Elliot Levey:The Art of the Supporting Actor
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- Date
- Archive Event
- Time
- Friday, 2.30pm - 4pm
- Venue
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Type
- Masterclass
Join Olivier award-winner, Elliot Levey, for our first Masterclass of 2023!
Elliot won an Oliver for Best Supporting Role in a Musical in 2022 for the role of Herr Shultz in Rebecca Frecknall’s West End production of Cabaret.
Many young performers will start their careers in supporting roles. In this practical session, Elliot will explore the role of the Supporting Actor in serving the play, rehearsal room and production. Through a selection of scene studies, (participants will be chosen on the day) Elliot will discuss how to bring yourself comfortably, instinctively, and generously to the process.
“When you sign a contract, you are joining a community. There are two plays taking place - on stage and off stage. Knowing your role in both is important for any actor.”
Join us for to meet your fellow Masterclass members in our Afterclass, pop down to our stalls bar after the Masterclass for a drink and a catch up! You could make your next creative collaboration!
Biography
THEATRE INCLUDES: Cabaret (Kit Kat club at the Playhouse) for which he won the Olivier award for the role of Herr Shultz. Good (Harold Pinter Theatre), Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida), Snowflake (Kiln Theatre), Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre), Mary Stuart (Duke of York’s Theatre), Saint Joan and Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s), Canvas (Chichester), Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath). Productions at the National Theatre include Danton’s Death, The Habit of Art, All’s Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice, His Dark Materials and Henry IV Parts I & II. On Religion (Soho Theatre), Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory), Beasts and Beauties (Bristol Old Vic), Tonight We Fly (Trestle), Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead & Liverpool Everyman), Love’s Work (Gate), Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (RSC), Monkey! (Young Vic), If I Were Lifted Up From Earth, Milk and Blood, Arabian Nights (BAC) Proposals (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Reckless Are Dying Out (Lyric Hammersmith), The Warp and Pidgin Macbed (Ken Campbell)
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Quiz, The Amazing Mr Blunden, The Child in Time, Press, Man Down, Martin’s Close, Anne, State of the Union, Peaky Blinders, Da Vinci’s Demons, Life, Truth Seekers, Watergate, Black Earth Rising, Grantchester, Parade’s End, Robin Hood, A Touch of Cloth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ripper Street, The Wrong Mans, Jamaica Inn, Silent Witness, Hotel Babylon, New Tricks, Fat Friends and Lovejoy.
FILM CREDITS INCLUDE: The Chamber, Spooks, Denial, Fallen, The Wall, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Lady in the Van, The Low Down, Philomena and The Queen.