{"id":2518,"date":"2018-03-06T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:14:35","slug":"how-writing-can-help-with-your-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/news-and-advice\/getting-work\/how-writing-can-help-with-your-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Writing Can Help With Your Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How embracing his inner writer helped Kieran Knowles overcome his lack of representation as an actor&#8230;<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteMacro style1 noAuthorImage\">\n<div class=\"quoteText\">\n<div class=\"quoteTextInner\">\u2026with a group of friends, and fellow graduates we started to toss about the idea of writing a play where we could each play a dynamic human, with backstories and hopes, dreams, wishes and objectives, just as we&#8217;d trained to do. Not as a showcase, but as a credit, a chance to prove to ourselves that we could do something if we just went for it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"quoteAuthorInformation\">\n<div class=\"quoteAuthorName\">Kieran Knowles<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-replace hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/spotlightuk\/image\/fetch\/w_1536,c_limit\/https:\/\/spotlight-cmsmedia.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/1887\/the-climate-reality-project-349094-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/spotlightuk\/image\/fetch\/w_{width},c_limit\/https:\/\/spotlight-cmsmedia.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/1887\/the-climate-reality-project-349094-unsplash.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I never set out to be a writer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a term I still struggle with. 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We performed in the new writing slot at the Finborough and then went on a very modest tour, we came back in the main slot at the Finborough then we transferred to the Sheffield Crucible, toured with House Touring Network and we\u2019re taking the show to New York in May this year. I\u2019m currently adapting it for BBC Radio 4 as well.<\/p>\n<p>The play owes us nothing and we owe it everything. It was an example of how to take part in the industry without letting it define what you are and what you can do. Every time a whisper of \u2018opportunities\u2019 or \u2018wanky\u2019 jargon came into the room, we cut it out and moved on. The play was the thing, and it served us brilliantly.<\/p>\n<p>We did what most people do when you produce a decent show: form a company, keep doing it. But it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s really hard to bottle the spirit, passion and innocence of that first attempt and do it again, but we\u2019ve tried, and we got close with\u00a0<em>31 Hours,\u00a0<\/em>our second show at the Bunker. I finally think we\u2019ve captured it again, in a play that opened last week and runs at the Pleasance Theatre until 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March. It\u2019s called\u00a0<em>Comet<\/em>\u00a0and it\u2019s a project we have been working on since last February.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteMacro style1 noAuthorImage\">\n<div class=\"quoteText\">\n<div class=\"quoteTextInner\">I struggle to own the term \u2018writer\u2019, just as I struggle to say I\u2019m an actor without feeling a little self-aware. But that might just be the ongoing effect of having a year where I wasn\u2019t either, I wasn\u2019t anything in the industry I\u2019d spent 6 years training to join. It wasn\u2019t until I stopped trying to join it in the conventional way, that both labels became available and didn\u2019t feel like something I would never be able to wear.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"quoteAuthorInformation\">\n<div class=\"quoteAuthorName\">Kieran Knowles<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We sent out a casting call for any recent graduates of UK-based drama schools who left without representation, and we offered everyone who applied an audition with comprehensive and personalised feedback. We wrote the play for the five we thought were the best. The cast have been brilliant &#8211; were made brilliant by their training and their dedication; they just stumbled when it came to getting representation. Stumbled over an imposed target that most drama schools lay out for their students at the end of their training. They didn\u2019t tick the right box, or have the right showcase, or fall into the right category for the people that saw them on the right day, in the right mood, in the right place. And because of that they now start with a stigma, in a big pool of actors who find it very hard to get the opportunity to showcase themselves because they don\u2019t have an organisation endorsing them.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had a go. 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