Date: October 11th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.30 - 20.30
Using Charlotte's experience casting at the National Theatre, the Ambassador Theatre Group and now as a freelance Casting Director (Regent’s Park Open Air, Chichester Festival Theatre, Sheffield Crucible), this workshop will look at at the casting process and what makes a CV stand out in a pile of hundreds.
Charlotte recent credits include Trade for the Young Vic, Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Sheffield/ETT and Strife for Chichester. Charlotte will shortly be casting Nell Gwynn for ETT and the new adaptation of My Brilliant Friend for the Rose Kinston.
Beginning with an introduction to her casting processes, Charlotte will work through participants' CVs to show what catches her eye and what to avoid all together. There will be opportunity to ask questions throughout.
Charlotte Sutton is a freelance casting director, working across plays and musicals with directors including Daniel Evans, Tamara Harvey and Robert Hastie, at theatres including Chichester Festival Theatre, the Sheffield Crucible, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Theatr Clwyd. Prior to this she worked in the casting departments at the Ambassador Theatre Group and the National Theatre for five years.
Charlotte's theatre casting credits include: Strife (dir. Bertie Carvel, Minerva Theatre Chichester), Flowers for Mrs Harris (dir. Daniel Evans, Sheffield Crucible), Dutchman (dir. Ola Ince, Young Vic), Jumpy (dir. Lisa Spirling, Theatr Clwyd), Goodnight Mister Tom (dir. Angus Jackson, Duke of York’s & tour), Waiting for Godot (dir. Charlotte Gwinner, Sheffield Crucible), wonder.land (Dir. Rufus Norris, Manchester International Festival), Mack and Mabel (Dir. Jonathan Church, Chichester Festival Theatre & tour); The Elephantom (dir. Finn Caldwell & Toby Olie, New London & NT Shed), Little Shop of Horrors (Dir. Gareth Machin, Salisbury Playhouse); The Light Princess (dir. Marianne Elliott, NT Lyttelton), Queen Coal (Dir. Robert Shaw Cameron, Sheffield Theatres), Albion (Dir. Ria Parry, Bush Theatre) and Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Dir. Max Webster, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).