| Schools I have taught
for: |
| Shakespeare Globe Centre of New Zealand |
| The National Youth Drama School- New
Zealand |
| Kids 4 Drama- Auckland, New Zealand |
| The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh -Youth theatre-
Scotland |
| Edinburgh Acting School- Scotland |
| Yew Tree Theatre School – Kent, London |
| The London Drama School- London-UK |
| GMAC- Glasgow Media Access Centre |
| Body Works Dance and Drama School- Cambridge |
| The Auckland Performing Arts Centre-
TAPAC |
| The Auckland University Centre for Adult
Education |
| The Wellington Performing Arts Centre-
New Zealand |
| French Woods Festival of The Performing
Arts – New York, U.S.A |
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| My Training: |
| London - 2010 |
| • ONE DAY INTENSIVE SIMON DE DENAY- ALL WOMEN SHAKESPEARE
WORKSHOP |
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Simon has worked as Associate Director on Yukio Ninagawa’s
Hamlet (Barbican and national tour) and has directed many productions for
the award-winning New Company. He is currently developing a digital theatre
project that came out of the Young Vic workshop last year.
Focusing on
scenes and monologues from Twelfth Night and Macbeth |
| • GINNY SCHILLER ONE DAY CLASSICAL AUDITION WORKSHOP |
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Ginny Schiller is a Casting Director who has worked with
many of the leading directors and major theatre companies, including the
RSC, Rose Theatre Kingston, Regent's Park, ETT, West Yorkshire Playhouse,
Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, Young Vic, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse,
Shared Experience, Frantic Assembly, Chichester, Soho Theatre and many
more. She is particularly interested and experienced in classical theatre
having spent several years at the RSC and cast many Shakespeare productions
as a freelancer. |
| • TWO DAY ACTING INTENSIVE ON TENNESSEE WILLIAMS WITH
MARIANNA HILL |
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Marianna Hill has worked intensively with master teachers
Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler and is a long-time member of the famed New
York Actors Studio. Marianna co-starred with Clint Eastwood in High Plains
Drifter and Al Pacino in The Godfather II and notably has starred in the
cult classic Medium Cool as well as over 100 TV Shows. She now coaches
acting workshops around the world and has just returned from a tour of
New Zealand and Australia with her acting company, Framary. |
| • MATTHEW LLOYD- DIFFICULT LOVE AFFAIRS
ONE DAY INTENSIVE ACTING SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP |
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Matthew is the Artistic Director of the Actors Centre
and the Tristan Bates Theatre. Recent freelance work includes Duet for
One at the Vaudeville Theatre, which transferred from the Almeida Theatre
with Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman, and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new
play The Line at the Arcola Theatre. He was previously an Artistic Director
at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, during which period the venue
was awarded Theatre of the Year. His productions there included All's Well
that Ends Well, the award-winning An Experiment with an Air-Pump, and Waiting
for Godot with Richard Wilson. He has also been Associate Director at Hampstead
Theatre, where his work included the multi-award-winning The Fastest Clock
in the Universe by Philip Ridley, Slavs! By Tony Kushner, The Maiden Stone
by Rona Munro and The Lucky Ones by Charlotte Eilenberg, which won Olivier
and Critics Circle Awards. He has directed over twenty premieres of new
plays and his freelance credits include the award-winning The Pitchfork
Disney at the Bush Theatre, as well as productions for the Almeida, the
Theatre Upstairs, Glasgow Citizens, Off-Broadway and Parco Theatre, Tokyo.
Other freelance work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream (Leicester Haymarket),
A Doll’s House (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Hedda Gabler (West Yorkshire/
Liverpool Playhouse). He is the director and originator of many innovative
enterprises in actor training and the creation of new work at the Actors
Centre including the Skillset Film Lab, BBC Talent Boost and Ignition.
This workshop focused on monologues and scenes from Twelfth Night and Alls
Well That Ends Well. |
| • ONE DAY ACTING SHAKESPEARE INTENSIVE WITH THE FACTORY |
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- Focusing on extracts from Hamlet. |
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| 2009 |
| • HARRY BURTON/CHRYS SALT- PINTER- SHOWCASE |
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A THREE DAY INTESIVE CASTING/C.V/MARKETING ADVICE WORKSHOP
AND FOUR DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE AT THE LONDON ACTORS CENTRE.
Chrys is an award-winning theatre director and writer. She has written
seven books for actors on auditioning (Methuen Monologues for Men and Women)
and on the business of acting (Make Acting Work, pub: Methuen Drama).She
directs extensively in theatre and sound and has directed many of the country’s
leading actors.
Harry Burton trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama
(1982-85) and worked as an actor for 20 years. In 2007 he made his West
End debut as a director with Harold Pinter’s The Dumb
Waiter. |
| • EUROPEN ACT |
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TWO MONTH SUMMER ACTING INTENSIVE IN LONDON, PARIS AND
BERLIN. SET UP BY RADA THE LONDON ACTORS CENTRE AND THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PARIS.
Tutors include: |
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• MATTHEW LLYOD
• LARRY SILVERBERG - (Meisner expert, author
of six Meisner workbooks),
• PATRICK TUCKER (author- Secrets of Screen
Acting, director, actor),
• NIKKI FLAKS ( Niki Flacks' long and varied
career has in recent years taken her unique approach to actors throughout
the UK, Paris, Israel, New York and Berlin.
She also directs frequently
in England as well as in the US.)
• SCOTT WILLIAMS (Meisner expert)
• CICLEY
BERRY (voice expert- author-Voice and The Actor, The Actor and His Text,
Voice Teacher for the RSC)... |
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Course work includes voice, movement, acting for the screen,
Meisner, improvisation, Shakespeare, The European classical tradition,
casting advice; audition technique, and the Alexander technique. |
| • CLASSICAL SUGERY- THREE DAY ACTING FOR
SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP - THE ACTORS CENTRE LONDON |
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JENNIE
BUCKMAN - Head of Acting at RADA in London since 1986.Director
of Common Theatre Stock Company for six years. Writer for BBC Radio plays
and director for the RSC complete works- touring season 2008. |
| • ONE DAY WORKSHOP IN ACTING SHAKESPEARE
- THE ACTOR’S CENTRE -LONDON |
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HILTON MC RAE - Actor in: Grey
stoke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Return of The Jedi. Worked with
Sam Mendes, Steven Berkoff. Acted in West End- London Productions. Shakespearean
roles included Claudius, Prospero, and Iago. |
| • TWO DAY ACTING
SHAKESPEARE- THE ACTORS CENTRE – LONDON |
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BILL BUCKHURST - Shakespeare’s
Globe- London- GEP- Globe education Practitioner, director 2009 Romeo
and Juliet Globe theatre |
| • ONE DAY ACTING WORKSHOP - DIFFICULT
LOVE AFFAIRS - ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL AND MEASURE FOR MEASURE |
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MATTHEW LLYOD - previous director
Royal Exchange theatre Manchester, current artistic director of the actors
centre London, one of the UK’s leading freelance directors |
| • THREE DAY
ACTING WORKSHOP TERRANCE RATTIGAN, NOEL COWARD, ALAN ACKBOURN- THE ACTORS
CENTRE LONDON |
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TIM LUSCOMBE -Top freelance director UK-West End
London- Private Lives. The Merchant of Venice, When She Danced (NYC also),
The Browning Version (NYC also)... |
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| 2008 |
| • ONE DAY Q AND A MASTER CLASS IN FILM
ACTING - GMAC- GLASGOW - SCOTLAND. |
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ROBERT CARLYLE - Scottish television and film actor-Hamish
Macbeth. The Bill, Cracker, Train Spotting, Angela’s Ashes, The Beach,
Carla’s Song... |
| • ONE DAY Q AND A MASTER CLASS IN FILM
ACTING - GMAC- GLASGOW- SCOTLAND. |
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| 2007 |
| • SGCNZ INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE’S
GLOBE ARTISTIC FELLOWSHIP LONDON |
| • A ONE MONTH LONG INTENSIVE IN ACTING
SHAKESPEARE ON THE GLOBE STAGE TUTORS INCLUDED: |
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• PATSY RODENBURG World
renowned voice expert and author of The need for Words and Speaking Shakespeare.
• GILES BLOC – Shakespeare Globe’s Text Advisor and
expert.
• TIM WALKER Shakespeare’s Globe actor/director
• PATRICK
SPOTISWOOD Head of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
• GLYNN
MACDONALD Head of Movement
• JAN
HAYDN ROWELS Author of How To Do Accents, accent expert and freelance
voice director at Shakespeare’s Globe
• TIM CARROLL - PREVIOUS
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
| • THREE DAY ACTING SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP- TAPAC.
AUCKLAND NZ |
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| 2006 |
| • TWENTY HOUR SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP AUCKLAND PERFORMING
ARTS CENTRE |
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LINDA CARTWRIGHT - voice teacher
TAPAC NZ, UNITEC performing arts school- NZ, studied with Cicely Berry. |
| • THREE WEEK ACTING SHAKESPEARE INTENSIVE |
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PETER FEENEY - Associate of Cicely
Berry. |
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| 2005 |
| • ONE DAY FILM ACTING/AUDITION TECHNIQUE-(CASTING
DIRECTOR FOR AMERICAN FILM) - AUCKLAND NZ. |
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TERRI DE’ATH |
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| 1992 |
| • WEEK – TWO WEEK INTENSIVE IN FILM ACTING- THE
COMEY TECHNIQUE |
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JEREMIAH COMEY –Film Acting Teacher Hollywood-UCLA,
AFI, LMU, NYC film academy |
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| 1991 AND 1992 |
| GRADUATED THE New Zealand DRAMA SCHOOL- DIPLOMA
IN ACTING. |
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(GRADUATES FROM TOI WHAKAARI INCLUDE): |
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• KERRY FOX - AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE,
SHALLOW GRAVE, INTIMACY
• CLIFF CURTIS - ONCE WERE WARRIORS, BLOW,WHALE RIDER,BRINGING
OUT THE DEAD,THREE KINGS,LETHAL WEAPON FOUR, SUNSHINE |
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The two year full time course covered voice, movement,
acting methodology, singing, improvisation, screen acting, Alexander
technique, and Taha Maori. |
