WORKSHOPS

Acting The Classics          Autumn 2011 and ongoing

Julia has been selected to take part in Acting The Classics, a two-year programme of workshops led by the Actors Centre in partnership with the casting departments of the National Theatre, RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe and Young Vic. Sessions will be taken by practitioners including Fiona Shaw, Samuel West, Michael Pennington, Mike Alfreds and David Lan working on great playwrights and challenging genres from Jonson to Shaw and from Restoration to farce. 

Rod Puppetry          February 2011

In the autumn of 2010 Julia completed a general puppetry course at Little Angel Theatre, exploring the different performing styles used in shadow, glove, rod and table-top puppets. A masterclass with Ronnie Le Drew inspired her to take part in his two-day rod puppetry course where she furthered her awareness and enjoyment of puppets working on creating a relationship with the audience, movement, telling a story and developing character.

Tamasha Actor/Director Laboratory          December 2010

This week-long lab was led by Tamasha's Artistic Director Kristine Landon-Smith and was a wonderful opportunity for 11 actors and 5 directors to work together, exploring the actor/director relationship. A lot of the work centred on how play and improvisation can be used to unlock text, with an emphasis on how an actor's cultural background can be a brilliant key to how we create work. You can read more on the Tamasha blog here.

410 [GONE] - HighTide Lab          April 2010

Julia took part in HighTide's Genesis Laboratory, developing a new play 410 [Gone] by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Working with the playwright and director Natalie Ibu, the group had the freedom and support to play with the text without the pressure of performance and to run with any questions/ideas they wanted to explore. You can read more about HighTide's R&D studio here.

STORM at Lyric Hammersmith          June 2009

Storm was a week-long project led by PUSH, Graeae and the Lyric for theatre practitioners from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to collaborate and explore different ways of telling stories, often with an emphasis on devised and physical theatre.

Julia participated in workshops led by Filter, John Wright, Paula Garfield, Scott Graham/Frantic Assembly, Steve Tiplady, Vicky Amedume/Upswing, David Farr and Emma Rice.

A short video about the week can be viewed here.