Date: October 15th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

Suzy is the UK Casting Associate for Shaftesbury Films - recent TV credits: Departure x 6 part series, shown on Universal starring Archie Punjabi, Christopher Pumer, Dougray Scott; Murdoch Mysteries; Frankie Drake.  Theatre - The Winters Tale/Nell Gwynn - Changeling Theatre.  Directing credits: My Favourite  Year; Up the Bunty, Camden Fringe for Fantastic Garlands.

This practical workshop with Casting Director Suzy Catliff will look at self taping and discuss the best way to go about it.

HOW WILL IT WORK?  You will be sent a scene from a TV or film script with a brief for you to self tape and upload.  This will happen a few days before the workshop.  Suzy will then review and note your self tapes and, as a group, you will watch back the tapes and discuss the challenges and pitfalls. All Suzy’s workshops are run in a relaxed, supportive and positive environment allowing you to share and learn from everyone within the group as well as from Suzy’s feedback and notes.

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT? This workshop offers the opportunity to practise this increasingly used technique and learn some simple do’s and don’ts to increase your potential and allow your work to be seen in a more positive and professional light.

Suzy Catliff works as a casting director, theatre director, lecturer and writer. She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild and associate member of The Writers Guild.

TV casting includes ‘Casualty’, ‘Silent Witness’, ‘Primeval’, ‘Hope and Glory III’ & ‘NY-LON.  She cast the Gregson Award winner drama/doc ‘D-Day’ for the BBC, award winning series ‘Sir Gadabout’ for CITV and ‘Bus Life’ for Disney which won the Grand Jury Prize at the New York Television Festival.   

Film casting includes ‘Stormbreaker’, ‘Swimming Pool’. Film assistant work includes the Oscar winning features -  ‘Sense & Sensibility’ and ‘The English Patient’, as well as ‘Wilde’ & ‘Hackers’.  

Recent theatre casting credits include:  ‘Measure for Measure/Blithe Spirit’ for Changeling Theatre (summer 2018); ‘Sleeping Beauty’ HFC (Dec 2017); ‘Hamlet’, Changeling Theatre (summer 2017); ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ Theatr Clwyd (Spring 2017).

Suzy is the co-author of ‘The Casting Handbook’ published by Routledge, which has recently been translated and published in China. 

***Please Note: Cameras are only used in our workshops when requested by the workshop leader and then if specified in the class description above***