Empower Actors Workshops: From Setbacks to Strength
Performance, Feedback & Mindset for Actors: Setbacks to Strengths
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🗓 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.
What’s Included?
🎭 Performance & Feedback: Perform a scripted scene in front of award-winning writer/director Liam White and receive honest, constructive notes to elevate your screen work.
🧠 Mindset Session: “Setbacks to Strengths”: Led by the host Michaela Longden, this empowering session tackles the tough stuff actors rarely speak about: rejection, comparison, and self-doubt. Learn how to transform setbacks into creative fuel, reframe rejection and build unshakeable inner resilience in your acting career.
📜 Pre-Assigned Scenes: You’ll receive your script and partner one week before the workshop to prepare.
Industry 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 and currently nominated for Best Drama and Best British at the Directors’ Notes Awards 2025
- Developing features with Escape Plan, Heyday Films and more.
Having balanced filmmaking with 13 years as a science teacher working with young people facing behavioural and emotional challenges, Liam brings a sharp, compassionate eye to actor feedback.
Mindset Coach & Host
🎭 Michaela Longden (Author, ACC ICF Coach, Acting Coach, Casting Director & Actress)
An experienced Actress, Acting Coach, casting director and accredited ACC ICF mindset coach, Michaela combines practical screen craft with transformational coaching tools. Her sessions give actors real, actionable strategies to navigate rejection, self-doubt and pressure, turning what holds them back into their next breakthrough.
Why Attend?
✔ Perform a scene in front of a BAFTA-longlisted director
✔ Get honest, actionable feedback on your screen acting
✔ Learn tools to handle rejection, comparison & setbacks
✔ Reframe tough moments as fuel for your future success
✔ Connect with fellow actors & creatives in a supportive space
Limited spaces available book now and transform how you perform, think and lead yourself in 2025.
