User:AurelieHarp

Aurélie Harp is a French actress based in London. She is fluent in French and English. As well as being an established as an actress and a Voice Over talent, Aurélie Harp is also a writer; her first play ‘Park Bench’ has been translated into English. She is also working with and within companies as a consultant and she co-founded an acting collective, Collective Lab.

Early life

Born in Lyon (Rhone, France), Aurélie moved to Paris to enter Sciences-Po with a BA in Communication and Master in Marketing and began a career in advertising in Paris and New York where she soon realized that she wanted to be an actress. Aurelie showed an interest in acting at an early age and started her acting lessons in Lyon with Jeanine Berdin. She then trained in Paris, New York and London with different coaches including Jack Waltzer, Robert Castle, Joan Rosenfels. She continues on-going training at the Actors' Centre and with Jack Waltzer.

Career

Theatre includes Sawda in "Scorched/Incendies" by Wajdi Mouawad (RADA London),Lara in "The Scent of Jasmine" by Bianca Bagatourian (The Actors centre showcase London), a Launderer in “Carmen” (Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris), Queen Marie-Antoinette (lead) in “Madame Antoine” (Astoria, Brussels), Jane (lead) in “The Heaviest Floating Things” (The Red Room, NYC) and Hortense in “Hortense says: I don't give a damn!” (L'Article, Paris). Films include the French girlfriend in "Smile (Coffee&Tea production, London), a French gallerist in “L'Art de Vivre” (Paris) and Mina in “How to Save a Future Memories” (NYC). Voice Over includes French and English with a French accent VO for cBBC, NickelOdeon, Apple, HSBC, Always, Shell, etc.

CollectiveLab

CollectiveLab is an acting collective which goal is to revive creativity within the industry through discourse and group-experimentation. The idea is to create a link between art and business and offer companies a unique platform and creative ressources for workshops and events. It is also to offer professional actors, directors, writers and anybody in the industry a space of freedom and inspiration as well all the resources needed to help develop ideas and creative projects, free from commercial constraints.