Auditions - 5
• 📹 Self Tapes - 4
• 🤝 In Person - 1

of those auditions...
• 🏷️ Adverts - 3
• 🎭 Plays - 1

Outcomes
• 👀🎉 Recall and Booked job - 1

The industry begins to wind down this time of year, so I'm incredibly lucky to be looking ahead to the exciting projects that will kick off my 2026.

Three advert self tapes this month. Again, tapes that I thought went really well, but didn't go any further. After my stab at making a DIY recording booth I've been doing a lot of research into how I can improve my lighting setup for self tapes. There's a lot I can do, but very little of it would really be possible in the limited room we have at home. We're looking to move house sometime in 2026, and a major priority for both of us is space where we can work: an office for me and a sewing room for my partner. Hopefully then I can get a more robust setup.

Two monthly round-ups in a row where I can talk about a booked job! This one is really exciting. The selftape first round and in-person recall all happened within two weeks of eachother, and the call saying I got the gig only days later. I'm still slightly unsure how identifyable I want to be when it comes to this blog, so I dont necessarily want to say too much about the job itself, but it's an adaptation of a classic book using both live action and puppet performances. The project takes me through pretty much all of February and March, with two weeks of rehersals and 5-6 weeks of touring around the UK. Again I'm sure I'll write more about it later.

This month has been pretty busy, hence the late upload. Shifts at the day-job have picked up again thanks to the festive season, and I've been really enjoying diving into the script for the January play. Rehersals officially started in late November and my goal is to be pretty much entirely off book for the second rehersal coming up later this month. It's almost impossible for me to feel good about rehersals with the script in my hand; you can't really respond in the moment when you're busy reading the lines. I'm sure some people can, but I can't.

Next month marks my 12th monthly round-up, though it's not the one year anniversary of this blog, sadly. One of the first things I did when I started the monthly round-ups in March was go back and do January and February first, so technically my site's first birthday will be the 17th of March 2026. I have a lot of thoughts about my first year blogging, so much so that I'm keen to say "Fuck it" and tap into this reflective time of year and do it now. Maybe I'll just write up what I'm feeling seperately and post it in a few months time.

Either way next month will be a year-in-review of my acting career such as it is, with an in-depth look at the statistics of the whole thing; auditions, recalls, jobs, failures, and financials. I think next year I want to record a lot more data around this, so as to provide a more accurate image of what actually goes into this work.

I never thought I'd be excited about statistics, but here we are.