Open House: Thursday 25th October 2018

In this session, we will share advice and techniques to enable you to develop your resilience in order to deal more effectively with setbacks so that you continue to move forward. Learning to bounce back when things don’t go your way is essential if you’re going to survive and thrive in your creative career. It’s par for the course to experience difficulties at some point or another, so it’s important to find ways to overcome challenges. This session will cover: • Recovering and re-engaging • Reviewing and re-setting your goals • Accentuating the positive • Recognising what you can and cannot control • Getting motivated

Join viral sketch group Just These, Please for a workshop. In comedy. Not diseases. What is sketch comedy and how do you do it? From concept to stage or screen, learn the basics of sketch comedy writing and performance. Discover how to create brilliant premises and turn them into different types of delightful sketches. This workshop is for actors with an interest in comedic roles who want to hone their comedy performance skills, understand the processes of comedy writing and editing, and learn a number of approaches to sketch writing so they can do it themselves! Improvise, play, write, edit and perform in this two-hour comedy crash course.

During this panel discussion, we will look at the relationship between performer, agent and casting director in Musical Theatre Casting. The discussion will focus on the dos and don'ts for auditions, how to make the most of your time in the audition room and give you the chance to ask any burning questions may have.

Actor, Writer and Acting Teacher, David Mumeni trained at Drama Centre London. His acting credits include work with The Royal Court, The Donmar, Hampstead Theatre, The Bush and Cheek by Jowl. Television Credits include; Fearless (ITV), Fresh Meat, Damned (Ch4), PhoneShop, Drifters (E4), Love Nina (BBC) and Cuckoo (BBC3). Film Credits include; The Inbetweeners Movie, Noble, The Huntsman: Winters War, Lost In London, Mission Impossible 6 and Johnny English 3. Alongside his acting, David has worked regularly as a facilitator for over 10 years. Specialising in work with young people, he has worked in settings ranging from secondary schools to young offender institutes. This includes positions with Dream Arts and The National Youth Theatre (NYT), where David has been an associate since 2013. Over the past three years, both through his work at NYT and in his own time, David has delivered audition technique classes and private tuition to over 100 young people, many from low-income backgrounds and last year launched Open Door; a non-profit organisation that helps young people from low-income backgrounds who do not have the finical support or resources to gain a place at one of the UK's leading drama schools. Students tutored by David and have come through Open Door the have received places at institutions such as RADA, LAMDA, Royal Welsh, Drama Centre, Oxford, Rose Bruford, ArtsEd, Mountview, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Guildhall and Central School of Speech and Drama.

The Wicked musical theatre workshop is designed to introduce participants to the kind of multi-layered performance techniques crucial to performing in the West End. Following a comprehensive physical and vocal warm-up, the workshop begins by learning a song from Wicked, developing vocal techniques, and acting through song. The participants then learn the matching choreography to the piece and begin to put the two parts together. The group rehearse the piece and work towards a sharing at the end of the session.

Everyone can tap! (That’s all you need to know.) If I could do one thing for you it would be to break through the myth that tap is hard and prove to you that with a bit of patience, repetition and calm, everyone can tap. I love exploring and rediscovering tap through the eyes of people who have little experience of it and I have had the absolute pleasure of working with some so-called ‘non-dancers’ and together discover ways of finding their freedom to dance. The class will begin with a very simple warm-up to get our feet moving, and then focus on a short section of choreography performed by a 6-foot 7 green monster in ‘Young Frankenstein’. It’s a bit of tap-dancing fun! So dig out your tap shoes or just bring a pair of comfortable hard-soled shoes and let’s tap, because… Everyone Can Tap!...

The workshop will cover a range of exercises to get you in touch with your 'ballet' muscles' followed by a classical ballet class - barre, centre, turns and jumps. We will focus on technique, posture and strength, as well and looking at grace and lines.