ESM4125 | Particular occupations: entertainment industry - role players

Performers are often engaged as role players (for example at corporate training and assessment days or in medical school examinations). In determining status, the supplementary guidance for actors and performers applies to the engagement but note that role play engagements have some typical features such as the following:

• They are engagements of typically a day or no more than a few days in duration.

• They involve roles for which a briefing may be provided but there is usually no script.

• They may involve some guidance but not direction and rely heavily on the creative input of the performer.

If those features apply, they are likely to be self-employed. ESM4121 and ESM0500