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The Essentials
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6 Tips for Tackling your First Arts Funding Application

Six top tips to help you complete your first application for arts funding in the UK As an actor, were you taught about arts funding applications at drama school? I know I wasn’t. Funding applications always seemed to exist in a roped-off section of industry know-how marked ‘producers only’, but it’s not true. Funding applications […]

making work
michaela bennison
starting out
Lifestyle & Wellbeing
How to Handle Criticism

Eight steps for handling feedback, whether it’s constructive or misguided As actors, feedback is a necessary part of our craft. We can’t see our performance from the outside, so we rely on teachers and directors to guide us. However, criticism is sometimes less than constructive. It can be ill-intentioned, clumsily put, misguided or plain unhelpful. […]

auditions
michaela bennison
soft skills
Young Performers
Tips for Making Positive Friendships as a Young Actor

How to create lasting bonds and friendships with other actors as a young performer It’s a big leap from performing as a hobby to becoming a professional performer. Young actors work alongside adults in a very technical environment, and drama school is very different from school or university – with full-time contact hours and mostly […]

drama school
michaela bennison
parents
The Essentials
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8 Top Tips for Bonding with a New Cast

Industry advice for getting on with your fellow company members and creating lasting bonds Meeting new people in any context can be daunting. Unlike most professions, actors’ careers involve hundreds of first days at the proverbial office. Our job requires working closely – sometimes intimately – with colleagues we’ve only known for a few weeks. In […]

mental health
michaela bennison
starting out
The Essentials
Navigating Self-taping When You Have Kids

Five tips for performer parents or guardians who need to self-tape whilst caring for kids or babies. Self-tapes have opened actors up to a world of possibility, but they can become pretty complicated when you add small children into the mix. Love them or loathe them, self-tapes are here to stay but if you’re a […]

mental health
michaela bennison
starting out
The Essentials
A Guide to Working in the EU If You’re a UK National

What you need to know if you’re a UK citizen who is auditioning or working in the EU. Updated on 17 October 2022. The UK has officially left the European Union and as you’d expect, this has caused changes to the rules and regulations around travel and work on the continent. Whilst the Brexit deal […]

brexit
europe
finances/legal