IN SCENE ADVANCED

WITH ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR HARRY HAYNES

This isn’t just another scene study – it’s an opportunity to refine your artistry and discover the final, essential touches that elevate your performance.

Over four days, actors will elevate scene work while exploring new exercises to deepen their connection to character and craft with Associate Artistic Director Harry Haynes. Actors arrive having completed their own extensive preparation, ready to make a bold and fully realised first pass at the scene. From there, Harry will workshop powerful and transformative techniques, applied in the space.

  • Movement psychology for dynamic transformation and expressive blocking.

  • Song into speech to unlock tempo and flow.

  • Sensory exploration deepening connection to the actors world and relationships.

“His ability to elicit ground breaking performances is endless, limitless, boundless. Starting out? Go to Harry. Stuck? Go to Harry. Think you don’t need a coach right now? Go to Harry.” - Danny Ball Green Room Award Winning Actor

HARRY HAYNES

Harry Haynes is a director, producer and educator whose work moves at the intersection of rigorous actor training and bold contemporary theatre directing. As the Associate Artistic Director of 16th Street Actors Studio, Harry is a driving force behind the studio’s artistic vision, developing new programs, nurturing emerging talent, and shaping the next generation ofAustralian actors and directors.

Trained in London and deeply influenced by the European and British traditions Harry was the recipient of The Sir John Gielgud Award and was awarded the Leverhulme award for excellence in Performing Arts. Harry’s work is built on a foundation of ensemble, psychological detail, and a commitment to human-centred storytelling. His directing spans intimate chamber pieces to ambitious, immersive worlds. From 2018 he has made Theatre under the moniker The Liminal Space highlights include the acclaimed immersive two part theatre event MYSTERIES with Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and Testing Grounds and the world premier of CYGNETS with Theatre Works which received multiple 5 star reviews.

He is a founding director of Company 16, a respiratory theatre company that provides intergenerational exchange between established main stage actors and Australia’s most talented recent graduate actors. As Co-Director recent work includes directing a critically acclaimed modern adaptation of Miss Julie set in a Greek fine-dining kitchen, and producing Company 16’s production of John Logan’s RED.

“You can have an idea of what you want to do on the floor but it’s the ability to surrender to the unknown that turns craft into art.” 

— Harry Haynes

DETAILS

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  • $675 (inc. GST)

  • 16th Street’s intensives and courses provide actors with opportunities to hone their craft in celebrated techniques. We work alongside master teachers and highly trained acting specialists to deliver these unique courses to Melbourne.

    This course is ideal for graduates and professional actors over the age of 18. 

    This course is available for up to 16 participants.

    This class will be open to auditors on the final day.

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  • “I can honestly say that I wouldn't have been able to achieve anywhere near the quality of work I achieved, if it weren't for Harry. Working with me as a director, Harry was patient, insightful and challenging, always encouraging me to strive for what was best for the story and bringing fresh and exciting ideas to the table. He is someone who is incredibly present in the rehearsal room and takes wholehearted ownership of the story, as if it were his own”

  • “Harry seems to have such a rare and powerful gift…the way he can see into people, locate what’s missing, and gently coax it into the light, it was something quite extraordinary to behold. I felt supported, seen, challenged, and ultimately freed. It was the kind of deep, raw growth that when you experience it, it continues to live on in you, for many years.” 

  • “Harry is a master acting teacher and coach. I don’t use the word ‘master’ lightly either, he is part of a lineage of world class practitioners. His knowledge of the Yat Malmgren system is extraordinary, which he combines with great empathy and a sharp intellect. His ability to elicit ground breaking performances is endless, limitless, boundless.”

  • “The advanced scene study class is the perfect opportunity to engage with text in a professional and collaborative way. This isn't a drama school scene study, this is scene study for the working actor. An exercise in your craft and an opportunity to push your own creative limits in a supportive and recharging environment…I left the room feeling recharged, clearer in my process, and ready to bring that all into my ongoing professional practice.”

  • “Harry is an excellent coach with a true understanding of craft, story and heart. His genuine love of acting and performance is contagious, an actor can only flourish in this type of environment.”