Profession actor / actress

Actors portray roles in motion pictures, television or radio productions and stage shows.

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Personality Type

• Artistic / Enterprising

Related professions film, radio, tv, theater

• Announcer on radio, television or other media
• Audio equipment operator
• Broadcasting equipment operator
• Camera and photographic equipment repairer
• Camera operator
• Dubbing equipment operator
• Film, stage or related director
• Film, stage or related producer
• Imaging technician
• Light or sound mixer (stages)
• Lighting technician
• Media interviewer
• Motion picture projectionist
• Photo laboratory technician
• Product promotor
• Radio equipment operator
• Recording equipment operator
• Script assistant
• Stage designer, stand designer
• Stage or studio wardrobe assistant
• Stagehand
• Studio equipment operator
• Theatre programme vendor

Knowledge

• Be in touch with your body

  The key aspects of applied anatomy, psychology, nutrition, physiology, and psychosocial studies and how they relate to the self-awareness of one's body. 

Skills

• Attend rehearsals

  Attend rehearsals in order to adapt sets, costumes, make-up, lighting, camera set up, etc.

• Engage the audience emotionally

  Create an emotional connection with the audience through your performance. Engage the audience with sadness, humour, anger, any other emotion, or a combination thereof, and let them share your experience.

• Perform live

  Perform in front of live audiences.

• Analyse theatre texts

  Understand and analyse theatre texts; take an active part in the interpretation of the artistic project; conduct thorough personal research in textual material and dramaturgy.

• Interact with an audience

  Convey the artistic values of the art form(s). Respond to the reactions of your audience and involve them.

• Study roles from scripts

  Study and rehearse roles from scripts; interpret, learn and memorise lines, stunts, and cues as directed.

• Interact with fellow actors

  Perform together with other actors. Anticipate their moves. React to their actions.

• Interpret performance concepts in the creative process

  Learn and research a part, in personal and collective research and rehearsal, build an acting performance respecting the concept of the show.

• Study relationships between characters

  Study characters in scripts and their relationships to each other.

• Analyse own performance

  Understand, analyse and describe your own performance. Contextualize your work in one or various styles, trends, evolution, etc. Self-evaluate your work in rehearsals and performances.

• Follow directions of the artistic director

  Follow the instructions of the director while understanding his creative vision.

• Rehearse role

  Study lines and actions. Practise them before recording or shooting to find the best way to perform them.

• Declaim

  Speak for an audience with the expression of rhythm and vocal technique. Take care that articulation and voice projection are appropriate to the character or text. Make sure that you are heard without compromising your health: prevent fatigue and vocal strain, breathing problems and vocal cord problems.

• Create solutions to problems

  Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings about practice.

• Rehearse with fellow actors

  Rehearse lines and acting with fellow actors to be attuned to each other.

• Work with an artistic team

  Work closely with directors, fellow actors and playwrights to find the ideal interpretation to a role.

• Promote yourself

  Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.

• Act for an audience

  Act in front of an audience, according to an artistic concept.

• Adapt to different roles

  Adapt to different roles in a play, regarding the styles, ways of acting and aesthetics.

• Work with respect for own safety

  Apply the safety rules according to training and instruction and based on a solid understanding of the prevention measures and risks to your own personal health and safety.

• Accept feedback on artistic performance

  Accept feedback, proposed discussions and avenues of exploration about the precision of movements, rhythm, musicality, precision of the performance, interaction with peers and stage elements, areas requiring improvement. Take feedback into account to develop the potential as performer. Note the choreographers/repetiteur/dance master instructions, the instructions of other collaborators (dramaturge, performers/dancers peers, musicians, etc.) assuring being in the same page with direction team.

• Memorise lines

  Memorise your role in a performance or broadcast, whether it is text, movement, or music.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB