COURSES AND WORKSHOPS 2020
We at Bazan Talent Agency offer high quality professional drama training for both stage and screen.
Our courses and workshops have received 100% satisfaction rates from actors and five star ratings.
We welcome all actors from any level and background to a professional, fun and friendly environment. Whether this be your first time training alongside us, or you are a returning student, we aim to ensure you learn new skills and techniques in your chosen subject, gain confidence and make new friends.
We believe that anything is possible and are here to support you with your determination to succeed!
Please find our official Spring programme 2020 below.
We are now taking bookings for all our courses and workshops listed.
To book or for any further enquires please e-mail:
We look forward to welcoming you to class!
''I cannot recommend the monthly workshops highly enough. Always taking a different aspect of the profession, the advice given and positive atmosphere helps you gain confidence and improve your own techniques. Well, it's certainly helping me!'' -Kerry Frater
''I've been attending workshops with Bazan Talent Agency, & they're great fun. I've met lovely people and I've been learning a lot. I'd definitely recommend these classes/workshops! ''- Leona Igoe
SPRING PROGRAMME
Courses -March- June 2020
*****- ‘An exhilarating course on how
to self-tape for auditions! I am much
more confident in putting myself up
for screen and TV roles via self-taping
to which I am immensely grateful for.
A course that gives you a leap of new
skills and knowledge.’ -Chris Edwards
*****- ‘The self-tape course is brilliant!
I learnt so much during this course
and can not wait to return to another!’
-Fattah Ahmed
*****- ‘An amazing course that has
made me much more confident with my self-
self -taping and learning about sight
reading was extremely helpful!’ –
Corey Thompson
Self Tape Course
March-April 2020
Level: All levels welcome. /LIMITED SPACES REMAIN
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Cole Room
Dates: 5-week course/ Commencing Thursday Evenings.
Thursday 5th/ 12th/ 19th/ 26th March and 2nd April 2020
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: £125pp / *£50 deposit is required to secure place.
Our self- tape course returns! Following a 100% satisfaction rate and students leaving with more confidence and knowledge about self-taping we ensure that you are learn about how to make a professional self-tape.
Covering self-taping for screen including, commercials, television and film we give you the tricks of the trade and of course the absolute do’s and don’ts and an insight from a casting directors perspective.
We demonstrate examples of unsuccessful self-tapes and successful tapes enabling you to analyse for yourself also.
Each week you are given a self-tape to do which is then watched back in class to show your progress and personal growth!
Plus, we also film and record your monologues in class with high quality camera’s ensuring you receive a copy for you own personal use and your show reel!
To book or for any questions please e-mail:
Accents and Phonetics Course
Term Two
May-June 2020
Level: All levels welcome.
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Cole Room
Dates: 5-week course/ Commencing Wednesday Evenings.
Wednesday 6th/ 13th/ 20th/ 27th May and 3rd June 2020
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: £125pp / *£50 deposit is required to secure place.
Howdy! You alright' our kid? Good day to you sir!
Accents. The one thing that can help broaden your casting versatility as an actor.
Whether they are foreign to you or you wish to perfect them, our accent course teaches you phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and a range of accents including: Southern American States, Liverpool, Scottish and RP, plus we will also cover an accent of your choice!
Including articulation exercises and tongue twisters this course is set for any actor who wishes to learn how to be able to practise and learn any accent.
To book or for any questions please e-mail:
***** ''The screen acting course was a refreshing approach and I learnt how to recognise what I express on screen!''- Jack Whitehurst
***** ''We receive feedback each week and we focused on learning new skills. I gained more confidence and understood the technical approach to screen acting.''-Ariya Larker
Screen Acting 5 Week Course
Immersive Practical Training
May-June 2020
Level: All levels welcome./ LIMITED SPACES REMAIN
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC)
Dates: 5 week course/ Commencing Thursday Evenings-
Thursday 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th May and 4th June 2020
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: £125pp / *£50 deposit is required to secure place.
Exploring screen acting through story and script, character and performance and acting methods and techniques, our screen acting course is for actors who wish to gain knowledge and skills both in front and behind the camera.
We introduce script analysis, cover your casting for the professional industry as well as self taping tips, ensuring you gain confidence with new skills that will help you for any given casting opportunity.
All tapes are recorded throughout the course using high quality camera's, enabling you to watch your personal growth and development each week as well as using them for your own personal use!
To book or for any questions please e-mail:
Classical Studies Course
An introduction to classical plays
June 2020
Level: All levels welcome.
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) / Cole Room
Dates: 5 week course/ Commencing Monday Evenings-
Monday 1st /8th/15th/ 22nd and 29th June 2020
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: £125pp / *£50 deposit is required to secure place.
A brand new exciting course for any actor who wishes to explore classical plays and the works of some of 'the most important plays every actor should read' (The Stage).
This 5 week course will cover the language, text and history of some of the most famous plays and writers in history including William Shakespeare, John Ford, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Euripides.
With an introduction to classical texts, this course ensures that you gain confidence in handling and approaching classical plays and their language as well as knowledge on what influenced them to be written.
To book or for more information please e-mail:
Uta Hagen Advanced Acting Course
Term Two
June 2020
Level: All levels welcome.
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) / Cole Room
Dates: 5 week course/ Commencing Tuesday Evenings-
Tuesday 2nd /9th/16th/ 23rd and 30th June 2020
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: £125pp / *£50 deposit is required to secure place.
Considered as one of the most greatest theatre and acting practitioners of all time, this course introduces and focuses the teachings of Uta Hagen and her respect for acting.
Covering her 9 questions, exercises and techniques for attention to detail, over the period of 5 weeks, this course will allow you to step in and be challenged whilst recognising your mistakes and allowing you to grow to give your best honest and believable performance.
To book or for more information please e-mail:
SPRING PROGRAMME
Workshops -March-May 2020
Cast Me!
Casting Workshop
All Levels Welcome/ Age 16+
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC)
Date: Sunday 8th March 2020
Time: 12pm-2pm
Cost: £20pp
Casting. No doubt as an actor you have heard the word!
So what is your casting? And your playing age? And what are you likely to be cast for the professional industry? What do your headshots say about you? And what do you say about you?
Join us for this afternoon session of being able to answer all your casting questions so that you are confident in knowing the type of characters you will be cast in the professional acting world. Including characters for theatre, television and commercials.
To book or for any questions please e-mail:
Shakespeare Workshop
with Special Guest Andrew Potter
Level: All levels welcome. / LIMITED SPACES REMAIN
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC)
Date: Sunday 5th April 2020
Time: 12pm-3pm
Cost: £28pp
To be or not to be? Now that really is the question isn't it actors?
Join us for an exciting afternoon with special guest Andrew Potter, who is an acting tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and theatre director, whose credits include Shakespeare's Macbeth
(Midland Opera, Crescent Theatre) Julius Ceaser (Everyman Theatre Cheltenem) and Titus Adronicus ( The Courtyard London).
With an introduction to Shakespeare's language and text plus exercises that enable the actor to explore Shakespeare at it's very best, this workshop is one not to be missed!
To book or for more information please e-mail: