STUDENT PROJECT NEEDS YOUR VOICE!

Student project, looking for a female to play the wife of a radio presenter who fell in love via an online dating agency.
Female must be aged 18-25 and have some experience in working with voice. There will be no script and so Improvisation skills are needed for this role.
You must be available on the 3rd of February from 3pm for one hour.
Rate of pay depending on experience from €30- €50
If interested please contact

Brian on 085 7469862
Or
Rory on 085 1023015
Or email
Rorymcn2@gmail.com

CASTING & AUDITION MASTERCLASS with Maureen Hughes and Gillian Reynolds

We are delighted to have two of Ireland’s leading casting agents, Maureen Hughes and Gillian Reynolds join us on Saturday 18 February to deliver this important workshop, giving you the tips needed to help land that role!

Maureen has recently worked as the casting agent for TV series ‘Raw’ and ‘Love/Hate’ as well as the Oscar winning film ‘Once’. Gillian is responsible for the casting of some major blockbusters such as ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Michael Collins’, ‘Becoming Jane’ and more recently ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ starring Daniel Craig.

In this unique intensive one-day workshop they will explain and demonstrate how you can significantly increase your chances of making a lasting impression.

Participants of the Casting & Audition Masterclass can expect to learn:

• make-up / dress code for castings
• immediate impressions – looking confident
• how to introduce yourself to camera and
• the director
• practical advice for ident and auditioning to camera
• script preparation
• basic improvisation skills
• how to stay in character in the audition process
• how to take direction
• photos and CV’s
• how to approach agents
• how to get an audition
• how to prepare for an audition
• what NOT to say in an audition
• demonstrations of a good and bad audition
• opportunity to take part in a mock audition
• the showreel

The cost of this one day masterclass is €100.

Please call 01 6799277 for more information or book online at https://www.feepay.ie/feepay1.aspx?id=178%2cTemple+Bar

STAGE COMBAT MASTERCLASS – One day workshop rescheduled

Our Stage Combat Masterclass has been rescheduled to Sunday 26 February and will now take place over the course of one day rather than two. The cost of this new class is €100 so we expect spaces to fill up fast so ensure you book soon. Please call 01 6799277 for more information.

This is an intensive weekend learning the challenging craft of stage combat. This course will cover important safety skills for use in stage and screen combat. The emphasis is on the theatrical presentation of techniques. This is a practical course, with students first observing and then participating in the techniques and exercises, while being closely watched by a qualified instructor.

Participants of the Stage Combat Masterclass can expect to:

• learn the basic skills of unarmed combat
• learn the basic skill of rapier and dagger combat
• understand the mechanics of a fight scene
• learn important safety factors necessary for fight scenes
• learn how to build dramatic tension with use of fight scenes

TEMPLE BAR

VENUE Gaiety School of Acting

TIMES 10am – 5pm

DATES Sunday 26 February 2102

COST €100

“I Was an Emperor” Coming Soon

I Was an Emperor Written & devised by Andy Crowe & cast & directed by John Delaney as part of the Jack Burdell Collaborations Festival in Smock Alley
Show times: Feb 7th – 11th @ 9pm (previews on Feb 6th)
Tickets are €15 or €12 with concessions

Assets Model Agency Commercial Section has expanded to include a full service Actors section.

Assets Model Agency Commercial Section has expanded to include a full service Actors section.
We have develeoped the commercial sections track record of casting talent in tv commercials, cororate videos and pop videos into a boutique Actors Agency representing talent for film and TV as well as our existing commercial clients.
Have a look at our YouTube channel for current campaigns our talent are featured in http://www.youtube.com/assetsmodels

CV’s must be accommpanied with a digital video piece (an Ident will suffice) for consideration to: alex@assetsactors.com

Funding Opportunities: Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – round two

Sky Arts is offering five young artists £30,000 each to fund their work for a full year as part of the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – in association with IdeasTap. We’ve just announced the two winners of round one, and now we’re on the lookout for three more talented artists to fund.

Sky Arts recognises that there’s an incredible amount of young talent in the arts today, but finding a way to get your work made is an ever-present challenge. The Futures Fund is designed to help bridge the gap between formal education and becoming a working artist.

Whether you want to direct a piece of theatre, choreograph a new dance piece, write a novel, record an album, create a sculpture or produce a live art performance, Sky Arts will give you the time and money to make it happen. We’ll also pair you with a mentor from Sky to help you develop your networks, skills and knowledge in the arts and the commercial sector.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is open to individual artists working in visual art, theatre, performance art, film, music, dance or literature.

To apply, you must be an IdeasTap member aged 18-30 by the closing date, 24 February 2012, and either be a citizen of the UK or Ireland or have been resident in the UK or Ireland for the last five years. Either way, you must currently be living in the UK or Ireland to apply. It’s free to become an IdeasTap member and just takes a few minutes – sign up here.

Tell us how the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund bursary can help take your work to the next level and you could be in with the chance of receiving one of three £30,000 bursaries, as well as an opportunity to showcase your work on Sky Arts – be it on TV, online or on demand.

Three winners will be selected during this round of funding.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is part of the Sky Arts Ignition Series, which seeks to collaborate with six arts organisations over the next three years in the creation of brand new works, and further expanding Sky’s support of the arts in the UK and Ireland.

For advice on how to create a successful application, visit the Sky Arts judging: Top tips article.

About Sky Arts

Sky is the only broadcaster in the UK and Ireland with channels dedicated solely to the arts, with 48 hours of the best arts content from around the world across Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 daily.

Sky Arts also seeks to connect with culture on the ground, creating and collaborating with the best of the arts in the UK and Ireland to bring new experiences to life. For more information on Sky Arts, please visit www.sky.com/arts.

Download the terms and conditions and the application form.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 24 February 2012. Please do not leave it to the last day to apply – we are expecting a very high volume of applications, so if you experience technical difficulties or have any questions we may not be able to help you at that late stage. The deadline is final and we will not accept applications by any other means.

To find out how to apply, click on How to respond above. This opportunity is open to people in the Republic of Ireland as well as the United Kingdom.

http://www.ideastap.com/Opportunities/Brief/6305b58b-81f6-4598-87b0-9fa400dc118e#Overview

‘Just another week in the Gaiety School of Acting’, Keith Walker 1st year 2011/2013

I’ve just completed Term one as a full-time student in the Gaiety School of Acting and it’s been a thoroughly enjoyable experience so far. The training and guidance we have received in the relatively short period that we’ve been here, has helped me immensely. Every aspect of my life has changed. I think this is largely due to how your day is structured and after only a few weeks every part of your life becomes inextricably linked to what you’re doing within the school. There is a high level of intensity to the work we do but if you approach the work with a positive attitude it never becomes overbearing and the rewards are much more enjoyable.

The training is divided between different classes. Acting, Voice, Stage Combat, Text, Mime, Stagecraft, Movement, Dance/Tap, Improvisation, Singing and Manifesto.  The methods used in each class obviously vary but the knowledge and technique they provide all complement each other perfectly.

Our acting classes are, for me, the focal point of the training. Every day through performance or observation you learn something new. And for me, acquiring these new elements regardless of how small they may seem is vital because there is great satisfaction in personal progression.

From a physical point of view, the improvement in my voice, coordination and posture has been excellent. The breathing exercises which we perform on a daily basis are hugely beneficial and allow to you to attain much more control on how you apply your voice. I really enjoy the physical aspect of our training particularly dance and stage combat. The stretching we do in dance class at times can be quite challenging and often uncomfortable but is very rewarding.

Our Manifesto classes are where we perform presentation pieces we have devised. We are usually given a basis for inspiration and its great seeing everybody’s interpretation and the performances they create. The level of the work that everyone creates is invariably high so you have to remain dedicated to what you’re doing. Each presentation provides us with something different from which we learn.  Of course there can be times when the performance that you create doesn’t resonate with your audience. A performance of my own making being one of the most spectacular failures to date. But, there’s no progress without failure.

We’ve just began term two with a week under the tutorage of Raymond Keane. An experience unlike any other. Remarkable character and his guidance has given me a whole new philosophy on the idea of stage presence.

But it’s Saturday afternoon, I’m just home from work and I have a presidential speech by Ronald Reagan which needs memorizing. Just another week in the Gaiety School of Acting.

5pm Performance tomorrow from our Irish Theatre Group

FREE public performance of scenes from Irish theatre tomorrow at 5pm @Gaietyschool Call 01 6799277 for more info.

Literary weekend at IMMA with Irish actor, Conor Lovett

Literary weekend at IMMA

To mark the closing weekend of the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA is holding a weekend of literary events on Friday 27 and Sunday 29 January 2012. Distinguished figures from the literary and performing arts will present a range of responses for adults and families. The weekend begins at 6.00pm on Friday 27 January with a dramatic reading of an excerpt from Samuel Beckett’s novella First Love by Irish actor Conor Lovett, who is internationally acclaimed for his interpretation of Beckett’s works. This echoes Neuenschwander’s 2005 participatory work of the same name, in which visitors to the exhibition describe their first love to a police sketch artist, with the resulting drawing forming part of the exhibition.  For further information on forthcoming events please see IMMA’s website at www.imma.ie

The schedule of events over the weekend is as follows:

Friday 27 January, 6.00pm, the Chapel
First Love with Conor Lovett
To open IMMA’s literary weekend, Conor Lovett will read an excerpt from Beckett’s novella First Love in response to Neuenschwander’s artwork of the same title. Lovett’s performance is a short dramatic narration which closes with a discussion chaired by Nicholas Johnson, the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin exploring the interpretation, translation and adaptation of Beckett’s work in the performing and visual arts.

Admission is free. Booking is essential for all events. Book online at www.imma.ie/talksandlectures.

Interested in working in LA? Dublin Seminar on Visas and Sponsorship

Interested in working in LA? Richard Burke will be conducting a seminar helping  Irish actors and entertainment industry with their working Visas and sponsorship. Please refer to the information and link below for details:

Dublin Seminar

Time and Date
Friday 27th January 2012

6-9pm

PRICE 80 Euros
Venue
Temple Lane Studios
Curved St ( Beside the Button Factory)

Temple Bar  Dublin 2

http://industryhollywood.com/Acting-LA-los-angeles-O1-VisasNetworking-actors-auditions-workshops-working-in-LA.html