Performing & Visual Arts
TRR: WORKING ACTORS WORKSHOPS with Zoë Templeman-Young and Alice Harding
The Rehearsal Room: co founded by ZOE TEMPLEMAN-YOUNG and ALICE HARDING.
*PLEASE NOTE *
These new sessions offer a supportive atmosphere for Working Actors to grow as artists in a professional, focused space, offering a unique chance to work with directors one-on-one.
PLEASE NOTE - these sessions are aimed at professional WORKING ACTORS. If you are an EMERGING ACTOR (no professional credits yet and you have not been to drama school - fear not, we'll be launching our first EMERGING ACTOR sessions very soon!)
Do you often feel there is nowhere to keep your skills sharp in between jobs and high-stakes audition rooms that leave little room for play and growth? If this resonates, then this is the workshop for you. Using a mixture of exercises and creative exploration, we will work on a scene in randomly selected pairs to spark imagination, mine the text, and refine technique. Actors are artists who need to regularly train and stretch those creative muscles - through the act of doing, come let your preparation meet the moment.
What to bring: A choice of scenes will be sent to you roughly one week in advance. Particpants should prepare one scene to bring to the workshop, choosing the character they most identify with. While you are not required the learn sides by heart, prepare the text - the more you know your material the more, you'll get out of the session.
What to wear: Clothes you're comfortable to move in.
Alice originally trained as an actor at The BRIT School before becoming a Director and Writer - acting credits included Casualty (BBC) The Investigator (Netflix) and The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe (ITV/Story Films.)
Directing credits include: This Blighted Star (Underbelly George Square/Belgrade Theatre/Omnibus Theatre,) Exit Strategy (Rehearsed Raeading - Southwark Playhouse,) Fortunes of War (Apple TV/101 Films,) American Monster, Caught In The Net and Married To Evil (Discovery,) Lost Frequencies (Bridge Theatre Company,) and her debut film Barton Turf, which received its world premiere at Oxford Shorts Film Festival.
Associate Director credits include: Flicker (Soho Theatre)
Writing credits include: Barton Turf, Give Yourself Away (In Development)
Alice was featured in Rolling Stone magazine for her music video for Everybody’s Saying That by Girl Ray. She was nominated for Best Early Career Director at Oxford Shorts Festival 2024.
Do you get stuck in patterns and habits of how you say lines? Find yourself focusing more on how a line should sound than what it’s doing to another character? Want to stretch and train your brain to make every word count? Making Text Active is about acknowledging that words are weapons, and understanding how to use them in the most effective way. In this session we’ll use LABAN, actioning, imaginative circumstances and precise targets to create a real connection around why your character says what they say, and in return, how that affects their inner emotional life. It’s all about putting your attention on who you’re talking to, and finding how freeing that can be.
What to bring: A scene, and a scene partner(s) or a monologue
What to prepare: The text. Bring offers, ideas; your imagination. You don’t need to be fully off book, but it would help. Bring the work, then we can work.
Zoë is currently the Associate Director on Interview at Riverside Studios and will be the Associate Director on the upcoming RSC transfer of Prasanna Puwanarajah's Twelfth Night at the Barbican.
Having trained as an actor at RADA, she has an intimate understanding of an actor's process and a toolkit that is adapted for every actor needs.
She is a published playwright (Take Care), visiting director at RADA, RWCMD, Rose Bruford and Drama Studio and dramaturg with Matthew Bourne's NEW ADVENTURES company. She has worked at theatres that include: Soho, Young Vic, RSC and Kiln.
