Hello there - I don't believe we've met before...

What is this exactly? It’s my blog. Who am I? For the purpose of this blog, I am your average drama school auditionee. I have decided to give the blog the hilarious title of “Actor W” for two reasons: 1) because my surname begins with a W – I won’t say what it is exactly because I’d prefer not to disclose that sort of information here but it’s safe to say my friends have no hesitation in frequently referring to me by it alone, and 2) because my research is extremely thorough, and as such I know about the great “Actor X” blog on IdeasTap and have decided to rip it off because I couldn’t think of a better name myself but thought that it wouldn’t matter because I could pass it off as being witty…

I don’t think my life is actually interesting enough to be worth writing a normal blog about, so instead I’m writing a blog about something that I happen to be doing, which might be relevant and/or interesting to other people. But I think it might be useful to people reading to at least know a little about me, so that you can see the context from which I’m approaching the auditions.

Me:

• Born July 1993
• Done lots of school and youth theatre productions and classes since about the age of eleven
• National Youth Theatre member since 2010
• Auditioned last year (2010-2011) for six schools, got no recalls
• Currently on a gap year (but definitely not a “gap yah”…) in which I have been trying to do lots of acting (which has gone well) and earn lots of money (which has gone slightly less well)

So that’s pretty much all there is to know about me that is actually relevant to this process. Now I know that getting no recalls from anywhere last year is pretty crap going, to be honest, but I do believe (hopefully not mistakenly) that I was woefully under-prepared last year in comparison to this time round, even if I didn’t see that at the time, and that I do have the ability to do at least a little bit better than that this year (though it’s hardly as if I could do any worse…). But that’s for me to do and you to find out, I guess.