A structured 12 week experience where actors build and launch a real business so they have enough money, time and freedom to fully support their acting career as the Plan A.
Step-by-step with support from actor & business growth specialist, Amy Whitworth.
Next cohort: 4th Sept 2026
Deadline to apply 17th August
Only 2% of actors make a full-time living from acting
A study by A Queen Mary University of LondonYou already know something has to change.
You are stuck between multiple survival jobs or a 9-5, and either way it's costing you. You've tried to figure out how to make an income alongside your acting career, with no luck. Maybe you've even started a business but it never took off.
Earning income alongside your career is a non-negotiable. But finding the right support is almost impossible.
There are business coaches. There are acting coaches. There is almost nobody who is genuinely both.
Welcome to The Plan A Method™.
Finally, stop selling your time for money and build the flexibility and finances to support your ACTING career long term.
This is for you if you want:
→ To put in financial foundations many actors simply do not have that will give you an edge you never knew you needed and the staying power necessary for a successful acting career in 2026 and beyond.
→ A way to earn money alongside your acting career without compromising it so you never have to take that additional shift just to pay rent, or ask for time off from your “boss” for an audition ever again.
→ Step-by-step support in building and launching not just any business but a profitable one, so you have the flexibility and finances to support your dream career long term, from a fellow actor who has been in the trenches, done this and built this to give you the shortcut.
→ The “groundbreaking” framework that helped my client earn $8800 in just over a month, entirely on her terms, without selling her time for money. (Update: She is now on $11,000 in 2 months) “I just want to say thank you… This has been groundbreaking for me”. - M, Actor.
This is where you start playing the game on your terms. Get in the directors seat of your own life and give your career what it needs to succeed.
You were born to perform, it’s time to support that fully.
What actors in my world are saying about this work
These are genuine results and testimonials from clients including from The Opening Act Masterclass, 1:1 Coaching, and The Plan A Method VIP.
These are genuine results and testimonials from Helping Creative Thrive clients. They're not promises. Outcomes depend on many factors, including individual commitment, capacity, and external circumstances.what you will walk away with
✓ A clear offer built around your existing skills (using your individual experience, skills & talents to create an attractive product or service) so you can quit your exhausting, soul crushing, side job and have enough money to support you whilst you pursue your acting career.
✓ A business structure that works around your acting career (built to last and designed to flex with your dream job) so you never have to call your boss to get a day off again or worry about finding a new job after your current gig ends, because this will be waiting for you when you get back.
✓ A positioning strategy so the right clients find you & want to work with you (quality clients who pay you well for your time) so you can work with people you actually enjoy working with, instead of taking extra shifts at your survival job or working jobs you hate just to pay rent (no more embarrassing commercial auditions).
✓ Staying power for your acting career (an aligned income stream that enables you to stay in the game long enough for your career to unfold) so you never have to give up on what you truly want to do and can live life to the full whilst you pursue it.
You learn in 12 weeks strategies and systems that take years for the best marketers to master.
A frictionless path to income generation for your creative career,
inside the plan a method™ VIP
This isn't a course you watch alone with a coffee and never finish. It's a 12-week cohort experience - structured, supported, and specifically designed for people with an acting career to protect.
You start together. You build together. at the end, you leave with a built income system and the knowledge to run it for life.
12 weeks. One complete business built around your Plan A.
STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS
videos trainings, worksheets, checklists, instructions
LIFETIME ACCESS TO MATERIALS
a repeatable framework
BI-WEEKLY COACHING CALLS
group calls, with an additional month for implementation. 90 minutes for VIP.
ADDITIONAL MASTERCLASSES
with business & film industry experts
1:1 STRATEGY CALL WITH AMY
90 minute strategy session worth £500
WEEKLY TELEGRAM COACHING
close proximity support whilst you build
LIFETIME VIP MEMBERSHIP
tickets to Red Carpet Events™, access to the VIP email list & continued support at alumni rates
LIFETIME listing on
The A List™
the directory for actors with businesses, home of the “Hire an Actor” initiative
WHAT YOU’RE REALLY GETTING
There are online courses. There is AI. There is no shortage of information. But none of it understands your specific path, your specific blocks, or your specific career. Or can provide you with real time expert level support.
Inside The Plan A Method™ you will cover ads, strategy, systems to get clients, branding, positioning, contracts, offer creation and more - but always through the lens of your craft, your life, and the career you are building.
What is different about this is it is built uniquely for you. No two people are the same and neither will your businesses be.
This is not generic business education. It is personalised, holistic, strategic support from someone who has lived it - who knows what makes businesses succeed and what makes them fail in real life, not just in theory.
Having someone with real expertise look at your business, ask the right questions, and guide you through the decisions that actually matter - that level of support is something you cannot replicate alone.
This space is intentionally small with only 5 seats at the VIP level.
There is a self-motivated version which you can learn more about if your application is not right for this cohort.
Supporting actors through hiring initiatives.
meet amy
founder of helping creatives thrive
Amy Whitworth is an actor, strategist and founder of Helping Creatives Thrive.
From rock bottom she started a boutique marketing agency specifically to protect her own Plan A. She is a business growth expert, having worked with 30+ businesses across the globe, generating six-figure months for clients. The framework she developed in the process became the foundation for everything she now teaches.
Through Helping Creatives Thrive she helps actors build income infrastructure that places their creative career centre stage and keeps it there.
Over a decade in the entertainment industry. Six-figure results for business clients.
STOP WAITING IN THE WINGS. BUILD WHAT KEEPS YOU CENTRE STAGE.
NEXT VIP COHORT:
4th September 2026
APPLICATIONS NOW open
The flagship Plan A Method™ experience. A premium group cohort with direct access to Amy across 12 weeks - her strategy, her experience, and her full attention on your situation alongside a hand-picked group of serious actors. The ultimate container for building income infrastructure around your craft.
Limited to 5 spaces.
£2999 GBP
(Payment plan of 4 x £750 available)
Deadline to apply 17th August
THE SMALL PRINT THAT MATTERS
This is a premium coaching container for dedicated actors committed to doing the work. We operate an inclusive & supportive space and reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone who breaches our community values. Places are limited per cohort. May applications now closed please register your interest here for the next intake above.
THE FRAMEWORK
The Plan A Method™ is built on the C³ Framework™ - a proprietary system developed to give actors and creatives the structure their careers actually need.
C³ = Craft × Cashflow × Creative Lifestyle = Staying Power
Most actors have Craft. The industry talks about Craft constantly. What it rarely talks about is the infrastructure around it - the Cashflow that gives you autonomy, and the Creative Lifestyle that keeps you in the game long enough for your career to work.
When all three are aligned, something shifts. You stop approaching your career from panic and start approaching it with calm authority. You walk into auditions differently. You stay in the game long enough for things to unfold.
The C³ Framework™ is the foundation of everything inside this programme. If you've read The Plan A Blueprint, you already know the framework. This is where you live it.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Most business courses teach you the mechanics and leave out the human. They don't account for the fact that you have auditions, that your schedule is unpredictable, that you're carrying years of financial anxiety, or that some weeks you book a job and everything changes overnight.
This programme is built around that reality.
You'll cover everything a working actor needs to know to run a real business - contracts, T&Cs, how to run ads, how to get help, automations, systems and the things you wouldn't even think to ask about until they bite you.
Alongside the business content, we work on the parts nobody else is talking about: the mindset and energy that determine whether you actually follow through. The assumptions you're carrying. What to do while you wait. How to handle quiet periods without unravelling. How to get creative when things aren't moving.
This is a fast-track with a mentor who has done it. Not someone who teaches business theory - someone who is an actor first, built a boutique marketing agency to prove it works, and helped 30+ companies grow in the process. You get the benefit of all of that, without the years it took to learn it.
Nobody else is doing this for actors.
STOP WAITING IN THE WINGS. BUILD WHAT KEEPS YOU CENTRE STAGE.
NEXT VIP COHORT:
4th September 2026
APPLICATIONS NOW open
The flagship Plan A Method™ experience. A premium group cohort with direct access to Amy across 12 weeks - her strategy, her experience, and her full attention on your situation alongside a hand-picked group of serious actors. The ultimate container for building income infrastructure around your craft.
Limited to 5 spaces.
£2999 GBP
(Payment plan of 4 x £750 available)
Deadline to apply 17th August
THE SMALL PRINT THAT MATTERS
This is a premium coaching container for dedicated actors committed to doing the work. We operate an inclusive & supportive space and reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone who breaches our community values. Places are limited per cohort. May applications now closed please register your interest here for the next intake above.