Time :10 to 4pm

Cost for 2wks = €300

Cost for 3wks = €400

Please contact our Dublin IFA on 01 6729577 to book your place. Places limited.

Anto Howard was a foundation scholar in English Lit at Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity he twice won the outstanding achievement award for his original plays at the ISDA drama festival. On graduation he went to New York where he worked as a playwright and travel writer.

His plays Made up Maid and Night Watch were performed at the off-Broadway Camilia’s Theater. His next play Scattergood was performed by the MCC Theater, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes and starring T.R. Knight from Grey’s Anatomy. It was nominated for a Drama Desk award. Anto returned to Ireland where his play Dreamin of Mr H was performed at Bewley’s Theatre.

He has written numerous episodes of Fair City, RTE TV’s continuing drama. He has storylined for RAW, the award-winning primetime drama series, and has recently been commissioned to write an episode for series 5.

His book Slow Dublin was a best seller in Ireland. He is currently working on a new screenplay.

Award-winning director of October Eleven Pictures, Jason Figgis has an extensive background in the entertainment industry having worked creatively on two seasons of Murakami Wolf’s hugely successful TV animated series ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’.

He went on to work for the ‘Roger Rabbit’ creator Richard Williams on the cult feature ‘The Thief and the Cobbler’ – featuring the voice talents of horror legend Vincent Price and Sean Connery and for Steven Spielberg on Amblination’s ‘American Tail 2 – Fievel Goes West’ – featuring the voice talent of Hollywood legend James Stewart – where Jason created special effects for key scenes.

Since moving to directing Live Action in 2002, Jason has directed double IFTA award nominated and critically acclaimed ‘The Twilight Hour’, the award winning ‘Cursed’ (which was distributed in 2010 by Hollywood Studio Lionsgate) including other well received feature documentaries for Sky One, Discovery Channel, SVT (Sweden), RTE Network 2 (Ireland), KSM (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Spentzos Films (Greece, Cyprus), Von Lederer (Hungary), Sky Arts and Double 4 Studios (Slovenia). Jason’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ which stars Bryan Murray, Brendan Grace, Lara Belmont and Brendan O’Carroll has been picked up for distribution in 2012 by UK outfit Guerilla Films.

Also in post-production is Jason’s feature film  ‘Railway Children’ – a post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller with a cast of 43 teenagers which is set to premiere in July 2012. Post production is also underway on the feature documentary ‘Cathnafola’ (directed by Jason and produced by acclaimed paranormalist Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK) as well as feature film ‘A Burial at Thorn Hill’, directed by Jason and starring Bryan Murray, Bill Fellows and Cora Fenton.

Jason’s work has been distributed to 150 countries worldwide and he is also a director of photography and an editor and member of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland and the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Blake has worked for RTE, the BBC, Dolphin television, and acted in over two dozen independent short and feature films.

In 2004, Blake began hosting the off-beat entertainment talk show “The Bagpipe Report” for Dolphin Television on Sky Digital. In 2006 he joined RTE Television as a writer & presenter. Between 2006 and 2009, he developed and performed several characters for “The Den,” including “Blake Geneva,” “Eddie Nobobs” and “Madame LeMan.”

In 2008, he began performing stand-up with the Craichouse Comedy Club under Pat O’ Shea. During his time with Craichouse, he performed at the Kilkenny Fringe Festival and opened the Cork leg of Australian comedian Steve Hughes’ 2010 tour.

In 2009, Blake was nominated for the writer’s week Best Actor award for his portrayal of “Josh” in the Frank O’ Keefe play “Dead Letter Perfect.” During this period he acted in over two dozen independent films in Ireland and England, as well as playing a lead role in an episode of the BBC series “Uncle Max.”

Blake has directed five films. His most recent project, 2011’s drama short “Psychosis.” premiered at Dublin’s “Darklight” international film festival before winning Cork’s “Mutant Shorts” competition in November.

After “Psychosis,” Blake worked with lead actress Irene Kelleher a second time when he consulted on Tim Coffey’s 2011 adaptation of “A Whistle in The Dark.” He choreographed the fight scenes for the play, which earned the Kilmeen Drama Group first place in the 2011 All-Ireland Drama competition.

Blake is now in pre-production on his latest directorial project, the feature film “Working Class Heroes.” It’s scheduled for release the 4^th quarter of 2012.

Cost = €75

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