Getting into the conversation
Representation, approaches and the work you can do yourself.
Perspectives from Pippa Ailion MBE and John Owen Jones
Explore the contributors ↗The library
Your next audition.
Your next question.
Getting an agent. Taking a redirect. Doing the job. Off Book connects different voices around the questions you face as a performer. Explore the proposed Scenes below; the films are in edit.
What the room actually needs
The brief, the pianist, the redirect and your own judgement.
Perspectives from Zoe Birkett and Dame Arlene Phillips DBE
Read the sample lesson ↗
Keeping your individuality
Training, style and the parts of you that do not fit a formula.
Perspectives from Jodie Steele and Dame Arlene Phillips DBE
Explore the contributors ↗The work nobody sees
Swings, understudies and the systems behind the performance.
Perspectives from Kerry Ellis and Rhiannon Chesterman
Explore the contributors ↗Life inside the company
Communication, colleagues and doing the job you have.
Perspectives from Zoe Birkett and Simon Bailey
Explore the contributors ↗A life around the show
Touring, practical needs and boundaries around the work.
Perspectives from Rhiannon Chesterman and Zoe Birkett
Explore the contributors ↗What an opportunity is worth
Money, time, experience and the choices that remain yours.
Perspectives from Mike and Barney and John Owen Jones
Explore the contributors ↗The long game
Returners, parallel skills and a career that changes shape.
Perspectives from James Lorcan and Vas Constanti
Explore the contributors ↗The money question
What is this job
really worth?
A quick planning tool for comparing the fee with the time, costs and work the job actually takes.
Your working figure
Total hours48
Effective hourly rate£8.75
Fee to meet your target£800
Useful experience, but the numbers need a clear reason to work.
Touring toolkit
Make the tour
add up.
Estimate the real weekly picture, including shared digs, travel and meals, then check the current Equity terms before agreeing.
Your touring picture
Your weekly digs£135
Weekly extras£255
Total tour extras£1,020
Check what the producer covers before comparing offers.
The conversation stays open.
Episode lengths and final lesson contents are being established in the edit. No duration is being advertised before it has been checked.