Want to improve how you mine a text for information? Want to make better choices and therefore more interesting, well rounded and exciting characters? Want to keep stretching those acting muscles  by working together with a small group of fellow actors every week? 

 

THIS IS FOR YOU! 

 

Helen uses her years of Theatre Experience to support you to build characters and the world of the text in a friendly and collaborative rehearsal room. Helen was born and brought up in North Wales and came to Manchester aged 18 to train as an actor at Manchester Metropolitan University (then Manchester Polytechnic) By the end of her training she realised that she was much more interested in directing than acting and subsequently embarked on a career of both directing and teaching, picking up a degree in Humanities from the Open University along the way. Initially working in schools and further education colleges she eventually joined the team at the Arden School of Theatre, under the leadership of the renowned practitioner Wylie Longmore. Here she became the head of the second-year degree students while also directing third year work and showcases.  

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Work as a professional theatre director continued too, particularly in relation to new writing. More recently she has been working with the English speaking That TheatreCompany in Copenhagen where she directed A Number by Caryl Churchill in 2018 and Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne in 2019. She had been due to return to Denmark to collaborate on a new play by Fergal O’Byrne, Extremophiles butunfortunately Covid put paid to that!

 

Helen has an ongoing partnership with writer Dr Stephen Hornby and his Inkbrew Productions and the writer Abi Hynes, using material from archives and exploring hidden stories from LGBT History. Her most recent project here has been the highly acclaimed, The Day The World Came To Huddersfield, which celebrates the UK’s first National Pride march in 1981 and won both Best Drama and the QueerLit Award for Best LGBTQIA in the Manchester Fringe , 2022. Her last production with Caroline Lamb, of Dangerous to Know Theatre Company, was On Me, which was the OFFFEST winner in the same year.

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HOW MUCH:

£90 pp

Once registered, you will be taken to payment.

All prices are inclusive of VAT.

 

WHEN:

Tuesdays

6 weeks from 12th September​

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WHERE:

53two Studios

Great Northern Warehouse

Unit 2

235 Deansgate

Manchester

M3 4EN

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AVAILABILITY IS EXTREMELY LIMITED!

We never take on more than 15 students to ensure MAXIMUM contact-time for each student and a proper and thorough training, 

 

Places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are unsuccessful, you will be added to the waiting list.

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Got a question? Drop us an email! 

 

All actors on the course must agree to work under the terms outlined in the MAP Code of Conduct.