A Human Endeavor
A Human Endeavor
AHE
Where the creative and every-day life meet. AHE is an actor and theatre-maker who has done a bit of everything, from stage to screen, but is still paying the bills with a day-job and trying to find time for a social life. This blog is an insight into the reality of creating a career in the arts world whilst maintaining a healthy relationship with creativity.
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A roundup of auditions, recalls, and booked jobs from September 2025. Published by AHE. on 30th September 2025 Auditions - 5 📹 Self Tapes - 5 of those auditions... 🏷️ Adverts - 5 Four advert tapes in the first week of the month, with a...
This month I took part in The Herds, a site specific, climate-action puppetry piece which saw a herd of beautifully made animal puppets migrate from the Congo Basin, to the Arctic Circle as they flee climate change. At every stop the...
Auditions - 2 📹Self Tapes - 2 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 2 This month has been very quiet in terms of auditions. (SPOILER - Augut wasn't much better) But I did get to do some pretty interesting things which I'm proud of. As I said...
Auditions - 4 📹Self Tapes - 4 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 4 Plenty of adverts this month, but fairly quiet otherwise. Things have also slowed somewhat at the day-job so my job hunt has resumed. The temptation is always there to...
I got my start in youth theatre. Back when I was 7 years old my parents enrolled me in our local drama club mainly because it seemed fun, and little old me was a bit shy and needed an outlet. There were no motivations behind it, no hopes...
Auditions - 4 📹Self Tapes - 4 🤝In Person - 1 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 3 🎭Theatre - 1 📺TV - 1 Lots more adverts this month, which I don't really mind. The opportunity is always great, and the situations are usually strange enough...
Auditions - 5 📹Self Tapes - 4 👀Recall - 1 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 2 🎭Theatre - 1 📺TV - 1 A bit late with this month's update, but glad to say it's been due to a hectic month, not me losing interest in the blog already. This...
Auditions - 3 📹Self Tapes - 3 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 2 🎭Theatre - 1 This month was actually quite busy, despite the lower audition count. First off, I was lucky enough to spend a few days at Wortley Hall taking part in the...
Auditions - 7 📹Self Tapes - 6 🤝In Person - 1 of those auditions... 🏷️Adverts - 6 🎭Theatre - 1 Outcomes 🔁Recalls - 2 ✏️Pencils - 1 What a month. Every audition an absolute banger of an opportunity and some great progress made through the...
Auditions - 3 📹Self-Tapes - 2 🤝In-person - 1 Of those auditions... 🎭Theatre - 1 🏷️Adverts - 2 Admittedly not a great quantity of auditions to kick off the year, but I really couldn't argue with the quality. Both adverts would have...
Over the past few months I've had two very similar conversations with people who interact with the creative arts in totally different ways. The first happened while we were shooting a short film. One of our cast wasn't an actor at all,...