Steve's Acting Resources

This page is a collection of free resources for aspiring actors. It was built by Steven Feeney.
It's completely free but if you want to share my latest show, that would be awesome.

Opportunities

This section collects networking, mentoring and collaboration for acting, writing and directing.

Scratch Nights

Labs, Groups and Programmes

Casting & Audition Notices

  • Spotlight - Aim for this

  • Shooting People - Great for meeting film makers, £39 per year

  • Mandy - Just spam you emails, seriously

  • Backstage - USA mainly, not worth it

  • Star Now Better than Backstage

  • Casting Call - Pretty poor

  • Cast Web - Email list, not great

Fringes & Film Festivals

Show Support

This section contains my own resources used for the production and marketing of a theatre show.

Marketing Checklist

  • Build websites almost instantly with CARRD. Ideal for landing pages, new shows and testing ideas super quickly (Cost: less than £20 per year)

  • Use Canva for creating all marketing, logos, programmes, images, videos...everything! (Cost: free)

  • Add Beam Analytics to measure the success of your websites. Just copy and paste a small piece of code (takes 5 seconds) and see how many users go to the page and what they click on and where they came from. (Cost: Free)

Inviting Critics & Bloggers

Contracts / Production

  • Lighting cues are named LX. Sound cues are named SX.

  • Ensure your music for the show is stored in a folder on One Drive or GDrive and also backed up onto a USB

  • Prefix the music with the order such as 1-trackname

  • Ensure sound effects for the show are stored in a folder on One Drive or GDrive and named appropriately with an order prefix such 1-wolf howl, 2-bell ringing

  • Remember to include a series of tracks for the audience to take their seats and await on the open

Paid Marketing Guide

  • Coming soon

Financial Tips

This section contains financial tips and links to support for those seeking funding or in financial difficulty

List of Hardship Funds

List of Grants and Funding

List of Discounts

  • Shooting people offer 20% off Spotlight renewals with code

  • Spotlight members now get an automatic 10% discount on London Theatre Direct

  • Spotlight Discounts List

Jobs where you also act...kind of

Random Tips

  • Spotlight Guide to becoming a freelance drama, singing or dance teacher

  • If you are self-employed as an actor, everything is tax deductible including gyms, travel, theatre visits to watch shows, you get money back from the Government

  • The Top Cashback browser plugin / app gets you 3-10% money back when you purchase things online. Works automatically

  • Hot UK Deals collects the best money saving deals, every day in the UK and ranks them. You can set alerts for the things you need like 'tickets' or 'electricity' or 'laptop'

Miscellaneous Notes

This section contains miscellaneous notes on acting and other matters

Interesting Things