TEXT TO SCREEN with Award Winning Actor Vince Colosimo and Special Industry Guest, Australia’s Leading Prime-Time Television Casting Director, Nathan Lloyd Casting.
6 Week Program
Sundays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Commencing July 23, 2023
Vince Colosimo is one of Australia’s most recognised actors with an extensive and successful career across theatre, television and film. With an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the highly successful feature film Lantana and a featured role in the internationally acclaimed Chopper, he naturally attracted attention from the US earning guest starring roles in the top rating US series Without A Trace and the final series of The Practice. Vince’s latest film The Girl at the Window, starring alongside Radha Mitchell and Ella Newton was released worldwide in 2022. Prior to this, Vince starred in the SBS series Sunshine; feature film The Second opposite Rachael Blake and Susie Porter, and the Nine Network’s telemovie Underbelly Files: Chopper where he reprised his role as Alphonse Gangitano.
Vince first came to the public’s attention in the feature films Street Hero and Moving Out which earned him an AFI Award nomination for Best Actor and a Sydney Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Talent. He won the Empire Award for Best Australian Actor for his role in Walking on Water in 2003 and has also appeared in the features The Hard Word, The Nugget, Take Away, Opal Dream and Project Greenlight feature, Solo. Vince’s other feature film credits include Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Ridley Scott’s Body Of Lies alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and in 2010 he appeared opposite Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, and Claudia Karvan in the Spierig Brothers’ Daybreakers and reunited with Nick Giannopoulos in the sequel to The Wogboy – The Kings of Mykonos, Swerve directed by Craig Lahiff and Face to Face, directed by Michael Rymer. Both films screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Vince’s role in Face to Face earned him a nomination for Best Actor at Tulsa International Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Actor at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Vince has also worked extensively in television including the ABC’s The Warriors, series 2 of The Ex-PM, Janet King, the telemovie Jack Irish: Dead Point, Nine Network’s telemovie Schapelle and mini-series Fat Tony & Co., Spartacus: War of the Damned on the Starz Network, A Country Practice and the extremely popular The Secret Life of Us. His guest roles include; Offspring, Mr & Mrs Murder, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, City Homicide, Cops LAC, Blue Heelers, MDA, The Falls, Good Guys – Bad Guys, Halifax f.p, Stingers, Kath & Kim, Chris Lilley’s debut ABC series We Can Be Heroes, Bryan Brown’s Two Twisted, Carla Cametti PD, and in the second series of ABC’s The Librarians. His unforgettable performance as Alphonse Gangitano in Underbelly earned him nominations for an AFI Award and a Logie award and he went on to star in Nine’s telemovies Scorched, Wicked Love alongside Rebecca Gibney and Panic at Rock Island.
Vince has enjoyed a vibrant and successful theatre career, starring in productions of The Wogboys which toured nationally in sold-out venues and was later adapted to a feature film in which he co-starred. He has also performed in productions of The Club, Othello and Piaf for Melbourne Theatre Company and Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Joining us as our Special Guest is Australia’s leading and most in-demand Television Casting Director, NATHAN LlOYD from NATHAN LlOYD CASTING (NLC).
Nathan is one of the busiest Casting Directors in the country. His recent shows The Newsreader and Love Me dominated the Australian Award Ceremonies, taking out several awards including Best Drama Series, Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Most Outstanding Supporting Actress. Nathan himself was also awarded Best Casting in a Television Drama for The Newsreader by the Casting Guild of Australia. The critically acclaimed, multi award-winning drama is back for another season. Nathan’s other series Surviving Summer, filmed in Victoria, was a Netflix hit and was also confirmed for Season 2. Nathan has recently completed work on Safe Home (SBS/Kindling Pictures) starring Aisha Dee and Mabel Li, Love Me Series 2 (Warner Bros.) featuring Bojana Novakovic, Shalom Brune-Fanklin & Hugo Weaving, Queen of Oz (BBC One/Lingo Pictures) starring Catherine Tate, and Sleeping Dogs, starring Russell Crowe. He is currently in ongoing casting for High Country, Australia’s most anticipated drama series filming in Victoria, and starring Leah Purcell. He has many projects slated for 2023/2024.
As one of Australia’s leading casting directors, Nathan Lloyd has cemented a reputation for discovering new talent and creating memorable and original ensemble casts. His innate ability to introduce new faces to the screen and bring together diverse talent has earned rave reviews and led to multiple award-winning performances and career-defining roles. With almost two decades in the industry, some of his most acclaimed ensemble casts include Australia’s favourite eccentric family, The Proudmans, on Network Ten’s smash-hit show Offspring; the original cast for Nine Network’s multi award-winning Underbelly series and the unforgettable heart-wrenching women on Foxtel’s Wentworth – a global phenomenon having screened in over 150 territories, Nathan has cast 100 episodes from its launch in 2013. Nathan has cast the latest season of Nine Network’s HALIFAX Retribution; series four of Network Ten’s Five Bedrooms; MaveriX and All My Friends are Racist for the ABC, as well as Tim Minchin’s highly acclaimed series Upright.
Nathan has served on the Executive Committee of the Casting Guild of Australia, has been a member of the Casting Society of America since 2013 and holds a strong association with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The Text to Screen Program has been meticulously shaped to guide and encourage students to work on their specific areas requiring development, whilst bringing forth their strengths when screen-testing for prime-time drama. Vince works with actors both individually and as a company, assisting students to POP from moment one of an audition. Scenes are assigned to students throughout the term block, along with prep work for each session. For actors who participated in previous terms, they have another opportunity to work in this ongoing manner with our outstanding trainers & special guests. Continuing across the terms ensures stability in training & rehearsal, and consistency in terms of the guidance & feedback offered, with scenes selected to target specific areas of weakness and strength. The studio also welcomes actors to the program who have not participated in previous terms as they can begin this process, leading to a stronger understanding of the requirements of screen testing.
On the last week of term, students will screen-test for Nathan Lloyd from Nathan Lloyd Casting and Artistic Director of Film & Television Studio International/ CEO of McMahon Management, Craig McMahon.
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Term Dates: Sunday Program
Week 1: Sunday July 23, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Week 2: Sunday July 30, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Week 3: Sunday August 6, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Week 4: Sunday August 13, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Week 5: Sunday August 20, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Week 6: Friday August 25, 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Screen–Test Session with Australia’s leading Prime-Time Television Casting Director Nathan Lloyd Casting.
Course Fee
Instalment Plan: $100.00 deposit to secure your placement, then 10 weekly payments of $49.00
Paid in Full: $590.00 (GST Inclusive)
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