Designed to give actors the valuable opportunity to seek practical advice and to continue to explore and develop their skills in a secure, non-competitive environment.

We believe that the best person to run a workshop is someone who knows the profession and its experiences from first hand. The people that are invited to run the workshops are encouraged to design them around their own interests and expertise.

Some of the people that have run act too workshops so far:

film director film editor co op. agent journalist director agent casting director casting director director cinematographer director director director casting director writer/director voice coach director director director

FRASER MACDONALD ALI REID ADELE SALEM BEVERLEY D'SILVA SIMON BLAKE SARA CROUCH ALISON CHARD SIMONE REYNOLDS SUE DUNDERDALE MELISSA BYERS TOPHER CAMPBELL ROXANA SILBERT KERRY MICHAEL ANJI CARROLL CHARLIE HARRIS FRANCES PARKES JONTY CLAYPOLE CHARLIE WESTENRA HAL CHAMBERS

They run as a series of 3-hour workshops. You can choose to come to all or just one, at any point during the run.

act too is open to anyone over the age of 18 that has trained and worked professionally as an actor.

 

New details to be announced shortly. £27.00.
Concessionary rate is £21.00.
Do not make payment before we have contacted you to confirm your place on the workshops. The Royal Academy of Dance
36 Battersea Square
London
SW11 3RA
See map
Getting to the Academy

Great workshop last night, Gemma. Really got everyone buzzing. Wish I'd done more of that kind of work with Charlie before my tour..!.. Would you pass on my thanks to her?"
Jeremy Drakes on Charlie Westenra's workshop.

We accept payment either:

1. By online payment - credit/debit card or Paypal (then fill in the online application form). If you wish to pay this way, we will email you a payment request once your place has been confirmed.

2. By telephone (pay by card over the telephone then fill in the online application form)

3. By bank transfer (call or email act up for bank details then fill in the online application form), or

4. By cheque or credit/debit card (send in your cheque or card details by post, together with a printout of the application form below. Cheques should be made payable to act up).

If you are paying online, or by telephone or bank transfer, please fill in our online application form, indicating on it which payment method you are choosing.

Click here to fill in the online application form (having read the terms and conditions below).

If you are sending in payment by post, please download the pdf application form by clicking on the link below, save it to your computer, print it out, fill it in and send it back to us with your cheque or credit/debit card details.

Download application form (Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As"; Mac users just click)
Download application form as a zipped Word document



If you have any problems please contact Gemma Lloyd. Workshops must be paid for when enrolling. Should act up have to cancel the workshop, there will be a full refund. If you cancel, you will receive a 50% refund if a week's notice is given, however if not, we are unfortunately unable to refund you.

If your employer is paying and you would prefer to be invoiced, please notify Gemma Lloyd at act up.

 

"Direct YOU"

Run by the formidable Rikki Henry. Rikki will be taking a favourite text and developing it with you over two workshops.

Tuesday 24th January and Tuesday 31st January, times 6.30pm-9.30pm each time. Cost £54.00 for the double (payment options as above).

Words from Miss Lloyd - "Rikki is one of the most insightful people I've ever met and is being tipped as one to watch - get in there now."

Recent Directing Work Includes:

• Government Inspector (Young People’s Production: Young Vic)
• From Dover to Calais by Laura Neal (ATC/Bristol Old Vic/Young Vic)
• Jitney (monologue) by August Wilson (Trafalgar Arts: Brief Encounters /The Old Red Lion)
• Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon (Staged reading: The Albany/ Stonecrabs Theatre)
• The Moment Before by Sam Freeman (Warehouse Theatre Croydon - Strawberry Picking Festival)

Assistant Directing Credits:

• Jerwood Assistant Director on Vernon God Little (dir: Rufus Norris)
• Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun (Dir: Richard Jones)
• Uncle Vanya (Young Vic (Young People’s Production) (Dir: Joe Hill-Gibbins)
• Ghosts or Those Who Return by Henrik Ibsen Arcola Theatre (Dir: Bijan Sheibani)
• King Lear, Young Vic (Young People’s Production) (Dir: Ria Parry)