Summer Showcase: Standout Tapes and Feedback
Summer Showcase: Standout Tapes and Feedback At Fishpond, we understand how important it is for actors to hone their craft, sharpen their self-taping skills, and be seen by industry professionals. That’s why we were proud to have Sarah Hone (casting director and Associate Artistic Director at Bow Street) lead our second showcase of 2025. Sarah carefully […]
Summer Showcase with Guest Judge Sarah Hone: Now Open
Dear Actors, At Fishpond, we always strive to celebrate your talent as best we can and this year, we’ve evolved the Showcase to make it even more impactful. We’ll run four seasonal Showcases (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter) so we can give each one the time, focus, and care it deserves. Every Showcase features a guest industry expert as judge, […]
Spring Showcase: Standout Tapes & Valuable Feedback
At Fishpond, we know how important it is for actors to hone their craft, sharpen their self-taping skills, and be seen by industry professionals. Our Spring Showcase was designed to do just that—offering our members the chance to explore powerful material, practice their on-camera technique, and receive valuable feedback from one of the best in the business. […]
Spring Showcase with Guest Judge Ali Coffey: Now Open
At Fishpond, we always strive to celebrate your talent as best we can and this year, we’re evolving the Showcase to make it even more impactful. We’ll run four seasonal Showcases—Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter—so we can give each one the time, focus, and care it deserves. Every Showcase features a guest industry expert as judge, a creative brief, and […]
Fishpond Showcases 2025 / Feedback for All Actors
Reimagining the self-tape The idea for the Fishpond Showcase challenge began with a bold decision during lockdown in 2020. In the early, uncertain days of the pandemic, Ali Coffey and Casting Director Katy Moylan-Shorten came together with one clear goal: to keep actors creative, connected, and visible—even when the industry had paused. From crisis to creativity […]
Best of the Best: Showcasing Work That Makes You Proud
For our Best of the Best Showcase, we invited you to submit work that made you proud in 2024. As an actor, it’s important that you’re creating work that you genuinely feel passionate about. Be sure to seek out projects that provoke a response in you, and roles that strike a chord with you. And, always remember that […]
Showcase Roundup: Winners and Guest Judges of 2024
We can’t believe the end of 2024 is approaching – what stellar work actors have been doing this year! Here’s a look back our our bimonthly Showcases this year and the top talent selected in each one. We’re proud of you all and we can’t wait to see what beautiful work you create in 2025. All […]
Best of the Best Showcase 2024: Send us your very best work
It’s time for our final showcase of the year, and to celebrate all your hard work, we invite you to send us your very best performances from 2024. We’re talking the best of the best. Something that you’re really proud of. For example, this might be your current showreel, your voicereel, a short clip from a film […]
Sweet Sixteen Showcase Winners: Top 3 Actors
Congratulations to the winners of our Sweet Sixteen Showcase! To celebrate sixteen years of Fishpond. we recently challenged actors of all ages to create your own versions of coming-of-age movie scripts that focus on themes of childhood and growing up – Matilda, What Richard Did, and Sing Street. All three of these were cast with the help of Fishpond, so we know […]