Directing Workshop

Led by director Russell Bolam, this 4 week workshop is dedicated to the role of a director, the nature of directing and how it can inform and maximise your leadership and collaboration skills in life.

Throughout the course, participants will undertake directing and acting working from contemporary plays, with a focus on the actor-director relationship and how this informs the ways we can work and create together in the modern world.

During the first part of the course we will focus on what a director does in a rehearsal room where the participants will get the chance to act and direct, exploring what a director needs from their actors and vice versa and testing the actor-director relationship.

In the second part of the course, while the students will keep rehearsing and directing the scenes, we’ll focus our attention on the art of staging and how to make choices based on a director’s vision, taste, instincts and necessity!

Join us and discover why being a director is one of the most challenging and rewarding roles in the theatrical process, where an individual leads a team and becomes the unifying perception of the play and production for an audience.