Is your young star preparing for upcoming auditions or castings? Give them the edge with our comprehensive Industry development day! Sunday 20th July 2025. ArtsEd, London Sign in - 9:45am Start - 10:00am Guardians return for Q&A 5:00 - 5:30pm Designed to enhance musical theatre and screen acting abilities, this program offers: Audition technique refresher workshops Professional headshot update Create a self-tape for their spotlight. Q&A session for parents and performers. Led by our exceptional team of industry professionals, this one-day intensive ensures your young performer is "Audition Ready". Young performers will be required to learn a monologue to bring along on the day and groups will be streamed on age. In order to achieve a polished, successful showreel performers must ensure their monologue is well learnt and casting appropriate (Some options will be sent out closer to the time to assist and these will be workshops and developed with the team on the day). Our development day is primarily targeted at those already exploring opportunities or represented by an agent as opposed to our industry experience days aimed at those seeking representation or taking their first steps into seeking professional opportunities. For questions please email: [email protected]

If youre thinking of writing a memoir, make sure it is compelling to write, not just to read. Fanny Mills' two-hour workshop describes the techniques for generating that energy and direction in a memoir which she learned in writing hers. The session includes: The why; The struggle; The how; and The pitch how you distill it all down to a pithy concept which will make everyone pick your memoir up and devour it. Fanny offers a taster of her own acclaimed memoir Unravelled and a critique of her favourite memoirists, from Horatio Clare to Keggie Carew.

Join publisher and author Rose Sandy (founder of the HarperCollins Author and Design Academy) as she opens the crate of story gold and reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel. Whether you're plotting thrillers, adventure, romance, or fantasy, these questions are the cornerstone of compelling fiction. This talk is for anyone ready to turn creative sparks into unforgettable stories and discover how bestselling books are not just written, but engineered.

In this workshop from award-winning book marketer, TikToker and author, Eleanor Pilcher, you'll learn which social platform(s) work best for which genre, to authentically build your author brand online and develop an audience organically. This workshop will guide you through choosing the right platform for you, pinpoint where to start when posting content and how to create a manageable strategy that works for your time. Whether you're new to social media or looking to refine your usage, this workshop will pull back the curtain and make social media a long-term tool for success.

How could the Nazis commit the atrocities they did and why did the German people tolerate them? Former head of BBC TV History Laurence Rees discusses his groundbreaking and timely new book The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History , which blends history and cutting-edge psychological research, with broadcaster Julian Worricker. Rees traces the history of the Nazis while highlighting disturbing signs to look out for in modern political leaders.

In 1986, The Guardian was still a single-section, black-and-white newspaper. In the decade that followed, it faced a radical redesign, tense boardroom battles and the controversial acquisition of the Observer all played out against the fall of Margaret Thatcher, the toppling of the Berlin Wall and brutal conflicts in Iraq and Bosnia. Join author Ian Mayes and former editor Alan Rusbridger as they discuss the first volume of this new history of The Guardian , with BBC culture and media editor Katie Razzall.

Beloved sitcom actor Jeffrey Holland talks about his life at the heart of the British comedy scene, from Hi-De-Hi to You Rang, M'Lord and many more, detailed in his memoir The First Rule of Comedy . With co-author and British comedy historian Robert Ross, Holland reflects on the comedy greats who inspired his career and tells hilarious tales about those he has worked with.

Sam Peters spent over a decade investigating sports concussion crisis, spearheading a campaign that brought it from a niche issue for rugby union to front page news. His book Concussed: Sports Uncomfortable Truth , won the UK Sports Book of the Year award for outstanding sports writing and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Concussed expands Sam's research on rugby into football and NFL, and poses difficult questions about what sporting organisations need to change to keep their players safe. He talks to former TV sports correspondent James Munro.

Did you know your handwriting reveals more than words? Graphology is a powerful tool for understanding human behaviour and personality traits. The way we write tells the story of our development - from early childhood scribbles to the mature writing style we develop as adults. Join Christina Strang for an immersive, hands-on workshop where youll learn the fascinating art of graphology. Your handwriting tells a unique story - isn't it time you learned how to read it?

What happens to high-flying women when society decides they are past their amuse-by dates? In Kathy Lettes The Revenge Club , four women at the top of their game realise they are being overlooked in their personal lives and muscled out by less-qualified men at work. Instead of getting mad, they decide to get even and plan diabolical revenge. Kathy talks to comedian and actor Ronni Ancona about her wickedly subversive new novel. Bar open from 7pm

ArtsEd's BA Acting graduates present a double-bill separated by a 15 minute interval Love and Information Someone sneezes. Someone cant get a signal. Someone wont answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someones not ready to talk. Someone is her brothers mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someones never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Content warning: References to mental health, grief, suicide, torture, and potentially offensive language. Bad Roads In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action. Natal'ya Vorozhbit's play Bad Roads is a heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime. Content warning: Contains mature themes, strong language, and descriptions of violence, including sexual violence. It also references or portrays animal cruelty, PTSD, mental health disorders, sexism, misogyny, guns, drug use, suicide, and more. The play is set in Ukraine during wartime and may be triggering for those affected by current events.