Category: The Essentials
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Is Your Audio-visual Work Shown Overseas? Get Additional Payments from BECS
How the British Equity Collection Society (BECS) helps performers get additional payments when their film and TV work is shown overseas. If your work is being shown anywhere in the world, you may have the right to receive additional payment (additional to what is provided for in your contract with the producer) – and that’s…
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A Performer’s Guide to Getting Organised in 2025
A how-to guide on setting and achieving goals for the year ahead, plus tips and tools to progress your performing career. At the start of a new year, many of us feel a mounting pressure to reinvent, whether through a ‘New Year, New Me’ mindset or by setting unrealistic goals all while fighting against a…
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How to Start Your Acting Career in Australia
How to become an actor in Australia, find auditions and acting jobs, and how UK performers can apply to live in Australia. If you’ve ever dreamed of stepping into the spotlight Down Under, you’re in for a treat. Australia’s artistic landscape is as diverse as its geographical landscape. With renowned drama schools, thriving theatre scenes…
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What Agents and Casting Directors Look for in New Performers
Industry professionals explain the things they look out for in up-and-coming actors, from special qualities to new and unique takes on well-known characters. The acting world can be extremely competitive, so understanding exactly what agents and casting directors are looking for in new talent is key to standing out from the crowd and getting yourself…
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5 Top Tips for Getting Auditions
Advice from casting directors and other industry professionals on how to get more acting auditions. Auditions are an unavoidable step on the road to success in the entertainment industry, with the potential to provide you with valuable new connections and launch your career as an actor. However, they can also leave you feeling frustrated and…
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How to Get Work in Commercials: A Beginner’s Guide
Tips for actors looking to break into commercial work, including what to expect at the audition, how much you’ll get paid and what to look for in breakdowns. On average, around 60% of the auditions you do as an actor in the UK are for commercials. Brands are producing television advertisements all year round for…
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8 Ways to Find Your Audition Monologue
Tips for finding your perfect audition monologue from how to begin your research, where to find monologues for free and what to look for. Choosing a monologue for your audition shouldn’t be rushed or done on a whim. With so many monologues out there, you need to play an active role in narrowing down the…
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The Spotlight Prize Finalists’ Best Acting Advice
The winners and finalists from the Spotlight Prize 2024 each share the best piece of acting advice they were ever given. While we progress as actors, we’re surrounded by those who offer us advice. Whether it comes from actors with more experience, actors with different experience, famous actors we admire, or those who come from…
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What Performers Should Know About Copyright
Find out how copyright applies to the television and film productions you have been a part of in the UK and how to seek permission before including excerpts in your acting showreel. Copyright is a complex legal subject that can be hard to navigate when starting out as an actor. It’s not always clear when…
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Casting Directors’ Self-Tape Top Tips
The casting directors of ‘Paddington 2’, ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Father Brown’ share their top tips for preparing for, filming and sending off your self-tapes. Between them, casting directors Hannah Simons, Lauren Evans and Emma Sylvester have cast a variety of commercials, films and television shows, including: Paddington 2, Sex Education, Father Brown, Sister Boniface Mysteries,…