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National Youth Theatre The National Youth Theatre has training and performance opportunities for actors and technicians.  Check out their website for news and advice about auditions and interviews (as a nationwide organisation the entry process is necessarily tough). They have a new book out called All About Theatre, packed with helpful ...

The Lovereading4Kids comment Fresh, funny and with the best teen voice since Geek Girl, this debut novel deserves a huge round of applause. It follows fifteen-year old Elektra, eager thespian and newly signed up with a theatrical agent. The acting world of auditions, call-backs and pushy stage mothers offers great material for comedy ...

Film stars Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Hugo, Ender’s Game, X+Y…) and Ella Purnell (Never Let Me Go, Kick Ass 2, Maleficent…) give their advice on navigating the weird world of Acting. Hon: What’s your process of preparing for an audition? Ella: Learn your lines Asa: Dress ...

Waiting for Callback is fabulously fresh debut follows 15-year-old Elektra James as she ventures in to the (not-so-glamorous) world of acting, whilst also dealing with the day-to-day dramas faced by all teens of today. Think Holly Smale’s Geek Girl meets Fame! Bursting with hilarious and cringe-worthy moments, an all-star cast ...

Author Honor Cargill reads from Waiting for Callback - the fabulously fresh debut that she co-wrote with her mother Perdita Cargill. The novel follows 15-year-old Elektra James as she ventures in to the (not-so-glamorous) world of acting, whilst also dealing with the day-to-day dramas faced by all teens of today. ...

Author Honor Cargill appeared in the trailer for Waiting for Callback - the fabulously funny and fresh debut that she co-wrote with her mother Perdita Cargill. And here are some great outtakes from the day!

Waiting For Callback has been on my radar for a while. It’s a book I’ve been looking at for a while, and I’ve been pretty excited for it. It’s one of the first books to be released in 2016 in the YA genre, so I can’t help but wonder whether ...

OUR WRITING COMPETITION! We recently ran a monologue/duologue writing competition in collaboration with our lovely publishers Simon & Schuster and First News! We're keeping up the competition page as a resource because it has lots of helpful tips CLICK HERE). But now to the WINNERS! The standard of entries was insanely ...

Perdita and Honor Cargill are a mother and daughter writing team living in North London. Perdita used to be a barrister; Honor is studying for her A levels. Once they’d discovered the secret of mother/daughter collaboration (separate rooms and cake) writing Waiting for Callback together was enormous fun. Honor’s (limited) ...