about…
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10 Inspiring Quotes On Dealing With Knockbacks
Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it Chadwick Boseman “Sorry”, “no”, “not this time”. Ahhhh, the familiar sting of rejection. We’ve all felt it. But rarely do people choose a profession where it’s built into the very foundations.…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Pre-Audition
This guided meditation is designed to listen to before you’re going into an audition to help you feel calm and confident. As well as listening to the meditation pre-audition, you may also find it helpful if you’re about to do a self-tape or simply want to take a moment for yourself on set. In fact you…
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Returning to Acting After a Setback
Ben Mars discusses the accident that led to a setback in his acting career, how he overcame it, and what the experience taught him. In November 2019, I was severely injured in the most mundane circumstances. It happened on a Dartmoor walk on a cold, sunny Sunday at around 10.15am. I know that was the…
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The Spotlight Podcast: Drag as an Art Form
This month we’re talking to Kevin Grogan, the triple threat performer behind the Drag Queen persona, Veronica Green, who you might know from Season’s 2 and 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Kevin talks about his experiences of performing drag and offers some wisdom for those considering giving it a go. We also talk about…
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Making UK Theatre Your Home
Canadian-born performer Lindsey Huebner shares advice for any foreign-born actors who want to get into the UK theatre scene. No one is saying that the UK theatre industry is an easy place for anyone to make a decent living, but what if you have the added challenge of being an actor who comes from away?…
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Self-Taping Tips for Young Performers
For parents/guardians of Young Performers and all our members who are feeling a bit new to the art of self-taping, this article is for you! Written by our very own Nicholas Peel, who has mountains of experience in this field, the article guides you through. From the bare necessities, to tips on filming, lighting and…
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10 Quick Fixes for Your Credit Section
10 quick and easy things you can do to make your credits more searchable and appealing to casting professionals. You may not realise, but all the information you enter in your credits section on Spotlight is searchable. Casting professionals can choose to search by role, production, production company, director and year, so it’s important to…