Multiple award winning actress Patricia Boyer facilitates a 5 hour workshop for actors focusing on process and finding character from text. Performers will work with well know texts toward a practical outcome, focusing on site reading, audition technique and character work.
Patricia Boyer is a versatile and experienced actress with over 20 years of experience in the industry both locally and internationally.
She has appeared onstage in England with luminaries such as the great British actress’ Sheila Gish and Dame Janet Suzman, Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz and Gerard Butler and local stars James Ncgobo, Fana Mokoena and Moshidi Motshegwa . Her many theatre credits in London include ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ on the West-end directed by Sean Mathias, ‘ The Cherry Orchard’ directed by Dame Janet Suzman, ‘Don Juan comes back from the war’ directed by Jo Blatchely, and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ directed by Judith Roberts.
She is also an experienced film and television actress and has appeared in the hit UK television series ‘Wire in the Blood’ opposite Hermione Norris and Robson Green.
Locally she has appeared in the Emmy nominated ‘Sokhulu and partners’ and amongst others ‘The Lab’,‘Home Affairs’, ‘Shado’s’, ‘Intersexions’ and ‘Jacobs Cross’.
Patricia played ‘Frosine’ and ‘Master Jaques’ in Sylvaine Strikes production of “The Miser” at the Market Theatre and the Baxter for which she won The Fleur du Cap 2014 and Naledi Award 2013 for Best Supporting Actress.
Patricia played the role of Mary in “The Testament of Mary” at the Joburg Theatre and the State Theatre and was nominated for a Naledi in 2014 as Best Actress for this one-woman play.
She also played the role of Nicole in “Cooking with Elisa” which opened to critical acclaim on the Main in Grahamstown and at Theatre on the Square in Sandton and for which she won the Naledi Best Actress Award 2015.
Most recently Patricia filmed in SABC hit new show "Sober Companion" and will soon be seen starring as Carmen in SABC 3's new TV drama Comedy "Soap on a rope"
Audience Responses
I would love more workshops like this!
Thank you so much for this magical and hands-on workshop. It has probably been the best education I have thus far received in my drama and acting education. I want to thank Ms. Boyer especially, what a phenomenal and wonderful teacher. I greatly appreciate all I have learned and would love for more workshops to take place! Regards, Matthew Cohen
It's important for every artist to shapen their craft, this is it. Just dive in and go for it, i learned to listen to my soul and trust my instincts. Thank you so much Patricia for sharing your knowledge, skills and tools with us.
The workshop was nothing short of inspiring. The critical focus on the doingness of performance was exhausting and exciting. It was useful to have somebody push you without taking no for an answer and the process itself was quite insightful.
Once a month sessions of this kind would be amazing- just a pure focus on performance
Patricia presented the concepts in a way that both illustrated her ideas well and which resonated with my experiece of life. Through the exersizes we did I learned more about myself than I expected to and what a fantasic group of people!
