Date: July 25th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

Due to great feedback we welcome back Director Natalie Abrahami for this brand new workshop focusing on Sophie Treadwell's searing play MACHINAL, which depicts a woman's quest to find agency in her life by questioning the status quo.

Participants will work on probing the difference between a character's outward presentation of self and their innermost thoughts, and how getting this balance right can also make for a searing performance. 

Natalie Abrahami was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill for five years before joining the Young Vic as Genesis Fellow and Associate Director. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and at Hull Truck and is a recipient of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Directors.

Natalie's work for theatre and opera includes: Machinal (Almeida), Wings, Happy Days, After Miss Julie and Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic); Queen Anne (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre Royal Haymarket); How the Whale Became and Other Tales (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong); Pericles (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Yerma (Hull Truck); Play and Not I (Battersea Arts Centre).

Natalie's productions at the Gate Theatre include Vanya and The Kreutzer Sonata (which later transferred to La MaMa, New York). 

Her film credits include Mayday, The Roof and Life’s a Pitch.