10th - 31st October (4 occurences), 18:30 - 21:30 GMT

RUN AT IT SHOUTING, Block D, D107, 415 Wick Lane, E3 2JG

£165.00 Members £148.50

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

Contact: info@runatitshouting.co.uk

+ WORKSHOP FORMAT

This 4 week course covers the nuts and bolts of screen-acting auditions for Recurring drama. Each week Gemma will send you different scenes to prepare testing your versatility as an actor. Sides will be sent out for you to prepare 4/5 days prior to the session. The classes will be filmed on broadcast quality equipment and sent to you after each session, with the aim of giving you a portfolio of top quality tapes for your professional development. Below is week by week breakdown of how the course will play out...!

Your scenes will be recorded with broadcast quality equipment. Upon request, you have the option to receive your footage after the session for no extra cost!

{This workshop adheres to CDG guidelines and isn’t an audition}.

**+ BIO **

Gemma has been working in casting for over 25 years, most recently as a casting director for the in-house casting department at the BBC, working on Casualty, Father Brown and Sister Boniface Mysteries. As a highly experienced workshop leader, Gemma is now primarily concentrating on working as an acting coach, working with actors individually or in a workshop setting, covering auditioning for screen, how to approach a self-tape, how to present showreels and screen acting technique.

With a career spanning television, film and theatre, Gemma and her partner Sam Stevenson were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for their work on the BBC 1 adaptation of Emma.

TV casting work includes: Casualty (BAFTA, RTS, Rose d’Or winner), Father Brown, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Don’t Take My Baby (BAFTA winner), Doctors, four series of Silent Witness, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (all BBC 1), Martin Amis’ Money (BBC 2), Our World War (BBC 3 BAFTA nominated), Glasgow Girls (BBC 3, RTS Scotland and BAFTA Scotland winner), Nightshift, Care, The Snipist, The Minor Character and Nixon’s the One (‘Playhouse Presents’ for Sky Arts), The Selection (Warner Bros), Consuming Passion, Mr Loveday’s Little Outing (BBC 4), and many episodes of The Bill for ITV. . Film work includes: Treasures, Leave to Remain, Private Peaceful, Babel, The New World.

Theatre work includes many productions working with Peter Hall, Howard Davies, Thea Sharrock, Adam Penford, Simon Godwin, Madani Younis, Melly Still. Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions