Unstoppable Actors: the essential podcast for ambitious, aspiring actors

Send us Fan Mail Shannon spent years on the other side of the casting table - and in this episode, she's telling actors everything she used to wish they knew. We get into the audition habit that quietly makes actors forgettable (even talented ones), what bold, brave actors do differently to book work and build a career one audition at a time, and the one thing most actors focus on that's...

Send us Fan Mail Test out the best Method Acting Exercises to develop a deeper character connection and eradicate performance destroyers in our FREE Method Actor's Toolbox. Get it straight to your phone HERE I used to destroy my own performances before I even walked into the audition or rehearsal room and I didn't know I was doing it. In this episode, I'm getting honest about the 8...

Send us Fan Mail Stop losing out on the auditions you're right for. 10 weeks. 10 people. 10 opportunities to give the auditions of your life - check out this highly-acclaimed training She's new to the industry. She's young. And in this episode, she has more wisdom about acting, and about herself, than actors twice her experience. This is Jessa's story. From the fear that nearly...

Send us Fan Mail Stop losing out on the auditions you're right for. 10 weeks. 10 people. 10 opportunities to give the auditions of your life - check out this highly-acclaimed training Kitchen tables in shot. Cats wandering into frame mid-line. A dozen takes deep and still not sure if any of them are "the one." If self-tape auditions have ever sent you spiralling, you are not alone,...

Send us Fan Mail Stop losing out on the auditions you're right for. 10 weeks. 10 people. 10 opportunities to give the auditions of your life - check out this highly-acclaimed training She never got cast from a single audition. Not one. Despite the hustle, the hours, the prep that left her shattered before she even walked in the room. Then everything changed. In this episode, Louise pulls back...

Send us Fan Mail Turbocharge yout talent with this FREE resource - The Method Acting Toolbox Not every role gets a backstory. The nurse checking you in. The assistant showing you to a room. One or two lines, no personality, nothing to "play." These procedural roles are some of the hardest to audition for, and some of the most useful credits you can book. This week I break down how to pre...

Send us Fan Mail Richard just booked a day player role on a major UK soap. But the story isn't the booking... it's the seven year dark period before it, where acting felt less like a craft and something enjoyable and more like a distant dream that he'd lost sight of.  In this episode, Richard talks us through it properly. Not the highlight reel, the actual road: The unconventional w...

Send us Fan Mail Test out the best Method Acting Exercises to develop a deeper character connection in our FREE Method Actor's Toolbok. Get it straight to your phone HERE Take the What Type of Actor Are you Quiz HERE Learn more about setting and achieving acting goals and getting  more acting work in The Business of Acting Bootcamp Many new and emerging actors have BIG acting goals, such as g...

Send us Fan Mail Test out the best Method Acting Exercises to develop a deeper character connection in our FREE Method Actor's Toolbok. Get it straight to your phone HERE Take the What Type of Actor Are you Quiz HERE Inexperienced actors, and I say this without judgement as we all start off from zero will focus on the wrong things when they're presented with a script.  They will overcomp...

Send us Fan Mail Discover more exercises that will help you turbocharge your belief in yourself and your talent by getting your hands on the FREE OF CHARGE Method Acting Toolbox HERE Louise, shares how she learnt something that blew her mind about success that she just knew actors everywhere had to hear if they want their goals of acting on stage, TV and film to materialise.  There are so many und...

Send us Fan Mail Sixteen years of coaching actors, and I still learnt something new on my last shoot. As director and on-set acting coach on a fast-paced Chinese martial arts film. It wasn't about choreography. It wasn't about line delivery. It was about food. In this episode I tell you exactly what happened on set, why it wrecked our focus for an entire afternoon, and what it taught me...

Send us Fan Mail I recently sat on the other side of an audition process with someone I love, and watched red flag after red flag pop up in real time. What started as excitement turned into a masterclass in what NOT to accept from a casting. In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly what to watch for before you submit your next self-tape; the comms, the organisation, the deadlines that shoul...

Send us Fan Mail Take the What Type of Actor Are You quiz first — it'll show you exactly what to work on so your next performance is your best one yet. START NOW I got a call to coach actors through rehearsals for a film. Two days later, they asked me onto set to keep coaching through filming. Not because I chased it. Because of two things, and once you hear what they are, you'll see the...

Send us Fan Mail Transform how you build every character you'll ever play. Join a small group of early career actors living as real World War Two codebreakers in the War Project, StandBy's once-every-four-years ten week immersive method acting module. Ten places only. Auditions Saturday 18th July. Apply now You leave rehearsal. You go home. And then what? If the honest answer is "I...

Send us Fan Mail Stop performing. Start becoming. Apply now to live as a real World War Two codebreaker in the War Project... StandBy's once-every-four-years immersive method acting module. Auditions Saturday 18th July. Apply here What does it actually feel like to stop performing and truly become a character? In this episode, StandBy Artistic Director and method acting coach Louise takes you...

Send us Fan Mail 🎭 Any actor can learn lines. The War Project will make you live them. Ten weeks. A real historical character. A completely immersive method acting experience unlike anything else. Summer 2026 applications are open... Get yours in!! Paraic walked into the War Project thinking he understood what acting was. Ten weeks later, playing Alan Turing (one of the most complex, brilliant an...

Send us Fan Mail 🎭 Some actors recite lines. Others inhabit a life. The War Project (a 10 week immersive method acting experience playing a real character from history) is a once in a career opportunity. Summer 2026 applications are now open. Kimberley had no experience, no agent and no idea what she was capable of. She just knew she didn't want to look back and wonder what if. So she went a...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 The audition lands in your inbox. Your heart does...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 The script is open. Your highlighter is running o...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 You've done the character research. You&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 Have you ever received a piece of feedback that s...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 This episode exposes one of the most common chara...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 Most actors don’t struggle because they don’t res...

Send us Fan Mail Create the most truthful character you've ever played. Applications are now open for The War Project – a unique 10-week Method Acting experience where you'll step into the lives of real Second World War codebreakers through research, immersive improvisation and character transformation. Find out more and apply here 🎭🎭🎭 Why do some performances feel completely believab...

Send us Fan Mail 🎭 Create deeper characters connections and stronger emotional work woth practical Method Acting exercises you can start using today. Download the FREE Method Acting Toolbox here Inside you'll discover powerful character development exercises designed to help you stop overthinking, trust your instincts, and create more truthful, believable performances. Method Acting. Just sa...