Theatre Casting & Audition Technique Workshop with Ginny Schiller

Ginny is an experienced casting director with nearly 20 years in the industry under her belt, with theatre as her primary focus. Ginny’s casting credits include Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Theatre, Rose Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Almedia, Arcola, Frantic Assembly, Young Vic, amongst many others.

This workshop will use monologues as a springboard to discuss how best to prepare for and to pitch a live online audition.  Zoom and its equivalents offer a good way of auditioning for all media in the time of Covid and beyond - and there’s no doubt it’s here to stay so we all have to get ourselves familiar with it.  Even for screen work it can be complicated, but there is an essential mis-match between acting for the camera and for the stage, particularly for classical or stylised theatre but also in contemporary pieces. It’s useful to understand and get to grips with the…