Hal
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- Hourly rate $54
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RSC Theatre Director with 15 years professional experience based in south east London.
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About the lesson
Hal offers bespoke audition technique to aspiring actors. His aims are
- To radically improve an actor's classical & modern speeches
- Develop 'acting through song' technique
- To help improve student's confidence and interview technique
- Provide guidance on the different Drama Schools courses on offer
- Offer a good knowledge of the modern theatre industry
- To assist students all the way through their audition process
subjects
- Acting
- Musical Theater
- Puppeteer
languages
- English
levels
- All Levels
About Hal
Hal is an experienced stage director and education facilitator. He has spent the last two years working for the RSC where he has worked as an assistant director to Erica Whyman and Phillip Breen and directed work in his own right.
After gaining a degree from the University of Sussex, Hal trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the National Theatre Studio.
He has directed work around the UK for companies including Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, York Theatre Royal, Eastern Angles, Polka Theatre and The Barn Theatre Cirencester. His assistant directing credits include: Donmar Warehouse, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal and Bolton Octagon.
Hal is the Associate Director of RABBLE THEATRE in Reading where he has directed multiple critically acclaimed productions.
He has ten years experience leading projects and directing young people at Shakespeare's Globe Education. In 2009-2010 he was the Director in Residence at Eton College.
Hal has a passion for acting training and has led projects and directed shows for a number of leading drama schools across the UK. Credits include: Oxford School of Drama, RADA, LAMDA, Drama Studio London, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, ALRA, Year Out Drama Company, Identity School of Acting, Associated Studios and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Hal has created a great deal of puppetry-based work. He enjoys working collaboratively with puppet designers and puppeteers. He was the Artistic Director of critically-acclaimed touring puppetry company, Tucked In, for 14 years. Tucked In were supported by Lyric Hammersmith, Greenwich Theatre and Rich Mix. He has also led puppetry direction on West End musicals, stage plays and education workshops.
Finally, he has 15 years of experience working as an acting tutor. His previous students have gone on to train at the following drama schools:
- RADA
- LAMDA
- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Royal Academy of Music
- Rose Bruford
- Oxford School of Drama
- Mountview
Reviews for Hal professional work:
'Superbly directed...A revolutionary and ambitious production of Much Ado'
★★★★★
The Stage on Much Ado About Nothing
'Move over War Horse, this polar puppet is magic....a sumptuous production'
The Guardian on The Bear
'Hal Chambers’s fleet-footed, verve-filled and lucid account of the play achieves an Agincourt-like victory’
★★★★
The Telegraph on Henry V
‘The history books are re-written in this luminous, compassionate production. Unexpectedly joyous.’
★★★★
The Guardian on The Ballad of Maria Marten
'Shakespeare for the OMG generation? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, when it’s
as good as this’.'
★★★★★
The Times on Romeo & Juliet
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Recommendations
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Freddie
Hal is a brilliant tutor; I've been working with him for more than two years and in that time he has really helped me to grow and develop as an actor. He is super passionate and knowledgeable, and his sessions are as fun as they're challenging. Highly recommend him as a tutor!
Freddie
From drama school audition prep to learning the craft of writing, Hal does it all. Hal pushes you and makes a space to truely create. He has built my confidence and inspired me to go further in my acting career. Whatever point in your acting career I recommend him as a tutor.
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- 5h: $269
- 10h: $538
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- $54/h
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