19/06/2026
From Stage to Screen Acting Workshop 👨🏫
Facilitated by Thorsten Wedekind 🎭
Uniquely qualified to run this workshop, Thorsten has extensive experience in both film and television, and the theatre. As a local and international casting director for more than 30 years, he has 43 feature films, 12 short films & 48 TV series to his credit, including ALI (with Will Smith & Jamie Foxx), BLOOD AND WATER (Netflix), Leon Schuster’s most recent film, MR BONES 3 – SON OF BONES, and 7DE LAAN, as resident Casting Director for the last 4 years of its run. As a theatre director, Thorsten most recently won a Best Director Naledi Award for the play, SARAJEVO, which also won the award for Best Production, and which returns to the Theatre on the Square for another run in August.
What to expect from this workshop:
A rare opportunity to better understand the differing components of acting on stage as opposed to a performance for camera, and in the process, optimising your chances of successfully auditioning for a role in either medium. 🎭🎬 The structure of this workshop, however, allows for various facets of the craft to be covered even if you have no interest in trying film acting. For example, though you never know what unexpected opportunity might suddenly arise, the feedback and analysis you receive via the method of your workshop performances being filmed, allows you to get an insider’s view of how your acting is being perceived, regardless of which medium it is being created for, and what style of acting you are attempting to convey and project. Thus, whether you want to improve your stage acting craft, polish your auditioning skills, give film and TV acting a try, receive guidance and advice on what is holding you back, or gain further insight into different acting styles and approaches. This workshop aims to provide value, whatever aspect you would like to focus and concentrate on! 🎞️🎥🎭
Enjoying the unmasking of our workshop series facilitators? Well lucky for you there’s more! 👨🏫👩🏫 Stay tuned to meet the rest of our esteemed facilitators. 🎭🤹♀️
