Date: May 10th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

A workshop led by one of the UK's most experienced and respected Casting Directors to help actors to prepare for a Shakespeare audition, including some guidance on verse speaking and how it can be used to illuminate meaning and simplify delivery; how to break a scene or speech down in order legitimately to show as much range as possible; how to choose audition speeches/scenes and cast oneself well.

There will be some discussion of general dos and don'ts for auditions as well as a Q&A at the end of the session.

Actors will be allocated scenes to prepare a day or so before the class, and should read the whole play.

Everyone will have a chance to participate and observe.

Ginny has been a freelance casting director since 2001 and although her main focus has always been theatre, she has also cast television, film, radio and commercials.  She has worked in-house for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre and returned to the RSC in 2005/6 to lead the casting for the Complete Works Season.  She has cast productions for independent commercial producers as well as the subsidised sector, for the touring circuit, regional, fringe and West End venues, including the Almeida, Arcola, ATG, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, City of London Sinfonia, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Marlowe Studio Canterbury, Menier Chocolate Factory, New Wolsey Ipswich, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Sonia Friedman Productions, Theatre Royal Bath and Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Touring Consortium, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic and Yvonne Arnaud.