Getting a Spring into Your Step

It’s a new year and that means a new me. With January and February out of the way and all our good intentions slipping away with it, it’s time to take a long hard look at your careers and make some positive changes! It’s nearly Spring and it’s the...

MOFILMS: The What, the Why, and the How

Over the coming months, we’ll be featuring articles on MOFILM in our Casting Networks newsletters to highlight just one of the many ways beginning filmmakers can gain experience. MOFILM is an organisation that connects brands to a global community of filmmakers...

Actors, Will You Cross The Shores?

Every year when pilot season hits, there’s a flurry of excitement about what to do next. As the self tape requests flood in, excited actors chance the idea of getting their O1 visas and making a break for Hollywood. Will they cross the shores or stay where...
Knowing What to Do At the Start of the Acting Year

Knowing What to Do At the Start of the Acting Year

If your 2016 looks anything like mine, it’s full of promise, anticipation and excitement. There’s all sorts of possibility in the air. You made a bunch of commitments to yourself last year. A bunch you ticked off and a bunch are still in the to-do pile. Some are no...

The Audition Room as a Playground

For lots of actors, especially those just starting out, entering an audition room is a nerve-wracking experience. You spend all that time wishing for your big break, hustling your agent or diligently doing your own detective work to find suitable roles, working hard...

How to Bring Colour to Your Acting Performance

Over the years, I have heard many directors, teachers, and casting directors instruct actors to ‘bring more colour’ to their performances in auditions and on screen. Though we as actors think we have some kind of understanding of what this generalised direction may...