Close enough that a session costs you a morning, not a day. Around 25 minutes to a private Manchester studio, director-led sessions from £195.
Wigan is around 25 minutes from the Actors Reels studio, direct from North Western or Wallgate into Manchester. Director-led monologue showreels start at £195, are filmed in a private blacked-out studio and are delivered in 5-10 working days.
Wigan has a strong community and youth theatre tradition and produces confident, unfussy performers. What it has never had is anywhere to turn that into footage a casting director will actually open.
The Old Courts has given the town a genuine arts venue, and Wigan and Leigh College keeps performers coming through. Neither can hand you a graded, lit, properly recorded monologue — and that is now the minimum a submission needs.
Two stations, both around 25 minutes to Manchester. A session costs you a morning, which for most people means no time off work and no fare worth thinking about.
Bring two or three prepared pieces and a couple of wardrobe options in plain mid-tones. Monologue showreels covers how a session runs, sessions & pricing lists what is included, and you can see the standard on the reels gallery before you book. To get dates, get in touch or call 0161 706 3220.
Not to us and not to a casting director watching the reel. What matters is whether the performance holds on camera. Plenty of the best work we film comes from actors who never went to drama school.
Both take roughly the same time. North Western sits on the West Coast line and Wallgate on the Manchester-Southport route — pick whichever has the better departure.
Book a session or just ask us a question — we're always happy to talk through your reel.
