The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting ! Advanced Professional-Intensive Programme Scholarship! ! The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is delighted to announce the return of their annual half- scholarship, ofering one actor or actor/director a subsidised place on the 16-month intensive Post-Graduate-Equivalent Actor or Actor-Director Programme, and training from some of the !world’s leading acting coaches, which can be applied for via an online submission process. Actors and actor/directors are invited to submit a one-minute long video audition piece; a shortlist [maximum of 10] will be invited to an audition-day in London with Giles Foreman. The person chosen will earn a scholarship granting them a place on the postgraduate course for 50% of !the standard fee, worth over £5,750, and access to some of the finest acting training available. The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is a privately-run studio based in Dean Street, Soho in London’s West End, with bases in Paris, Zurich, Luxembourg and - in 2016 - joined by New York. The studio actively seeks to open up its training to all, and despite being a self-funded institution, !is exploring ways to reach out to talent irrespective of the financial or social background. It was set up by Giles Foreman, one of the foremost acting coaches who taught for many years at the original Drama Centre London, where many of today’s leading actors trained such as Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Ruta Gedmintas (Che, Heroes) and Santiago Cabreras (Borgias). Giles is supported by Christopher Fettes, co-founder of Drama Centre who has trained actors including Colin Firth, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Simon Callow, !and Sir Anthony Hopkins. Richard Listor was the recipient of the 2013 award and said: “Being ofered the Giles Foreman scholarship was massive. Before, I had all but written of the idea of post-graduate actor training as something entirely inaccessible to me. Now I’ve had the opportunity to train with fantastic teachers, to get equipped and !get prepared for life as a professional actor.” ! Richard Listor & Richard Mason in ‘Phoenician Women’ On the scholarship, Giles Foreman said: “The scholarship has been very successful, and we’re ofering the same opportunity every year in order to reach out to young actors, irrespective of their personal circumstance or location. Whilst we’re a self-funded institution competing in challenging times, we’re aware that incredibly talented actors slip through the net due to their personal !means. We hope that the scholarship can enable those from all types of backgrounds to apply.” The acting philosophy of the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is broadly in line with that of the original Drama Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv: a teaching team and school that trained some of the great UK actors of our generation – Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Helen McRory, Anne Marie Duf, Paul Bettany, Lambert Wilson, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Santiago Cabrera, Geraldine James, Frances de la Tour – to name but a few. Christopher Fettes continues to ofer master-classes in directing and classical text analysis at the studio.

[email protected] Tel: +44 [0]20 7437 3175 Giles Foreman 2a Royalty Mews [entrance next to Quo Vadis] Centre for Acting 22-25 Dean Street, London W1D 3AR A LEADING PROFESSIONAL ACTING STUDIO 23/04/2016 IN THE HEART OF LONDON www.gilesforeman.com Submissions open in February each year and close on July 6. Those shortlisted will be invited to an audition day at the studio in July, at which point further financial information is requested; the !decision is announced by 1 August. For further information, please visit www.gilesforeman.co.uk. SUBMISSIONS • Choose a monologue / extract of no more than 1 minute in length to record and send via www.wetransfer.com or videolink to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Giles Foreman Centre for Acting Scholarship Submission’. • We require those submitting videos to send links to their video files, or to upload via YouTube / Vimeo (videos can be set to private on both). • Actor/ directors should also provide a statement about their directing experience. • Download the application-form from the ‘Full- time Courses’ page on the website [or we will send out by email] and send the completed form via email or post. • Videos will not be judged on production quality, but due to the predicted number of submissions, please ensure the audio-visual quality is of a good enough standard to be appropriately assessed. • Those shortlisted will be given at least 10 days confirmation of the audition-day in London, at which point further financial information is requested. • A decision will be made on the scholarship no later than 1 August, with the successful candidate ! expected to enrol in September of that year. ! ! Production stills from ‘The Bacchae’ 2015

[email protected] Tel: +44 [0]20 7437 3175 2a Royalty Mews [entrance next to Quo Vadis] 22-25 Dean Street, London W1D 3AR 23/04/2016 www.gilesforeman.com