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Welcome to Brian Timoney’s Acting Blog. Here you will find important information on acting and the acting industry, including breaking news! We are an acting school dedicated to method acting and business of acting techniques. Our updates and posts are like mini acting classes so don’t miss out and join us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for our regular updates!
Acting Showreels – Lessons Learned
A professional actor’s showreel is one of their most powerful tools for landing auditions and getting work. Alongside your actor’s CV and your headshots, a well put together acting showreel is absolutely indispensable and if you haven’t got one yet, you need to make sure you get one as soon as possible. While your…
Sheridan Smith – Method Actor?
Ever since she first burst on to our screens as Anthony’s girlfriend in the Royle Family in 1998, Sheridan Smith has been captivating audiences with her endearingly believable performances. Sheridan’s career has gone from strength to strength over the past 18 years, with high critical praise being poured upon just about every role she has…
Meeting Directors: What NOT To Do
From casting directors to big-time movie directors, all of them hold your fate in their hands, and all of them need impressing. But how do you make an impact when there are already so many actors out there whose sister’s husband’s cousin is best friends with the guy in charge? Well, the good news…
Marketing for Actors: When Should You Have an Acting Website?
To make it as a professional actor you need more than just acting ability, you also need to know how to promote yourself effectively. These days, an acting website is one of the most essential ways to market yourself as it allows you to put all of your promotional material in one easily accessible…
Heath Ledger: A Close Look at a Method Acting Legend
It would be impossible to have a conversation about history’s great method acting legends without mentioning Heath Ledger. The acclaimed Australian actor rose to fame in the late 1990s and over the next decade, he went on to receive high praise from film fans and critics around the world. Heath Ledger starred in an…
Types of Acting: The Ultimate Guide
For anyone wanting to train as an actor, it can be hard to know which kind of training to choose. One of the first questions you need to ask yourself is, what kind of actor do you want to be? There are a number of different popular acting techniques you can learn, so how…
Approaching Casting Directors: Here’s How To Do It
Your phone rings – it’s your agent. The casting director has been in touch and you’ve been called in for an audition. You should be over the moon – but all you can think of is how scared you are! What do you think of when you imagine a casting director? If you’re new…
Marketing for Actors: How to Do It Right
To develop a successful professional acting career, you have to know how to effectively promote yourself. In effect, you can think of yourself as a one-person business where the commodity you are selling is your acting ability. No business succeeds without good marketing and the actors who build sustainable careers are usually those with…
How to Deal with Audition Rejection
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” Walt Disney Every good actor should be prepared to face rejection, and every single one will have been knocked back at one time or another- even the most…
The Importance of ‘Scene Study’
Creating a great performance as an actor involves much more than simply reading a script and doing the first thing that comes into your head. To produce a deep and engaging performance, you need to know how to study a script, pull it apart and work out everything that is going on beneath the…