I have been teaching acting in London and abroad since 1999, following a decade of experience as a stage and screen actor. I was trained by Tom Radcliffe, a direct student of master actor and teacher, Sanford Meisner. I teach in a consistent and progressive fashion, offering each student the chance to experience the entire range of my approach, developed from my experience as a student and working actor.

Each short course leads progressively and naturally to the next one, offering the student to experience the entire range of work from fundamental exercises to classes which address the more complex demands made upon the actor. 

 

The entire range of this training will give you the necessary building blocks to create spontaneous and powerful acting, in line with the demands of both script and director. In between each course, I will hold short, one-off sessions (weekly Repetition and Skills Classes) designed to keep you tuned up before the next stage of your acting journey with me commences.

 

Besides teaching, I pursue the life of the jobbing actor with an agent, attending castings and meetings wherever possible. I have developed and directed a short film, ‘Tiramisu’ and have played leading roles in two recent low budget feature films, ‘Luck’ (directed by BAFTA and RTS award-winner Liviu Tipurita) and ‘The Warehouse’, a recent entry in this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

 

COURSE INFORMATION

 

INTRODUCTION COURSE

 

Anyone who wishes to train with me will need to attend one of my Introduction Courses which are held regularly throughout the year. These offer a refreshing and powerful introduction to acting, rooted in the principles developed and pioneered by Sanford Meisner as they were taught to me and as I have practised them. The course may well challenge your ideas about acting and will certainly put you into a deeper contact with yourself and your fellow actors by encouraging you to listen and respond truthfully and instinctively.

 

 

MEISNER 4 WEEK INTENSIVES

 

All particimants will need to have completed the Introduction course to be eligible for this.

 

Building on the work of the introduction course which focuses on developing your ability to listen and answer your acting partner truthfully, the 4 Week Intensive will feature the following stages:

 

The Reality of Doing

Imaginary Circumstances

Improvisation

Scene Work

 

Acting is 'the ability to live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances'. These 4 weeks will give you the tools to do that in the context of improvisational exercises and straightforward scene analysis which will culminate in a scene where 'you are the character and the character is you'.

 

 

Please Note: Both courses will be challenging emotionally, mentally & physically but the work will be presented to you in a thorough, specific but encouraging manner, enabling you to develop at your own pace in your journey towards becoming an expressive and responsive actor.

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REPETITION

Suitable for anyone who has trained at the Actors’ Temple in the past, at the level of an Introduction or 9-day course or beyond (excluding afternoon ‘Taster’ Sessions). These sessions offer practice of the basic ‘foundation’ exercise.

 
SKILLS

Suitable for  anyone who has trained at the Actors Temple in the past. These are offered to help students with scenes, monologues, audition preparation, or any other acting-related issues requiring ‘troubleshooting’.  Also to afford students the opportunity to practise any aspect of the training beyond repetition.

 

COURSE AND CLASS SIZES

 

Week & 4 week courses are limited to 10 students.

Skills classes will contain a maximum of 6 students

Repetition drop-in classes, 12 students only

 

 

 

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