Category: Acting

  • ExcludedUK

    ExcludedUK

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWell, it’s been almost seventeen weeks since the two-week quarantine began. Still no help at all forthcoming from the UK government for all those excluded from any help for lost self-employed earnings. The same government that proclaimed that we were “all in this together” and “no one will be left behind”.

  • Acting using Affective Memory

    Acting using Affective Memory

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI find film much more challenging than theatre and today was particularly difficult as we were filming a funeral scene. To authentically feel genuine loss of a person close to my character, I felt that I needed to draw on a particular memory

  • First IMDB credit

    First IMDB credit

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOkay, the whole of Australia is on fire, the UK has been dropped into Brexshit creek without a paddle, a boat, or a rubber ring, and everyone is saying we are on the verge of world war three. So, I suppose, in the scheme of things, me precariously wobbling onto another stepping…

  • Working Actor: Roleplaying as a Simulated Patient

    Working Actor: Roleplaying as a Simulated Patient

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoleplay provides a realistic, safe and supportive learning environment in which to experiment with different ways to approach situations. It allows people to try different communication styles and body language, to get feedback from trainers and peers, to take risks, but without having to do so in the real workplace environment.

  • Working Actor: Working as a Supporting Artist with NBA

    Working Actor: Working as a Supporting Artist with NBA

    Reading Time: 4 minutes  I had to be up at 5.30 in the morning to get up, get my face on, endeavor to look vaguely human, whilst not feeling at my best (I am not a morning person) and get to the film studio on time.  It turned out to be one of those days…

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