Creative audio description can not only open your work up to the 2 million visually impaired people in the UK But can bring new depth to your work for all audiences.
Benjamin Wilson has provided audio description consultancy and been an audio description director on shows right across the country. From one person shows in rooms above pubs to the West End via the Royal Shakespeare company and the Edinburgh fringe festival.
Whether you’ve been integrating audio description into your work for years or have not yet taken your first steps into access for visually impaired audiences, this workshop will be a collaborative and creative way to explore all the many ways you might make your work accessible to blind audiences. Whatever your theatrical style or level of experience audio description is an exciting artistic tool that can open up more doors to you and add more paints to your theatrical paint box.
So why not spend two hours with colleagues trying to get your head round the fun creative challenge that is creative audio description.
Benjamin Wilson is a blind actor, director and audio description consultant.
He was formally the Ramps On The Moon Agent For Change at Sheffield Theatres and Trainee Artistic Director at Extant. He co-founded both theatre company Brick Wall Ensemble and creative audio description company Hear The Picture. As an actor and creative some of his recent credits include: Much Ado About Nothing and Guys and Dolls for Sheffield Theatres; Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, Oliver Twist and Road for Leeds Playhouse; Of Mice and Men, Three Billy Goats Gruff and Chicken Licken (Derby Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Royal Shakespeare Company); Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); Unseen (Extant) and both Henry V and Meic On The Mic for Brick Wall Ensemble.
In 2023 he was awarded a commendation at The Sunday Times and national Theatre’s prestigious Ian Charleson Award.