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  • Spotlight’s 2024 Round-up

    Spotlight’s 2024 Round-up

    A recap of all the top content pieces and highlights from 2024 that you won’t want to have missed. The curtain is falling on 2024, but our highlights of the year deserve a final standing ovation before 2025 arrives. We’re sure (and hope) that you were absolutely inundated with auditions and acting opportunities, so had…

  • 8 Ways to Find Your Audition Monologue

    8 Ways to Find Your Audition Monologue

    Tips for finding your perfect audition monologue from how to begin your research, where to find monologues for free and what to look for. Choosing a monologue for your audition shouldn’t be rushed or done on a whim. With so many monologues out there, you need to play an active role in narrowing down the…

  • Spotlight Focus: Fra Fee on ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’

    Spotlight Focus: Fra Fee on ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’

    Actor Fra Fee talks to us about self-taping, managing a professional agent relationship and more. From the West End to Marvel, Netflix and the BBC, Fra Fee has had a varied and successful career across stage, film and television. Most recently, he played ‘Andy’ in Lost Boys and Fairies – a moving drama about gay…

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

    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)…

  • The Spotlight Prize Finalists’ Best Acting Advice

    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…

  • Tips for a Successful Drama School Audition

    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…

  • Is Drama School the Right Path for You?

    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…

  • Spotlight Prize 2024 Winners Announcement

    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 given each year to two students. They…

  • In the Director’s Chair with Paulette Randall MBE

    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…

  • The Spotlight Prize 2024 Judges Revealed

    The Spotlight Prize 2024 Judges Revealed

    We’re thrilled to announce this year’s esteemed panel of judges for the Stage and Screen performances at the Spotlight Prize. It’s time for our annual showcase, the Spotlight Prize. This event lets drama school and university graduates show their talents to industry professionals. This is a great chance to impress casting professionals or attract an…