Notes for actors working alone
Practical answers to the questions that come up when you are preparing on your own: choosing between the apps that run lines with you, 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
- Apps that run lines with you: eleven compared on price and on what they ask before you start Eleven apps for rehearsing a scene on your own, compared on price and on what each asks before you can start. Every figure sourced and dated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.