For anyone who might be interested ...
Acting Up and Salmac Productions are currently running a market research survey to find out what kind of acting training people are looking for around Australia. The survey takes about 15 minutes (on average) to complete and can be found online at: http://www.salmac.com/research/survey_classes.html
All those who submit their contact name and email address at the foot of the survey, will go into a draw to win a free place on the Acting Up 2006 Workshop of their choice, worth between $150 and $200. There are two places to give away. The winners will be chosen at random from the survey participants who enter.
The survey period runs until December 15, 2005.
Acting Up has a great line up of classes for the first three months of 2006 - including workshops with:
Casting Director, Dina Mann (Responsible for casting for Widower, CrashBurn, Japanese Story, Mallboy, Waiting At The Royal, Head On, The Missing, Crackers, Road To Nhill, etc); and
Casting Director, Jo Rippon (Responsible for casting Scooter Secret Agent, Fergus McPhail, Wicked Science, Pirate Islands, Backberner, Horace & Tina, My Brother Jack, The Games, Thunderstone I, II & III, Ocean Girl IV, Ocean Girl I & II, Frontline, The Wog Boy, etc);
Television Director, Richard Sarell (who has directed many episodes of MDA, All Saints, Home and Away, Neighbours, Something in the Air, Murder Call, Water Rats, Shortland Street (TVNZ), Plain Clothes (TVNZ), Australia’s Most Wanted, A Country Practice, Skirts, Blue Heelers, Law of the Land, Embassy, etc);
As well as the popular workshop:
"So You Want to be in a Soap?" with Neighbours actor Marisa Warrington (who trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London before playing 'Sindi Watts' on the show!), who will work with students on the differences between stage and screen technique, as well as the realities of working in serial television.
Details will be sent out in Acting Up's final newsletter for 2005 in mid-December, which you can sign up for at the foot of the survey, or you can just visit the website: http://www.salmac.com/masterclasses/.
