Teaching Acting

Christopher has extensive experience coaching professional actors and teaching actors in training in conservatoire settings here and internationally. If you are seeking coaching please make contact

He led Screen Acting and Movement Psychology strands on the BA (Hons) Acting degree at Northampton University and Acting on Camera at the Drama Centre. He taught regularly for years at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting where he led courses in acting on camera and mask work with post-graduate students of acting as well as leading evening classes for professionals at the studio.

His current teaching practice centres around acting methodology, acting on camera, self-taping, exploring how to practice and Yat Malmgren’s Movement Psychology. He has been exploring this rich methodology of transformation with Fero Veres, Professor Emeritus University of Gothenburg, for a number of years. 

Performance techniques he has previously offered workshops on: acting on camera, self-taping, Movement Psychology, psychological realism-scene work and acting exercises, mask, physical inhabitation, chorus work, contact release, object manipulation, story-telling, improvisation, text analysis and classical text-Shakespeare.

His teaching centres around embodied transformation and creatively imagining identities. He has created roles within contrasting performance paradigms: epic classical protagonists, psychologically real portraits within contemporary film, post-dramatic intertextual theatre, masked characters and autobiographical creation. Whether engaging people to embody characters in fiction or to inhabit themselves fully in the context of everyday life Christopher draws upon a rich experience of performance methodologies.

Christopher says:

“My work draws on a diverse spectrum of techniques assimilated through working practice. I invest in facilitating a positive, present and productive working method that fosters enjoyment, enthusiasm and growth. I work attentively and adaptively to the immediate life of the sessions I lead and I’m rigorous in supporting students to excel beyond their expectations. As a teacher I am exacting, adaptive and energetic.”

Previous clients include:

• Drama Centre
• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Northampton University
• Identity School of Acting
• The National Film and Television School
• York University
• Birmingham School of Acting
• Brunel
• Giles Foreman Centre for Acting, London

Christopher has taught internationally in Ireland, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Germany and Norway

Coaching

“No matter who I am working with I seek to foster and facilitate your constructive creative development and agency in ways that resonate with you.

I’ve worked privately with a wide-ranging scope of clients who have been actors, non-actors, and corporate clientele. From business people to art curators or stand up comics, I work with anyone who wishes to meaningfully engage with themselves and their capacities within the domains of their work or their creative practice.

The work can address the practical technical considerations of your work, performance or can involve a reflective exploration of your overall process and sense of purpose. I am usually led by the singularity of what you present and seek.”

• Responding to your particular professional, personal, creative or performance quest
• Developing confidence and fluency.
• Increasing your impact
• Acting technique, theory, practice and career guidance
• Inhabiting who you are and embodying your personal vision in multiple contexts
• Catalysing your creativity
• Embedding meaningful reflection into your process
• Enhancing Performance
• Communication and presenting