Date: January 19th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

Rowland Beckley works as a casting director for the in-house BBC casting department and is currently casting Casualty and Eastenders.

Casting Continuing Drama offers the opportunity to discuss with Rowland his take on the casting process, to read for him and receive honest feedback and advice.

This listing is for females only so that we can achieve an equal gender split - males should book here for the same class: https://www.actorsguild.co.uk/seminar-info/?id=2532

The workshop will start with a brief introduction where Rowland will outline who he is, the productions he casts, and the format of the BBC shows he works on - including what he is looking for during an individual performance.

Rowland will receive your Spotlight CV prior to the workshop (please make sure it is up-to-date) and will then send out a scene for your to prepare a day or two before the workshop. This section of the workshop will take up the majority of the time as, having read your scene, Rowland will provide you with notes and direction before giving you the opportunity to read again.

TAG workshops offer a supportive environment in which to work. All members perform their scenes in front of each other - offering a unique insight and opportunity for us as a group. There will be a Q&A section at the end of the workshop.

Rowland Beckley: Rowland has worked in television for over 20 years and began his career on the Studio floor as a  Runner, going on to work as a 3rd AD and a trainee 2nd AD. But a love of acting & the theatre, led him into pursuing a career in casting. 

He has been casting for the past 17 years and has worked on numerous productions such as Being April, The Bill, Grease Monkeys & The Afternoon Plays

Rowland works as a casting director at the BBC's in-house casting department and is currently casting Casualty. He has also cast Father Brown, The Coroner,  I-Player Short My Jihad, Playing Ball, Doctors, Eastenders, Eastenders E20, I -Player Short Another World & Shakespeare & Hathaway. He also cast the 2021 BAFTA award winning episode of Casualty.

As well as casting, Rowland has recently been appointed as a Senior Leadership Advisor to the BBC Studios Senior Executive committee in which he brings a diversity of thinking into decision making at the very top of the BBC, helping to broaden mindsets and offer new perspectives that aid BBC Studios’ creative, financial and strategic objectives.