Stagecoach

It is Agency enrolment time again for those who are interested. You will be contacted by post from the Agency directly, very soon, if not already, because the workshop day closest to us in Newcastle is at the Newcastle Airport Holiday Inn between 5pm and 8pm on WEDNESDAY 23rd March

The Stagecoach Agency, affiliated to the flagship actors` agency Spotlight, is now taking bookings for the year Sept 2011 to Sept 2012.  The poster above displays some of the projects that their clients and our students have been seen in during the last year. You can enrol your child online - see the details on the poster.

The Agency will represent the first 2000 Stagecoach students that apply from across the country.  Applicants are invited to a workshop where staff from the Agency assess your child`s skills, so that they know what kinds of casting to put them forwards for. At this workshop, professional photos will be taken for their portfolios and a set of colour portrait shots sent to the family at a later date. IN MY OPINION you could pay more for a set of photos, from a photography studio  than you would pay for the the photos, workshop, representation with the Agency and the Spotlight listing.  I am always staggered each year by how lovely the photos are (I will show you the one of Amy Lee, which is posted to our site as an example of the quality, at the end of this posting. (Sorry Amy - you are much older now but it is a lovely photograph)

What Commitment do you need to give if you enrol?

Professional Opportunities Locally

When opportunities occur locally, I pay no attention at all as to whether a student is in the Agency or not but will audition and choose the very best that I have at that time to represent us.  HOWEVER TV, Film and Advertising work would never come directly to me, so if you want these opportunities for your child, then there is no choice but to join the agency.  It is like the lottery. You have to be in it to win it. Every year the statistics that the Agency can show for numbers of auditions booked, and castings won, grows but you have to know that you may be unlucky and not win through even to the audition stage during your year`s membership. The agency can only present the children to casting personnel, they have no control over who might get selected to audition.

To take advantage of any audition oppotunities that come along, you must be able and willing to take your child out of school, with little notice, to travel to London or Manchester to be seen - perhaps with no successful outcome. If your job commitments would not allow this, then you would be wasting your money to join. The majority of the opportunities within the industry are still centred on the S.E. of England and nothing Stagecoach can do can alter that.

Boys always stand a better chance of getting castings because there are more opportunities for boys and yet fewer boys involved than girls in the Performing Arts. The Agency also always say that they can find more opportunities for over 16`s because there are no licensing restrictions on those people.

We have had children who have won film parts and voice over work for cartoons and the Disney Channel some of which have been good earnings too but we have also had students who have had nothing come up for them during the year - like I said - it is a lottery. 

Here is Amy`s beautiful Agency photo below:-