BSL Acting Intensive

Join us this summer for a fun, practical and intensive week of deaf-led actor training, designed specifically for deaf actors.

This 5-day course is created by Central and Deafinitely Theatre in collaboration with Graeae Theatre Company, and will help you develop your acting skills.

BSL Acting Intensive will take place from Monday 15th July to Friday 19th July 2024, in person at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

You will work on exercises and improvisations to approach acting challenges within an ensemble. There will be practical workshops in Acting Fundamentals, Translation, Movement, Visual Vernacular and Acting for Camera.

The course will be led by Paula Garfield, Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre, and Jenny Sealey MBE, Artistic Director of Graeae Theatre Company, alongside actor trainers from Central. As part of the course, you will also find out more about other BSL acting courses currently in development at Central.

The course aims to:

Introduce students to high-quality, practical actor training, bespoke for deaf artists.
Support students to plan the next steps in their actor training.
Explore and inform the development of future BSL acting courses at Central.

By the end of the course students will be able to:

Work on a variety of acting exercises individually and within an ensemble.
Use a variety of games, exercises and improvisations to approach acting challenges.
Reflect and feedback on the course content and how that applies to them as individual artists.
Identify their next training steps.

Dates and Duration
Who is this course suitable for?
Applications
Course Fee

Course Dates

Monday 15th July - Friday 19th July

5 days, 5 sessions (Mon-Fri), 10am-5pm

This course is suitable for those with some previous acting experience. Applicants will need to be a minimum of BSL Level 3 or equivalent or be native signers.

Whilst the course is primarily aimed at deaf actors, there will be a limited number of places also open to hearing actors, with experience of deaf culture and BSL Level 3 or equivalent.

The course is open to those aged 18 years and over.

Auditions are open

Application Process:

To apply please complete the application form, including a link to a short video (up to 3 minutes). Please tell us in the video;

Why you want to do the course?
What you want to achieve from the course?
What you want to do in the future?

Tips for submitting your video:

Any device is fine to use, as long as we can see you clearly in the video. For example, you could use a webcam, phone or tablet.
If you upload your video to YouTube as ‘Unlisted’, you will be able to share it with us without making it publicly visible.
Once you have uploaded the video to YouTube, please copy and paste the URL into the appropriate field on the application form.

The application deadline is 13^th May 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact us at short.courses@cssd.ac.uk.