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

This workshop offers you the rare opportunity to work with both a Director and Casting Director. Casting Director Cara Beckinsale and Director Sarah Esdaile will share their huge wealth of experience having worked on some of the UKs most popular stage and screen drama.

You will address every aspect of the audition process: from the limp handshake to asking pointed and intelligent questions. From sight reading to how to make bold choices and handle and play notes, under pressure.

Perhaps most crucially, you will receive comprehensive feedback in order for you to improve your audition technique in a very pragmatic and un-pressured environment.

Sarah's recent credits include the 40th Anniversary production of Abigail's Party (Theatre Royal Bath & Tour), Walking with Egg Shells (for Birmingham Rep / Park Theatre), BFG for the Octagon Bolton, Talking Heads for Theatre Royal Bath and Tour, Single Spies at The Rose, PAXO - a one man show with Jeremy Paxman at The Pleasance Edinburgh and DENY DENT DENY at the Park Theatre.

Cara's other credits include....

‘Little Eyolf ‘ directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida
‘Mr Foote’s Other Leg’ directed by Richard Eyre for Hampstead Theatre
'London Town' feature film directed by Derrick Borte
‘Victory’ Radio 4 directed by Richard Eyre 
‘Witless’ series 1 and 2 for BBC, directed by Andrew Chaplin
‘Dealer’s Choice’ directed by Michael Longhurst for Royal and Derngate
‘Ghosts’ directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida,West End and BAM, NY 
‘Heart of Lightness’ feature film directed by Jan Vardoen 
‘Raving’ directed by Ed Hall for Hampstead Theatre 
‘Chariots of Fire ‘ directed by Ed Hall ( West End transfer-second cast) 
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ directed by Sarah Esdaile for the West Yorkshire Playhouse ‘Big Bad World’  Series for Comedy Central produced by Objective
‘The Judas Kiss’ directed by Neil Armfield for Hampstead Theatre and West End (original cast) 
‘The Last of Duchess’ directed by Richard Eyre for Hampstead Theatre

Ghosts won three Olivier awards in 2014
Heart of Lightness was selected for the Montreal Film Festival 2014
Forget Me Not won ‘Best Film’ at the London Independent Film Awards 2010

Feature Film Credits:  ‘Forget Me Not' 'The Dylatov Pass Incident’ ‘Creation’, ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘Secret of Moonacre’, ‘Mr Bean’s Holiday’ and ‘ Good’. 

Television Credits:  'Home and Away - London episodes', ‘Coma Girl’, ‘Stella’ ‘Vexed’, ‘Touch of  Frost’, ‘Time of Your Life’, ‘The State Within’, ‘Beneath the Skin’ and ‘Recovery.’

Sarah's other credits include...

include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Sleeping Beauty for Birmingham Rep and The Lady in the Van (Hull Truck and Number One Tour). She has directed The Deep Blue Sea, the world premiere of Crash by William Nicholson, Death of A Salesman and The Grouch, all for West Yorkshire Playhouse where she has been an Associate Director. Cling to Me Like Ivy (Birmingham Rep), co-directing His Dark Materials with Rachel Kavanaugh (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production and tour), Drowning on Dry Land (Salisbury Playhouse), The Horse Marines (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Kafka's Dick (Watford Palace), James and the Giant Peach (Bolton Octagon), Lysistrata and Compact Failure (Arcola Theatre), Pictures of Clay (Royal Exchange), Coyote On A Fence (Royal Exchange and Duchess Theatre, West End) and Nicky Silver's The Maiden's Prayer (Bush Theatre).