Tag: first person
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Post-Audition Self Care
Matthew Jacobs Morgan on the things you can do to show yourself some compassion post audition… As part of our series on mental health this Mental Health Awareness Week, here is performer and filmmaker Matthew Jacobs Morgan on the importance of self-care (and how to do it well!) after you’ve had that all important audition. If you’re busy…
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An Actor’s Guide to Motivating Yourself Through Uncertainty
Katie Redford offers the advice you need to get through the inevitable uncertainty of the acting world… Accept that you feel uncertain and give yourself credit for doing so. Trying to fight against it and worrying about things that haven’t even happened yet won’t make things any easier. Katie Redford For those of you who…
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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…
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Carrie Hope Fletcher on Crafting a Cross-Platform Career
Carrie Hope Fletcher on using YouTube to help forge a career in musical theatre, and working beyond your casting type It’s a horrible truth in the life of an actor that you never know what’s next. I might do my next job and then not work again for another four years. That’s just how it works. But…
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An Actor’s Guide To Producing Your Own Audio Play
Katie Redford demystifies the process of creating your own stories via the medium of audio! Voices, sound effects and your imagination can take you anywhere. For instance, I’ve just written a play about a kitchen appliance – just a normal guy in a normal world. Apart from the fact that he’s a whisk. #andwhat Katie…
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How Writing Can Help With Your Acting
How embracing his inner writer helped Kieran Knowles overcome his lack of representation as an actor… …with a group of friends, and fellow graduates we started to toss about the idea of writing a play where we could each play a dynamic human, with backstories and hopes, dreams, wishes and objectives, just as we’d trained…
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Performing Shakespeare: A National Youth Theatre Experience
A blog from Hayley Osborne about her experience on the Performing Shakespeare course at the National Youth Theatre. Spotlight recently awarded one lucky member a place on the National Youth Theatre’s Performing Shakespeare course – here’s our winner, Hayley Osborne on her experience during that week. If you like the sound of this one, there’ll be more from…
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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…
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An Actor’s Guide to Good Etiquette
Katie Redford’s guide to making a positive first impression as you step out into the industry… My favourite story regarding an actor contacting a casting director was the one when they sent a single shoe with a note attached saying, “Just trying to get my foot in the door”. Now, I can’t speak for casting…
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5 Tips for Keeping Healthy During Winter
Yoga therapist and movement coach Sarah Perry offers tips for self-care this winter Movement hydrates you… It enables you to shift blockages, whether these be physical, mental or otherwise. Sarah Perry Self-care is vital for everyone no matter who you are, what you do or where you are at in your life. It’s something that is often neglected…