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Benedetta Castello

• Actor
  Female / Greater London
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• Ethnicity

  Caucasian

  Age Range

  44 - 48

  Height

  5' 1" (1m 57cm)

  Weight

  8st. 14lb (57kg)

  Hair Colour

  Blonde

  Eye Colour

  Hazel

  Build

  Medium

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  Files

  • Showreel 2018 video file (mp4)
  • Monologue Slam 2016 video file (mp4)
  • English Montage Narration sound file (mp3)
  • English Montage Commercial sound file (mp3)
  • Italian Montage sound file (mp3)
  • Standard Italian (Charity) sound file (mp3)
  • Italian Narration (Guinzburg) sound file (mp3)

• Agent

  Agent

  Fiona Cross

  Contact

  07729728719

  Links

  Spotlight Member

  yes

Credits

• Education

  Year	Qualification	Where
  2005	MA Advanced Theatre Practice (Performance)	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
  2001	3 yr. Acting	HB STUDIO, NYC
  1998	2 year Professional Programme	ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ACTING SCHOOL, NYC
  1982	LECOQ'S METHOD, 2 years	ARSENALE THEATER, Milan

  Additional Skills

  Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher (Integral Yoga Institute, NYC, and Sivananda Yoga Vedanta). Energy Healing. Sports: sailing, skiing, tennis, swimming, judo, horseback riding. Hobbies: crochet, knitting, drawing. Can play the recorder.

  Additional Information

  ACTORS CENTRE: Meisner (Scott Williams, Kate Maravan). On Camera Technique (P. Tucker, M. Ferguson, R. Bierman, S. Stanton). Labwork (J. Stockwell, P. Searles, N. Flacks). Michael Chekhov Technique (Sinead Rushe).

  SCREEN ACTING SKILLS with Colin David Reese and Ruggero Dalla Santa.

  DAVID GLASS: Creative Retreat on Devising (5 days).

  CHEEK BY JOWL, DECLAN DONNELLAN: Space and Shakespeare (5-day workshop).

  IMPROBABLE THEATRE: Permission Improbable Summer School.

  ACTION THEATRE with Sten Rudstrom.

  THE BODY ALPHABET, physical and vocal training developed by Zygmunt Molik, with J. Parente.

  GROTOWSKI WORKSHOP (Przemek Wasilkowski and Magdalena Tuka), Riverside Studios.

  FIN WALKER: Physical Lab 'Delve Deeper'.

  LISPA: Storytelling Workshop (Charlie Blowers, Thomas Prattki).

  TTI: Viewpoints with Lukas Angelini.

  LORNA MARSHALL: 'from Body to Word'.

  THE BARROW GROUP, NYC: Acting Intensive (3 months).

  SITI COMPANY, NYC: Suzuki and Viewpoints, beginning and intermediate.

  ODIN TEATRET: Movement and Voice (Julia Varley and Roberta Carreri).

  ROY HART: Voice (M.P. Marthe, K. Anderson, V. Manley, J. Wild, M. Pikes).

  Voice Workshops with Sonja Kehler and Iva Formigoni.

  LAMDA, SHAKESPEARE (4 weeks full time).

  COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE: Workshop with Antonio Fava, Teatro del Vicolo, Reggio Emilia, Italy (3 weeks full time).

  M.P.DE CASTRO: One year work in progress on Brecht's 'Man is Man', CLT, Milan.

  PANTHEATRE: Workshops with Enrique Pardo and Linda Wise on Choreographic Theatre.

  MAMADOU DIOUME (Peter Brook's actor): Workshop on Macbeth.

  THEATRE RESEARCH: Workshops with Leo de Berardinis and Silvio Castiglioni, Milan.

  STANISLAVSKIJ: Workshops with Raoul Manso and Carlos Alsina (1st and 2nd Stanislavskij), Milan.

  COMUNA BAIRES: elements of Method Acting (one year), Milan.

  CTA: Acting (4 years), Milan.

  About me

  Benedetta, Italian born, moved to New York in 1995 for a few years, and then she finally settled in London.

  She is particularly experienced in physical, experimental, devised theatre, but she feels at home with more realistic styles of acting as well. Alongside more conventional, text-based performances, she has been recently involved in Site Specific Projects and Multidisciplinary Performances.

  She is naturally comic, almost despite herself, and she often gets cast as an eccentric nutter. She could be easily described as a quirky, bubbly, foreign type, a little scatty, a little intellectual.

  Benedetta is very keen on taking ongoing training, particularly in Meisner and Viewpoints.

• Skills

  Skin Colour

  • White

  Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French
  • Italian

  Hair Length

  • Mid Length

  Perform nude?

  • Only Professionally

  General Singing Skills

  • Chorus

  Native accent

  • Italian

  DBS checked

  • No

  Character Types

  • Free-spirited
  • Intellectual
  • Mischievous
  • Posh
  • Professional

  Accents (International)

  • Italian

  Interested in

  • Experimental
  • Festivals
  • Film (Professional)
  • Fringe
  • New Writing
  • Rehearsed Readings
  • Theatre (Fringe)
  • Theatre (Professional)
  • TV
  • Voice Over

  Specific Singing Skills

  • Soprano

  Experienced In

  • Devised
  • Experimental
  • Theatre (Fringe)

  Work Permit/Residency Status

  • I have a current, valid passport.
  • I have a current, valid work permit.