APRIL 2024 Professional-level Screen Acting Intensive for Teens

Teens — start your acting career now!

Spend 3 days in the APRIL school holidays 2024 at the fantastic Rātā Studios on the Scots College campus in Miramar, Wellington.
For April 2024 we have made some changes to our previous intensive. This course will see you working solely with Miranda Harcourt and Perry Piercy for a full 3 days. 

 

 

LEADERS

Miranda Harcourt DNZM

Renowned as a performance-pilot, not only does Miranda support stars at the highest level, she also guides emerging talents into stellar careers. Her global clients have won and been nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AAFTAs, most recently a 2022 Golden Globe win, a Best Actress nomination at the 2022 Academy Awards and a 2023 BAFTA win. She has lifted up countless careers over her long career as an actress, a director, a dramaturg and a coach.

Most recently she has been one of three Governors on the Talent Lab for directors and actors at TIFF 23. She lectures at schools including the UK’s National Film and TV School, The London Film School, Tisch, NYU, AFTRS, Rātā Studios and Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School. 

Miranda shifts paradigms, empowering actors and directors to realize and activate their own talent. In her masterclasses on Zoom or in person, she introduces simple, quick, innovative, effective approaches to thinking about and achieving connection and character.       

She has developed a series of tools and exercises for use in-class, in the rehearsal-room and on-set that get actors to where they need to be, fast. Now, the startling impact of Miranda’s Tools (Connection, Space,  Internal Landscape, Vista, and Journey) is seen on sets and in rehearsals around the world. Her fortnightly Substack articles have thousands of global subscribers.

Miranda’s specialty is screen naturalism. Her approach is based on years of writing and performing Verbatim theatre in prisons in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Miranda’s roll-call of clients includes Juliette Binoche, Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Ritu Arya, Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, AnnaSophia Robb, Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey, Erik Thomson, Rebeca Gibney, Priyanka Bose, Josh Hutcherson, Thomasin McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Daisy Cooper, Carrie Underwood, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Hugo Weaving, Erana James, Claudia Karvan. Directors Miranda has worked with include Oscar winners and nominees Jane Campion, Peter Jackson and Garth Davis.

In 2023 Miranda was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her contributions to the screen industry and theatre.

Perry Piercy

Perry is a voice and dialect coach with a national and international career.  She has worked on many New Zealand and International films, and coaches A list actors from America, Europe and Australia, as well as working with established and up and coming talent in Aotearoa.

 

Content

Using games, techniques, new skills and insights, each teen will complete the long weekend workshop with a new world of inspiration, knowledge and craft. 
The three days will be based around Miranda’s Five Tools:  Connection, Space, Internal Landscape, Vista and Journey.

Perry will support the implementation of Miranda's five tools through foundational physical and vocal skills that are key to embodied voice and character work.

Outcome

At the conclusion of the course each student will be equipped with new skills, vision and opportunities to forge a future in the performing arts.

Facilities

Fitted with cutting-edge technology, Rātā Studios is located in the beautiful Arts building on the Scots College campus.

Miramar in Wellington, is renowned as a centre of excellence for film-making. Now young teen actors can take advantage of the remarkable skills, facilities and opportunities the world is talking about.

NB: Students need to make their own accommodation arrangements if coming from out of Wellington

Course Outline:

Timing	Start: Saturday 13th April 2024 Finish: Monday 15th April 2024 9.30am-4.30pm each day.
Location	Scots College Creative and Performing Arts Centre, Drama Rooms 1 and 2
Target Market	Teens aged 13-19 years
Price/Student (incl GST)	Price/Student : $1200 Fee includes course tuition and morning tea and lunch each day.
Enrolment	TEENS (13-20 years) Bookings are OPEN

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