The first British Casting Workshops - since 2006

platform workshops

C20 - SOLD OUT

You’ve done your training.... You’re happy with your headshots.... Perhaps you even have an agent....

Wed 11th Jan	JANE ARNELL
Wed 25th Jan	MATT WESTERN Lucy Jenkins
Wed 1st Feb	CARA BECKINSDALE
Wed 8th Feb	KIRSTY KINNEAR
Wed 15th Feb	ANDY BRIERLEY
Wed 22nd Feb	JIM ARNOLD

C20- 6.30pm-9pm

COST: £170
Actors Platform Members: £161.50

C20 CASTING DIRECTOR BIOGS

JANE ARNELL
Jane has a long career casting for film and television. She has worked as Casting Director for TV series including THE BILL, MINDER, BALLYKISSANGEL, BETWEEN THE LINES AND CHANCER and Casting Assistant on Trevor Nunn’s LADY JANE with Helena Bonham Carter and NINTY-EIGHTY-FOUR. More recently she cast THE DEEP BLUE SEA.

MATT WESTERN
Matt has worked in casting for 16 years. He trained as an assistant for 5 years and was involved in many high end drama productions for film and television including Uncle Silas (series) with Albert Finney, the last Inspector Morse, Touch of Frost and The Princess of Thieves - the first major role for Keira Knightly. Since 2000 Matt has worked as an independent freelance Casting Director. TV series credits include THE SINS, 55 DEGREES NORTH, THE ROMAN MYSTERIES, DEAD GORGEOUS & MISSING. Film includes THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, ROMAN ROAD, DARKNESS, SURVIVAL ISLAND, BLACK BOOK & AFFINITY.

CARA BECKINSDALE
Cara has assisted; Celestia Fox, Jina Jay, Nina Gold, Julia Duff, Doreen Jones, Di Carling, Laura Scott, Smith Harkin, Kate Rhodes James and Rachel Freck, and has cast film, television series, American pilots, comedy shorts and mini series. She has also worked as an agent’s assistant at United Agents and Gordon and French, and prior to that was a casting director in Australia, (Sydney and Melbourne). This year she has been casting A TOUCH OF FROST and feature FORGET ME NOT, GOOD and last year worked on the feature CREATION with Paul Bettany.

KIRSTY KINNEAR
Kristy worked as Susie Figgis's Casting Associate for four years on films including, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PRINCE OF PERSIA-SANDS OF TIME, THE YOUNG VICTORIA and prior to that she was Kate Dowd's Casting Associate on films including THE KITE RUNNER. She has also cast several project independently including the recent DUBPLATE DRAMA 3 for Channel 4/MTV & Rupert Goold's production of ROUGH CROSSINGS for the Lyric Hammersmith. More recently she has worked on BEL AMI & the TV series THE BORGIAS.

ANDY BRIERLEY
Andy is a freelance casting director, forthcoming work includes his third season of COMING UP films for Channel 4, a new 12-part children's series created by Russell T Davies for BBC1 and the teen comedy feature 'CHARLIE FERRARI' with Dan Films. Andy recently worked with Kate Rhodes-James on the second series of 'SHERLOCK' for BBC1 and on Julian Fellowes' new 4-part series 'TITANIC' for ITV.
Other projects include 'JUST WILLIAM' & 'THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES'. Andy was casting associate at Andy Pryor Casting for 5yrs. Film projects include 'GLORIOUS 39' (Talkback/BBC Films, dir. Stephen Poliakoff). TV projects include 'WHITECHAPEL', 'DOCTOR WHO', 'TORCHWOOD', 'SURVIVORS' 'BELONGING', 'MATERIAL GIRL', and 'LIFE ON MARS'.

JIM ARNOLD
Jim worked as the Casting Assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company for 3 and a half years, before embarking on a freelance career as Casting Director in 2011. During his career, he has worked alongside several casting directors for theatre, TV, films and commercials and has just finished working with Sam Jones on several projects including two television series for the BBC and ITV1 as well as several theatre projects for Kneehigh, Sonia Friedman Productions and National Theatre Wales amongst others. Jim is the casting director for Cherub Theatre Company, for whom last year he cast ‘Lingua Franca’ (Peter Nichol's follow-up to ‘Privates on Parade’) at the Finborough Theatre in London, which later transferred to the Brits off Broadway season at 59East59 Theatres in New York. He was also the Casting Associate on ‘Matilda, the Musical’ for the RSC and most recently he cast ‘Pericles: Re-imagined’ at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, ‘Yerma’ by Federico Garcia Lorca, in a new adaptation by Anthony Weigh for The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, ‘DNA’ by Dennis Kelly for Hull Truck and a double bill of ‘Crave’ by Sarah Kane and ‘Illusions’ by Ivan Vyrypaev for Actors Touring Company

now what?

Our weekly casting director workshops are designed for actors with professional experience and/or actor training that want a safe, fun and collaborative environment in which to learn more about the casting process .

Our actors benefit from meeting a host of casting directors – people that, to an actor, can often seem scary but up close are very friendly and charming. Learn about the dos and don’t of auditioning in general and also learn the particular tastes of each casting director. Feel free to ask them questions that you’ll not have an opportunity to later – when you finally have the big audition.

You’ll have some time to rehearse a scene given to you by our Casting Director (often something they have used for casting recently) and then show them what you can do. They will often give that vital feedback you always wish you had after an audition and the chance to do it again.

Here are the nuts and bolts: When you are booked onto the course your Spotlight link will be sent to each Casting Director. They
will then assign you a scene and your sides are most often emailed to you before the workshop.
Occassionally, the CD will give you script in the workshop itself.We currently run one course at a time - either a Sat morning course (10am-12.30pm) or evening (6.30pm-9pm)You will be with the same actors for the full 6 weeks so you get to know each other.There is a Q and A session at the beginning or end of each workshop.You will work with 6 different Casting Directors over the course of 6 weeks.In each workshop you will be given a scene, partnered with someone, give some time to rehearse and then perform your scene (script in hand) in front of the class. (You often learn more from watching others than you do from performing yourself)A course of six workshops costs £170.Before booking your place, please read the Terms and Conditions (right). Booking a place with Actors Platform means you agree to these terms.

Workshops take place at:
Craven St Studio, 10 Craven St, WC2

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