Drama

General information

BBC New Talent – Drama
Becoming an Actor
Getting into Drama School
Drama Production Team
Make Your Mark in the Arts
Preparing for Drama School
Young People at the REP

Job descriptions and activities

Actor
Presenter
Producer
Theatre Director
Theatre Stage Manager
Scriptwriter
Dancer
Dramatherapist

Youth and Amateur Theatres

National Youth Theatre
National Student and Drama Festival
Manchester Youth Theatre
Scottish Youth Theatres

4Talent Resources

Performing Arts
Speak Binary: Binary Oppositions: a meeting of music and visuals featuring the cream of artistic Brummies.

Say It Loud: Decibel is fast emerging as the UK’s most exciting Black Minority Ethnics Performing Arts showcase, so where better to hold in ’07 than multicultural Birmingham?

Dive In: Artist and water lover Amy Sharrocks invited 50 people to take part in “SWIM a 10 pool, 3 lido, 2 lakes” journey across London. Voluntary participant Lynn Bird took the morning plunge for the sake of live art.

City Academy: Video: He formed a circle, farted in a lift and met Big Brother’s Kamal… Spencer Jones gets into the swing of things at Anna Florentini’s City Academy.

Theatre
Fight Club: Some careers may feel like a battlefield that you’re just wrestling your way through, but for Fight Director Terry King, it’s part of his everyday life.

Acting Without Words: We explore the world of the professionals creating characters without the help of dialogue.

Box of Delights: Street theatre has been around since the Dark Ages, but what happens when Birmingham goes back to its watery roots with theatre on the canals?

All Ears: Explore the unseen world of Audio Description with the RSC’s Pat Colcutt and Gregor Hunt.

Designs on Drama: Why renowned RSC set designer Tom Piper advocates learning on the job.

Organisations and regulations

Arts Council England
British Council – Arts Group
Equity
The British Association of Dramatherapists
The Conference of Drama Schools
The Council for Dance Education and Training (CDET)
National Council for Drama Training
The National Association of Youth Theatres
National Operatic and Dramatic Association

Useful links

Spotlight
IMDB

Publications

The Stage
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook
Screen International

Training

Birmingham School of Acting
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Central School of Speech and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
Manchester Metropolitan University – Manchester School of Theatre
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
The Oxford School of Drama
Rose Bruford College
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Video

Culture Show’s Lauren Laverne interviews acting legend Patrick Stewart

Acting Tips from Simon Callow

Inside The Actors Studio host James Lipton gives advice to those who wish to conquer Hollywood

Becoming a Casting Director
Working as a Casting Director
Life of a Casting Director
Theatre Lingo
Styles of Plays

Main image by Arbron