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Katie Elin-Salt offers up her resolutions for a happier #actorslife this year If you’ve found yourself getting sucked into a social media #actorslife vortex at 2pm only to wonder why you’re having yet another “what am I doing with my life” moment at 2:30pm, maybe now is a good time to change that behaviour and […]

Dust off the false eyelashes and smack me in the face with a lump of glitter, it’s panto season again! Like it or loathe it, panto is as essential to Christmas as pudding, and as essential to performers as a steam inhaler. It’s a British institution based on Christmas frivolity, the festive merriment of children […]

Actors Katie Redford and Katie Elin-Salt discuss the ins and outs of drama school training, comparing their experiences Somehow, by the good grace of Liza Minnelli, I was offered a place at Royal Welsh College and I shot off with my tap shoes in hand quicker than you could say: “You don’t need tap shoes, […]

An Oxford dictionary definition: Showcase 1.  An event that shows someone’s abilities or good qualities in an attractive way. 2.  A box with a glass top or sides that is used for showing objects in a shop, store or museum. Despite first hand experience, I am still at times confused as to which of these […]

When I was in my third year of drama school, a casting director advised me above all else to ‘Do three things a day that make you feel like you’re an actor. Especially when you’re not working.’ At the time, I met this comment with side eye and bemusement. Of COURSE I was going to feel […]