Acting agencies and Casting directors receive 100s of CVs each week. Honestly, those times where you can make your CV stand out have been and gone. What you can do is make your acting CV clear and honest. By following the simple steps below, combined with some common sense and honesty, you’ll soon be doing everything in your power to avoid your CV hitting the trash. Oh, and did I mention to be honest? Keep [...]

After a busy weekend, I now find time to sit at my little ol’ laptop with a cuppa to write my thoroughly digested thoughts of Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London at the National Theatre… …It was brilliant. [Show synopsis can be found by clicking here] Let me just state that I am not a reviewer of any kind. I am a fan of theatre, here, purely to share my educated thoughts on a show. From [...]

For some of you, the singing segment of your drama school audition is your idea of a nightmare. This post aims to put your mind at ease with a few simple pointers and tips about singing in a drama school audition. However, don’t be mistaken – The simplest tips are sometimes the things your are omitting in a musical theatre audition as a professional actor too. So wherever you are in your career, let’s all [...]

Whether you’re auditioning for drama school, at drama school or already doing it in the industry, you’d be surprised at how many good offers there are for watching good theatre. One scheme that still isn’t that well known, but is brilliant and offers free theatre for under 26s is the Night Less Ordinary scheme. The scheme is in place nationwide at venues such as the Everyman and Playhouse in Liverpool, the National Theatre, the Bush [...]

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Starting drama school this September? Making that move for the first year can be a little daunting, regardless of how far away from home you’re going to be. To help you get set up, here is a checklist of 5 items you may find useful to have and links detailing where to get them.

AuditionAtDramaSchool.com is relatively new to the world and while it is still finding it’s feet, I’d love it if you could take two minutes to tell me what you’d find helpful on the site. Interviews with actors and practitioners? FAQs? Competitions? You ask and if it’s doable, you’ll definitely get.