Workshops
Hamish delivers engaging and innovative acting workshops, empowering students to create embodied and truthful performances.
Do you want to help your students…
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Engage their body and physicality
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Develop their acting technique
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Build confidence and presence
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Work safely with emotions
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Prepare for speech and drama exams
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Perform with openness and ease
“Hamish is a natural teacher! He has an amazing way to bring out the best in the people he is working with. His professionalism, knowledge, care and sense of fun is contagious. I can highly recommend him.”
– Kate Laurence (Founder and Director, Head Held High)
Workshops
“Drama teachers tell me their students’ biggest challenge is getting out of their heads and into their bodies. So together, we’ll explore tools to achieve that.”
—Hamish Annan
Hamish primarily works with high-school-aged students. Previously, he has been invited to work with students on:
✅ Voice and breathing technique
✅ Physical embodiment
✅ Character development
✅ Devising performances
✅ Ensemble work
Hamish is available to deliver bespoke workshops that fit your students' needs and address their specific acting challenges.
Drawing on a breadth of training and experience, Hamish can develop workshops offering practical physical and psychological tools that ignite your students' creativity.
Signature Workshops
Acting Foundations
Just as musicians practice their scales, actors too can train their instrument, the body. But, too often, actors have physical and emotional tensions or limitations that prevent them from fully inhabiting authentic characters.
Starting with their physical instrument, this workshop introduces the actor to their “acting scales” or the exercises they can use to open, strengthen, and find flexibility in their acting instrument.
An excellent foundation for all performance work, this workshop prepares students for any acting challenge.
Access: The Happiness Workshop
Named after his award-winning performance artwork, Access, Hamish will teach you groundbreaking physical techniques that give you direct, authentic, and repeatable access to emotion.
Get out of your head and into your body. Find ease, openness, joy, and relaxation on a purely physical basis.
Recent Testimonials
“Hamish worked with a group of my Year 13 students where he used games and activities to enliven their work and help them become more connected to the physical nature of their performances.
Hamish brought passion, patience and care to the nuanced interaction that he had with each student, helping them to overcome challenges and limiting beliefs about themselves.
Hamish is a vibrant and talented individual who inspires and encourages those that he works with. I highly recommend him as a coach and educator.”
– Susannah Smith-Roy (Head of Drama, Auckland Girls’ Grammar School)
“My year 13 students thoroughly enjoyed a valuable workshop with Hamish. He let us slow down and focus on body and breath and attention to detail. He opened up new perspectives, possibilities and techniques for our students' preparation for performance. He was able to engage the class as a whole, while also giving perceptive individual feedback.”
– Shannon Colbert (Drama Teacher, Logan Park High School)
“Hamish worked with some of my senior Drama students. He brought a new perspective on acting and insight into how they can realistically portray emotion in their performances. It was fantastic to see students with a range of abilities connecting with the methods Hamish uses to coach acting.”
– Kimberley Buchan (Arts Curriculum Director, Taieri College)
“My senior students had a great time experiencing a new way of communicating emotions. They enjoyed Hamish's approach and were fully engaged in the new learning. Hamish was able to create a safe environment for the students to try out tasks.”
– Lauren Mackay (Drama Teacher, Otago Girls’ High School)
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