CASTING DIRECTOR JIM ARNOLD | MUSICAL THEATRE CASTING WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP FORMAT

Get the chance to practice your musical theatre audition skills, in person with Jim Arnold, in a musical theatre-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.All our Musical Theatre workshops are accompanied by a highly skilled Pianist / Musical Director.

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

JIM'S BIO

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and International tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked alongside many leading Casting Directors in TV, film and theatre. He was the Original Casting Associate for Matilda, the Musical at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

Credits include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland tour); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol – The Musical (The Lowry Quays); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek - The Musical (UK tour and Eventim Apollo); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Cheltenham and Noël Coward); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Romeo & Juliet (Metcalfe Gordon Productions); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Bend It Like Beckham (St Lawrence Centre Toronto); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, UK tour and South Korea – Best Musical at the 13th Annual Daegu International Musical Festival 2019); Camelot, Girlfriends and A Christmas Carol (LMTO Concert Series 2018); My Name is Beethoven (Workshop); The Rest is Silence (dreamthinkspeak); Crave and Illusions (Actors Touring Company); DNA (Hull Truck & UK tour); Yerma (Gate & Hull Truck); Pericles (Regent's Park); Lingua Franca (Finborough & 59East59, NYC); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough); Fragile! and Le Mariage (Arcola) and Artist Descending a Staircase (The Old Red Lion).

Credits as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & International tours); Street Scene (Teatro Real, Madrid); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo,

Naples); Tiger Bay – The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre – Wales Theatre Award 2018 for Best

Ensemble); The Wind in the Willows (London Palladium & UK tour); Funny Girl (Savoy & UK tour); One Love – The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace & UK tour); Top

Hat (Aldwych & UK tour – Olivier Award 2013 for Best New Musical); The Lion King (Lyceum); Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Guys & Dolls and Gypsy (Chichester & West End); Noël (National Opera House, Wexford); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Birmingham Rep & West Yorkshire Playhouse); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East & UK tour); American Pyscho (Almeida); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury); The Sound of Music (Regent's Park); Let It Be (Savoy); Kate Bush – Before the Dawn (Eventim Apollo); Blue Man Group (Worldwide).

**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**

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