No images? Click here Join us for an Incredible TERM ONE with "HOME & AWAY" DIRECTOR PINO AMENTA, "NEIGHBOURS" DIRECTOR SCOTT MAJOR, DAMIAN WALSHE-HOWLING, JANE HARBER, EVE MOREY, CBS USA's go-to Australian Casting Director for Pilot Season, DAVID NEWMAN (McSweeney Newman Casting) & Special International Guest, Hollywood Casting Director DAVID RAPAPORT.Commencing February, 2024.Congratulations to Alumni LUKE MITCHELL who has been signed as the new Series Regular in a Leading Role on Prime-Time USA Series CHICAGO MED, with a regular viewing audience of 8 million.Congratulations to FULL-TIME GRADUATE PHOENIX RAEI who has been nominated for a 2024 AACTA Award for BEST ACTOR IN A FILM (The Rooster, starring alongside Hugo Weaving).Phoenix was also the recipient of the 2019 Australian Casting Guild Rising Star Award. Fellow Full-Time Alunmi CLAUDE JABBOUR (Star of Last King of the Cross) was also a winner of the Australian Casting Guild Rising Star Award (2021). AUDITIONING NOW FOR 2024 MELBOURNE FULL-TIME PROGRAM. There has never been a course specifically designed to train actors to deal with fast turnaround television. This is an Australian first. We are thrilled and proud to continue to offer this exciting practical adventure in acting training. It presents an absolute gold mine of experience and opportunity for anyone who is serious and ambitious about being an actor in the television industry today. The original and still the best in Australia, we prepare actors to be ready, fit and able to go when opportunity knocks. Our Actors Work. DOWNLOAD COURSE PROSPECTUS. Applications to audition for Melbourne 2024 Intake Now Open I Entry by Audition and Interview I Payment Plans Available I Commences Monday 15th of April, 2024 TERM 1: SPECIAL GUESTSSenior Casting Director and former President of the Australian Casting Guild DAVID NEWMAN (McSweeney Newman Casting - Sydney), will Screen-Test actors in studio in the final week of Term 1.David has worked in various aspects of the industry for the last 30 years, the last 20 years in casting, including 7 years working with Christine King Casting. He has worked on some of the biggest and most successful feature film & long-form drama projects to shoot in Australia. He is CBS's go-to Australian Casting Director for sourcing Australian talent in Pilot season. He has a number of projects slated for 2024/2025. His most recent work includes the multi-million dollar live-action Captain Nemo origin story series Nautilus, a 10-episode show originally slated to air on Disney+ but will now stream on the AMC Network in 2024. Other recent projects include Love and Monsters; Blacklight; Rock Island Mysteries; The End; Dora and the Lost City of Gold; The Family Law; Tidelands; The Bureau of Magical Things; Mako Mermaids; Terra Nova and many more. Tom, the other half of McSweeney Newman Casting has cast well over 100 feature film, mini-series and tele-movie projects, as well as over 500 hours of episodic television for the US, UK, Canadian and Australian markets. The Los Angeles native is a proud member of the Casting Guild of Australia and for the past 28 years has been a member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), serving on the Board of Directors prior to his move to Australia in 1998. Together, Dave and Tom make a formidable team. An industry Q&A with David Rapaport, one of Hollywood’s Casting Titans who has cast (and continues to cast) some of Warner Bros. and the CW’s most ground-breaking Television Series.Gossip Girl, Riverdale, The Flash, YOU and The Summer I Turned Pretty. These are just a few of the many international hit series that David has cast. After attending Emerson College, David moved to LA and started to work with legendary Casting Director Mali Finn (Titanic, LA Confidential, 8 Mile). Together, they collaborated on multiple films including The Matrix Reloaded, 8 Mile, Running with Scissors and Elephant. David started his long-lasting relationship with Warner Bros. and CW on the original Gossip Girl (2007) and has since continued collaborating with Warner Bros. and uber producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter on series such as Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Katy Keen, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Superman and Lois, Batwoman, Gotham Knights and the forthcoming streaming series Dead Boy Detectives. Along with his co-Casting Director, Lyndsey Baldasare, CSA, at Amazon, he cast the breakout hit The Summer I Turned Pretty. He’s also cast several shows for HBO Max, including Titans, Doom Patrol, Equal, and the Pretty Little Liars reboot Original Sin. At Netflix, David cast such hits as YOU, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and recent hit XO, Kitty. Following the recent writer's strike, he has just returned to casting new projects for Warners Bros. and the CW. In addition to your 6-week program, David will facilitate an industry Q&A live from Hollywood, with a focus on 2024 pilot season, giving actors a taste of what to expect from his highly anticipated upcoming Casting Masterclass in 2024. TERM 1: TRAINERS/MENTORSFAST TURNAROUND TELEVISION with Award Winning "HOME AND AWAY" DIRECTOR PINO AMENTA and Feature Film & Prime-Time Television Casting Director DAVID NEWMAN. Commencing Sunday 11th of February, 2024.PINO AMENTA is one of Australia's most revered Screen Directors, Executive Producers and writers. His contribution to the Australian film and television industry has been incredible, since he first began his career directing The Sullivans in 1976. Having just Executive Produced Australia's most anticipated Drama High Country (a Curio Pictures production for the Foxtel Group), starring Leah Purcell and directed by Kevin Carlin, his extensive directing and producing credits are too long to list. Here are but a few of the incredible projects that he has Directed, written and/or series produced over his illustrious career: Home & Away (currently Directing); Wentworth; Five Bedrooms; 800 Words; Winners & Losers; Packed to the Rafters; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Darby and Joan; City Homicide; Conspiracy 365; All Sants; Mortified; Silversun; Always Greener; Marshall Law; Last Man Standing; The Lost World; City Homicide; Round the Twist; Crash Zone; Farscape; Blue Heelers; Good Guys Bad Guys; Snowy River; All Together Now; Acropolis Now; The Flying Doctors; Sons and Daughters; My Brother Tom, Anzacs; Carson's Law; Bellamy Cop Shop and many more. Please click here for detailed IMDB credits. Over the past five decades, he has directed and/or series produced some of Australia’s finest actors (some in award winning performances), including Leah Purcell, Kerry Armstrong, Chris Hemsworth, Susie Porter, Ryan Corr, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Jeffery, Orpheus Pledger, Danielle Cormack, Kate Jenkinson, Kate Atkinson, Katrina Milosevic, Celia Ireland, Socratis Otto, Sigrid Thornton, Robbie Magasiva, Georgie Parker, Erik Thomson, Denise Scott, Craig McLauchlan, Nadine Garner, Roger Corser, Anna McGhan, John Wood, Pamela Rabe; Tammy Macintosh, Nicole Da Silva, Bernard Curry, Rebecca Gibney, Michael Caton, Hugh Sheridan, Angus McLaren, Jessica Marais, James Stewart, Jessica McNamee, Zoe Ventoura, Brooke Satchwell, Shane Bourne, Noni Hazelhurst, Daniel McPherson, Libby Tanner, Judith McGrath, John Howard, Marny Kennedy, Kate Box, Zoe Terakes, Maia Mitchell, Matt Passmore, Damien Bodie, Kat Stewart, Michala Banas, Scott Major, Nathanial Dean, Grant Bowler, Lisa McCune, Alison Whyte, William McInnes, Anne Phelan, Jane Hall, Francis Greenslade, Radha Mitchell, Jane Hall, Gary Sweet, Caroline Gilmer, Bryan Brown, John Waters, Stephen Peacocke, and so many more. 6 Week On-Camera Program I Sundays 6:30pm - 9:30pm I Commencing February 4, 2024 I Payment Plan of only $59 per week x 10 Weeks TEXT TO SCREEN with Award Winning "NEIGHBOURS" DIRECTOR SCOTT MAJOR and Feature Film & Prime-Time Television Casting Director DAVID NEWMAN. Commencing Thursday 8th of February, 2024.Award Winning Actor & Director Scott Major has worked at the very heartbeat of our industry for over three decades as both an Actor and Director. Currently starring on STANS thriller Scrublands and the hugely successful (International Emmy Award Winning) Heartbreak High reboot on Netflix, Scott has had leading roles in Home and Away; Neighbours; Always Greener; Heartbreak High; All Saints; feature films Envy; He Died with a Felafel in his Hand and many more. Having recently directed Television Drama series Riptide, and prior to that, Television Drama Lie with Me, Scott has also been an integral part of the directing team on Neighbours, winning the 2019 Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama Serial for Neighbours (Episode 7776A). He ended up directing over 200 Episodes of Neighbours including the final scene in 2022. Scott also directed both the first and second season of drama Playing for Keeps, for the Ten Network and Australian Feature film Darklands, starring Nadine Garner, Damian Walshe-Howling, and Samantha Tolj. The popular thriller, streaming on STAN, was nominated for an AACTA Award. Scott has put his Neighbours Directors Cap on once again, with the show recently rebooting. He will also reprise his role on the second season of Heartbreak High both as an actor and on-set coach. 6 Week On-Camera Program I Thursdays 7:00pm - 10:00pm I Commencing February 8, 2024 I Payment Plan of only $59 per week x 10 Weeks TEXT TO SCREEN with Award Winning Actor/On-Set Coach/Intimacy Coordinator EVE MOREY and Feature Film & Prime-Time Television Casting Director DAVID NEWMAN. Commencing Monday 5th of February, 2024.After graduating from NIDA in 2006, Eve Morey has worked consistently as an actor on stage and screen for the past 17 years, although she began her career in children’s television nearly 25 years ago. Eve is probably most recognised for her role as Sonya Rebecchi on the long-running serial drama, Neighbours. During her nearly a decade on the show, Eve was an obvious stand-out in terms of performance; she brought a rare quality to the show that ultimately earned her a Silver Logie Nomination for Best Actress and a Gold Logie Nomination in 2019. That same year, Eve’s heartbreaking farewell episode was nominated for Most Outstanding Drama Series – a category that no other ‘soap’ had been recognised in ever before…Eve’s more recent acting credits include Mystery Road (S2), Total Control (S2) and More Than This, as well as the Sundance award-winning (and 9-Time 2024 AACTA Nominated) film, Shayda. In early 2019, Eve began to pursue her passion for supporting actors in performance through the role of Acting Coach/Dramaturg, before heading to the UK later that year to undertake Intimacy Coordinator training with Intimacy On-Set founder and IC pioneer, Ita O’Brien (Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education). As an IC, Eve has supported various screen productions including the feature film, Shayda, as well as numerous television productions for NBC Universal, Netflix, Paramount + and Fremantle Media, including La Brea, Surviving Summer (S2), Five Bedrooms, Lie with Me and Neighbours to name a few. As a dramaturg/acting coach, Eve not only supported Neighbours but returned to her roots in children’s TV with ABC’s, Turn Up the Volume. She has just completed work on Network 10’s new drama, Paper Dolls, as well as Foxtel Group’s new mystery thriller, High Country. Eve is now one of Australia’s most in-demand acting coaches and intimacy coordinators – her passion for storytelling and her commitment to providing a safe space for actors to work in is a joy to watch. Eve is also the co-founder of Venn: a production company, consultancy and collective of practitioners, who bring together proven processes and creative excellence to elevate progressive organisations, enrich creative ideas and facilitate responsible storytelling. 6 Week On-Camera Program I Mondays 6:30pm - 9:30pm I Commencing February 5, 2024 I Payment Plan of only $59 per week x 10 Weeks PRACTICAL AESTHETICS TECHNIQUE with Award Winning Actor JANE HARBER and Feature Film & Prime-Time Television Casting Director DAVID NEWMAN. Commencing Tuesday 6th of February, 2024.Practical Aesthetics is both an acting technique and a philosophy, originally conceived by David Mamet and William H. Macey, based on the teachings of Stanislavsky and Stanford Meisner. Simple, honest and straightforward, the technique de-mystifies the process of acting, giving actors an empowering set of analytical and physical tools. The technique is broken down into two parts: think before you act, and act before you think. Think before you act involves script analysis:
Through script analysis, Practical Aesthetics helps actors explore given circumstances, understand their character, and make personal performance choices. The act before you think part is where we learn to put our attention on the other person in the scene, so that you know how to play the action. This part of the technique leads the actor to be spontaneous, imaginative and in the moment. Although the technique is based on the teachings of Stanislavski and Meisner, what makes Practical Aesthetics unique is the rigorous script analysis. A lot of actors don’t know what to do when they’re given a script. This method allows you to dig deep into it. Join Award Winning Actor Jane Harber as she takes you through the step-by-step process of this revolutionary technique utilised by OSCAR & BAFTA Award Winning Actors all over the world. "Practical Aesthetics is like having a very cool secret weapon as an actor. It is spontaneous and specific at the same time and can offer a terrifying but ultimately exhilarating experience for performance." - ROSE BYRNE Jane Harber has been at the forefront of Australian television for decades, tackling some of the most interesting and thought-provoking lead female characters. Recognised throughout the world for her award-winning role of Zara Perkich in Network Ten's most successful drama Offspring (Seasons 1-7), alongside Asher Keddie and Kat Stewart, Jane has just finished shooting feature film Sleeping Dogs alongside Academy Award Winner Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan and Tommy Flanagan. She has also just completed filming the 2nd season of multi award-winning television series The Newsreader. Currently, Jane can be seen on the ABC Network in the hit 6-part television drama series In Limbo, alongside Ryan Corr and Bob Morley. Her extensive list of credits include (but are not limited to) Summer Love; Maverix; Informer 3838; My Life is Murder; Pretty Little Stalker; Back in Very Small Business; Offspring (Season 1-7); St Francis; High Expectasians; The Moodys; Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; House Husbands; The Nurses; Underbelly; The Secret Life of Us; Neighbours; Raw FM; Blue Heelers and many more. 6 Week On-Camera Program I Tuesdays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm I Commencing February 6, 2024 I Payment Plan of only $59 per week x 10 weeks SHOWREEL INTENSIVE with Multi Award Winning Actor/Director Damian Walshe-Howling, Artist Manager/Founding Artistic Director Craig McMahon and Director of Photography. Commencing Wednesday 21st of February, 2024.If you have experience and training, but lack quality content that matches your casting type, then this is the ideal opportunity for you to commence constructing a showreel, or to create another contrasting scene for your existing showreel. Shot on location under the direction of Multi Award Winning Actor & Director Damian Walshe-Howling, your scene will then be edited, colour graded and professionally sound mixed by Director of Photography. In the weeks leading up to your pre-production session, you will work with Founding Artistic Director Craig McMahon, who will help guide you in selecting that perfect scene that is going to showcase you as your most sellable self/type. Damian is currently starring in hit new Australian Television Drama Last King of the Cross for Paramount+, alongside our very own Full-Time Graduate Claude Jabbour. Inspired by the autobiography of nightclub owner John Ibrahim and his experiences in Sydney’s Kings Cross, it was one of the most anticipated and highest rating Dramas of 2023. Most recently starring on STAN’s AACTA nominated feature film Darklands, prime-time Drama Jack Irish and feature film 2067, Damian Walshe-Howling is a multiple-award winning actor and director, best known for his breakout role of Benji Veniamin in the Original Underbelly Series, for which he won the Best Supporting actor in a drama series at the AFI awards. He also received a Silver Logie Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor for Underbelly and an AFI Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Series for The Secret Life of Us. His other extensive credits include: Bite Club; Old School; Janet King; The Time of our Lives; Bikie Wars – Brothers in Arms; Terra Nova; The Reef; East West 101; Rescue: Special Ops; What ever happened to that Guy?; Macbeth (M); Satisfaction; All Saints; Blue Heelers; Stingers; Ned Kelly; Marshall Law; He died with a Felafel in His Hand; Hallifax f.p.; Neighbours and many more. 8 Week On-Camera Program I Wednesdays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm I Commencing February 21, 2024 I Payment Plan of only $139 per week x 10 weeks |