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The Essentials
Spotlight members smiling and laughing at a workshop
5 Tips to Bring Comedy to Your Improv

Five practical tips for being funny and improvising well. As recently shared while teaching ‘Comedy for Actors’ for Spotlight, improv is a really useful tool – whether trying to be funny or get booked. Oddly, to be funny, you don’t actually have to try. Don’t try to be funny, sexy, or clever – because you […]

acting advice
comedy
improvisation
The Spotlight Podcast
Comedy and Social Media: Jonny Weldon’s Acting Story

In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast, we chat to actor and comedian Jonny Weldon about auditions, comedy, making your own work and social media. Spotlight member Jonny Weldon is an actor, writer, comedian, and content creator who has performed on stage and screen from a young age. He can be seen in Sneakerhead, Stath Lets Flats, […]

acting
comedy
making work
The Spotlight Podcast
Making and Performing Comedic Work with Dave Hearn from Mischief Theatre

In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast, we speak to Dave Hearn, actor and co-founder of Olivier Award winning theatre company, Mischief Theatre. We discuss Dave’s journey with Mischief Theatre, from the early days of performing in rooms above pubs, right through to the West End transfers and TV commissions that followed. 54 minute listen […]

comedy
dave hearn
ilayda arden
Getting Work
How to Get Gigs: Tips for Aspiring Comedians

Maureen Younger offers her advice for budding comedians on how to secure gigs and get your start on the comedy scene In the old days, you’d buy a copy of Time Out, scan the Comedy pages, and ring up those listings looking for ‘interested acts’ to give them a call. Now, of course, it’s all […]

comedy
first person
starting out
Getting Work
How to Develop a Comedy Persona

Where actors are required to put on a new character with every role, performing standup is all about developing a single consistent ‘persona’ to adopt and grow each time you take to the stage. Developing your comedy persona is the lynchpin to becoming a good comedian. In short, it is learning how to be you […]

comedy
making work
maureen younger
Getting Work
How Acting Can Get You Started In Comedy

How your acting skills give you a head start as a comedian! When I started stand up, I’d been to just the one comedy gig and had no idea about the circuit. Egged on by an acquaintance, I attended a course at The Actors Centre, at the end of which I had to perform 5 minutes […]

comedy
first person
maureen younger