Notes for actors working alone
Practical answers to the questions that come up when you are preparing on your own: choosing between self-tape partner apps, finding material worth the week, and knowing where the work is posted.
Nothing here needs an account to read, and none of it is a product tour.
Articles
- Best self tape partner apps: 9 compared, and when to pick each 9 apps that read the other lines while you tape an audition, compared on what each does best, its pros and cons, and price. Every figure sourced.
- Self-tape basics: the slate, the frame, the sound and your hands The handful of technical things a self tape is judged on before anyone judges the acting, and the two or three that people get wrong most often.
- What AI can and cannot do for an actor right now The mechanical things these tools do reliably, the judgement they do not do at all, and why the difference matters more than which one you pick.
- What a script reader is, and why the answer depends on who is asking Two jobs share the phrase: a person who reads screenplays and writes coverage, and an app that reads the other lines while you rehearse. Which one you want.
- Where to find monologues, sides and scenes to work on Public-domain plays, lending libraries, publishers and databases, and the harder problem of finding a two-hander you can rehearse without a partner.