Actress Visits PCS

’On Wednesday in our double drama lesson we had a workshop with a professional actor called Jo. We started the workshop by doing some fun warm-ups, such as learning how to centre yourself and how to show how much of the room you're using all with your body language. This was very beneficial to us as it helped being able to get into the mindset of my character and separating myself and my personality from the performance. After our warm-ups she came round to all our different groups and we talked to her about the initial idea we had for our performance and the structure we had in place, then we showed her two of our scenes from our devised piece and got her feedback on what went well and what we could work on this was very beneficial to our rehearsals and performance as taking her ideas for our performance into consideration we had solved some issues we had for example we weren't sure on how to start the performance and she suggested showing the main character as a child to make the audience feel more connected as the piece goes on.’’ - Ozzy Year 11 student

‘’The workshop with Jo was really helpful for our dividing performances and it was very professional- it felt like we were in a real drama company. First, Jo taught us how to be aware of ourselves as people and then our class as a whole (the idea that we all work as one). We then described our performance to Jo and showed her a small piece of it. Each group had the same amount of time to spend with Jo so that she could progress our performances effectively. She explained to us how an audience shouldn't just be told things but be able to see what we are hoping to portray, using sound and irony. It was an amazing experience.’’ - Lili Year 11 student

Josephine studied Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University before training as an actor at The Oxford School of Drama. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and enjoys working across all disciplines. Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St.Martin’s Theatre West End), Qudz (The Yard National Theatre Studio), Drafts (Southwark Playhouse), Love of a Nightingale (Battersea Arts Centre) and The Verdict (No1 Uk/Ireland tour) venues included Gaiety Dublin, Kings Theatre Edinburgh, Theatre, Clwyd Wales Television credits include: Don’t Say A Word (Disney FX), Humans (Channel 4) Film credits include: Little Stranger (Film4) Josephine has also worked as a director in the UK and aboard and as an Arts facilitator - alongside being a Mum.

She works to help others to build out big ideas in a tangible way that will elevate learning and understanding of complex subject matter. Josephine also works for Enolla Consulting as part of their Design team and is passionate about inclusion and often works with those on the fringes of society. She is most excited by ideas around connection, what it is to be human and the human experience. Josephine is currently working on her debut solo show ‘Right Mind’.