Come join us for our Christmas Party Mixer! The event will take place near our studio in central London. The exact location will be sent once you have secured your place.

Booking onto this event is the ONLY way to ensure entry and get your name on the guest-list. Unfortunately due to limited space, we can not accommodate any plus 1's.

Space is limited so it is first come, first served. Please join the wait list if the event says 'SOLD OUT'. You will be notified if a space opens up.

The event details will be automatically emailed to you upon booking so please check and read your confirmation email.

HOW THE EVENT WORKS:

- Everyone is given a 12 minute time block upon booking

- You have the option to submit a self tape to be reviewed by the agents (no more than 1 and a half minutes in length)

- The agent will review and give feedback on your spotlight page

- You will get to ask any questions you want answers to in your allocated time block with the agents

Disclaimer: Feedback provided by panel agents is intended to be constructive and honest. Any critiques are given with professionalism and kindness. Additionally, please refrain from signing up if you find it challenging to handle feedback. We encourage participants who can engage with critiques in a constructive manner.

We strictly prohibit bullying, and our community values a positive and supportive environment. Our panels are closely monitored to ensure a respectful and secure environment for all participants.

Please note that refunds will not be issued in the event of dissatisfaction with provided feedback. We appreciate your understanding of this policy.

*This is an in person workshop*

Lucy is a very experienced casting director. West End includes: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Groan Ups.The Kite Runner (Wyndhams / Playhouse), The Red Lion and Bomber’s Moon (Trafalgar) War Horse (New London), Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych), Carrie’s War (Apollo).
Other recent theatre credits include: Stranger Things (Secret Cinema), The Snow Queen (Rose Theatre), Clear White Light (Live Theatre), Clybourne Park (Rapture Theatre) Close Quarters (Out of Joint / Sheffield), The Last Ship (Northern Stage & tour); Jekyll & Hyde (Rose Theatre and tour), Cathy (Cardboard Citizens); Home Truths and La Ronde (Bunker Theatre); Tyne and My Romantic History (Live Theatre); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck), The Quiet House (Park Theatre); The Divided Laing (Arcola); Wet House (Soho Theatre), Serpent’s Tooth (Almeida).
Upcoming: I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember (Cambridge Arts & tour); A Very British Coup (Live Theatre / Hull Truck); Groan Ups (National tour); Pitman Painters (Live Theatre / Kenwright)

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*This is an in person workshop. Everyone is put on tape in the workshop and sent the link to the footage afterwards*

Abby Sethu is currently working as a casting assistant for Catherine Willis. Having started off in Production, Abby Sethu moved into the field of casting in 2018. She was fortunate to have gained experience with Dixie Chassay and worked as a freelance casting assistant for Heather Basten. Since 2020 Abby has worked with Amy Hubbard for 2 years as a casting assistant having had the most wonderful time working on TV/Film projects such as SUSPICION, THE OUTLAWS, DECEIT and THE GIRL BEFORE.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*This is an in person workshop. Everyone is put on tape in the workshop and sent the link to the footage afterwards*

Lucy is a casting director with over a decade in the industry. She has frequently collaborated with director Yorgos Lanthimos, including on the Academy Award-winning THE FAVOURITE and critically acclaimed POOR THINGS as well as on Lanthimos' upcoming feature KIND OF KINDNESS. Lucy was Casting Director for Alice Troughton’s THE LESSON and most recently on Meta’s first ever scripted VR series THE VILLA, for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV.

Other recent credits include BOOK OF CLARENCE (Dir. Jeymes Samuel), all three seasons of Hulu’s Emmy Award-winning series THE GREAT and THE POD GENERATION (Dir. Sophie Barthes).

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE ZOOM APP AND HAVE A STRONG INTERNET CONNECTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP. IS IT ALSO RECOMMENDED YOU HAVE A LAPTOP AND WEBCAM BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE AS AN ALTERNATIVE*


Recent credits:
As Casting Assistant - Alien (FX), Gladiator 2 (Paramount), Napoleon (Apple), House of the Dragon (HBO Max)
As Children’s Casting Associate - Crossfire (BBC), Trying (BBC/Apple)
Previously Casting Assistant for Jessica Ronane CDG, working on children’s casting for the musicals School of Rock and Matilda in the West End, as well as various projects for JRC and The Old Vic.


HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL WORK
Actors will be assigned a scene or assigned a selection of scenes to choose from to self tape and submit back. The whole class will then join an online zoom meeting where each self tape is played back and critiqued one by one by the casting director. The session will then end in a Q&A.

Please pay attention to the cut off times of when you can get your credit back and when the event closes to new bookings.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*THIS IS AN ONLINE WORKSHOP HELD OVER ZOOM. PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NEED A STRONG INTERNET CONNECTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP. IS IT ALSO RECOMMENDED YOU HAVE A LAPTOP AND WEBCAM BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE AS AN ALTERNATIVE*

Sara currently works at Sophie Holland Casting. Throughout her time there she has worked on some incredible projects such as The Continental [Lionsgate/Starz], The Witcher [Netflix] and Constellations [Apple].


HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL WORK
Actors will be assigned a scene or assigned a selection of scenes to choose from to self tape and submit back. The whole class will then join an online zoom meeting where each self tape is played back and critiqued one by one by the casting director. The session will then end in a Q&A.

Please pay attention to the cut off times of when you can get your credit back and when the event closes to new bookings.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

CONNECTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP. IS IT ALSO RECOMMENDED YOU HAVE A LAPTOP AND WEBCAM BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE AS AN ALTERNATIVE*

HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL WORK
Actors will be assigned a scene or assigned a selection of scenes to choose from to self tape and submit back. The whole class will then join an online zoom meeting where each self tape is played back and critiqued one by one by the casting director. The session will then end in a Q&A.

Please pay attention to the cut off times of when you can get your credit back and when the event closes to new bookings.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

Gabby has worked with Shaheen Baig for over 5 years. Working across both film and tv project such as Peaky Blinders, GIRI / Haji, How to Build a Girl and Adult Material.

*This is an in person workshop. Everyone is put on tape in the workshop and sent the link to the footage afterwards*

Shenae Rae is a casting director from London who has worked in the television and film industry since 2013. She spent 6 years as an executive at NBCUniversal in Los Angeles covering the casting for networks USA and Syfy as well as manage the studio casting on shows like UMBRELLA ACADEMY, THE SINNER and HOMECOMING.

Current and recent credits as casting associate under Dixie Chassay include Marianne Elliott’s soon to be released debut feature THE SALT PATH (starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs), the UK casting for director Denis Villeneuve’s epic DUNE: PART TWO, as well as Hulu’s Emmy Award-winning series THE GREAT.

Other recent credits include upcoming features HALLOW ROAD (Dir. Babak Envari) and FOR LIFE (Dir. William Bridges). Shenae just wrapped casting under Kahleen Crawford for BBC/Netflix series LOCKERBIE based on the events surrounding the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*This is an in person workshop. Everyone is put on tape in the workshop and sent the link to the footage afterwards*

Ollie currently works at Harkin Toth Casting with recent credits include 'The Serpent Queen' and the upcoming series 'Dune: Prophecy'. He started as an agent’s assistant at Curtis Brown, where he worked for nearly 3 years, before making the move over to casting, where he could continue to develop his love for TV and film, and nurturing talent. Ollie has a passion for amplifying voices that have historically not been the most prevalent on screen, and TV and film that focusses on telling stories with a social message.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*THIS IS AN ONLINE WORKSHOP HELD OVER ZOOM. PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NEED A STRONG INTERNET CONNECTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP. IS IT ALSO RECOMMENDED YOU HAVE A LAPTOP AND WEBCAM BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE AS AN ALTERNATIVE*

Chandra has recently joined the team at Sophie Holland Casting. Before that she was assisting Amy Ball on Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre.
From there she assisted Charlotte Sutton for Chichester Festival Theatre, for two seasons. Her screen work includes working in the casting offices of Nanw Rowlands, Andy Pryor, Lauren Evans and Oliva Scott Webb. Prior to casting, Chandra worked as an actress.

HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL WORK
Actors will be assigned a scene or assigned a selection of scenes to choose from to self tape and submit back. The whole class will then join an online zoom meeting where each self tape is played back and critiqued one by one by the casting director. The session will then end in a Q&A.

Please pay attention to the cut off times of when you can get your credit back and when the event closes to new bookings.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

Ana Duarte is originally from Portugal and has been in the UK for over a decade now.

She has been in the industry for a while, starting out as a runner/location logger in Reality TV.

Currently working as a freelance Casting Assistant and has had the pleasure of working for Sophie Holland, Andy Brierley, Theo Park, and Victor Jenkins.

Her experience spans across various TV projects, including "Silent Witness" (BBC), “The Serial Killer’s Wife” (Paramount+), the newest season of "Starstruck" (BBC Three), and the upcoming Alfonso Cuarón Apple TV show "Disclaimer", among others.

*THIS IS AN ONLINE WORKSHOP HELD OVER ZOOM. PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NEED A STRONG INTERNET CONNECTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP. IS IT ALSO RECOMMENDED YOU HAVE A LAPTOP AND WEBCAM BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE AS AN ALTERNATIVE*

HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL WORK
Actors will be assigned a scene or assigned a selection of scenes to choose from to self tape and submit back. The whole class will then join an online zoom meeting where each self tape is played back and critiqued one by one by the casting director. The session will then end in a Q&A.

Please pay attention to the cut off times of when you can get your credit back and when the event closes to new bookings.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

Saffeya started out as a film publicist before making the move into casting in 2021, after graduating from the National Film & Television School’s Casting Certificate. She joined The Old Vic as their in-house Casting Assistant, before progressing to Casting Coordinator earlier this year, and supports freelance casting directors across productions, as well as often leading on casting for workshops, readings and monologue series’.

Recent productions she has worked on for The Old Vic include the upcoming Pygmalion (directed by Richard Jones), Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol (directed by Matthew Warchus), Mike Bartlett’s The 47th (directed by Rupert Goold), August Wilson’s Jitney (directed by Tinuke Craig), and Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day (directed by Katy Rudd).

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*

*This is an in person workshop. Everyone is put on tape in the workshop and sent the link to the footage afterwards*

Steph has worked across many film & TV projects including “Dodger” (BBC/NBC), Catherine Tate’s upcoming comedy “Hard Cell” (Netflix), TV series “Bulletproof” (Sky One), new limited series “Flowers in the Attic: The Origins (A&E)” and various others currently in development. She has previously assisted Catriona Dickie and Amanda Tabak.

*Please note as with all our events, our prices are inclusive of VAT*