GOOD NEWS!! Actor Expo Classes are to be streamed live on the internet all day today!

To get involved, simply click here from 12.OOPM!

Live TV Streaming is being provided courtesy of The Cultural Camden Digital Group.

Blog Written by Remi O, Events Organiser. Experienced events organiser of over 15yrs, Freelance Festival Manager, Cat Lover & Cupcake devour-er.

We are really pleased to announce that for the first time ever in the UK, a selection of Actor Expo Classes are to be streamed live on the internet.

This is exciting news because if you cannot be at the event in person you can still take part by watching it online AS IT HAPPENS, or watch it later when you have free time. Or just watch it again, because it was awesome and you want to relive the moment.

The recorded footage will be of selected seminar speakers, as it happens, so you can hear what is said, without being there!

Awesome!

Live TV Streaming is being provided courtesy of The Cultural Camden Digital Group and can be viewed here:
www.camdentheatres.com Look under Live TV.

Blog Written by Remi O, Events Organiser. Experienced events organiser of over 15yrs, Freelance Festival Manager, Cat Lover & Cupcake devour-er.

On Twitter and Facebook I notice tweets / messages all the time from actors saying things like “I’m too busy to market myself” or “It is my agents job to market me”.

I’m always left thinking that clearly these actors do not see themselves operating as a ‘business‘ and that maybe if they did, they may be able to push their careers on further.

So I thought i’d write a blog on setting goals.

Let’s explore being ‘too busy’.

You’re too busy with acting work?
Ok, ace, you’re doing really well with work ‘now’ and in this moment.
You’re achieving & hitting goals, brilliant. But what lies ahead and around the corner?
Is it not foolhardy to not plan ahead?

You cannot afford to lose the momentum you have worked so hard to achieve.
A successful business has a plan right?
A marketing, sales and business plan. Actors should too. Marketing yourself is just as important in the good times as it is in the bad. Have a plan. Set some firm and reachable goals. Think of yourself as ‘the number 1′ business.

If you are ‘too busy’ with everything else in your life: Your day job, your sofa time, your social life or other hobbies that you allow to get in the way of your acting career.. it’s really a good time to take a step back and ask yourself “why you are where you are now and not where you perhaps desire to be?”.

If you really want to reach a goal, for example, being an active working actor. You have to find a place for it in your daily life.

There really is no place for being “too busy” in this business.

Start with this. Ask yourself now
“what is my goal? & Where do I want to be?”

Are you an Actor who has said one of the following statements in the last year or so? :

“I need to complete my website first”.
“I need to update my showreel first”
“I need get new headshots before I can get out there.”

Two issues.
Firstly, money and time are always a factor, that’s a given.. But if you are really serious about your career, you will find a way to pay for your headshots, showreels and other marketing materials, right?

An actor can always find ways to pay for a masterclass or to pay for a fancy smart phone. So you can find a way to pay for these important career things too, if you make it a priority!

Secondly, You can still move forward while you are waiting for your materials to be done. You can still set goals & take steps towards achieving them.

If you keep waiting for things to be perfectly done, you will be waiting for the rest of your life.

If you do not set goals and aim for something meaningful, you will not HAVE a career to market.

*Click here for a useful website on Goal Setting from the Mindtool website.

Click here for another useful website on Goal Setting from the PBS website.

Run by the UK Academy of Television, Film & Theatre

Time: 15.15pm – 15.55pm
Room 1
Level: Professional Actors | Beginners

This 30 – 45 minute ‘Taster’ class is designed to introduce actors to specific skills and techniques required for television and film acting.

During the talk, you will learn the differences between personality and character acting and why
realism is imperative for television and film.

During this discussion we will touch on world renowned acting techniques including Stanislavski,
Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler and why these theatre practitioners and theatre
techniques are not all appropriate when it comes to creating realism for television and film.

Skills and techniques taught in this class have been established by leading professionals of the
television and film industry.

Run by the UK Academy of Television, Film & Theatre, Carl Parker, (co-director and acting coach), has trained with some of television’s leading professionals including David Shaw (BAFTA award-
winning casting director), Beverly Keogh (BAFTA award-winning casting director), Dorothy Andrews
(casting director), Mark Hudson (ITV & BBC), Kenny Glenaan (ITV-BBC Director), Jeremiah Comey
(Hollywood Coach and Director) while also working with actors from ITV & BBC drama, Coronation
Street, Hollyoaks, Waterloo Road, Downtown Abbey and Shameless

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Actor Expo is pleased to share with you on their blog, the full list of the award winners from this years Laurence Olivier Awards 2009… Congratulations to all this years outstanding winners.

AWARD WINNERS 2009

Best Lighting Design
The Chalk Garden designed by Paule Constable at the Donmar Warehouse

Best Sound Design
Black Watch designed by Gareth Fry at the Barbican

Best Costume Design
The Histories designed by Tom Piper and Emma Williams at the Roundhouse

Best New Dance Production
Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Cafe Muller / The Rite Of Spring at Sandler’s Wells

Best New Comedy
God Of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton at the Gielgud theatre

Best Set Design
August: Osage County designed by Todd Rosenthal at the National Theatre, Lyttelton

Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Lesli Margherita for Zorro at the Garrick theatre

Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
The Royal Court theatre’s production of The Pride, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Best Performance in a Supporting Role
Patrick Stewart for Hamlet at the Novello theatre

Best Actress
Margaret Tyzack for The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse

Best Actor
Derek Jacobi for Twelfth Night, Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s theatre

Best Company Performance
The Histories directed by Michael Boyd at the Roundhouse

Best Theatre Choreographer
Steven Hoggett for Black Watch at the Barbican

Best Revival
The Histories directed by Michael Boyd at the Roundhouse

Best New Opera Production
English National Opera’s Partenope at the London Coliseum

Outstanding Achievement in Opera
Edward Gardner for conducting English National Opera’s Boris Goduinov, Cavalliera Rusticana, Der Rosenkavalier, I Pagliacci, Riders To The Sea at the London Coliseum and Punch And Judy at the Young Vic

Best Actress in a Musical
Elena Roger for Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville theatre

Best Actor in a Musical
Douglas Hodge for La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse theatre

Best Entertainment
La Clique at the Hippodrome

Best Musical Revival
La Cage Aux Folles, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play “La Cage Aux Folles” by Jean Poiret, at the Playhouse theatre

Best New Play
National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch by Gregory Burke at the Barbican

Best Director
John Tiffany for Black Watch at the Barbican

Best New Musical
Jersey Boys The Story Of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe at the Prince Edward theatre

The Society’s Special Award
Sir Alan Ayckbourn