RINA MAHONEY: Actress - theatre, film, television, radio

Photograph by Graeme Braidwood

Rina Mahoney

Corporate/Role-play CV

Interactive Skills Unit, Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham University

(1992 – Ongoing)

Work involves:

Rina is ACST and CYP trained for Connected courses and has vast experience in these.
Role-playing a variety of patient problems and attitudes, enabling students to develop the necessary skills and language to communicate effectively with their patients.
Facilitating student sessions, enabling constructive criticism to take place between the role-player and the student in a safe environment.
Forum Theatre, in conference situations, enabling medical practitioners to watch a series of scenes and then influence the way they are played out, a second time, to achieve a more positive outcome.
Role-playing for students and qualified doctors' examinations, including VOICES, PLABS and OSCES. Here the role-player is responsible for influencing the examiners final mark.
Role-playing and Facilitating on specialist communication courses for Practising GP’s, Surgeons, Nurses and Overseas Doctors on issues such as diversity and culture, breaking bad news, etc.
One to one training with referred or suspended GP’s in a role-player capacity including feedback, both to the GP themselves and the medical board.
Playing patients in numerous training videos, for practitioners and students.

Impromptu Ltd.

(1992 – ongoing)

Work involves:

Role-playing as Directors and Specialists. Here the Role-Players must absorb large amounts of technical information to convince in meetings where delegates are asked to practise influencing and negotiation skills.
Using Role-Play and/or Forum Theatre we assist in training employees within the corporate world in effective sales techniques and customer handling skills.
Effective Management Training Courses include: Delegation, Coaching, Counselling, Managing Change and Diversity.
Role-play for Recruitment and Assessment Centres. Here the Role-player is often responsible for writing a report on the delegate and their communication skills, which can ultimately influence the company’s final decisions regarding outcome of the participant's results.
In all of the above situations the role-player is expected to offer constructive feedback, either in the third person or in role as the character depending on the client's preference.
Role-play scenarios are flexible and are often not made available to the role-player until the day of the session e.g. a delegate may wish to role-play a particularly difficult scenario that no existing brief will cover. This requires a great deal of skill in listening and ability to improvise with no preparation.
Regular clients include: Crown Prosecution Services, Nokia, Peugeot, Vauxhall, Manweb, Astra Zeneca, RBS, UFI, and Specsavers.

Rolecall

(2000 – ongoing)

Work involves:

Working in partnership with the Home Office to assist in training, through role-play and constructive feedback, interviewers responsible for Asylum claims.
Role-play includes playing Asylum Seekers. These simulations are based on an amalgamation of real, often highly emotional stories and include the use of foreign accents.
Role-play with 5th year medical students at St Bart's Hospital where teaching sessions include breaking bad news.

CSW Global

(2004 – Ongoing)

CSW Global is an International Training Company based in the U.S.A. delivering bespoke packages to global

finance groups based in the City.

Work includes:

Equality and Diversity workshops with investment banks Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. These followed the format listed below:

Performance of scripted scenes in front of between 100 – 200 employees per session (2 sessions per day) in which we portrayed Investment Bankers.
Audience members then hot seated the characters (questioned them in role).
Using a forum theatre approach actors then replayed the scenes using improvisation, taking suggestions from the audience in order to improve the situation.

Roleplay UK

(2005 – Ongoing)

I am a member of this role-playing agency. They have employed me on a variety of assignments with many clients. Here role-play usually falls into one of the following areas:

Role-play with a pre-prepared brief.
Improvised scenarios on the day.
Forum Theatre
All of the above involve giving constructive feedback either in character, hot-seating or third person at the end of the session.

PR Roleplayers

(2007 - Ongoing)

Work includes:

Role-playing for OSCES examinations for 2nd year medical students and 1st year nurses at Guy's Hospital.

Oval Consulting Ltd.

(2007 – Ongoing)

Role-player on management courses for Novo Nordisk covering Equality And Diversity, Grievance In The Workplace, Coaching and Managing Upwards.
Improvised scenarios on the day.
Forum Theatre

AKT Productions Ltd.

(2008 – Ongoing)

Role-player on DWP Conferences.
Presentation of short play.
Hotseating.
Improvised scenarios on the day

Other Experience

Work includes:

Numerous corporate videos for use in the training environment of several well known companies including Boots, Travelex, Currys/Dixons and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Developing and devising workshops independently to work on a freelance basis with a wide variety of the community to look at pressing social issues. As well as drama and improvisation the workshops will often include forum theatre, role-playing and hot seating.
Working to a brief developed by existing theatre and corporate companies to deliver workshops and scripts on their behalf.

Referees

For information on referees please email: rinamahoney@hotmail.com