TAFTA’s National Actors Intensive in Melbourne

An exhausting, but incredibly rewarding week.
In five days and one evening (58 hours) this intensive course will give you what no other course in Australia can do. You will spend 5 x 4 hr sessions with some of Australia’s most respected currently working Film & TV Producers and Directors.

You will also spend 7 x 4 hr sessions with some of Australia’s best known and respected Casting Directors. You will have the opportunity to perform for all of them and receive an instant evaluation of your work.

You will also spend 4 hrs with Melissa Agnew (Phd), who will conduct a voice evaluation and corrective class. Melissa is one of the best and most qualified voice teachers in Australia. Your work load will be huge with masses of work to prepare. A piece and or scene will have to be learnt for each Producer, Director, Casting Director and Melissa Agnew.
See the sample schedule below!!!

ARE YOU UP TO IT???

DEPENDING ON AVAILABILITY….

The Teacher Participants will be chosen from the following:

The Producers:

Bill Hughes (All Saints),
Cameron Welsh (Home & Away)
The Directors: Sam Atwell, Jeffrey Walker, David Cameron, Samantha Lang, Kevin Carlin, Mark Piper, Ian Gilmour, Marcus Cole
The Casting Directors:
Tom McSweeney
Faith Martin (Syd)
Jodie Brearley (Canal Road)
Lou Mitchell (City Homicide)
Alison Telford (ABC)
Greg Apps (Syd – Power Rangers , Knowing – Nicholas Cage etc),
Dave Newman (Christine King Casting)
Tim Littleton (Helen Salter Casting)
Kirsty McGregor
Marianne Jade (Maura Fay – Syd)
Leigh Pickford (Maura Fay – Syd)
Thea McLeod (Fox – Showtime)
Jan Russ, Barbara Leane (Wicked)

Voice: Dr Melissa Agnew

DATE: Wednesday 13th January to Monday (incl) 18th January 2009
Location: TAFTA – 430 Waverley Road, East Malvern

Call : 03 9702 5702 or email : tafta@westnet.com.au

TYPICAL NAI SCHEDULE

DAY 1: Orientation Session : 6.30pm to 10.30pm John Orcsik

DAY 2: 3sessions 9am – 1pm(lunch), 2pm – 6pm, (dinner)7pm – 11pm

DAY 3: 3sessions 9am – 1pm(lunch), 2pm – 6pm, (dinner)7pm – 11pm

DAY 4: 3sessions 9am – 1pm(lunch), 2pm – 6pm. (dinner)7pm – 11pm

DAY 5: 2sessions 9am – 1pm(lunch), 2pm – 6.00pm

DAY 6: 2sessions 9am – 1pm(lunch), 2pm – 6.00pm

TESTIMONIALS

“What a wonderful course that was! I’m very glad I came. Thank you for running it. Do let me know of anything you run in Auckland. I’d definitely be interested. – Rebecca Leys – Auckland. NZ

“The course overall was “one out of the box”. Never before have I experienced one like that. Very Very Good” – Melinda Macdonald – Auckland. NZ.

“I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you from the depths of my heart and soul for providing me the experience of the national intensive. I feel myself tearing up just thinking about it because of how special it was to me, as an actor and as a person and as a human being. It was the greatest experience of my life and this completed me. Acting has been the one truth in my life and to be able to do that every day and night for five days with SUCH AN AMAZING group of people, my God, were these people meant to be together this group! It was a whole different life i led for those five days and i haven’t even begun to think of the actual people we saw!!! How much I’ve learnt! “ – Cate Commisso – Melb

“Hey there John, have to tell you that the Intensive for me was life changing!!!!!I have learnt so much. Can’t thank you enough for organizing this week” – Belinda Divito – Melbourne. Aus.

“Another big thank you from me for last week. I had high expectations for the week and the outcome far exceeded my hopes. I learn’t a lot about myself and my acting and most importantly what I need to do to improve” – Kim Stark – Melbourne Aus.

“Hey John, just a quick email to thank you again for bringing such an inspirational course to Sydney. We packed so much into those five days that my head is still spinning” – Alix Armstrong – Sydney. Aus

“That course was a really inspiring, intensive trip on many levels. I learnt something from everyone. It was great to have such fantastic people informing us about the industry from the inside out” – Natalie Marsland – Sydney. Aus.

“ John I would like to thank you so much for what you created over the last five days. I feel inspired and confident in where I am heading.
It was really one of the highlights of my acting career so far” – Mark Ure – Sydney.Aus.

“As I have been extremely fortunate to be a full time “working” actor
For the past seven or eight months, I found this course to be “expanding” for me. To see directors at work other than those I worked with, to meet casting Directors, other than those I’d already met, was a real experience I wouldn’t have dreamed of” – Osama Sami – Melbourne Aus.

Thanks so much for putting the NAI together. It was not only educational, but also one hell of a ride. I learned much more than I thought I would and came away knowing it was one of the best things I ever have done to further my acting career. – Juanita Grayson – Brisbane Qld