30+ Years In The Industry

Award-winning actor, filmmaker and acting coach.

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The Story Behind The Academy

My name is Dominic Power.

I'm an award-winning actor, filmmaker and acting coach with over 30 years of experience in front of and behind the camera.

But if I'm honest, when I started out, I wasn't a natural.

I struggled to book consistently. I watched people around me get opportunities I wasn't getting and improve faster than I was. At one point I was even told I should probably think about doing something else.

The thing that frustrated me most was that I knew I needed experience, but nobody seemed able to explain how you were supposed to get experience without first getting the job.

It felt like a vicious circle.

You needed the role to gain the confidence.

But you needed the confidence to get the role.

Eventually, through a combination of persistence, luck and finally learning to relax, I started booking work. That led to my first major television role and, for the first time, I got what I'd been missing all along:

Reps.

Hours and hours in front of the camera.

Not because I was suddenly more talented than everybody else, but because I was finally getting the opportunity to practise the craft for real.

And that's when I started improving.

Years later, during a dry spell, I found myself facing exactly the same problem all over again.

I didn't want to sit around waiting for the phone to ring.

So I picked up a camera and started making my own work.

That eventually led to short films, festival screenings and an award-winning feature film that went on to win more than 40 awards worldwide.

But the biggest thing I took away from filmmaking wasn't the awards.

It was the realisation that actors no longer have to wait.

For the first time in history, we have access to the tools to create our own opportunities, build our own experience and develop our own skills long before the next audition arrives.

That idea became Self-Tape Circuit Training.

And eventually it became the Online Screen Acting Academy.

Everything inside the academy has come from things I've learned as an actor, coach and filmmaker over the last three decades.

Just practical systems, tools and approaches that help actors get more time on camera, develop stronger skills and build confidence through experience.

Because the thing I wish somebody had taught me when I started is this:

You shouldn't have to wait for the role to build the actor.

BEFORE AND AFTER

REPS IN ACTION

In this video, I share three clips from different stages of my career.

The first was filmed when I had very little screen experience. The second after landing a regular television role and finally getting the reps. The third years later, from an improvised drama I would never have attempted earlier in my career.

The difference isn't talent. It's reps.