Date: November 30th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

We are delighted to welcome casting director Leila Bertrand CDG, who has cast for many top directors at some of the best venues in the UK, to share her huge wealth of experience in this practical 3 hour workshop.

The workshop will start with an introduction from Leila about her process of casting, covering preparing, and the expectations on actors when entering a casting situation.

There will be an opportunity to get up on your feet and work practically. Leila asks participants to prepare a monologue of their choice, no longer than 1 minute.  Leila will offer feedback and direction. Please be ‘OFF BOOK’.

The workshop will finish with a Q&A covering points raised from the workshop itself as well as the world of casting as a whole.

Please bring in hardcopy scripts of your chosen piece.

Leila Bertrand CDG

Trained at Webber Douglas as an actress, after which she worked with directors including: Richard Eyre, Mike Leigh and Bob Pattinson. 

As a Theatre Casting Director credits include The Hotel Cerise (Dir. Femi Elufowoju Jr); This May Hurt A Bit (Out of Joint, Dir, Max Stafford-Clark); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Tricycle, Dir. Dawn Walton); The Chairs (Matthew Lloyd); The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal, Dir. Matthew Lloyd); Black Crow (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Dir. Tessa Walker); The Wedding Dance (Felix Cross); Paradise Bound (Everyman Theatre, Dir. Sue Dunderdale); Macbeth (Out of Joint, Max Stafford-Clark); Fly (Dir. Matthew Lloyd); Major of Zalamaea (Everyman Theatre, Dir. Gemma Bodinetz); The Entertainer (Liverpool Playhouse, Dir. John Tiffany); Fragile Land (Hampstead Theatre Dir. Paul Miller); The Deep Blue Sea (Dir. Dana Farnaru); Suddenly Last Summer (Nottingham, Dir. Ralph Koltai); Rats, Buckets and Bombs (Paul Jepson).

Casting Director Film credits include The Gentleman Thief (Dir. Roland Kennedy); ID2 (Dir. Jen Novoa); Free Style (Dir. Kolton Lee); Play Hard (Dir. Michele Massimo Taratini); Octane (Dir. Marcus Adams); Collusion (Dir. Richard Burridge); The Bird Can’t Fly (Dir. Anna Threes); Tough Cookie (Dir. Hugh Farley).

TV credits include Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (Peter Moss); My Dangerous Loverboy (Dir. Virginia Heath).

Uncredited Films, as Assistant Casting Director to Leo Davis include Wit (Dir. Mike Nichols); Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (Dir. Stewart Sugg); The Emperor’s New Clothes (Dir. Alan Taylor).