Date: November 20th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00
Ellie is currently casting the third cast of Witness for the Prosecution and Torben Betts’ play Caroline’s Kitchen (National tour). Casting for Stage offers the opportunity to discuss with Ellie her take on the casting process, to read for her and receive honest feedback and advice.
The workshop will start with a brief introduction where Ellie will discuss her casting experience.
Ellie will receive your Spotlight CV prior to the workshop (please make sure it is up-to-date) and will then send out a selection of scenes for you to choose from / prepare shortly beforehand. You should be familiar with the text but you don't need to learn it. Ellie will give you feedback and may revisit certain sections of the scene again.
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.
Ellie Collyer-Bristow
Recent credits include: Killer Joe (West End), Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Wider Earth (Natural History Museum), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), Dusty, Monogamy, Wait Until Dark, Turn of The Screw, Night Must Fall, French Without Tears, Handbagged, Arcadia (all UK tours), The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal), Ladies Day (Wolverhampton Grand), Gaslight (Ed Mirvish, Toronto), The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield, Southampton), Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Beauty and the Beast & Jack and the Beanstalk (Salisbury Playhouse), Wordsworth, Two Way Mirror, After the Dance, As You Like It, Handbagged, Remarkable Invisible, Miss Julie and The Secret Garden (Theatre by the Lake), Blue Remembered Hills, Playhouse Creatures and Fred's Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre), A Guide for the Homesick, 3 Women and Tape (Trafalgar Studios), Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket), A Lie of the Mind and Doubt: A Parable, Four Nights In Knaresborough (Southwark Playhouse), Madame Rubinstein and The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre), Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre), Fool for Love (Found 111), Much Ado About Nothing (ReFASHIONed Theatre @ Selfridges for The Faction), Sideways (St James Theatre), Told Look Younger (Jermyn Street), Eldorado (Arcola), Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be and Bernarda Alba (Union); This Is How It Goes and A Christmas Carol (King’s Head).
Children’s casting for The King and I and Wind in the Willows (London Palladium) and Doctor Dolittle (UK Tour).
Ellie was previously Casting Associate for the Ambassador Theatre Group. - The Ruling Class, East is East, Richard III, The Pride, The Hothouse and Macbeth (Jamie Lloyd Productions), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre), Passion Play (Duke of York Theatre), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre/UK Tour), Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre /UK tour), The Rocky Horror Show, Annie Get Your Gun, Blue/Orange (UK Tours).