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So popular they are queuing in the street! Last Monday evening the Actors Centre was absolutely packed to the gills with new talent. 130 of this year's graduates came along to our "Moving Up" Event.  This is only the second time we have run this event and it's proved an incredibly successful and popular evening. A chance for anyone graduating from drama UK approved drama courses in 2015 to come along and see what the Actors Centre is all about. Most actors have heard of the Actors Centre. It's been in existence now for nearly 40 years, and everybody thinks it's incredibly worthwhile. But an awful lot of people wouldn't actually be able to tell you where it is. They know how good it is, and but they haven't actually been there themselves. Just to clear this up, it's actually in Tower Street in Covent Garden, the sort of place that is incredibly well located, and great for meeting up with your colleagues, your friends, and your peers. There ...

Start as you mean to go on. An apt phrase to run ones life by in these early January days. For me at the moment, that would mean a year of sneezing, snoozing, snot and handkerchief washing. Yes, that long awaited cold which I thought was going to rear its head on many occasions since the late summer finally took hold last Sunday and has laid me low for the past week. Mercifully it waited till we had returned from our sojourn in The North, as the A1 signposts would have us say, and allowed me to wallow in misery in the cosy environs of our new home. The good thing is that after a days bed rest and a days sofa rest, it allowed me to use one whole day to finish the first draft of my new book "The Working Actor" which means that I've done something productive during the first week of the New Year. I'm a little superstitious like that. Thinking that the first day of the year will dictate how the rest of the year will follow. I used to be incredibly superstitious a...