Tag: finances/legal
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Practical Tips for Making a Move to Hollywood
LA-based British performer Julia Farino shares five things you should know if you’re thinking of taking your career Stateside. If it’s your dream to work in the oldest and highest-grossing film industry in the world, then give yourself the best chance to realise your dream – do your research and prepare before you come. Have…
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How to Finance Your Training and Acting Career
Performer Michaela Bennison gives practical advice and tips for financing your training and acting career. Let’s not sugarcoat it: the acting profession is tough. And when you’re a working-class actor with no money or connections, it can feel even more daunting. But there are ways to overcome the hurdles we face in our profession. From…
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The TOTUM Pro Discount Card Available for Spotlight Members
We’re thrilled to offer additional discounts through TOTUM Pro for our members TOTUM Pro is the brand new discount card and app for professional learners and members of a professional association, giving you access to fantastic discounts on 250 UK brands online and on the high street, such as 10% off Co-op, up to 30% off…
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Ways to Fund Your Performing Arts Training and Career
Funds, bursaries and awards you should know about to help to pursue your passion in the arts. We all know studying doesn’t come cheap so it’s reassuring to know that there is financial help available to help talented students, performers and theatremakers. We’ve listed some of the bursaries, scholarships and awards available to help cover the costs of studying…
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How to Negotiate
Scotwork director and senior consultant Richard Savage shares his secrets to make us all better negotiators. Negotiation is an art, not a science. Richard Savage Negotiating is a key part of any agent’s role and not something you as a performer should be clueless about either. We can often feel powerless in the industry when…
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Working Between Roles: The Reality of Life as an Actor
After the recent job-shaming of actress Katie Jarvis by a tabloid newspaper, Samantha Rea explores the reality of an actor’s working life and the importance of keeping busy. While the viewing public might struggle to understand how an actor might need to work in a shop after a role on prime time television, it comes as…
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Your Working Rights, Pay and Taxation as a Performer
Everything a performer needs to know about taxation, worker rights and contracts. In this episode of The Spotlight Podcast, you’ll find out all about your rights and duties as a freelance worker. We talk Alan Lean and Stephen Duncan-Rice from Equity, who give us the lowdown on everything a self-employed performer needs to navigate the less than…
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Pensions for Actors: How to Defuse the Savings Time-Bomb
IPSE partner with Spotlight to give us their article on managing pensions (Otherwise known as ‘how to stop worrying and defuse the savings time-bomb!’) Pensions. They’re not a comfortable thing to talk about, are they? You don’t like thinking about getting to retirement age – let alone the ticking savings time-bomb you’re sitting on. But if you’re…
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Safety, Harassment and Bullying in the Industry
Addressing safety, bullying and harassment in the acting industry. On this big episode of The Spotlight Podcast, we discuss safety, harassment and bullying in our industry. Joining us, we have Maureen Beattie, performer and President of Equity, Wendy Spon CDG and former Head of Casting for the National Theatre, and Ita O’Brien, Intimacy and Movement…
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Tax for Actors: Get Your Tax In Gear
Cut through the tax panic attacks with these tips for all freelancers… What with us still reeling from the self-assessment deadline in January (or, what I like to call anti-Christmas) and going into a new financial year in April (or, what I like to call sad-new-year) what better time to dig our heels in and talk about our…