conservatoire-level
actor training
artistic | affordable | flexible
bespoke artistic
Practice
Training for three years at drama school isn’t for everyone, which is why we aim to offer actors top-flight training on a part-time schedule. Each course offers a specific curriculum and a progression of work including additional practical resources and one-to-one tutorials.
Our training is for those at the beginning of their artistic path as well as those with experience who wish to refresh and deepen their practice.
the actor’s path
Our training is about providing actors with ways to develop a distinctive craft and creative practice in collaboration with an experienced conservatoire teacher and director.
Acting is athletic. It requires specificity, risk, stamina and, above all, practice. We emphasize how to be in the present moment and how to find sustained connection: with ourselves, each other and the audience.
Our training is online to maximise national and international accessibility, reducing travel time and costs, enabling learning alongside a working life and providing access to recordings.
Sinéad has taught online extensively during and since the pandemic (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of California Davis, Living Pictures, Michael Chekhov Association USA), including directing AntigoneNOW, a pioneering hybrid theatre production rehearsed and created online across five different time zones.
‘A call to actors to stand up and be counted, to invent our future without waiting for someone to give it to us’
Sinéad Rushe, Lead Acting Tutor
Author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide
taught by one of the world-leading experts on the Michael Chekhov technique
Award-winning director, theatre-maker and teacher, Sinéad Rushe is Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Author of the critically acclaimed book Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019), she is on the Faculty Council of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK.
‘inspiration and imagination – there is a galaxy of the infinite possibilities of making an actor here’
Fiona Shaw
on Sinéad’s book Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide