Acting Students – Are There Jobs?

What happens to the young acting students schools turn out each year? “It is an oft-quoted cliche that acting boasts a permanent 90% unemployment rate. And while David Cox, drama administrator at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, is at pains to insist that ‘90% of our students work professionally within 12 months of graduation’, he does admit: It is very rare that they’ll be able to make a living during the first year or two.”