Self-tapes and Audition Coaching (In Person & Online)
Self-tape coaching & filming
I will coach, shoot, edit and upload your self-tape in the required format, so you can stay focused on the acting rather than the tech.
As both a professional actor and an acting coach, I’m an experienced reader who understands what helps an actor relax, play and deliver their best work.
With experience in acting, casting (Australia and US), directing, and teaching, I have helped many actors book work from self-tapes both nationally and internationally.
We can shape the scene together — tone, rhythm, choices and adjustments — and then record it to a professional standard.
Actors I’ve coached have booked local and international work directly from self-tapes.
Audition preparation (screen & theatre)
Script and character work
Finding truth, specificity and presence
Building strong, playable choices
Working under time pressure
Making tone and genre choices
Confidence, nerves and mindset support
Setting up your home self-tape space
I tailor each session to you — and to the tone and context of the project.
Drama-school audition preparation
Choosing and shaping monologues that suit you
Working truthfully, clearly and with presence in the room
Support with process, mindset and audition readiness
Actors I’ve coached have been accepted into programs at NIDA, WAAPA, VCA, LAMDA, RADA, Stella Adler, Actors Centre, Screenwise and more.
AUDITION PREPARATION
Selftaping
Audition coaching
Drama School Audition Preparation
Establishing your own self taping studio
Pip draws from her breadth of training, experience and industry knowledge to help actors prepare for auditions. Each session is tailored according to the unique needs of the actor.
*Online Coaching available
*Pip regularly works with younger professional actors on self tapes, audition and career coaching. She holds current NSW and VIC Working with Children Checks.
*Please head to the contact page for more information or just to get in touch.
Selected productions booked by Pip’s coaching clients
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga • Mortal Kombat II • Pacific Rim: Uprising • Ice Road: Vengeance • NCIS: Sydney • Strife • Good Cop Bad Cop • High Country • The Gift That Gives • Black Snow • Erotic Stories • While the Men are Away • Swift Street • Class of ’07 • The Other Guy • Blaze • Last King of the Cross • The PM’s Daughter • Doctor Doctor • Deadly Women • Reef Break • Narrow Road to the Deep North • The Secrets She Keeps • Anyone But You • Spartacus: House of Ushur • Mako Mermaids • Troppo • Darby and Joan • Return to Paradise • Underbelly: Vanishing Act • Total Control • Mr Inbetween • Black Comedy • North Shore • Ten Pound Poms • Colin from Accounts • Wolf Like Me • Last Days of the Space Age • Home and Away • Neighbours • Hamilton • Sydney Theatre Company • Melbourne Theatre Company • Bell Shakespeare • Ensemble Theatre
I’ve also worked as a casting assistant and on-set dramaturg, including serving as rehearsal coach for AACTA award-winning directors.
Selected Testimonials
"Pip has this... uncanny ability to make an actor feel relaxed in front of the camera. Fear disappears in her presence. I would not have been cast in a number of roles including“Truth” (Cate Blanchett/Robert Redford) or Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” if not for her.” - Philip Quast
The bottom line: I went to Pip Edwards to do self tapes for three important auditions, and I got all of them. As an experienced actor and acting coach myself, I'm pretty selective about who I'll trust to give me the kind of feedback that can help take my performance in a self test from OK or good to one that can book me the job. I've taught and coached Pip in the past and I love doing self tapes with her because she's got a great eye for what's working and what could be improved, she's a terrific actor herself and she's an honest, supportive, intuitive and informed coach. I highly recommend her. - Anthony Brandon Wong
"Pip is absolutely incredible! I worked with her on my drama school audition material, and it was one of the best moves I made in my training- I got into WAAPA. She is a dedicated & insightful mentor, and her methods encourage a much deeper & authentic connection to the character. Not very often do you stumble upon a mentor as kind & passionate as Pip!" - Alex Dilley