Industry Ready Actor?

Thirty plus years ago I set out to become an actor. I had little experience and no training, but I knew it was what I had to do. A couple of years later I was in a Fringe First winning play HOOLIGANS (30th anniversary this year) which went on to The Donmar Warehouse Pick of The Fringe, A Yorkshire TV production and toured for over three years. Neither of the other two actors in this shot from the show, Paul Nolan and Tom Magill, had training from an accredited Drama School; Paul came to Tic Toc Theatre Company as a YOP (A government youth training scheme) and Tom having previously been detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, was a drama grad from Birmingham Uni. We learned our trade on the job.

[It] made me think more widely about the snobbery and utter nonsense that accompanies training for actors

Dan Ford, a lecturer on the BA Acting Course at Northampton University, recently invited me to carry out a couple of days of “Industry Ready” interviews. It’s a really good idea; if you are paying ￡9,000 a year for your course fees, and ending up on average ￡44,000.00 in debt (recent figures) by the end of your course, you’d like to think that you have a package that people would potentially buy......

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Photo JIM BOTTON- HOOLIGANS

Cast Robert Wilkinson, Paul Nolan, Tom Magill