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

Casting Director Hayley Kaimakliotis is currently freelance and working to cast a Summer Rep Season. Across her ten year career she has worked in theatre, film and TV working across lots of different offices some of which include, the RSC’s Hannah Miller, Siobhan Bracke, Suzanne Smith, Dixie Chassay as well as in the BBC's in house casting department.

Participants in this practical workshop will have the opportunity to read / select scenes sent out before the class.  The focus will be on enabling the actor to get the best out of their time in the room. An informal and supportive environment in which actors can make choices and be guided on how to make those choices memorable.  The 'audition' is not just about getting the job but about creating a character that is compelling, interesting and honest. If you make honest and good choices you will be remembered for them even if you don't get the role. This is your time with the director and your time to audition for the next audition. The key is to present yourself, do what you do and then walk away.

Although Hayley casts for TV too, this session will revolve around audition technique specifically for theatre - although Hayley is happy to cover any questions you have on TV castings as well! 

Hayley Kaimakliotis Biog:

Theatre includes: Molly Davies’ Chickens (Paines Plough and Eastern Angles), Anya Reiss’ Uncle Vanya with John Hannah (St James Theatre), Nick Payne's critically acclaimed Incognito (HighTide/Newcastle Live/Bush Theatre); Girl's Guide (HighTide), Stuart: A Life Backwards (Edinburgh/Watford Palace Theatre/Sheffield Crucible); Neighbors (HighTide/Nuffield Southampton); Mudlarks (Bush Theatre); The Tempest Suitcase Shakespeare (RSC); Pitcairn Workshop (Out of Joint/RSC); The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse); Firewatchers (Old Red Lion); Amphibians (The Bridewell) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wirksworth Festival/Riverside Studios) and casting for West Yorkshire Playhouse's Graduate Programme 2014.

As Casting Director for the Finborough productions include; Facts, the award winning Accolade and FoxFinder, Don Juan, Crush, Rigor Mortis, Fanta Orange, Drama at Inish, Me and Juliet, Love on The Dole, Miss Lilly Gets Boned, The Northerners and numerous Vibrant seasons.

Casting associate and assistant credits include: Brave New World (Royal and Derngate), In Lambeth (Southwark Playhouse) Twelfth Night (Sheffield and ETT), Shakespeare in Love (Original and recast Noel Coward Theatre); Symphony  for Nabokov (Soho Theatre/Edinburgh/ Birmingham Rep); BBC - Father Brown, The Break,Shakespeare and Hathaway, Very Few Fish, Watson and Oliver Series 2, Autumn Leaves, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City, EastEnders. For the RSC - Troilus and Cressida, Forests, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and His Child, Boris Godunov, Life of Galileo, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well and Hamlet.