I had my first audition when I was 19. It was during pilot season in Los Angeles for the TV version of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI’ve always enjoyed teaching alongside acting, so I felt being an acting coach would be a good day job. I believe I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMMy first professional TV audition was for two episodes of BBC’s Doctors. I had graduated from Drama Studio London just two weeks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMDaniel Squire teaches the Merce Cunningham technique at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and elsewhere (as a guest) How did you
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMAlthough acting has always been my first love, life and family priorities took my career in a different direction and it is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMNothing to Be Done was my debut play as a writer. The beautiful wee absurdist tragicomedy played a number of international festivals
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMHow did you start off in theatre? As a young person, I loved theatre but the thought of being on stage myself
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMI helped a friend shoot a showreel scene recently. A few weeks later, I received an email from her agent to say
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMUntil my first job offer, I had not considered that the performing arts could be a career. The company was called Exponential.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhich organisations have you taught at? Bird College and Italia Conti Arts Centre. Before that, I worked as a teacher in formal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start off in theatre/music? Initially, I heard and experienced music in church, becoming more active when I started secondary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first professional audition was as a ‘wild card’ for Fantine in Les Miserables. I was still in training and they contacted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMActors who are between roles or in training often use their performance skills in promotional work. John Byrne looks at some key
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHow did you start in theatre? I first studied acting at Chichester under a very inspiring teacher, Loraine Edwards. On the BA
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSomeone once told me: “Banish negativity from your life. Things won’t always work, but if you stay positive you learn from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI’m off to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next week to be in a show some friends and I have been working on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMTheme park work isn’t just sweating in a Minnie Mouse costume during a hot Paris summer, there’s a variety of diverse and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMHow did you start off in theatre? I went to performing arts high school and drama school in the US. Shortly after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first job was as an assistant stage manager in 1977, touring in the Lake District before gaining a place at Webber
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt was all going so well. I’ve just done my graduation showcase and signed with a new agent. I also have a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMHow did you start in theatre? Aged 11, as a principal boy soprano at English National Opera where I stayed until I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first professional job was as an angel in Deborah Warner’s The Tower Project, produced as part of London International Festival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI’m not quite ready to give up acting altogether, but I do feel I’m getting too old for constant touring. That’s where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMMy first paid acting job was Venus vs Mars, a series for Sky Living in 2015. As well as being a first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? As a working-class artist from the suburbs of Liverpool, I had no idea how to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt seems like only yesterday I was nervously shuffling in for my drama school audition. Two years later I am preparing for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMy first professional acting audition was in July 2012 for a play called The Prize, to be performed at Live Theatre, Newcastle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThe dance teacher and head of performing arts at Richard Taunton Sixth Form College in Southampton talks to John Byrne about her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMHow did you start in theatre? I started in New York, Off-Broadway producing events celebrating new writing and introducing new international talent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI got into a wonderful amateur company in Ealing called the Questors, which is still active, aged 15, when I was at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? Growing up in Cornwall, I was introduced to fantastic companies such as Kneehigh Theatre, O-region
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