Category: The Industry
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Nominations Announced for The CDG Casting Awards 2022
The Casting Directors’ Guild are delighted to announce the nominees for the 2022 CDG Casting Awards, in partnership with Spotlight. Now in its fourth year, the CDG Casting awards seeks to reward and celebrate the incredible work achieved by casting teams across Film, Television, Theatre and Commercial. This year, The CDG are also thrilled to welcome Netflix as a brand…
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Acid to Asset: Turning Rejection into Opportunity
It can be disheartening when facing rejection from a recent audition. Singer, Actor, Radio Broadcast Presenter and Voiceover Artist Sandra Gayer provides her tips on how to turn rejection into opportunities and how that recent “no” could lead to something better in the future. 100 auditions, ONE job gained! Staggering odds, even if an aggregate,…
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Five Reasons To Start Making Your Own Work (& How To Start)
Even if the idea hasn’t yet piqued your interest, producing your own work can help you gain beneficial hard and soft professional skills, as well as a healthy dose of creative pride. Actress and screenwriter Abiola Ogunbiyi shares her tips on making your own work and how to start. The accessibility of technology and equipment…
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Gendered Ageism In The Arts: A Matter Of Looks Or Logistics?
Award-winning playwright and performer, Victoria Taylor Roberts explains her experiences of ageism in the industry and what can be done to change this. It was a warm Spring day, and I was heading home from work when the call came from my agent. It was a quick one; they felt that I had shown a…
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Career Longevity: An Interview with Paul Bazely
We speak to Paul Bazely about his early days as an actor, as well as the powerful mantras and practices that have enabled him to work at the highest level for so long. While perhaps best known as Troy from hit comedy series Benidorm, Paul Bazely is certainly no stranger to our screens, stages or…
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Overcoming Burnout
Actor and Musician, Lisa Wright provides her tips and advice on how to overcome burnout as a performer. By Lisa Wright As creatives, we know that our careers can often feel like a rollercoaster ride, but whether we’re in work or not, the demands of self-employed life can take its toll. Whilst our schedules aren’t…
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How to Keep Your Mental Health Safe Whilst Working on Intense Subject Matters
In the last few years there has been a huge uptake in conversations surrounding mental health. Often a conversation is the first step, but for most people mental health is a lifelong journey and something we have to work on on a daily basis. Performer, Karen Johal provides her tips and experiences on how to…
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Reframing Feedback
On the list of things most of us have a love-hate relationship with, feedback would be towards the top. Actor and writer Tahlia Norrish explains how performers can reframe this feedback to progress in their career. Intellectually, we appreciate the purpose of feedback is to make us better. Emotionally, it can still be hard to…
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Five Things You Can Do to Support a Long-Term Acting Career Mindset
Why did you become an actor? Was it the joy of your first standing ovation, and the prospect of feeling that joy on a nightly basis? Maybe it was the magic of your first moviegoing experience, then discovering that the people on screen were paid to do the amazing things you were now copying in…
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Self-Taping: The New Rules for The New Normal
An industry standard for self-taping now exists, we must all work to uphold it. A four day minimum turnaround, a maximum of six pages, protection for bank holidays. For years, these have been utopian ideals wistfully longed for by actors adjusting to the demands of self-taping. They are now a reality. A ground-breaking joint agreement…