POST-GRADUATE Intensive Programme in ACTING / DIRECTING

Christopher Fettes

Acting Coach

We are delighted to welcome Christopher Fettes as an esteemed colleague. Christopher Fettes is one of the great theatre and actor pedagogues of the UK, and in fact world theatre and cinema industry. He started as an actor working with the legendary East London Theatre Company - Theatre Workshop under Joan Littlewood. Christopher's great contribution was to introduce the Method to the UK, by jointly founding Drama Centre, London with Yat Malmgren in 1963. His book is due out early in 2012.

Christopher Simpson

Improvisation Coach

Christopher Simpson’s teaching skills encompass physical/movement work, improvisation and mask-work. As an actor, his diverse array of roles range from a Banglatown youth in Sarah Gavron’s 'Brick Lane', a Leeds drug dealer in Penny Woolcock’s 'Mischief Night' and a Cuban charmer in John Roberts' 'Day of The Flowers'. In TV, he is best known for playing polar opposites in the double role of twins Magid/Milat in White Teeth. Other TV includes State of Play and Second Generation.

Giles Foreman

Director

Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK, and in Europe; he has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London; Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, and The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin; The City Lit; NODA; Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel; the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia and the International Festival of Making Theater, Athens. He has run workshops all over the world, and is much in demand as a film acting-coach, director and producer.

Liana Nyquist

Movement Coach

Liana studied at Drama Centre and then became the assistant to the founder, Dr Yat Malmgren in the Laban analysis of character movement. She is a vanguard figure of physical theatre, having performed with various dance theatre/physical theatres companies all over the world. She has worked with numerous directors in both film and theatre as a Movement Coach and Specialist including ‘Clash of the Titans’ (2009) with Liam Neeson. Liana is a lecturer at CSM, University of the Arts and the Drama Centre.

Sebastian Blanc

Meisner Technique

Sebastien Blanc started teaching to professional actors two years ago and also runs private classes. He studied in Australia with Billy Milionis, a former student of Meisner himself, for over three and half years, performing on stage, screen and in commercials. Leaving Australia has allowed him to bring an in-depth Meisner Technique Course to this country. He is active in writing, directing and acting.