PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

I have been dedicated to the nurturing of young and emerging artists for most of my career.

I take great pride in supporting young and emerging talents by providing them with disciplined training and opportunities and also to facilitate creative environments for established artists to maintain and explore their craft.

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For Schools and Universities

In-Class Workshops, Weekly Workshops, Drama Club and MORE

For Corporates

Supporting your staff to perform at their best!

Masterclasses, Projects and Professional Developments

Throughout the year, I run various OPEN PROGRAMS of workshops, performance projects and masterclasses for actors, writers and directors. Watch this space to find out more information.

You can also purchase a workshops to run a CLOSED PROGRAM for your colleagues, theatre group, or you may want to produce your own Open Program utilising my workshops.

AVAILABLE WORKSHOPS

Masterclasses run between 4 and 6 hrs

Messing with Meisner

The Seven Questions

Phycological Gesture (M. Chekhov)

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS

Programs run between 2 days and 10 weeks

The In's and Out's of Character Development

The Rehearsal

Let me come in and 'Spot Check' your rehearsals. From direction, to performances, to your design choices, I will assist you to lift your show.

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What's Your Scene?

Working with brilliant texts, this program throws actors into the thick of it!

With deliberate casting to stretch, excite and challenge the actors, this is not just a rehearsal of scenes for a showing. The program is designed to demand the application of technique and skill from the actors, all of which will be explored in session. The program ends with an invited audience only showing.

6 days over three weeks

Doing Shakespeare

A performance based, skills development program, rehearsing a Shakespeare for a Theatre Season

Acting Shakespeare is an undeniably important part of an actor’s development.

Doing Shakespeare is a step by step, three month rehearsal-process program that culminates in a theatre season for invited industry guests and also general public.

Three Month. 2 days per week

Closed Program

Professional training program for your group

For a reasonable cost, we can put together a training program for your group that can meet weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Contact us to discuss your groups needs

Various

Studio One

Professionals training professionals on your film project. A gift to your cast before they step in front of the camera.

Studio One is designed not as a directorial program, but as one that supports artists to do their best work FOR their director, the script and the project they are employer to bring their talents to.

Various

Actor in the Play

A 10 week, 2 days per week, performance based, skills development program exploring differing rehearsal techniques for actors

Actor in the Play is a rehearsal-room environment workshop that explores the actor’s responsibility to the rehearsal, the text, the character, the director’s vision, the ensemble, and the actor’s personal process while working with others.

10 weeks. 2 days per week

The in's and out's of Character Development

An in-depth exploration of an actors' most important task.....find character and tell their story.

We've all heard the term 'Character Development', , but how many actors truly know the enormous amount of tried and true techniques to accomplish the task? This 6 day workshop delves DEEP into the processes of this fundamental and necessary element of being a good actor.

6 days over three weeks

whats your scene

closed

doin shakespeare

studio one

actor in play

character

Love and Hate - A Workshop

Exploring two of the most complex emotions of any character

The ability to access emotions is imperative to the craft of acting. In this workshop, you will learn how to operate from a deeper emotional core and portray two of the most powerful emotions that every character at some point portrays. through... love and hate!

12 hours/two days/4 sessions

Voice for Actors

A masterclass in voice to brush up, revitalise, and renew your daily voice practice.

An immersive voice training experience where you will engage in practical exercises, giving you clear tools to maintain your voice, increase support and core vocal strength, range and resonance.

3hrs or One Day

Messing with Meisner

Meisner is one of the greats and cannot be ignored as a superb method of acting.

Messing with Meisner is just what it says it is. How does an actor embrace this fantastic method and make it his/her own? This workshop explores the many uses of the Meisner technique and encourages the actors to diversify and dissect so as to make the technique as useful as possible in their own process.

3 hrs or One Day

The Ensemble

Building your Ensemble to be productive and economical in the work.

This PD shares some old, new and sometimes intimate techniques to get the cast on-point as soon as possible.

Whether its a comedy, drama, or satyr, a cast needs to get down to work as soon as possible while nurturing collective empathy that allows the individual qualities of fellow cast members to bravely shine.

Four Hours/One Day

The Seven Questions

Its all very well to read the Seven Questions, but how do you apply them on the floor?

For any actor, stage or screen, an understanding of Stanislavski’s Seven Questions is an invaluable foundation upon which to build a character. and to map out the characters journey within the text. They are the road maps that guides you, whatever your personal technique is.

One Day or Two Days

Units and Beats

Units and Beat...you cannot avoid them if you want to do your job well.

Using beats and units to divide a script into moments of action, topics or energy, is a great way to make sure we are serving the characters journey in the scene and play. The theory sounds simple on paper but can be challenging in your actual scene analysis and rehearsal work and must incorporate yours' and the directors' interpretation based on the text.

3 hrs / One Day / Two Days

Voice into Text

This unique workshop, delves deep into the words, sound, and vibrations of the text.

Utilising text from some of the best playwrights and poets of the last century, Voice into Text is a wonderful journey for any actor who wants to experience more about the discovery of character, story and objectives through exploration of the words and the sounds they hold. Consonant, vowels, modulation, they are all part of our mission to tell story. This is an enlightening workshop that opens a whole new world for you as the actor

3 hrs / One Day / Two days

Psychological Gesture

Aractical application of Michael Chekhov's 'psycho-physical approach' to acting.

One of the basic precepts of the Michael Chekhov technique is that there is “no physical movement without inner movement” (Caracciolo, 2008, p. 12).

Brilliant for those just discovering Chekhov and uplifting for those revisiting the technique.

3 hrs / One Day / Two Days

VOICE FOR ACTORS

meisner

ensemble

units

psych gesture

seven

voice text

Love and Hate