Acting Habit Plus

TAKE YOUR SELF-TAPES TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Membership of Acting Habit Plus gives you access to a range of advanced online self-tape courses and other resources that are designed for experienced actors who are already comfortable with the basics of self-taping. Participants of the 21-Day Self-Tape Challenge or The Self-Tape Class receive free membership for their first year.

Acting Habit Plus runs as an annual membership –  to join please click on the appropriate currency below:

UK£10 / €12 / US$13 / CAN$17 / AUD$19 / NZ$20


CURRENT ACTING HABIT PLUS COURSES

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FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH MIKE CATER – starts Saturday March 16th 2024

Mike worked at a London agency for 4 years before moving into casting in 2018 and relocating to Barcelona where he is currently based. He presently works as an associate to Luci Lenox where they cast a variety of projects ranging from independent feature films to international TV series. Recent projects include Who is Erin Carter? (Netflix), The Covenant (dir. Guy Ritchie), Mrs Davis (Peacock), A Town Called Malice (Sky) among others.

For each of the five days you will be sent a role at 7pm (in your own time-zone) and you have until 7pm the next day to upload your interpretation to the site. Mike will leave his written feedback on each submission uploaded within the time limit. At the end of the workshop Mike will host a live Q&A webinar on Sunday March 24th at 2pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH MATILDA JAMES: SHAKESPEARE SPECIAL – starts Saturday March 16th 2024 – SOLD OUT

Matilda is a freelance casting director and creative producer from Cornwall, working on projects for theatre and screen. She was Head of Casting for Shakespeare’s Globe from 2012 to 2017, where she cast over 50 shows for the Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, including Hamlet Globe to Globe which toured to every country in the world between 2014-2016 and was granted UNESCO patronage; The Merchant of Venice starring Jonathan Pryce, directed by Jonathan Munby; The Duchess of Malfi starring Gemma Arterton directed by Dominic Dromgoole; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream starring Meow Meow and Ncuti Gatwa, directed by Emma Rice.

She is a founding member of the Murmuration, a women-led theatre & arts producing collective, with whom her recent projects include work with the Barbican; York Theatre Royal and Kyiv City Ballet; #Merky Films; and Citizens of the World, the UK’s leading choir for people seeking sanctuary and asylum.

Other theatre includes: QUIZ by James Graham (Wessex Grove / JCTP); 2.22 by Danny Robins (West End and on tour); Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo (ATC / Belgrade Theatre Coventry / Brixton House); Gin Craze! by April de Angelis (Northampton Royal & Derngate / ETT); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Classic Spring / NIMAX); Farinelli and the King (Globe / SFP / Belasco Theatre NYC).

Film includes: PORTRAITS OF DANGEROUS WOMEN, BENJAMIN and POND LIFE and the shorts FOR HEIDI, KOUPEPIA, DOG DAYS and the Oscar-qualified GANEF.

She has chosen five Shakespeare roles for you to attempt over the five consecutive days, and will leave her written feedback on each submission uploaded within the time limit. At the end of the workshop Matilda will host a live Q&A webinar on Monday March 25th at 5pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH FAYE TIMBY v2 – starts Saturday March 23rd 2024

Faye worked as an agent for 3 years before moving into Casting and began by working in theatre for Nadine Rennie & Annelie Powell.

She then worked on NBC’s Pilot Season, Hamlet at the Young Vic and Season 1 of The Witcher for Sophie Holland. She also worked with Rachel Freck on Series 3 of Tin Star for Sky.

She is now the Associate at Sophie Holland Casting working on The Witcher Season 2 (Netflix) and The Witcher Prequel: Blood Origins (Netflix), and the series’ Vampire Academy (Peacock TV) and Shadow and Bone (Netflix).

She is also the Casting Director for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum.

In this second version of her workshop she has chosen five roles from recent projects and will leave her written feedback on each submission. At the end of the workshop Faye will host a live Q&A Webinar on Thursday March 28th at 6pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH SOPHIE PEARSON – starts Saturday March 23rd 2024

Sophie has been working in the casting industry for more than 10 years. She started out working as a casting associate at Hubbard Casting with Ros and John Hubbard, where she worked on films such as ‘Journey’s End’, ‘Hurricane’ and ‘The More You Ignore Me’. She then went on to work as a Casting Director with BAFTA winning Des Hamilton Casting on projects like ‘JoJo Rabbit’ and the series ‘Top Boy’, before deciding to work independently in production and set up her own casting company – Sophie Pearson Casting. 

She has chosen five roles from recent projects and will leave her written feedback on each submission. At the end of the workshop Sophie will host a live Q&A Webinar on Thursday March 28th at 7pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH LAYLA MERRICK-WOLF – starts Saturday March 23rd 2024

Layla has worked in Film & TV casting since 2010, largely as an Associate with casting director Shaheen Baig, and co-casting director on projects such as “Peaky Blinders” & “God’s Own Country”. She was nominated alongside Shaheen Baig & Yôko Narahashi at the 2020 TV BAFTAs for Best Scripted Casting for “Giri/Haji”, and also won an RTS award for Casting for the same project. Layla is currently working across various TV and Film projects at SBC, including projects such as “The Death of Bunny Munro” (based on the novel by Nick Cave) with Matt Smith attached as Bunny. Recent credits include upcoming feature “Brides” which was an exciting opportunity to find new talent for lead roles, and TV series “Toxic Town” with Robert Carlyle & Jodie Whittaker.  

She has chosen five roles and will leave her written feedback on each daily submission. At the end of the workshop Layla will host a live online Q&A on Friday March 29th at 5pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH LAURA DONNELLY v2 – starts Saturday March 30th 2024

Laura is a UK and Europe based Casting Director working across all media with 20 years experience in casting. She worked mainly in film and television before moving into theatre, and she was the resident associate and then Casting Director at National Theatre of Scotland from 2012 – 2022, as well as casting many independent theatre projects in the UK and internationally.

Recent film and tv credits include TETRIS directed by Jon S. Baird TETRIS (Marv Studios/ AI Film/Sigma/Unigram); ADAM (NTS/Hopscotch Films/BBC Arts);  MURDER ISLAND (Channel 4/ STV Studios); JEKYL AND HYDE (NTS/Selkie/Sky Arts); and SCENES FOR SURVIVAL(BBC Scotland/ NTS).

Theatre credits include JAMES IV: QUEEN OF THE FIGHT (Raw Material/Capital Theatres); MEDEA (NTS/EIF); EXODUS (NTS); ENOUGH IF HIM (NTS/Pitlochry Festival Theatre), THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART (Double M Arts/ Royal Lyceum/Edinburgh Festival 2022 and United States tour 2023) among many others.

Laura is looking forward to hosting you during this second version of her five-day online workshop. You will receive an audition piece each night at 7pm, and you will have up to 24 hours to upload your interpretation of it to the site where Laura will provide her professional feedback. At the end of the workshop Laura will host a live online Q&A on Friday April 5th at 6.30pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH EMMA SYLVESTER – starts Saturday March 30th 2024

Emma is a Casting freelancer and has worked extensively across film and television casting and has spent the last five years in house at the BBC in it’s continuing drama casting department. Emma has a kind and nurturing approach to working with actors and creates a safe and nurturing space for actors to learn and thrive. 

Emma’s work to date includes: Holby City, Doctors, Casualty, Father Brown, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Shakespeare and Hathaway, The Canterville Ghost, Bruno.

She has chosen five pieces for you to self-tape during the workshop, and will leave her written comments on each one submitted by the daily deadline. At the end of the workshop Emma will host a live Q&A Webinar session on Friday April 5th at 6pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH RAE HENDRIE – starts Saturday April 6th 2024

Rae Hendrie is the Casting Director behind Rae Casting which she started in 2022 after over 20 years in the industry as an actress and then in casting training under some of the UK’s top casting professionals. During this time she worked on projects including ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’ (BBC), BAFTA award winning ‘There She Goes’ (BBC4) and ‘Industry’ (HBO) – Winner of the RTS award for “Best Casting 2021 Julie Harkin & Rae Hendrie”.

Since going alone, Rae has cast The Couple Next Door, Hotel Portofino, Suspect 2 and several original series which are due for release in 2024.

As an actress Rae worked at theatres including Glasgow Citizens, The Manchester Royal Exchange, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and appeared as a regular in Monarch of the Glen. 

She has chosen five roles and will leave her written feedback on each submission. At the end of the workshop Rae will host a live Q&A Webinar on Friday April 12th at 6pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH KRISTIAN WALL – starts Saturday April 6th 2024

Kristian holds a BA (Hons) in Acting from ArtsEd and is a Stage One Bursary recipient. Although he started his career as an actor, Kristian quickly transitioned to the other side of the industry. He began his journey as a Talent Manager’s Assistant at Olivia Bell Management & then 42 M&P before becoming a Casting Assistant for Sue Needleman, Rob Kelly, and currently Andy Pryor.

As someone from a working-class background, Kristian takes great pride in his accomplishments as the Co-Executive Director of the charity Just Add Milk (JAM). 

Casting Assistant Credits: Doctor Who S14 & 15 (BBC/Disney+); The Devils Hour S2 & 3 (Amazon); After the Flood (ITV); Code of Silence (ITV); Maryland (ITV); The Winter King (ITVX); Ugh (Disney); Danny and Mick (Tiger Aspect); Supa Team 4 (Netflix) and The Dumping Ground (CBBC).

Producing Credits: I, Deserve (R&D 2023); Biscuits for Breakfast (R&D 2022/ Hampstead Theatre 2023); Who Cares (VAULT Festival 2020); Digging Deep (VAULT Festival 2019) and Year10 (Edinburgh Fringe/ Tabard Theatre).

Kristian has chosen five pieces of material for you to attempt. You will receive a piece each night at 7pm, and you will have up to 24 hours to upload your interpretation of it to the site. Kristian will provide his professional feedback on each upload.

At the end of the course on Saturday April 13th at 10am UK time there will be a live Q&A Webinar with Kristian where you can ask him any questions.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


FIVE-DAY FEEDBACK WITH JEMIMA McWILLIAMS v3 – starts Saturday April 6th 2024

Jemima works closely with casting legend Debbie McWilliams and has most recently cast the latest Bond film NO TIME TO DIE, the animated feature THE AMAZING MAURICE, FATIMA starring Harvey Keitel and independent feature film CRY ME A RIVER.

She is looking forward to hosting you during this third version of her five-day online workshop.

At the end of the workshop Jemima will host a live Q&A Webinar on Monday April 15th at 7pm UK time.

UK£35 / €42 / US$50 / CAD$60 / AUD$69 / NZ$70


OTHER RESOURCES


SELF-TAPE SHOWREEL SCENES – starts on the day you sign up

A series of modules containing specially written, short and punchy pieces of material that are intended to help you create a focussed bespoke showreel to illustrate your talents in a specific genre. Rather than have a one-size-fits-all showreel, now you can delve into a library of scripts and put together relevant scenes and characters that can be closer to what a casting director is actually looking for for any given project.

Each genre module contains at least 25 pieces, released over the course of five consecutive days, with the opportunity to share your interpretations for feedback from your peers. In most of the material your character is the only one that speaks – all the attention is on you – but there are occasional scenes with other voices.

You can sign up whenever you like – day one begins as soon as you join – and you are granted permission to share your self-tapes as widely as you like on any platform.

All priced at:

UK£10 / €12 / US$12 / CAD$16 / AUD$18 / NZ$20

Here are the modules that are currently available:

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Period and Historical

Jane Austen-style writing, war and peace themes, youth and enthusiasm, love and marriage, treachery, fear and loathing, British and American.

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Sci Fi, Fantasy and Superheroes

Potions and magic, heroes and leaders, knaves and helpers, space pilots and androids, and superhero revelations and adventures.

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Workplace Comedy

Scenes set in offices, hospitals, schools, stores and restaurants, police stations and other places where work is conducted.

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Relationship Comedy

Romantic and platonic relationships, including first dates, friends and siblings, sarcasm, awkward crushes and expressions of love.

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Workplace Drama

Scenes set in lawyers offices and courtrooms, police stations and crime scenes, hospitals and other places of work.

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Romantic Drama

Initiating romantic relationships, declarations of love, fights and break ups.

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Family and Friends Drama

Scenes involving parents, children and friends talking about love, life and each other.

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Horror and Thriller

 Villains and victims, cops and robbers, survival, revenge.


We follow Casting Society of America workshop guidelines:

 “These workshops are a learning experience. They are not an audition or employment opportunity. When the workshops are over, the casting director/associates hosting the workshops will not be given access to your headshot, resume or any other of your promotional materials”