CASTING DIRECTOR STUART BURT | 4 HOUR ACTING FOR DRAMA WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP FORMAT

Get the chance to practice your audition skills, in person with award-winning Casting Director Stuart Burt, in a drama-focused workshop. Honest feedback and notes will be given. Everyone will participate and observe and there will be a chance for a Q&A at the end.

{This workshop adheres to CDG guidelines and isn’t an audition}.

STUART'S BIO

Upcoming credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Just for One Day (Shaftesbury Theatre), Muriel's Wedding (Leicester Curve), The Fifth Step (Soho Place) and Fiddler on the Roof (Barbican).

Current credits include The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Sunset Boulevard (Savoy Theatre), Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury Theatre); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Sister Act (Dominion Theatre); White Christmas (Sheffield Theatres).

Previous credits include Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres. Olivier Award for Best New Musical); Cabaret (Kit Kat Club/Playhouse Theatre. Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival); Sylvia (Old Vic); & Juliet(Shaftesbury Theatre); The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre); Sister Act (UK Tour/Eventim Apollo); Rock, Paper, Scissors, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium/UK Tour/Toronto); East is East (Birmingham Rep/Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (Sadlers Wells/International and UK Tours); The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre); Herding Cats (Soho Theatre); Terror, The Seagull, A Doll’s House(Lyric Hammersmith); The Rocky Horror Show(UK & European Tours); Hogarth’s Progress (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Madness of George III, Skellig, The Memory of Water, Kindertransport(Nottingham Playhouse); The Spoils, Buried Child(Trafalgar Studios); The Choir (Citizens Theatre); The End of Longing, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre).

As Casting Director for The Jamie Lloyd Company credits include The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre. Nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Casting Direction); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre/Theatre Royal Glasgow/BAM); Betrayal(Harold Pinter Theatre/Broadway); Season Casting Director for Pinter at the Pinter (Pinter Theatre); Doctor Faustus (Duke of York’s); The Maids, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, The Ruling Class, Richard III, Macbeth, East is East, The Pride (Trafalgar Studios).

TV credits include Dance 100 (Netflix); Locked Up Abroad (National Geographic); Dr Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! (NBC/Sky), The Ashley Maddison Affair (Hulu/Disney+). Be

Awards: 2023 CDG Awards for Best Casting in Musical Theatre for Cabaret and Best Casting in Regional Theatre for East Is East; 2021 CDG Award for Best Casting in Theatre for Cyrano de Bergerac.

**Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions**