DRAMA Group Meeting - Actors

Group Meeting - Actors

Today we had a meeting about looking for a child actor to play Dylan and a female actress to play his mum. We thought of different ways to find actors and focused on Dylan's actor as we thought it would be harder to find a child. We started by getting a StarNow account and looking though boy actors around the Yorkshire area. We found that you have to pay for credits to talk to people and so decided to put up an advert and include that we were looking for a female too. We found this difficult as there were so many options and specifics and then at the end of it we found we had to have someone with a CRB check and that the advert would be reviewed as it was for a child under 16.

Our next idea was to look for drama schools around Sheffield. We found three and rang them but all went straight to an automated voice mail as the only phone number provided was to do with having your child join the school. We tried a few times for each one but didn't get anywhere, and Ellie said she would email them later on. We discussed any family members or friends that we could ask to play the part and Ellie said she would ask her cousin if any of his friends acted.