Audition Technique for Stage & Screen

Presented by Director/Casting Director Pat Golden –

To be held in person: 

Audition with confidence. Perfect your audition technique for stage or screen. Learn what Directors and Casting Directors are looking for in your theatre, film or TV audition. Director/Casting Director/HB Faculty Member Pat Golden will help you prepare for your next audition. She shares what Industry Professionals want to see in your audition.
In this 5-Week Audition Workshop, we will cover:
  • Selecting material
  • How to prepare
  • How to present yourself in an audition
  • Reading with another person
  • Cold Readings
  • Auditions for Stage and Screen and the differences between the two mediums
  • Auditioning On-Camera (a videographer will be provided in-class!)
Before the first day of class: Come prepared to deliver one monologue – dramatic or comedic  – appropriate for the Stage and one 2-person scene appropriate for the Screen on the first day of the Audition Workshop. Scenes are to be 2-3 minutes in length and please bring hardcopy of each scene. We will work on your scenes in class.

Pat Golden is a Director and Casting Director for theater and film. Film casting credits include: PLATOON, BLUE VELVET, THE KILLING FIELDS, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, NEW JACK CITY, DOWNTOWN EXPRESS, GIMME SHELTER, most recently, the international production of LIBERTY, and teaches The DIRECTOR’S NEW PLAY LAB at HB Studio. Directing credits include: over 25 productions for Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and Regional theaters, including ADRIFT, by Richard Alleman, ONAJE, by Robert Bowie, Jr. for FringeNYC 2018; THE BLASPHEMER, by Dan Curzon, at the Duke…read more

What participants are saying:

“I cannot over-stress the value of this workshop in the real world… Pat Golden is extremely knowledgeable in her field and, in a short time and by doing a great amount of work, I am able to produce materials necessary for a good audition, theatrical and screen, in this most changed world we live in.” – Susan Brickell, Actor

Current and Upcoming

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