Benedetta Castello
- Actor
Female / Greater London - Ethnicity
- Caucasian
- Age Range
- 44 - 48
- Height
- 5' 1" (1m 57cm)
- Weight
- 8st. 14lb (57kg)
- Hair Colour
- Blonde
- Eye Colour
- Hazel
- Build
- Medium
Images
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Agent
- Agent
- Fiona Cross
- Contact
- 07729728719
Links
- Spotlight Member
- yes
Credits
Year | Role / Type | Name of Production / Director |
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2020 | Mariateresa Film (Short) | Cristallo Antonio Donato |
2019 | Spiralling Woman Site Specific | Spirals Hari Marini |
2018 | Spiralling Woman Online / Digital | Spirals Hari Marini |
2018 | Co-director Theatre | Seven Short Blasts |
2018 | Various Roles Theatre | Actions and Post-Theatre of Joan Brossa Hari Marini |
2017 | Old Woman Theatre | Iceland Hari Marini |
2017 | Myself Site Specific | Make Our Own Air |
2016 | Mother Film (Short) | Spirited Away Hannah Santos |
2016 | Feminist Film (Short) | Razor Blade Katrina Cotta |
2015 | Chorus Theatre | Haters Emilia Teglia |
2015 | Evelyn Theatre | Independence Nathan Osgood |
2015 | Internet Chimera Radio | Haters Emilia Teglia |
2014 | Various Roles Theatre | The Antidote, a Modern Fairytale Devised |
2013 | Performer Theatre | The Arbeit Project Devised |
2013 | Charlotte Theatre | Beyond Therapy Nathan Osgood |
2013 | Annie Theatre | The Voice That Bleeds In Marta Noguera Cuevas |
2013 | Clown Theatre | Film Night Project Devised |
2012 | Performer Theatre | Quorn Devised |
2012 | Various Roles Theatre | You Me Bum Bum Train Kate Bond, Morgan Lloyd |
2012 | Dorothea Wesbrook Theatre | Eleemosynary Nathan Osgood |
2012 | Phoebe Film (Short) | Obsidian Sky Ainsbury |
2012 | Babel Citizen Theatre | Babel Bill Mitchell |
2010 | Myself Film (Docu) | For Crying Out Loud Claire Whalley |
2009 | Stella Bellini Theatre | Night London Chris Johnston |
2005 | Clara-Hermit Theatre | The Trail of Crumbs Luke Kernaghan |
2005 | Jocasta Theatre | Oedipus Rex L. Maxwell-F. Mc Glinchey |
2005 | Fiamma Theatre | Memoria Unspoken Ioannis Tojas |
2005 | Margarit Theatre | Shivers Luke Kernaghan |
2001 | Bride Theatre | Bloody Marriage Jisella Cardana |
2001 | Chorus Theatre | Miss Julie Dana Edell |
2000 | Cain-Stowaway Theatre | Arcanova Brad Krumholtz |
1999 | Viewer Actress TV | Yianni Stamas Diary Yianni Stamas |
1999 | Cathleen Theatre | Cathleen's Carnage Martin Russell |
1998 | Countess de Lage Theatre | The Women Amanda Charlton |
1997 | Wife Theatre | The Middle Kingdom Paul Urcioli |
1995 | Anita Theatre | La Donna e il Mare Mary Payne |
1994 | First Woman Theatre | Il Marinaio Giuseppe Caruso |
1993 | Giulia Theatre | Passaggio dalla Vergine alla Sposa Pino Pelloni |
1992 | Drusilla Theatre | Caligola Alberto Ferrari |
1992 | Fetus Theatre | Noun La Fura dels Baus |
1991 | Poet Theatre | Camille Claudel Alberto Ferrari |
1991 | Cassandra Theatre | Confini Alberto Ferrari |
1990 | Miss Chauvenet Theatre | Harvey Anna Giuliani |
1990 | Character A Theatre | Memento (from Beckett) Marco Rampoldi |
1989 | Rebecca Theatre | Our Town Francesco Savina |
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.