The very idea of “making it happen” (acting) can sometimes feel like you have a circus going on in your head. There’s a ringleader shouting “Roll up, roll up ladies and gentleman for this spectacle called your life”. There a clown bumbling around making people laugh cause they don’t know what the hell is really going […]
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Yes it’s as simple as that really. Just Ask. What? You just ask for what you want? Yes you absolutely do! When faced with a challenge, chances are you will respond in one of two ways – procrastinate or jump right in and go for it. Sadly, more often than not, I see actors run […]
Introducing the fabulous, and fabulously sounding, Rachael Naylor. Rachael works full time in the UK as a voiceover artist and you might even recognise her as the voice of Virgin Media, amongst other voices. I have been bugging Rachael to guest blog for me for a while now as she is constantly providing me with wonderful […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Come rain, hail or shine Cinema Jam do their thing. This was my first time, and with London doing it’s classically British rainy thing, I arrived drenched, three industry friends in tow, to be promptly bustled up some stairs and into a crazy room filled with bean bags, high chairs, […]
The mayhem of theWorld Acting Summit has left little time for me to write on here recently, but actually I have create your own acting work wanted to more than ever. And this is because as Steve Trister and I have been interviewing awesomely experienced people each day, I have been having all of these […]
Don’t be a sentimental fool and get bogged down in the good old days. Now is the time to have the courage to attack those goals you set back in January with conviction. It’s March so everyone is a little bit happier, it’s getting warmer, the days are longer (well except for you lovelies down […]
The telegraph talked about it, I’ve been interviewed about it, it has happened to me, my friends, and others. It’s this mix of casting couch meets inappropriate auditions (meets challenges to personal safety). It’s the serious side of the business we don’t warn new actors about enough. The good news, as the Telegraph highlighted, is […]
Actors roll up. It’s now a new year, full of all the emotional highs and lows we expect as we step into a new year of adventure. And with that comes the usual fear and trepidation we associate with our acting goals. I guess we all want to be stupidly successful but at the same […]
To all my friends, family, supporters, challengers and more, thank you! I don’t know where I would be today if I wasn’t truly inspired by so many people along the way. Some highlights for me this year included discovering some incredible new bloggers, making new industry pals, and taking rock climbing up a notch….which means […]
If Einstein can do it, so can we.I decided to go a little crazy at the end is this year and create a little Christmas present for all my acting readers out there. It’s designed to work out and highlight where your annual acting income comes from in a nice easy visual form. I believe […]