Acting and Performance for Beginners and Improvers

Your tutor Nick Meaney is a graduate of the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has over 100 Film/TV/Commercial & Radio credits including ‘Titanic’, ‘Gone in Sixty Seconds’, ‘Beethoven’s 4th, X-Files, The Young & the Restless etc.

Nick teaches from experience and will guide you through different acting techniques for theatre, television and film as well as relaying the realities of being a working actor and how the “Business” works. The fundamentals of character development will be explored through a variety of techniques, enabling you to create a believable, fully developed three-dimensional character.

The emphasis is on discovering the psychology and emotional life of everyday characters using skills you already possess but may not consciously put into practice. By the end of the course, you will have developed a basic acting vocabulary and you will feel confident putting your skills into practice.