Date: September 21st
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 14.00 - 17.00
We are delighted to welcome Gemma Bodinetz - Artistic Director of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres. This workshop will take the shape of an audition masterclass. Actors will look at audition technique, industry secrets and must-dos from the point of view of the Director.
Participants will be working on a script that Gemma has cast and will get feedback and direction. Gemma will look through CVs beforehand and the script will be sent out shortly before the workshop for actors to read and prepare.
The workshop will finish with a Q&A to round off the evening.
Gemma Bodinetz took up her post as Artistic Director for the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in September 2003. She has since directed The Kindness of Strangers, The Mayor of Zalamea, Intemperance and Macbeth at the Everyman; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Lady of Leisure, All My Sons, Tartuffe, The Hypochondriac, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Misanthrope and Educating Rita at the Playhouse, and Yellowman on tour.
In March 2014 the new Everyman opened to great acclaim and Gemma directed its opening production of Twelfth Night. In 2017, under her artistic leadership, the Everyman returned to a repertory theatre model for the first time in 25 years with Gemma directing Fiddler on the Roof and The Sum.
Gemma was previously an Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre. On completion of her study Gemma moved directly to The Royal Court Theatre, London. She left the Royal Court to assist Harold Pinter on The Caretaker, returning to co-direct Hush with Max Stafford-Clark.
Gemma has directed numerous productions nationally, her credits include: Caravan and A Buyers Market (The Bush Theatre); Yard Gal and Breath Boom (The Royal Court, London); Meat (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Luminosity (RSC); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Four Knights in Knaresborough (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Paper Husband, Chimps, English Journeys, Snake, Death Of Cool, Hand in Hand and After the Gods (Hampstead Theatre); Shopping and Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop) and Closer to Heaven (West End). Her production of Jonathan Harvey’s Guiding Star premièred at the Liverpool Everyman in 1998, before transferring to the Royal National Theatre.