* Creating unique moments.
* What makes for an interesting moment/performance?
* Using Imagery and music as source inspiration to explore and unlock character & story.
* Exercises to open the script and find the ‘truth in the gap’.
* Finding the moment when filming.
* Rehearsal process
* Understanding director notes
* Balance of control and freedom on set

This intensive 2 day workshop is ideally suited to those with previous screen acting experience.

Successful applicants must be available for scene preparation for the workshop.

Cathy Brady is an award-winning TV and film director known for her debut feature WILDFIRE, which premiered at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival and also played in competition at the London Film Festival, where she won the prestigious IWC Film Bursary. WILDFIRE also earned her the BIFA (British Independent Film Award) for Best Debut Screenwriter and the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Award for Best Director.

Her earlier work includes the short films MORNING and SMALL CHANGE, both of which received IFTA awards. She also directed the BAFTA-nominated TV series Glue and Can’t Cope/Won’t Cope for RTE/BBC Three.

Most recently, she directed part of the limited series THE DOLL FACTORY for Paramount+. Cathy is currently working on two upcoming feature films, DIRTY SCORE and EVERYTHING AFTER.

This workshop is supported by Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and is only available to those resident in the Republic of Ireland.

RECENT PRAISE FOR CATHY’S WORKSHOPS:
“The Cathy Brady workshop changed me as an actor. I found my creativity in the moment excelled to levels I had not previously experienced. Her methods made me look at and interpret text in a different way.”

“Cathy’s course was awe inspiring. I have acted for years but it still had the ability to connect with something I had not touched on before. “

“Cathy’s workshop was so exciting. I’ve never worked with a director who had such belief in guiding people to the heart of a scene. I learned as much from watching her work with other actors as i did from working on my own scene.”

 “She refused to let anyone pretend they knew what they were doing and in doing so she pushed them to a deeper form of vulnerability which made watching everyone so interesting.“

“Cathy gave me practical tools to break a scene open, to get to the core of it and find out what is really going on. I think every actor should do this course!“

“It was wonderful to work in an environment that encouraged truth, freedom and presence in the moment.”