Welcome to the Actors Centre website, full of news and events and of course, the chance to book classes and theatre tickets online. We really welcome your feedback on what you’d like to see on the site to help you make the most of your membership.
Message from our Artistic Director
This Autumn the Actors Centre is programming an exciting range of new workshops to enable you to expand your craft and inspire yourself with new challenges.
We are really excited to have Ian Rickson leading an advanced workshop on Hamlet and an intense and exhilarating workshop with Annie Castledine on Mother Courage as well as another opportunity for you to work with some of our most promising young theatre directors including Lorne Campbell of Greyscale and Max Key who trained at the National.
Kevin Tomlinson will be complementing the run of his one-man show in the Tristan Bates Theatre with a workshop on creating your own work and Guy Michaels and Lara Parmiani continue their successful practical workshops on voiceover technique. Jeremy Stockwell introduces a new workshop on how to succeed at auditions and those looking to establish a solid technique in screen acting should check out new workshops by Nicholas Prosser, Mark Street and Caroline Webster. New tutors Robert Knights and Carolyn McLeod will be exploring the casting, rehearsing and shooting processes of TV and film production and I can also highly recommend the excellent Audition class led by Casting Director, Simone Reynolds and Director, Paul Miller.
We also have information on yet more of our supplementary projects, including -
BBC TALENT BOOST 2009
The Actors Centre’s dynamic and innovative programme dedicated to discovering and training fresh acting talent from minority and underrepresented backgrounds is back! This year Talent Boost 2009 will hit Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and Belfast to train and promote new and diverse screen actors.
To find out more, and download an application form, click BBC Talent Boost project.
AUDITION BOOTCAMP
An intense five-day course for those who are considering a career in acting and want to prepare and hone their audition technique.
The week will offer a range of workshops giving an invaluable grounding in vital skills required for auditions and ongoing training.
For more information and an application form click here.
EUROPEAN ACT
We are proud to announce a brand new initiative we are launching in conjunction with RADA and the International Institute of Performing Arts: European Actors Continuous Training will be the first ever international training certificate for professional actors.
Bringing together a host of dynamic teachers and coaches, sited in three great cultural capitals and designed to give the actor access to new international networks as well as the best in cutting edge skills development, European A.C.T will be one of the most ambitious and prestigious programmes we have ever run.
And if you want to find out more about the amazing story that brought the Actors Centre into being and its extraordinary development,check out the fascinating film we made to mark our 30th Anniversary, in which Julie Walters, Simon Callow and a host of other supporters talk about what the Actors Centre means to them. To read more about our 30th Birthday click here.
