WRITING TIPS. 1/3 Screenplays/stage, from ACTORS. What works, what doesn't. How we help each other.

Joseph Millson (Actor) answers questions from Craig Baxter (writer) for his writing students at Cambridge.  The class was titled, TRUSTING THE ACTOR. But it seemed to be about a mutual trust. Great questions from the brilliant Craig Baxter. Hopefully the answers will be of use to writers, and might demistify a few things about how actors respond to thier scripts, be it stage or screen. (

For anyone understandably wondering who the bloody hell I am,  I have had 30 years experience as a very busy actor, created and was associate director of a new writing theatre company for 7 years and I've also nearly compled a Masters degree in screenwriting.

Hope it's useful.  Please please pass it on if so.

Joseph Millson is available for one to one coaching via [email protected]            

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