I always believed that my own voice and intuition is what would best serve me to get into drama school, but Warwick had a wealth of resources to help along the way. Reading as many plays as possible from the great library there, chatting to Mr Perry and Miss Gurnett about material to use, talking about plays that we'd seen, all of this would help in choosing the monologues that would best support me. Following this, they were always available to run through monologues in the studio or budio at lunchtime or after school, but I was keen to not overwork any of it. You want to be going into auditions fresh and inspired, not stressed out or having had your instinct taken away!

I'd spend careers lessons on drama school websites. Rada had audio of monologues from graduating students from the most recent years, and I took lots of inspiration and ideas from here. Really though, just applying to all of the ones that weren't UCAS because I was also applying for university (maybe a waste of time as I was set on being an actor) and then enjoying the audition process and knowing it might take some time and patience was the way forward.