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Training
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How to Make the Most of Your Time at Drama School

Six tips from our Spotlight Prize winners and finalists to help you get the most out of your drama school experience. So you’ve decided that drama school is the right path for you, you’ve succeeded with your drama school audition and you’re finally in. You now have three years (or less, depending on your course) […]

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The Essentials
Actors sharing advice with each other in a red dressing room with a mirror on the wall before the Spotlight Prize showcase.
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 […]

acting advice
graduates
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Training
A red-haired actress smiling as she performs on stage during the Spotlight Prize showcase.
Tips for a Successful Drama School Audition

The Spotlight Prize 2024 winners and finalists share their top tips to help you prepare for your drama school auditions. Many acting careers start with a pivotal choice: should you go to drama school or not? While training at drama school is not essential for a successful career, your time there will definitely help you […]

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Training
Two young actors sitting in chairs having a discussion
Is Drama School the Right Path for You?

The Spotlight Prize 2024 winners and finalists share why they went to drama school and how you can tell whether this is the right path for you. It’s no longer the case that you need to have gone to drama school to have a successful acting career. Drama school can equip you with useful and […]

drama school
graduates
interview
Spotlight
Group shot of the winners and finalists for the Spotlight Prize 2024
Spotlight Prize 2024 Winners Announcement

Alyssa Thabisile Sibanda of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Senam Akpokavi of Arts Educational Schools win the Spotlight Prize 2024. Since the 1950s, the Spotlight Prize has been an exciting opportunity for graduates to perform in front of an audience of industry professionals. A £2000 prize is awarded each year to two of the […]

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The Industry
The main cast of Tin Star sitting around a table smiling
In the Director’s Chair with Paulette Randall MBE

How director and producer Paulette Randall’s career flourished, from Rose Bruford and Theatre of Black Women to ‘Tin Star’, the Spotlight Prize and the 2012 Olympic Games. Not many directors can say they’ve worked on an opening ceremony for the Olympics, but this is just one feather in the fascinating and colourful cap that Paulette […]

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