Category: News & Advice
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Top Tips for Understanding Contracts
Our tips for getting started with contracts to protect your rights as a working performer They’re not exactly a sexy topic, but contracts are super important when you’re working jobs here and there as a performer, and don’t have an agent to negotiate on your behalf. Work can come and go, and new contracts are…
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Spotlighters Share Their Drama School Stories
With applications for drama schools about to open, we thought we’d share our funny and embarrassing stories from our time there! Ease the audition nerves and take a look…
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How To Be A Presenter
David McClelland talks about why he loves presenting, the reality of spinning lots of plates at once, and the things you need to make it in the tough presenting world – starting with his expert subject, tech. David McClelland is a writer, presenter, broadcaster and technology expert working across television, radio, print and online. He is the resident technology…
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6 Tips for Creating the Perfect Graduate Profile
Start your career on the right foot with the best possible Spotlight profile! 1. Select your best headshot and production images Your headshot is your ‘hello’ to the world, so it’s important to get right. Pick something in colour for your main picture, but feel free to include additional black and white images as well if…
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Alternative Training with Fourth Monkey
We speak to Artistic Director Steve Green about Fourth Monkey and their training programmes. Based in London and Bristol, Fourth Monkey is a contemporary drama school offering three full-time professional, accredited training courses: CertHE Acting and Theatre Making, BA (Hons) Acting and MA Collaborative Theatre. The training programmes are founded on the principles of ensemble and are designed…
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Directing Your Own Work with Paines Plough
Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director James Grieve talks to Spotlight about moving from acting to directing – and how important it is to make your own work! James Grieve is the Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough (“PP”) alongside George Perrin. He started out as an actor before moving over to directing, and as a result, James had a lot…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Performing Comedy with Evelyn Mok
By Christina Care Evelyn Mok makes her hour debut this year with her show ‘Hymen Manoeuvre’. Spotlight spoke to her about her show, the challenges of comedy at the Fringe, and performing comedy in the UK versus her home country of Sweden. I’ve always been a comedy fan, I think, since I was little – my…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Writing and Performing Your Own Work
Theatre creators and performers joue le genre on their latest play What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors – what you need to know to take your own show to the Fringe Emma Bentley and Camille Favre are the artistic directors of joue le genre, taking their second production to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Spotlight spoke…
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Edinburgh Fringe: A Survival Guide
Having hit the halfway mark, you might be starting to find a little depleted in your energy levels at the Edinburgh Fringe – or you might have the dreaded Fringe Flu! Fear not, here is Katie Elin-Salt to give you the low down on how to survive this busy (and exciting) time. I arrived at Kings…
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An Actor’s Guide to Fulfilling Your Potential
I recently heard an interview with an actress who said at times, she feels crippled by “those f***ing demons.” From talking to other actor friends of mine, when we talk about “those f***cking demons” I noticed there was a very common pattern. And it goes like this: No wonder we get doubtful. In any other…