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Festival of the Mind Interview Call Outs

**FAST TURNAROUND CALL OUT**❗️❗️❗️🎬🎬🎬

Hi everyone, we're filming a video for the University of Sheffield's online Festival of the Mind platform and are looking for interview applicants. The video is focusing on the impact of events on mental health, w

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Last Rites: Mockumentary Madness!

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well? I'm a SHU Performance graduate from 2019 and I wanted to show you a project that I’m acting in called ‘Last Rites’. Lockdown has been a difficult time for artists, and we’ve all been doing our best to get involve
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The Last King of Scotland


The Last King of Scotland.
The Crucible, Sheffield.

Tobi Bamtefa gives a capturing performance of the unpredictable and savage dictator Idi Amin, highlighted further by the anxious and fearful Dr Nicholas Garrigan played by Daniel Portman, Bamtefa por

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Both actors displayed a level of expertise and elan which one would normally associate with drama school actor training.  However, under the expert eye of director Neil Sissons any suggestion that this was a student production evaporated almost as so
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Our BA (honours) degree in Performance for Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University has scored an impressive 100% for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey (NSS) for the second year running!

This year, the course, which p

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"Smoke and Mirrors" SHU Review

"Smoke & Mirrors", a postmodern Shakespeare adaptation. I didn't quite know what to expect as the cast wanted it to be this way and it's safe to say that I was thoroughly impressed!
 
A combination of classic Shakespeare monologue and scene text intert
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"Unexpected" SHU Review

This performance was the perfect opening for the Final Show Festival of SHU Performance at Sheffield Hallam University.

"Unexpected" is a contemporary comedy play, full of tasty sarcasm and biblical wit, focusing on the central character 'Mia' as she

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Meet the cast of Unexpected - Alexandra Hughes

 

Meet Mia... The present version. Played by Alexandra Hughes

"Hey, So Mia...is my total opposite: sexy, sassy, sarcastic, intellige-just kidding, uni wouldn’t allow me to pay all this money if I wasn’t smart, right? Nope our education system in Britai

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Meet the cast of Unexpected - Sophie Davidson

Meet Sophie... Playing Mia (the future version)

"I’m playing future Mia, well a version of, from before...but not exactly the same but... oh look I have the tendency to ramble a lot but it’s all gonna make sense at some point! 
Future Mia is a poet tha

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First year reflection


Coming here i was already prepared in terms of this module. In college we made websites and shot showreels and headshots, when this module started i really did want to refine my brand and website as i knew there was still much more i could do to…

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" A cabbage !"


"feels like fragments of a mosaic" - The Guardian 2019 is a beautiful way fo describing this play.

When me and Mae were first told we would be doing a doulouge together we were really pleased. We know we are reliable and can work well…

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Voice actors needed for audio comedy!


Second year screenwriting students need voice cast for their audio narrative series:

Gene B. Hammerfist - Middle aged, cocky and narcissistic (The host of the radio show "Hammerfisted")
 
Clive - The shows producer…
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Mankind's Soundboard


We were given an instruction and introduction to Foley sound, the art of creating sound effects using sometimes bizarre methods that actually create rather genuine sounds. A particular example of this bizarreness was to use the crunching of…

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bubbles


today we experiemneted with foley sound. This was my  first expereince doing things like this. This morning we learned about how the expererts use different things to create everyday sound. Examples of this includes using hands on a wooden floor…

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(I)t came from outer space...


Our newest piece of work was the creation of an audio performance, an audio tour to be specific. The brief was to create one based on the Sheffield ampitheatre that combined actual historical facts as well as some original information, which is…

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the discovery


when we first got the task to create an audio work for the amphitheatre I didnt even know it was a place. So when we wnet in our class break i was plaesed to discover its right next to wear i live. When i visisted I made sure to take olots of…

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