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Sign in to post- Do you have a plan B and does having one hurt? Told constantly that a plan B guarantees you will need it. Also told that having no plan B is reckless. Priya Raghunathan · 30 Jun 2026 1 replies 97 views
- How do you explain to family that no news is normal? My mother asks every phone call whether I have heard anything. She means well. I have started dreading the call. Rosa Quintanilla · 2 Jun 2026 4 replies 145 views
- Things you wish somebody had told you at the start Feels like a good thread for a forum to have. Nia Caldwell · 19 May 2026 6 replies 283 views
- What do you say at a party when someone asks what you do? I have three versions and I hate all of them. The honest one invites the follow-up question I dread, and the deflecting one makes me feel... Nadia Halstrom · 6 May 2026 5 replies 242 views
- Nine years in and I am thinking about stopping Not a crisis post. A calm one. I am tired and I want to know how people decided either way. Tom Whitfield · 7 Apr 2026 6 replies 343 views
- Introduce yourself, since this place is new Seems worth having a thread for it. Where are you, how long have you been at it, and what are you working on. Ellis Barnard · 3 Apr 2026 7 replies 416 views
- Survival job stories: what is the strangest thing you have done for money? Mine was standing in a shopping center dressed as a battery. Cory Mbatha · 12 Mar 2026 6 replies 278 views
- How do you keep going in a long quiet stretch? Fourteen months without a booking. Still working, still in class, still submitting. Just tired. Nadia Halstrom · 8 Feb 2026 6 replies 298 views
- What are you reading? Plays, novels, anything. I have run out and I want recommendations from people with similar taste. Tom Whitfield · 6 Feb 2026 4 replies 526 views
- Do you tell people at your day job that you act? Torn. It makes the time off conversation easier and it also makes me feel exposed. Rhys Cadogan · 5 Feb 2026 4 replies 225 views
- What do you do the day after a big rejection? Looking for actual routines, not "stay positive". Ben Trachtenberg · 28 Dec 2025 0 replies 198 views
- Bad week. Tell me something that went right for you. Two rejections and my car broke. I would genuinely like to read about somebody's good news. Cory Mbatha · 19 Dec 2025 1 replies 397 views
- Anyone else find they cannot watch things for pleasure any more? I am analyzing every performance and it has ruined television for me. Camila Duarte · 11 Nov 2025 2 replies 407 views
- The best piece of advice you were given, and who gave it Not the inspirational quotes. The thing somebody actually said to you that changed how you work. Sofia Marchetti · 20 Oct 2025 6 replies 920 views
- Small win: I finally stopped apologizing in the room Twelve years of "sorry, can I start again". Went in last week, made a mess of a line, kept going, did not apologize once. Did not book it... Marcus Devlin · 4 Oct 2025 4 replies 604 views