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

A great opportunity to work with the brilliant Charlotte Westenra, a theatre director whose credits include the Donmar, Trafalgar Studios & Sheffield Crucible.

Charlie will show you how to dig deeper, producing richer, more colourful, more layered performances.

In this three hour session, members will work with Charlie on selected scenes from modern texts. The group will look at language, suspense, status and what a given scene can really tell you about your character.

Feedback following Charlie's last workshop at TAG.

"Huge thanks to Charlie Westnera for leading an outstanding workshop"

"Completely eye-opening and inspirational"

"Brilliant workshop with Charlie Westenra with the Actors' Guild... So open, genuine and engaging, thank you!

Charlotte's directing credits include Lower Ninth (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), Decade (Theatre 503), My Dad’s A Birdman (Sheffield Crucible), We the People (Globe), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Donmar), Darfur – How Long is Never? (Tricycle), When Five Years Pass (Arcola), Gladiator Games – nominated for Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Award and Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (Studio, Sheffield Crucible and Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Shangri-La (Finborough), Return of the Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre), Venice Preserv’d (The Spectators' Guild).

As Co-Director with Nicolas Kent: Bloody Sunday – Scenes from the Saville Inquiry – 2006 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (Derry Millennium Theatre, Belfast Opera House and Tricycle) and Justifying War (Tricycle).

As Associate Director: Piaf, and Frost/Nixon (Donmar). As Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar: Grand Hotel, Hecuba, Old Times, Henry IV, The Dark and World Music. 

As dramaturg: Strapless (Royal Opera House).

She is currently developing two new musicals; Here by Kate Marlais and Alex Young (Winner of the S&S Award 2015) and The Wicker Husband (Winner of the inaugural MIT Stiles and Drewe Prize).