Many people might think our lives are pre-planned. And for some, what unfolds in life may well feel like the fulfillment of a certain predestined path. For others, life isn't such a smooth plane ride. For writers, artists, actors and others bitten by the creative madness that sinks its teeth in at an early age and refuses to release its clamped jaw...

  This year's crop of acting talent has recently graduated, leaving the safety, comfort and fun of drama school for the stark reality of the battle for his or her place on the stage, with an agent, on our screens… The young, unscarred and hopeful join the multitude of actors, some of whom have spent years, even decades, fighting for their voca...

Dear members Last February we gave you details of a project one of our members, Claire-Monique Martin, wanted to try to get off the ground 'Waiting for Liz'. Claire-Monique is an actress and faces the same battles and heartaches most actors face while struggle to progress their careers and find the kind of projects that matter and mean something to...

  'One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle, one who opens up new areas of thought, research or development, one who changes the current 'way of things' and paves new opportunities and benefits for future generations' The term pioneer could have been applied to Kay Mander some sixty plus years ago. Women in the film indus...

Even the most wizened of misers will be generous with one thing – their advice. People love to give it. Any actor, or aspiring actor, will remember all too well the barrage of advice wrapped up as warnings they've been subjected to by all and sundry as soon as they revealed their most longed for ambition – mostly by those who've have never read a s...