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  • 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…

  • The Role That Changed My Career

    The Role That Changed My Career

    Five performers tell us about the roles and people who made their careers.  Every role an actor plays gives them the opportunity to showcase their skills and make their mark on the industry, but some roles are so well-received, so pivotal, that they can catapult your career to new heights and audiences. At the CDG…

  • 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…

  • Erin Doherty’s Royal Role in ‘The Crown’

    Erin Doherty’s Royal Role in ‘The Crown’

    ‘The Crown’ actress Erin Doherty relives her audition for ‘Princess Anne’ and how she prepared for the callback. From stage to screen, Erin Doherty has been a part of some truly exciting productions: The Crucible at the National Theatre, Les Miserables and Call the Midwife for the BBC, A Thousand Blows for Disney Plus, and…

  • 5 Top Tips From 5 Top Actors

    5 Top Tips From 5 Top Actors

    The stars of ‘Bad Education’, ‘A Discovery of Witches’, ‘Dreaming Whilst Black’ and more share their top acting tips that performers of every level should know. If you could only give only one piece of advice to your fellow actors, what would it be? Would you caution them about being prepared for auditions, or share…

  • How Anthony Boyle Soared to Success in ‘Masters of the Air’

    How Anthony Boyle Soared to Success in ‘Masters of the Air’

    The ‘Masters of the Air’ actor reveals how he aced his audition and rose to the role of ‘Lt. Harry Crosby’. Apple TV’s mini-series Masters of the Air has certainly taken off. With an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and three nominations for the upcoming Primetime Emmy Awards, audiences were clearly gripped by the dangers…

  • Starring in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ with Tom Francis

    Starring in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ with Tom Francis

    The ‘Sunset Boulevard’ actor shares a speedy breakdown of the audition process and his preparation for the award-winning show. Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre was the stand-out success at the Olivier Awards 2024. The show took home seven well-deserved wins, with one of them going to Tom Francis for ‘Best Actor in a Musical’…

  • 2 Minutes with George MacKay

    2 Minutes with George MacKay

    How ‘1917’ and ‘I Came By’ actor George MacKay started acting, and his top tips for fellow performers. George MacKay secured his first role at the age of 10 in P.J. Hogan’s feature film Peter Pan, playing ‘Curly’ the Lost Boy after he was spotted by an acting scout at his school.  Since then, he’s…

  • How Fabien Frankel Fired Up for ‘House of the Dragon’

    How Fabien Frankel Fired Up for ‘House of the Dragon’

    Ahead of season 2, actor Fabien Frankel looks back on how he got the role of ‘Ser Criston Cole’ in ‘House of the Dragon’. Like its predecessor, HBO’s House of the Dragon has been a wildly popular series, bringing back the political and familial scheming, epic battles, and fire-breathing dragons that made Game of Thrones…