Dear Members,  Few needs of the human heart are greater than the need to be understood, to have a voice that is heard, respected and valued. #BeAPartOfSomething I hope you've all had a cracking start to 2019! Like everyone across our country I'm sure you're saddened, shocked and disturbed as seemingly each new day brings news of another...

  What's your role in the Film Industry? I wouldn't want to pigeonhole myself under any label. I started off as a writer/director on my first feature film – a self funded project, a position I took by default, by risking everything thinking it would get me a foothold on a career. It was only through experience that I realised the industry does...

  "That feeling of winning a role is great because it feels like utter vindication of your sacrifices and choices as a performer. We can each of us say; "I'm an actor" but without people to share your belief it becomes a pipe dream or an exercise in futility." Joe Sims Dear Members Please join me in thanking actor Joe Sims for the incredible a...

Dear members I'm so proud to be able to highlight for you something very special from one of our members, Dave Hearn, and his colleagues and cohorts at the Mischief Theatre Company: 'The Play That Goes Wrong'. Don't let the title fool you – nothing goes wrong in this absolutely hysterical comedy. And everything that does go quite intentionally wron...

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...

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...

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...