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A rebroadcast workshop with Avery Jean Brennan and Michelle Langille
- Original Air Date: August 25, 2020
- Webinar Length: 1 hour and 53 minutes
- Available August 23 to September 23, 2021
Whether you’re in an audition room, or submitting your audition virtually from a living room, success tastes the sweetest when you can be yourself and own your audition.
This workshop pulls back the curtain to reveal why it’s important to be yourself in an audition and explores how to prepare for that audition – from both sides of the table. Geared towards all levels of experience, from the student preparing for their first audition to emerging directors looking to gain some tips on running the room, the workshop will cover all facets from where to find or post your audition calls to how to prepare for the audition room and to how to manage all the factors beyond your control. Avery Jean Brennan (They/Them) and Michelle Langille (She/Her) will draw from their personal experiences of auditioning, casting a show and how their experiences as Directors have influenced their audition skills as performers.
Facilitators
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Avery Jean Brennan
Avery Jean Brennan (They/Them) is a Transfeminine actor, director, musical director, playwright, and producer. Over the past five years, they have facilitated workshops on Trans Inclusive Practices in the Arts, which they have led for theatre and film production companies across Canada. Recently, they were nominated for the Bra d'Or Award from the Playwrights Guild of Canada for their advocacy work.
Avery Jean received their musical direction training through various Associate and Apprentice positions in theatres across Canada, including a residency through Neptune Theatre's RBC Chrysalis Project. They have studied writing under dramaturg Christopher Weddell, composer/lyricist Leslie Arden, and through The Musical Stage Company's NoteWorthy program. Avery Jean's first original musical, The Pansy Craze, was the recipient of Queer Theatre Toronto's inaugural LGBTQ Fringe Award for pushing boundaries in representation for Queer & Trans characters in musical theatre.
They are currently writing the book for multi-award winning songwriter Gabrielle Papillon's new musical, Mind the Light. Their most recent appearance as a performer was for a digital semi-staged presentation of their latest original work, No Country for They/Thems, which they produced through Eastern Front Theatre's Stages Festival.
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Michelle Langille
Michelle Langille (She/Her) ia an Actor/Director/Producer/Playwright, and sometimes Stage Manager, who aims to support and create theatre by any means she can. Michelle trained at the Canadian College of Performing Arts and then studied Classical Theatre at George Brown College. She has been a member of Nightwood Theatre’s Write from the Hip program, Generator’s Artist Producer Training Program and Neptune Theatre’s Chrysalis Project as a director.