Professional Diploma in Stage and Screen Performance

We take people from all over the world, from all walks of life and train them together intensively for one year, and give them the tools they need to THRIVE.

We don’t want to change you. We don’t want to strip you down and rebuild you. We just want to help you get out of your own way. And let the ability you already have SHINE through.

Our mission is to train actors so that they can go to work. We do this by immersing you in a professional environment from Day 1. We give you the practical tools, skills, knowledge and experience. To help you get the job. And once you have the job, to nail it, so you build a reputation that people trust.

We do this by splitting the year in two.

First half, intensive training in acting, voice, movement, stage combat, and performance psychology. Classes every day. Building skills, developing knowledge, gaining experience. Doing. Because that’s what matters, hands on practice in the craft of acting under expert tuition.

Then comes the second half, we give you a chance to learn the real lessons - an intensive experience with over 40 public performances including 3-week run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and 3 professionally produced films. Not to mention that you also graduate with a professionally recognised Stage Combat certificate.

We also encourage the other skills in you, the organiser, the creative, the teacher - the producer, the writer, the director. Because when you leave, we want you to be ready to work. And when you're not working, you're not sitting around, waiting for someone to pick you - you're making your own work.

"This is a great group of students to work with – not only committed and focused, but also all of them came up with excellent screen performances in double quick time. Most impressive."

PATRICK TUCKER - author Secrets of Screen Acting