🗓 Date: Saturday, 14th June 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Manchester, M43 7AJ
🚨 Booking deadline: Saturday, 7th June (scripts & partners sent after this date)
A full-day, in-person workshop combining professional performance feedback, career insight and powerful mindset coaching designed to help actors not just perform better, but think, feel and lead themselves better in this unpredictable industry.
🎭 Performance & Feedback – Perform a scripted scene in front of award-winning BAFTA LONG LISTED director & writer Liam White.
🧠 Mindset Session: “Setbacks to Strengths” Led by Michaela Longden, this empowering session tackles the tough stuff actors rarely speak about: rejection, comparison, and self-doubt.
📜 Pre-Assigned Scenes: You'll receive your script and partner one week before the workshop to prepare.
THE GUEST
🎬 Liam White (Writer & Director)
A BAFTA-longlisted, BIFA-nominated filmmaker from Manchester, Liam is fast becoming one of the UK’s most exciting emerging directors:
Punch-Drunk (2022) BAFTA-longlisted & Saatchi&Saatchi NCS 2022 selection
Housewarming (2024) won Best UK Short at Raindance, earned a BIFA nomination, won Best Actor at Manchester Film Festival 2025. Currently nominated for Best Drama and Best British at the Directors’ Notes Awards 2025
Developing features with Escape Plan, Heyday Films and more.
HOST
🎭 Michaela Longden (Author, ACC ICF Coach, Acting Coach, Casting Director & Actress)
An experienced performer, acting and accredited ICF mindset coach, Michaela combines practical screen craft with transformational coaching tools. Her sessions give actors real, actionable strategies to navigate rejection, self-doubt, comparisons and pressure.