Natalie Beran Shakespeares Globe New Zealand Actors Fellowship

Hello! Natalie Beran here - actor, theatre/screen/radio producer, voiceover artist and super excited to be selected for the 2015 Shakespeare's Globe New Zealand Actor's Fellowship in London!

What's the Shakespeare's Globe New Zealand Actor's Fellowship you say?

The IAF is hugely exciting - a three-week intensive full time course of professional development opportunity. I'm one of 24 actors from countries including Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Kiribati, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea, USA, Australia and more, to share our own and learn from others' approaches to Shakespeare. We'll be learning from The Globe's Heads of Voice, Movement and Play, get unique one-on-one coaching of Globe experts, a wide range of workshop and talks, exploring the Globe's unique architecture, as well as exploring the music, movement and stage craft of Shakespeare's time. The programme concludes with a rare showcase performance on the Globe stage to an invited audience in the "Wooden O".

While I'm on the Fellowship I'll also have the chance to see the current Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse productions (Measure For Measure, Richard II + much more) and hopefully a West-End drama or two.

Of course an experience like this comes with a price-tag. There's fees, flights, accomodation and transport costs and I'm very thankful to The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand and it's amazing organiser Dawn Sanders, who has secured some amazing sponsorship from Creative New Zealand towards the fellowship. Thank you so so much!

To cover the rest of the budget - I've been saving hard, pulling maximum overtime shifts, chasing funding opportunities and we have a fundraising event before I fly out on Sept 16th.

There's still a way to go thou... so I ask pretty please if you could check the junk drawer for those leftover pounds and pence and help me here on Boosted to raise $3500. Anything over and above that would also be amazing and will be put towards extra workshops, including a voice-over masterclass.

One of my many hats (actor, theatre & radio producer, announcer & voice over artist, drama school manager) is producer of the AUSA Auckland Outdoor Summer Shakespeare. When I get back from the Globe I'll be full-on into producing The Tempest - so I can't wait to come back and share the skills and knowledge I'll be learning with everyone :)

Thank you!

For more info on all the projects run by the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand, check out  www.sgcnz.org.nz.  Thanks SGCNZ!