Any work in Perth?
Sat, 15 June 2002, 08:08 pmWalter Plinge25 posts in thread
Any work in Perth?
Sat, 15 June 2002, 08:08 pmIs there any work in Perth for Teenagers? 14-16 years old? I love Perth but there is just nothing here for us. Are there really more oppertunities in sydney? is it worth considering moving there once we have finnished school? thx 4 any feed back.
Re: Any work in Perth?
Wed, 19 June 2002, 03:21 pm> If you really want to take Acting serious - study it at Uni.
...and the very best advice I ever got? If you really want to take acting seriously, DON'T study it at uni. Find something else entirely to study, not necessarily at uni, and preferably something with a job at the end. This is fantastic on so many levels: you meet a whole new non-acting range of people (which not only gives you that all-important life experience, you get some great observational character studies which are your number one resource as a performing artist), you see what is important to other people and you are truly able to assess what YOUR priorities are without getting swept away by others' enthusiasm, AND you can plug your love of the theatre to a much wider audience who would never even think of going to the theatre otherwise. I have a number of uni friends who had never set foot inside a theatre before coming into contact with me who are now regular theatre goers.
Once you graduate your job options are enormously flexible. I make my own work time - fifteen hours a week max is all I need to support myself thanks to a professional salary - and I can fit it easily around voice overs, auditions, rehearsals. Furthermore, I can afford to take all the acting, movement and voice classes I want, and see as many shows as I can around town. Some I know who did study acting at uni, are now chained into shift work, at odd hours, on Friday nights (i.e. performance nights), all day Sundays (i.e. rehearsal days), that they can't get out of, and prevents them from taking part in excellent performance or networking opportunties. By studying acting at uni, they have effectively undermined their own careers by not being able to do anything else. This is an extreme example, but remember to keep your options as wide open as possible as you are rarely able to support yourself as an actor, and studying it at uni isn't the best way of doing that.
To get that all important performance experience while pursuing something else, as Crispy said WAYTCo and BSX are outstanding both for experience and networking - Simon Nichols from BSX has recently got a paid reading with Black Swan proper thanks to his work with the youth arm. Olivia Hogan from WAYTCo ended up in PTC's Vagina Monologues after her long experience working with Jenny Davis. Your own community theatre is also an outstanding resource - while at uni, I performed regularly with UDS, Grads, and Playlovers and strolled right into Actors Management's books upon graduation from uni.
I, too, started in this game at the age of 15 and I'm slightly less than a year older than Crispy. There is work out there - you must look for it, swallow your pride, network, see everything you can and try to talk to the cast and crew afterwards to see how they go about it. Go to parties, do courses where you can meet people, and NEVER pass up an opportunity to perform even if it means the difference between eating this week or losing your day job. Meeting people is your best resource.
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...and the very best advice I ever got? If you really want to take acting seriously, DON'T study it at uni. Find something else entirely to study, not necessarily at uni, and preferably something with a job at the end. This is fantastic on so many levels: you meet a whole new non-acting range of people (which not only gives you that all-important life experience, you get some great observational character studies which are your number one resource as a performing artist), you see what is important to other people and you are truly able to assess what YOUR priorities are without getting swept away by others' enthusiasm, AND you can plug your love of the theatre to a much wider audience who would never even think of going to the theatre otherwise. I have a number of uni friends who had never set foot inside a theatre before coming into contact with me who are now regular theatre goers.
Once you graduate your job options are enormously flexible. I make my own work time - fifteen hours a week max is all I need to support myself thanks to a professional salary - and I can fit it easily around voice overs, auditions, rehearsals. Furthermore, I can afford to take all the acting, movement and voice classes I want, and see as many shows as I can around town. Some I know who did study acting at uni, are now chained into shift work, at odd hours, on Friday nights (i.e. performance nights), all day Sundays (i.e. rehearsal days), that they can't get out of, and prevents them from taking part in excellent performance or networking opportunties. By studying acting at uni, they have effectively undermined their own careers by not being able to do anything else. This is an extreme example, but remember to keep your options as wide open as possible as you are rarely able to support yourself as an actor, and studying it at uni isn't the best way of doing that.
To get that all important performance experience while pursuing something else, as Crispy said WAYTCo and BSX are outstanding both for experience and networking - Simon Nichols from BSX has recently got a paid reading with Black Swan proper thanks to his work with the youth arm. Olivia Hogan from WAYTCo ended up in PTC's Vagina Monologues after her long experience working with Jenny Davis. Your own community theatre is also an outstanding resource - while at uni, I performed regularly with UDS, Grads, and Playlovers and strolled right into Actors Management's books upon graduation from uni.
I, too, started in this game at the age of 15 and I'm slightly less than a year older than Crispy. There is work out there - you must look for it, swallow your pride, network, see everything you can and try to talk to the cast and crew afterwards to see how they go about it. Go to parties, do courses where you can meet people, and NEVER pass up an opportunity to perform even if it means the difference between eating this week or losing your day job. Meeting people is your best resource.
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