Christian Burgees

Christian Burgees

Christian is the Director of Drama at the Guildhall school of music and drama. He trained as an actor at guildhall himself. He has extensive professional acting experience in theatre, television and film. Burgess was made director of drama in September 2010 with the responsibilities for the acting and technical theatre programmes at Guildhall.

Some questions I could ask –

How long do audition pieces need to be?

Will I get feedback after the audition?

Can I perform a piece with an accent in my audition?

How much singing ability do I need?

Key points/notes taken from interview –

The most interesting thing that Christian stated in his interview was that he was looking for 

personality mostly in the audition not the acting. He would think how he would be able to work with the auditionee or if they would be something like hard work.

*Audition pieces shouldn’t be too long they have a lot to get though

*We have to not give too much away during the audition about how well you did or not well you did, but I’m sure if you emailed us we could get back to you.

*You can use accent if it is your regional accent or if you are at an expert level, if not then do refrain as it could be not as strong as your regular voice.

*We do not take too much into the audition of the singing that is not particularly what you are there to audition for, however, it gives us an idea of how your voice varies and what ability you are up to as we are here to teach you how to be stronger in the industry but you do not need to be an amazing singer. 

Handouts

We were given handouts to read through a chapter from an actors guide to getting work to what could affect our voice.

A lot of the voice caring notes I already know so I didn’t take to many notes on this.