Date: February 19th
Location: Spotlight, 3rd Floor, 16 Garrick Street, London WC2E 9BA
Time: 6.30pm-9.30pm

Join us for an engaging casting workshop with Bailey Frances from Shakyra Dowling's casting office.

This session offers actors the chance to gain first-hand insight from a casting professional working across a wide range of film, television, and commercial projects. Bailey will watch everyone perform a piece from handpicked scripts and then give tips and adjustments in real time. 

Bio:

Bailey has worked for a number of well-known Casting Directors including Tree Petts Casting, Kate and Lou Casting and is now an Associate at Shakyra Dowling Casting CSA where she has been working for the past 6 years.

Bailey has assisted on numerous feature films & tv series including WOLF directed by Nathalie Bianchari (George Mackay & Lily Rose Depp), LAST SWIM (Narges Rashidi, Solly McLeod & Jay Lycurgo, both ‘Screen International Stars of Tomorrow’). And most recently Peter Greenaway’s LUCCA MORTIS (Dustin Hoffman & Helen Hunt).

Bailey is currently casting her second feature film PAINT QUEST directed by Daisy Jacob’s after the success of her short film DANGEROUS ROMANCE (Vivienne Gibbs & Scott Handy) which was selected for numerous festivals including Raindance and Holly Shorts.

Bailey has also cast many Short Films including INCOMPATIBLE directed by Maxine Peake (for which she won a Best Casting Award at Tweetfest 2023), Karen Bryson’s MONOCHROMATIC and THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS directed by BAFTA nominated Elham Ehsas, due to be released later this year.