All in the Eyes: In Conversation with Peter Wooldridge

Peter Wooldridge brings four decades of experience as an actor, coach and casting director to an evening with LMF at LMA Liverpool. Alongside the release of his new book, All in the Eyes (Only Connect), we’ll be getting into the work behind a screen performance, with stories from his career and space to ask about your own.

Gerran Howell, who trained with Peter before appearing in The Pitt, remembers one instruction in particular: “I don’t want you to act.” That idea runs through the book, which explores the emotion beneath the dialogue, the connection between scene partners and what an actor communicates in moments of silence. How do you let an audience discover what a character is feeling, without showing them everything?

Peter will share his approach to developing a performance, drawing on his work with emerging actors and his experience of casting for film. The conversation offers a chance…