Date: September 13th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00
Stephen Moore is a freelance Casting Director whose experience includes eight years in the BBC’s in-house casting department. Stephen is currently busy casting for the stage.
This workshop offers the opportunity to discuss with Stephen his take on the process of casting for stage, to read for him and receive honest feedback and advice. Stephen’s recent theatre credits include Loot (Park Theatre/Watermill), The Boys in the Band (Park Theatre) and Monster Raving Loony (Soho Theatre).
The workshop will start with a brief introduction in which Stephen will discuss his experience of casting for stage. Stephen will receive your Spotlight CV prior to the workshop (please make sure it is up-to-date) and will then send you a whole script to read in advance along with details of which scene to prepare for the workshop. This will be a practical workshop in which you will be performing extracts from plays Stephen has cast. TAG workshops offer a supportive environment in which to work. All members perform their scenes in front of each other – offering a unique insight and opportunity for us as a group. There will be an informal Q&A towards the end of the workshop.
Stephen has worked in casting since 2001.
Theatre includes many new plays for Theatre Royal Plymouth: THE HERE AND THIS AND NOW, THE WAR HAS NOT YET STARTED, THE MAN WITH THE HAMMER, MONSTER RAVING LOONY by James Graham (also Soho Theatre), THE WHIPPING MAN, AFTER ELECTRA by April de Angelis (also Tricycle Theatre), and MERIT. Other theatre: THE BOYS IN THE BAND (Park Theatre/UK Tour), IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (UK Tour), POTTED POTTER (US Tour), OUR BOYS (Duchess Theatre), ORDINARY DREAMS (Trafalgar Studios), SOME WHITE CHICK by Neil LaBute (Southwark Playhouse), MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) and THE EXONERATED directed by Bob Balaban (Riverside Studios.)
Stephen was based in-house at the BBC between 2006 – 2014 where he cast, amongst other projects, the series DOCTORS. Stephen recently cast LINE IN THE SAND (Drama-Doc) and returned to the BBC to cast more episodes of DOCTORS. Other BBC credits as Casting Director include: FATHER BROWN, LAND GIRLS, WATSON & OLIVER and EASTENDERS.
TV credits as Casting Assistant include: ROME (HBO/BBC), LONGFORD (HBO/C4), THE VIRGIN QUEEN, HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT, BYRON and THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES (all BBC.)
Film: As Casting Associate/Assistant, credits include: STARTER FOR TEN, AMAZING GRACE, BROTHERS OF THE HEAD, HOT FUZZ, FLIGHT PLAN, SAHARA and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.