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  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…

    “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…

  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…

  How do you define success as a professional actor? Many people will immediately picture the favourite Hollywood or West End star, but that is a very narrow idea of “making it” as an actor. In reality, any actor who can make a living from their acting consistently year after year is a success. Most…

      Developing a character So you’ve got the script and a short description of your character to accompany it. You may even have had the chance to speak to the writer and director of the production. You feel like you really understand what they want from the character, and you’ve received all the…

  For any actor, auditions are a nerve-racking experience. No matter how experienced or naturally talented you are, the thought of putting on a performance in front of a group of strangers who you know are judging your every mannerism, and will soon be deciding the fate of your career can be a stressful one.…

  Staying positive can be challenging within any line of work, but within the acting industry, it can really mean the difference between making or breaking your career – especially when you’re going through a dry patch. Negative thoughts may be swirling around your head, telling you that you were never good enough, and have…

  When it comes to acting there are a few misconceptions about it held by those outside the industry. If asked they would most likely decide that typecasting must be a bad thing for an actor, sure to doom them to a career of playing the same characters over and over. For those who know…

  Just like in any other line of work, acting requires professionals to do their homework and really get to know their craft. If you’re serious about becoming a professional actor, and following in the footsteps of the legendary performers who came before you, then you will need to know everything there is about the…