Can You Learn Acting Online?
When we started our online acting course last year we got a number of emails and comments declaring “you can’t possibly learn acting online!” Though we were proud of what we’d created, we too were doubtful...
StageMilk Acting Blog
Andrew Hearle, StageMilk founder and editor, shares his personal acting insights on the StageMilk Blog. A personal acting blog on what it’s like to be a young, mostly out of work, actor in a big city.
Andrew graduated from the acting course at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and has worked professionally in Film, TV and Theatre.
This acting blog looks at how to stay empowered in an industry that can be quite defeating. All we have as actors is our craft; our ability to tell stories. Everything else is out of our control.
If you can take one thing from this acting blog it’s to enjoy acting in and of itself, to become a master at the skill of acting, and to accept the rest as a game of chance.
Latest Blog Posts
Why Actors Have to Keep Training
Actors usually fall into one of two brackets: those who think they don’t need any more training and those who are addicted to attending every masterclass in town. We’re looking for a happy medium. I...
Are acting classes worth the price?
It’s a tough road that we’ve chosen. Not only is there an immense amount of competition for such a brief opportunity to share our work – compared to the hourly commitment of a 9-5 –...
14 Actor Life Hacks
What’s the hardest part of being an actor? Probably being an actor… We certainly haven’t chosen the easy path, but we’ve chosen it nonetheless, so we might as well make the most of it right? Gotta...
What I Learnt as an Actor in 2017
A year in reflection. Since leaving drama school my life as an actor has both surprised and disappointed. It has not been the calamity I prophesied, nor the raging success I quietly hoped for. Instead...
Why Gossiping Makes you a Bad Actor
The problem with gossip is that it doesn’t actually help anything...
Don’t direct your fellow actor
Golden rehearsal room rule...
Why I read out loud every night
Improve your cold reading in one month ...
Acting isn’t sport
Burning out? You might be pushing too hard...
Why I Stay in the Acting Game
There is a reason so many talented and intelligent actors endure a mostly impoverished, monotonous life...