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Question about studying acting in Ireland and getting agent in UK?

  • 16-06-2011 5:35pm
    #1
    Lollipop95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys smile.gif

    I really want to pursue acting as a career but I have two questions

    1. Is it absolutely neccessary to go to an acting school to become an actor in order to get an agent or could you just study acting at college? There's a college I'm planning to go to when I live school. You study 4 subjects. I'm planning to study:

    1. Theatre & Performance
    2. English
    3. Film Studies
    4. Irish Studies/History

    Here's the link to the website --> http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/unde...rses/arts.html

    This is my second question:

    Supposing if I wanted to become an employed actor? If I sent a resume/CV to a good UK agent like The Curtis Brown Group,would they take me on even though I'm living in Ireland? I'd obviously have to commute/live there but that's something I'd be quite willing to do.

    Thank You smile.gif
    xxx


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  • #2
    chasmcb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭chasmcb


    I wouldn't say it is absolutely essential to attend an acting school, though it might give you a bit of a headstart to begin with.

    Quite a few talented young companies have emerged from the theatre courses at NUIG over the past few years, and several of them have brought productions to events like the Fringe festivals in Edinburgh, Dublin and New York. So being around Galway would provide opportunities to audition for roles in good-calibre shows where you could build up your acting cv and be seen by theatre professionals and agents. And of course, in an earlier era, the members of Druid nearly all emerged from UCG as it then was.

    Do you have any Irish? If so you could also audition for drama roles with TG4. Then there is the nearby film school who often have young film-makers casting films that go on to be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, another way of getting yourself noticed.

    I don't think I would send a CV to the likes of Curtis Brown until you had a few notable roles to adorn it with, but UK-based agencies do have Irish actors on their books albeit ones who are established or on the road to being established anyhow.

    It is a tough business, needs plenty of determination and the occasional dollop of luck to go with one's talent. But I think going to uni won't act as a bar to your career progress if you have what it takes. Best of luck!


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