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The Actor's Practice
ADVANCED ACTOR TRAINING
WITH HELENA WALSH AND GUEST TEACHERS
CHRIS EDMUND & BENJAMIN MATHES
April 1st to June 12th 2020
THE
ACTOR'S
PRACTICE
ADVANCED ACTOR TRAINING
Helena Walsh Voice and Acting Studio, in collaboration with one of
L.A.'s top Acting Coaches, Benjamin Mathes of Crash Acting & Chris
Edmund, celebrity coach & trainer to stars like Hugh Jackman is excited
to offer our advanced actor training in Dublin April 1st to June 12th
2020. All of our previous courses in Ireland and workshops in L.A. have
all SOLD OUT. To get on our waitlist, click here and send us an email.
The Details
JOHANNA
O' BRIEN Dates: April 1st to June 12th 2020
Days: Wed / Thurs / Fri
Actress
Morning Course : 9am to 1pm (10 weeks)
Krypton (2018)
Evening Course: 6.30pm to 9.30pm (12 weeks)
Rosie (2018)
Cost: €1700
Homecoming (2016)
Course Duration: 136 hours
"Helena is one of the Course Overview
most empowering This part-time 10 week advanced actor training practice uses
Fitzmaurice Voicework, Organic Intelligence and other leading
teachers I’ve ever voice and body methods with Helena Walsh covering
worked with"
Monologues
Scene Work
Audition Technique
Character Building for Stage & Screen.
We will use these techniques to build resilience in
the mind & body so that the imagination can be
free to create a more energised and vibrant sense
of self, character & story telling.
SAM This resilience will make it easier to risk in life,
in an audition, in the rehearsal room, on set &
MCGOVERN
on stage.
Actor
Michael Inside (2017) Plus Acting Masterclasses with Acting Coach
WAPPA, Australia, Director, Writer & Artist,
Striking Out (2017) CHRIS EDMUND & L.A. acting Coach,
The Overcoat (2018 Crash Acting L.A, Head of Production Seine
Pictures, BENJAMIN MATHES.
"The Actor’s Practice is
Not only that, Ben will also be giving his 4
among the most week “YOU, THE CAREER” workshop to help
thorough and enjoyable you totally rethink how you grow your career
in what is one of the most demanding
actor training I’ve done" industries in the world so that you stay in
control!
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About The Acting Masterclass
WITH BENJAMIN MATHES
This is a scene study-based guerilla approach to acting.
The scene work is about being in and experiencing the
story, building a belief in story through specific tools given
by Ben to give you an unshakable craft so that you can risk,
JR BOURNE
be dangerous and more creative as the actors in the
Actor incarnate experience of your character.
| Teen Wolf • The 100 • Arrow
• Suits • Stargate SG-1 "This workshop reminds you that performance is a
physical, spiritual, and intellectual act of creation and
"Working with Ben fills
that you are up for the challenge.
my artistic soul and
constant desire to be Assiduously observant, unapologetically passionate,
more truthful, more Benjamin Mathes brings his practice of presence and
vulnerable, more honesty into monologue work and group exercises, and
gives participants permission and guidance to discover
adaptive to my growth"
their inspiration and strength."
~ Aoife Spillane-Hinks, Actor / Writer / Director
Co-Founder "Then This Theatre Company"
Associate artist with P.I.C.T. Classic Theatre
LOURIZA TRONCO
The Order • Night at the
Museum • Zapped
• Make it Pop
"As a working actor I
continue to seek for his
wisdom and
collaboration.
Work with him. You
won’t regret it."
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About "You, The Career" Workshop
WITH BENJAMIN MATHES
Every actor has a blind spot in their career.....Based on
the top-selling book, “You, the Career, this is the only
comprehensive career approach to be hosted by
SAG/AFTRA, and is the most in-depth approach to an
CODY KEARSLEY actor’s career in Hollywood....
Actor
—"Riverdale", This 4 week in-depth workshop meets Wednesday or Tuesday
"Power Rangers" evening from 5pm to 9pm for 4 consecutive weeks through a
Zoom call with Benjamin Mathes and during it, you will:..
“when it comes to
get out of the Corporate Economy, and into the Creative
reigniting your creative Economy.
passion, rewriting your identify & bust through EVERY block holding you back.
outlook, and digging master proven strategies for professional, personal, and artistic
growth.
deep into your process as conquer the social media of it all.
an artist. It made me get from where you are, to where you want to be.
think a lot!” meet some of the coolest people in the city and broaden your
COMMUNITY.
laugh, cry, think, feel, dream...repeat.
seriously revolutionize your ACTING CAREER..
Each participant will receive:...
a 130 page workbook only available to participants
a 25 page Actor Tool Kit with useful tracking methods, reading
KYLE SELIG lists, and even resources for parking in the city (it’s the little
things, right?!)
Actor
the Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, website, and contact for over
Broadway:
200 Casting directors in LA AND NYC.
"Mean Girls", "Book of
insights, exercises, research techniques,
Mormon", "Pippin"
networking solutions guaranteed to ignite your career
“A profound and 16 hours of extensive small group career
practical guiding voice guidance
an hour-long one-on-one CAREER
in an ever-changing CONSULTATION with Crash Acting founder
and unsure industry.” Benjamin Mathes at a discounted rate
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THE
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ADVANCED ACTOR TRAINING
About The Acting Masterclass
WITH CHRIS EDMUND
“There is not one job that I do when I’m not using one of
the pearls of wisdom that Chris gave us. He was a very
influential director, teacher and writer”
HUGH - Hugh Jackman
JACKMAN What to expect:
"There is not one job "In my workshops and teaching, I try, in a
that I do when I’m not supportive, creative atmosphere and environment,
to explore the notions of truth and authenticity in
using one of the pearls
the acting process. As people, we build up defences
of wisdom that Chris and armour to deal with life but success as an actor
gave us. He was a very depends on being open, free, receptive and
influential director, vulnerable.
teacher and writer"
I believe that by allowing the valves of feeling to
open, committing to scrupulous analysis of text for
acting clues, being in relationship and close contact
with one’s scene partner and allowing heart into
the work can bring formidable and often
unexpected results. I have had forty years of
experience worldwide as a teacher and director and
LIV O' DONOGHUE remain passionate and questing in my commitment
to nurturing actors to develop and further their
Actress & Dancer
craft and evolve as dynamic, resourceful, skilled
"The Patient Gloria"
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 and successful artists."
~ Chris Edmund
"Chris creates an
amazing space for play
that is both creative and
rigorous in what it
demands from you as an
actor."
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Our Aim
The Actor’s Practice is an experiential process from which the
individual builds an intimate relationship with their unique
creative process and being. It is about the actors evolution and
transformation through their life and art, so they embody their
craft in a way that can affect change on others and their
GRAEME COUGHLAN community
Actor
These 10 weeks will explore your communication and connection
"Wrecking The Rising"
with yourself, your character and your scene partner. The work
"Dialanna an gCogadh Mor"
on self will be the anchor, the inspiration from which character
will emerge and expression with the other will be enlivened. The
"Helena has been the key work will begin a dialogue between you, your creative process and
to unlocking the your relationship with society as a whole.
inspiration and
What we will work on:
creativity that existed
within" Fight / Flight / Freeze response / Personal & Performance
Anxiety.
Self Empowerment & Mental Well Being.
How to be a healthy actor in mind & Body
Increased Creativity through working with flow & energy in
the body and connecting that to monologue & scene work.
Having a Practice and a Process you can apply to your life and
your art.
How to build a character in your own subtle and unique way
NATHALIE CLEMONT Learning to embrace failure as a moment for potential and
growth.
Actress & Voiceover Artist Learning to trust your own creative impulses so that you can
"Nun On The Run", feel more comfortable in the unknown and therefore offer a
Purple Hare Theatre director your own unique interpretation of any given moment.
Company
"The Actor’s Practice There is no communication apart from
listening. Listening is the foundation on
has been a real game which all communication of self & story is
changer for me. I was an built and you will learn skills to become
actor, I became more aware of the power of your own
listening to yourself, your characters,
an artist" scene partners & others.
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ABOUT BENJAMIN MATHES
Benjamin has been an actor for over 20 years. On film,
television, and stage he has worked with artists such as
Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood, Academy
Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, Sam Raimi, Bradley Cooper,
Andy Garcia, Chris Rock, and Academy Award-winning
producer Brian Grazer. He received his MFA in Acting from
DANIEL SHARMAN the University of California, Irvine.
Actor
He serves as Head of Production for Seine Pictures, a film
Teen Wolf • The Originals •
Fear the Walking Dead • finance and production company in Hollywood, overseeing the
Medici creative development and production of each film. Recently,
"His classes are he Executive Produced the dark comedy, Murder of a
Cat (starring Greg Kinnear, J.K. Simmons, and Nikki Reed), and
truthful, inspiring
the biopic, Pele (in partnership with Brian Grazer and Ron
and much needed in Howard’s Imagine Entertainment).
world of quick fixes
and shallow As an acting instructor, Benjamin has taught or been on faculty
promises" at Auburn University, Cal State Northridge, University of San
Diego, University of Lima, Peru, Catholic University of Lima,
Theatre of Arts in Hollywood, UC Irvine, Arizona State
University, Western Michigan University, and the Lincoln
Center Director’s Lab. He is a certified Associate Teacher of
Fitzmaurice Voicework® and has served as a vocal and dialect
coach for major motion pictures, network television, and
theatres around the country.
KAMILA DYDYDNA
His acting studio, CRASH ACTING, inspires a guerrilla
Actress & Director
approach to acting driven by the idea that service is the context
"The Betrayal" 2017
for artistic greatness. His students have won or been nominated
"I learned tools for for Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Ovation Awards, and have
building a appeared on Broadway, as guest stars and series
regulars on television, and in major motion
continuous,
pictures. His studio has helped raised
personal practice over $10,000 for charities worldwide.
where I can develop
my strengths
further"
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ABOUT BENJAMIN MATHES
Benjamin is the author of three books detailing and
investigating the creative process, including bestselling book
You, the Career: The Path to Artistic and Professional
Alignment. A holistic, practical guide, You, the Career will
challenge, excite, and ground you in yourself—your most
valuable asset.
CONOR DUFFY His first book Thought Lozenges for Artists, is a daringly
optimistic, “open-where-you-want” look into the creative
Actor
process, and the second, CRASH {Unstuck Yourself}, is a guided
"The Little Prince" with
Tartarus Theatre Company journal designed to directly combat the blocks holding us from
our creative potential.
"I would highly
recommended any Benjamin is the founder of Urban Confessional: A Free
Listening Movement. Started as a way to challenge
actor who feels lost
conventional actor training, Urban Confessional is a
in their careers to
community of artists who believe people should be heard. They
study in the actors stand on street corners all over the world with signs that say
practice." "Free Listening" — and you can imagine what happens next.
Their work has been featured in magazines, academic
publications, and blogs, and on radio and television.
He is also a speaker who helps people maximize their creativity.
He has delivered keynote addresses and led workshops for
schools and organizations across the country, including Citrix,
Vistage, Girl Scouts of America, PrimePower Services,
WeWork, AdVentures, DePauw University, Auburn University,
University of California–Irvine, and many more.
JOE CLINTON
Actor
"This training truly
revolutionised my
approach towards
acting and personal
creativity"
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ABOUT CHRIS EDMUND
Chris Edmund is a director, teacher, writer & painter based in Australia.
He was Head of the Acting Department at The Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where he had a major role in
developing the world renowned acting and directing training for over
25 years. Over the period he spent at the Academy he directed over
100 productions of a range of classical, contemporary and new plays.
He championed new writing, commissioned works from leading
ANDREW HEARLE writers and brought in directors of national and international standing.
Actor
He was active in positioning his course internationally and visited Hong
"Peter Allen:
Not the Boy Next Door" (2015),
Kong, Dublin, Paris, London, Havana, St Petersburg and Moscow to set
"Don't Stop for No One" (2017) up exchanges between other Theatre schools and Theatre companies.
"Spirit of the Game" (2016). Chris wrote and devised a series of major plays which were superbly
reviewed and have been published. ‘Society needs work such as
"he pushes us as Edmund’s, theatre that compels us to question what those in power are
doing in our names’ Neville Cohn reviewing ‘The Butcher’s Dance.’
actors to be in
relationship with
Actors trained under his guidance include Hugh Jackman, Frances
the other actors on O’Connor and Jai Courtney.
stage to work
“There is not one job that I do when I’m not using one of the pearls of
together and take
wisdom that Chris gave us. He was a very influential director, teacher
the focus off and writer”
ourselves"
- Hugh Jackman.
Chris is a published playwright with his work receiving high critical
acclaim and as a painter he has had several exhibitions. He has directed
over 150 productions worldwide including works in London (Gate
Theatre (Comic Pictures, Loonies), Riverside Studios (The Sea), Hong
Kong (APA The Cherry Orchard, The Caucasian Chalk Circle), Dublin
(Dirty Laundry) Sao Paulo, Brazil, ( Redemption) and
CHRISTINA Singapore. (History of the Jade Chopsticks)
MCMAHON
Actress & Comedian
His work ‘Dirty Laundry’ which I wrote and directed
"Ireland's Got Talent" 2019 from a commission by the National Theatre School
"Mayo for Sam Song 2019" of Ireland, was performed at the Smock Alley
Theatre Dublin in July 2014
"Chris completely
changed the way I
approach my work"
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ABOUT CHRIS EDMUND
In 2015, Hugh Jackman, in New York, honoured Chris with a
scholarship in my name, The Chris Edmund Performing Arts
Scholarship. Chris presented the scholarship at a WAAPA ceremony
in October 2015.
In 2015 Chris visited Mumbai to teach a series of workshops for
leading Indian actors and was The Pronouncer on the highly
Actor
successful Channel Ten reality show The Great Australian Spelling
"The Crucible", The
Everyman, Cork 2020
Bee, for which he was a Logie nominee.
"I cannot His most recent work ‘Bacon and Eggs’ was performed at the Old
recommend Chris’s Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney receiving superb reviews. The Sydney Arts
Guide commented: “I see up to six shows a week and while it’s rare to
Workshop highly find a dud on the Sydney theatre scene, it’s just as rare to have an experience
enough" that is so odd and wonderful that I almost don’t want to share. Bacon and
Eggs, at the Old Fitz Theatre, is this moment for me.”
In 2015, Hugh
Jackman honoured Bacon and Eggs available for performance here as are his plays ‘The
Chris Edmund Butcher’s Dance’, ‘Before I Get Old’ and ‘The Devil’s Tunic’. His play
with a scholarship ‘Paradise” is published in NYC by Playscripts, Inc.
in his name: The
Chris Edmund “Taut, witty, intelligent, and emotionally compelling with complex and
Performing Arts fascinating characters” ~ Hugh Jackman commenting on Paradise.
Scholarship.
In 2016 and 2017 Chris recorded a new series of The Great Australian
Click Spelling Bee and worked at the V.C.A and Sixteenth Street in
here Melbourne and the ATYP in Sydney.
In 2018 he was commissioned to write and direct a new theatre work
for the City of Geraldton in Western Australia to be premiered in
Chris June 2019.
Edmund on
Coming Up Also in 2018 he worked in Vancouver as Voice Director on seasons
two and three of Netflix Emmy Award winning show ‘Beat Bugs’ and
Next also in Los Angeles on ‘Motown Magic’ he worked
Podcast as Voice Director on both shows in Sydney, for
their release on Channel 7, Australia.
For more info on Chris
Click See his website at www.chris-edmund.com
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ABOUT HELENA WALSH
Helena Walsh is one of Ireland’s leading coaches in the Irish film and
theatre industry for young up and coming actors, preparing them for
screen and stage alike. Helena teaches and hosts workshops all over the
world. She is Artistic Director and founder of her own Voice and Acting
Studio ‘Helena Walsh Voice and Acting Studio' in Dublin, Ireland. It is
an innovative, cutting edge, studio for artists around the world. She
invites some of the finest international teachers in the industry to co-
teach with her at her studio. The studio acts as a centre for cutting edge
CHRIS EDMUND
practice for an interdisciplinary approach to a truly empowered,
Acting Coach creative, vibrant and embodied actor and human being.
WAPPA, Australia
Director, Her mission with her work is to empower each actor to discover their
Writer & Artist unique creative intuition and foster it so they stand out because of their
differences. She gives them skills that ensure their resilience and artistry
"She is a within the industry. She offers them a practice and a process that they
can continue to foster their craft through for the years ahead. She has
remarkable teacher
created a truly unique approach to acting from her thirty years of
and it has been my research and practice.
privilege to have
Helena trained and worked as an actress and singer for many years
worked with her" before becoming a voice and acting coach. Over the past twenty five
years she has worked as a vocal coach on many professional productions
as well as theatre and film training programmes worldwide. Including
The Gaiety School of Acting, the National Theatre School of Ireland,
Trinity College Dublin on the B.A. in Acting and University College Cork
on the B.A in Theatre Studies.
Internationally, Helena has taught at NYU’s overseas theatre programme
for ten years consecutively; Eolia Conservatory Of Dramatic Arts,
ANDREA
Barcelona; Shanghai Theatre Academy, China; The Accademia Dell’Arte,
AINSWORTH Tuscany, Italy; The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and T.V. in
Ljubljana, Slovenia and UCLA, California and at Crash Acting Studio,
Vocal Director,
L.A.
The Abbey Theatre,
Dublin, Ireland She is also Director of the Fitzmaurice Voicework
Community in Europe, a community of forty-two
"The high voice coaches, across 20 countries who are
standards she practitioners and artists dedicated to making change
maintains make initially within themselves and then in others
and their communities through targeted instruction
her a true and training.
master teacher"
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ABOUT HELENA WALSH
She runs retreats biannually in West Cork, Ireland with Benjamin
Mathes, founder of Crash Acting, L.A. She also runs her own advanced
training which provides unique insight to a process based creative
practice for actors.
She feels very strongly about giving back to the community and initiated
a "Well being for Actors" Programme to build a resilient, thriving and
BENJAMIN MATHES nurtured community of artists. By bringing artists together in the
everyday, through walks, well being & resiliency workshops, aikido
Acting Coach &
classes, weekly excursions and monthly music sessions. Helena also
Founder
leads a “ Free Listening,” project which she hosts weekly in Dublin as
Crash Acting L.A
part of the Urban Confessional Movement worldwide.
Head of Production
Seine Pictures "Our task as artists is to tell stories and what better way to nourish those stories
then nurturing your own life as it unfolds. Accepting and practicing what it is
"among the best you need in your life so you can give a deeply creative expression of the human
teachers of acting, experience to your audience." ~ Helena Walsh
voice, and body in
Helena has been co-director of “The Fourth & Fifth International
the world" Freedom & Focus Fitzmaurice Voicework Conference” in Dublin, 2016 &
London, 2018. Teachers and performers came from all disciplines in the
art world to liberate their voices and listen beyond the borders of their
own experience and history.
She is also an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, from The
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London
and holds a Certificate in Roy Hart Training from the ‘Centre Artistic
International, Roy Hart’, France. Helena is a moderator on ‘The End of
KEVIN CRAWFORD Trauma international online course, which now functions on a
worldwide basis.
Master Voicework
Teacher.
She is currently training in Organic Intelligence in Switzerland on their
Co-founder of Roy Hart
Human Empowerment and Resilience Training Programme, which
International Artistic
works on PTSD, Anxiety and Stress, offering tools to help
Centre, France actors and students move beyond trauma, integrating it
into their lives and using it as a source of creative
"She combines empowerment.
terrific intuition
with a wealth of This HEART training is ground breaking in the field of
positive psychology, clinical and somatic training and
experience and personal development. It uses proven methods drawn
empirical knowledge" from the science of self organization.
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ABOUT HELENA WALSH
“I want artists to have rich, complex human experiences available to
them in their lives, as well as their art form, and not just feel that they
only come alive when they're on camera.”
~ Helena Walsh
Training and Certifications
CRAIG DEUCHAR European Director Fitzmaurice Institute
Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Voice & Empowerment Certificate in Roy Hart Training
Coach, Certificate in Knight Thompson Speechwork
London Organic Intelligence® HEART Training® Modules 1,2, 3 & 4
Organic Intelligence® HEART Moderator
"Her work is a B. A in English Literature & The Classics, U.C.D. Dublin, Ireland.
living breathing, Diploma in Acting from the Conservatory of Music & Drama, Dublin,
Ireland
evolving process Classically trained singer for 7 years at The Conservatory of Music &
that gives each Drama
actor their own
practice"
Contact Details
www.helenawalshvoicecoach.com
helenawalshvoiceandbodystudio@gmail.com
+353 (086) 854 8885
Helena Walsh
"Speaking of...
Conversations on
Voice, Speech &
Identity"
Podcast
with Ryan O' Shea
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