Category Archives: Acting blog

Part 3. Emails with branding

I have been delighted to receive so many positive tweets and email comments about the first two parts of my latest B.A.B.E branding series. If you missed them, I have covered business cards (just in time for the Cannes Film Festival) and websites. It’s all part of the USP series… See I want you to […]

GUEST POST: The Benefits of Being an Actor that Writes

That time again for a new guest blogger, and this week I would like to introduce Jody Medland who is a London based writer. I have known Jody for a very long time from the days when he dabbled in acting, to now, an established writer who has produced feature films, short stories, launched a […]

Part 1. USP’s rather than uncompromising silly positions

When you are setting up as an actor you’ll often hear the words “branding” and “USP” used a good deal. These two words are not merely clever marketing speak from some floosy who didn’t make it past acting school and moved instead to journalism. These two words encompass two very important things about you, the […]

GUEST POST: Finding Your Voice

Felicity Jurd is one very busy lady! She not only manages to appear in films, television, commercials and more, but she also owns and runs Pitch, Pause, Pace. I can say first hand what a treat it has been to have her help me when I’ve been preparing for a Voice Over job or another […]

Critters inside

  Imagine for a moment that you are on a trampoline. You are energetically jumping up and down, up and down, feeling the wind through your hair, heart racing, leaves rustling around you. The birds are chirping, a child giggles and you can’t help but smile. And then you jump off the trampoline and you […]

Love’s little agents of change

My friends tease that I can’t technically call this my own lake…one day!  I learn a lot, daily! Every single day, every single breath, I am touched by friends, life, family and love. Sometimes it is simply in the form of a breathtaking view of the lake in my common like this one I took […]

Save the last stats for me

Yes I am playing on lyrics in my blogs now…well excuse the cheeky word play but lets not dance around the topic anymore (oh the puns!). Why did I name this week’s blog save the last stats for me? Because this post is all about statistics! A long long while ago I mentioned the topic of creating […]