Etcetera
performers
Lab
Industry-led sessions for actors and performers
A curated programme of small-group sessions led by working actors, directors and coaches. Each session focuses on a different aspect of performance — from craft to career.
ACCENT
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MASK
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MUSICAL THEATRE
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IMPROV
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WRITING
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ACCENT ✳︎ MASK ✳︎ MUSICAL THEATRE ✳︎ IMPROV ✳︎ WRITING ✳︎
18th May, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
This is a session designed to get your accents audition ready. Select a speech, pick an accent from the list provided, and Ryan will give guidance and feedback on how to perform comfortably in the accent without it taking over your performance.
Ryan has been an actor for fifteen years and a dialect coach for. He has coached hundreds of actors aged 6 to 80, from Oscar winners to first-timers; his clients include Russell Crowe, Vera Farmiga, Rufus Sewell, Luke Evans and Karen Gillan.
Feature film dialect credits include BILLION DOLLAR SPY, BEAR COUNTRY, THE SHAMROCK SPITFIRE, AFTERMATH, THREE DAY MILLIONAIRE, PRIZEFIGHTER: THE LIFE OF JEM BELCHER and KRAVEN THE HUNTER. Theatre credits include THE LAST DAYS OF LIZ TRUSS?, WONDERLAND and WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
@ryanogrady19
18th to 21st of May, 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm
Price includes all 4 sessions
The Creative Truth Workshop Series from TheWorkingPeoplesTheatre is designed for the makers, the storytellers, and the creatives who are ready to take their work to the next level. Whether you are an aspiring performer building your craft in a practical and supportive environment, a professional or creative looking to command a room with real presence and narrative power, or a writer and storyteller ready to bring your work off the page and into the body, these workshops meet you exactly where you are. Through structured improvisation, ensemble performance, devising from lived experience, and techniques rooted in immersive and verbatim theatre principles, you will walk away with sharper skills, stronger instincts, and a creative voice that lands.
The Working Peoples Theatre is a theatre company focused on community voices that have something vital to say. We make theatre born from real voices, real stories and real lives. We use verbatim techniques to transform lived experience into electrifying performance that forces audiences into conversation through bold, modern storytelling.
Louis Wicks-Stephens the lead artist is a theatre maker, facilitator, and creative lead, and the founder of The Working People's Theatre. Trained at the University of Lincoln and the University of Sussex, Louis has built his practice around the belief that theatre is a tool for truth, community, and creative transformation. With extensive experience leading and directing creative projects, building ensembles, and facilitating performance work with diverse groups, he brings rigorous craft and genuine collaborative instinct to everything he makes. His work draws on devising, verbatim and immersive theatre principles, creating space for performers and storytellers to find their voice and make meaningful work, championing the creative potential of every performer, writer, and storyteller who walks through the door.
@Theworkingpeoplestheatre
11th May, 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm
Perform and workshop a song from your audition book for the class, receive detailed feedback from the teacher and experiment with new vocal techniques. This is a space to proudly make mistakes, play and grow as performers. Your song selection does not need to be perfect or ‘performance ready’.
Aimee Clifton is a singing teacher and performer with a Diploma of Musical Theatre from Brent Street Studios in Sydney. She specialises in classical and contemporary musical theatre vocal technique with a heavy focus on acting through song. Aimee also has extensive knowledge of vocal health and rehabilitation.
Credits/experience: diploma of musical theatre from Brent Street Studios in Sydney, Bell Shakespeare Scholarship recipient - Bell Shakespeare company, 2 years experience as vocal coach for beginners to pre professionals, highly sought after wedding and events singer in Sydney
@aimeegclifton
Neutral Mask For Actors
18th May, 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm
How does having our face covered change how we act? Can we use this restriction to find full engagement and presence with our body when on stage?
In life we build up habits that get in the way of our choices as actors, a neutral mask offers a way to observe the body more accutely, to find a deeper presence, embodiment, and sensitivity to impulses. This intensive workshop will explore how we can use neutrality to be aware of our bodies, differences, and habits to find deeper presence with ourselves and our body on stage as performers.
Drawing on different approaches we will playfully look at what we can learn from neutral, finding power (and perhaps comedy) in simplicity in order to explore to what extent our use of space and rhythm alone be enough to intrigue an audience.
What to expect:
Games and movement work to find a heightened awareness of the body.
Exploration with Neutral’s response to surroundings and mirroring.
Using the neutral mask to notice habits and tension - how can awareness move us towards deeper presence.
Putting a neutral mask into scenarios and experimenting with how it can be used as actors.
Feedback for Rob's Workshops:
"The Neutral mask workshop helped me engage more with the scene and get out if my head. It allowed me to “be” instead of “acting”. I am really grateful and would like some more please!" - Neutral Mask Participant
"Rob created a friendly environment that allowed me to take risks. To make simplistic choices and modifications, which held big impact. It was a privilege to work with such a fascinating performance concept, taught by a brilliant teacher who is proficient in creating a feeling of connection and comradery in a matter of hours" - Neutral Mask Participant
"I’ve learned so much from Rob’s workshops, he maintains playfulness whilst going deep into technique and freeing us as performers." - Acting student at Central School of Speech and Drama
"Rob McCloskey is the real deal, with deep commitment to community, creativity and those in his workshops... He’s a wonderful force." - David Glass, Physical Theatre director
"One of the most exciting and freeing guest teachers we've had in" - Northbrook College student.
"I thoroughly recommend Rob's workshops, he is just an exceptional teacher and such a pleasure to learn from" - Devising workshop participant
Experience Highlights:
Guest Teacher - Devising - University of Cambridge
Director - Tip of Your Tongue - ★★★★ "Beautiful. Dreamlike. Split Hairs have produced something profound" - Fringe Review
Director - SQUELCH! - ★★★★★ "This is a kind of comedy I haven't seen in recent times... had the audience in fits of the laughter the entire time." - Voice Mag
Performer - Earth Teeth - Brighton Festival and Brighton Dome.
Social Media:
@robertjmccloskey
@splithairstheatre
Bio:
Rob McCloskey is a theatre maker and the Artistic Director of Split Hairs Theatre. He trained internationally in physical and devised theatre at the École Philippe Gaulier, Grotowski Institute, and in workshops with specialist theatre directors such as David Glass, John Wright, and Tanushka Marah. He has toured across the UK receiving 5 star reviews and audience acclaim - described as 'perfectly achieved physical theatre... immensely evocative.' As a teacher Rob has taught devising, mask, clown and performance at University of Cambridge, and Northbrook College as well as workshops with his company in Brighton.
London
265 Camden High Street, NW1 7BU
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Etcetera Performers Lab brings together working actors, directors and coaches to deliver focused, practical sessions for performers looking to develop their craft and career.
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