Date: September 22nd
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.30 - 20.30

The video games industry is a huge new employer of actors and yet, as performance in games is relatively new, one that many actors know little about.

Increasingly, video games want to look more and more realistic so they may use performance capture to get this (instead of key animation).

This workshop is aimed at those who are keen to get into this sphere of work. 

Kate will discuss the processes involved in providing performance capture and voice and will show video examples of games she's worked on, bring sample texts to explore and allow time for questions about the industry. 

Kate Saxon
Kate Saxon is a theatre & tv director who has also been directing games for the past 12 years. Some examples within a long list of games Kate has directed, are Everybody's Gone To The Rapture (Bafta win 2016 Best Performer & for Audio Achievement), Witcher III, Alien: Isolation (Bafta win Best Game), Little Big Planet 3, Far Cry III Co-Op, Fable II (BAFTA win Action & Adventure), Witcher II, Castlevania Lords of Shadow and Bond titles.

Other credits include: History Boys (National tour), God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Northampton); The Real Thing (West Yorkshire Playhouse/English Touring Theatre); The Secret Garden (Grosvenor Park Theatre); Persuasion (Salisbury Playhouse); The Marriage of Figaro, Bubbles (Watermill); The Years Between (Theatre Royal Northampton); Arturo Ui, (Palace Theatre, Watford); Romeo and Juliet (Ludlow Festival/Northcott); The Unexpected Guest (Fulton Opera House USA); Far From The Madding Crowd (English Touring Theatre); Chains of Dew (Orange Tree); Nine Parts of Desire (The Public, New York & The Wilma, Philadelphia - winner of 3 Barrymore awards in USA); World Premiere of The French Lieutenant's Woman (The Fulton Opera House, USA & British Premiere, national tour); Eva and Eve, Sniff, Where Light Through Yonder Window (Soho Theatre); Hysteria, Humble Boy (Northcott Exeter); Clearing the Colours, Caution Trousers (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Still/Life (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); La Boheme (Opera North); Adrenalin Heart (Arcola); Trust Byron (The Gate); Scratching The Facade (Birmingham Symphony Hall/Rep); Grimm Tales, The Little Prince (ATY, Alaska). Kate's adaptation of The Little Prince has also been performed at Bath Theatre Royal.

Kate was Associate Director of Shared Experience Theatre for 12 years (until 2012). She is also a Performance Director for animation games at Side UK. Kate has developed new work and directed rehearsed readings for The Royal Court, The Bush, Arcola, Hampstead Theatre and The Public, New York.