Breath-taking - with Bryn Holding
Saturday 25th January 2025
10.30am - 4.30pm
About the Class:
Have you ever considered the impact taking a breath has on your performance? This workshop will highlight the importance of breath in the actor's process - encouraging you to move away from habitual breath patterns in order to open up a connection with the breath patterns demanded by the text, the character, and their situation. This workshop aims to make breath, which is the most fundamental and invisible of creative forces, a tangible part of your process.
About Bryn Holding:
Bryn graduated from LIPA in 2008 with a first class degree in acting and has had a career first as an actor and now as a theatre director.
Acting credits include work with the RSC, New Vic, Royal Exchange, Derby Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre By The lake, Tobacco Factory/Myrtle Theatre Co, York Theatre Royal/Pilot Theatre Co, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Liverpool Everyman.
Bryn is associate director of Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, Associate Artist for the Theatre Royal Bath and was resident Assistant Director at the New Vic Theatre (2016-2017). His directing work includes:Cinderella (Derby Theatre); Urinetown (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); Home Girl (Derby Theatre); The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); All Hands (Princess Theatre/Nornen Project); Across the Sky (Opera - Cheltenham Festivals)’ The Sloe Pickers, The Arrivals (Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg); The Snow Queen, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Owl and the Pussycat, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tales of Hans Christian Andersen and The Old Curiosity Shop (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co / Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); Brontê, Macbeth, The Grand Gesture (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); On The Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Common Lore (Award winning - Breakthrough Performance Rural Touring Awards 2019 for Stute Theatre/ Northern Broadsides); Little Potatoes, Tossers, (Out Of Your Mind New Writing Festival, Theatre Royal, Bath); Just Soph (Stute Theatre/New Vic Tour); Tail Trail to The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre, Studio); The Woodlanders (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham / Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co); King John (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath); Dogs of War (Theatre Royal Bath, Engage); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK Tour, Sell a Door); Did My Heart Love Till Now? (Bristol Shakespeare Festival); Player One Vs The World (Theatre 503).
Bryn regularly works as a guest acting lecturer. He recently led the Adult Theatre School for the Theatre Royal Bath's Engage Programme and is a guest director at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he currently teaches on the MA/MFA in Acting. Bryn is also an AHRC funded PhD researcher focusing Shakespeare and Breath: repositioning breath as a consciously creative tool in the contemporary performance of Shakespeare
Saturday 25th January 2025
10.30am - 4.30pm
About the Class:
Have you ever considered the impact taking a breath has on your performance? This workshop will highlight the importance of breath in the actor's process - encouraging you to move away from habitual breath patterns in order to open up a connection with the breath patterns demanded by the text, the character, and their situation. This workshop aims to make breath, which is the most fundamental and invisible of creative forces, a tangible part of your process.
About Bryn Holding:
Bryn graduated from LIPA in 2008 with a first class degree in acting and has had a career first as an actor and now as a theatre director.
Acting credits include work with the RSC, New Vic, Royal Exchange, Derby Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre By The lake, Tobacco Factory/Myrtle Theatre Co, York Theatre Royal/Pilot Theatre Co, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Liverpool Everyman.
Bryn is associate director of Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, Associate Artist for the Theatre Royal Bath and was resident Assistant Director at the New Vic Theatre (2016-2017). His directing work includes:Cinderella (Derby Theatre); Urinetown (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); Home Girl (Derby Theatre); The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); All Hands (Princess Theatre/Nornen Project); Across the Sky (Opera - Cheltenham Festivals)’ The Sloe Pickers, The Arrivals (Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg); The Snow Queen, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Owl and the Pussycat, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tales of Hans Christian Andersen and The Old Curiosity Shop (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co / Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); Brontê, Macbeth, The Grand Gesture (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); On The Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Common Lore (Award winning - Breakthrough Performance Rural Touring Awards 2019 for Stute Theatre/ Northern Broadsides); Little Potatoes, Tossers, (Out Of Your Mind New Writing Festival, Theatre Royal, Bath); Just Soph (Stute Theatre/New Vic Tour); Tail Trail to The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre, Studio); The Woodlanders (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham / Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co); King John (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath); Dogs of War (Theatre Royal Bath, Engage); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK Tour, Sell a Door); Did My Heart Love Till Now? (Bristol Shakespeare Festival); Player One Vs The World (Theatre 503).
Bryn regularly works as a guest acting lecturer. He recently led the Adult Theatre School for the Theatre Royal Bath's Engage Programme and is a guest director at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he currently teaches on the MA/MFA in Acting. Bryn is also an AHRC funded PhD researcher focusing Shakespeare and Breath: repositioning breath as a consciously creative tool in the contemporary performance of Shakespeare
Saturday 25th January 2025
10.30am - 4.30pm
About the Class:
Have you ever considered the impact taking a breath has on your performance? This workshop will highlight the importance of breath in the actor's process - encouraging you to move away from habitual breath patterns in order to open up a connection with the breath patterns demanded by the text, the character, and their situation. This workshop aims to make breath, which is the most fundamental and invisible of creative forces, a tangible part of your process.
About Bryn Holding:
Bryn graduated from LIPA in 2008 with a first class degree in acting and has had a career first as an actor and now as a theatre director.
Acting credits include work with the RSC, New Vic, Royal Exchange, Derby Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre By The lake, Tobacco Factory/Myrtle Theatre Co, York Theatre Royal/Pilot Theatre Co, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Liverpool Everyman.
Bryn is associate director of Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, Associate Artist for the Theatre Royal Bath and was resident Assistant Director at the New Vic Theatre (2016-2017). His directing work includes:Cinderella (Derby Theatre); Urinetown (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); Home Girl (Derby Theatre); The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); All Hands (Princess Theatre/Nornen Project); Across the Sky (Opera - Cheltenham Festivals)’ The Sloe Pickers, The Arrivals (Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg); The Snow Queen, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Owl and the Pussycat, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tales of Hans Christian Andersen and The Old Curiosity Shop (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co / Everyman Theatre Cheltenham); Brontê, Macbeth, The Grand Gesture (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); On The Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Common Lore (Award winning - Breakthrough Performance Rural Touring Awards 2019 for Stute Theatre/ Northern Broadsides); Little Potatoes, Tossers, (Out Of Your Mind New Writing Festival, Theatre Royal, Bath); Just Soph (Stute Theatre/New Vic Tour); Tail Trail to The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre, Studio); The Woodlanders (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham / Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co); King John (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath); Dogs of War (Theatre Royal Bath, Engage); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK Tour, Sell a Door); Did My Heart Love Till Now? (Bristol Shakespeare Festival); Player One Vs The World (Theatre 503).
Bryn regularly works as a guest acting lecturer. He recently led the Adult Theatre School for the Theatre Royal Bath's Engage Programme and is a guest director at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he currently teaches on the MA/MFA in Acting. Bryn is also an AHRC funded PhD researcher focusing Shakespeare and Breath: repositioning breath as a consciously creative tool in the contemporary performance of Shakespeare