acting workshops
London
The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is a dynamic professional acting studio
based in Soho, in the heart of London; together with GFCA International Centres
in Europe and USA. We are the leading Centre for Character Analysis. We provide
distinctive, enjoyably rigorous and person-centred training for aspiring
individuals and professional actors – taught by some of the leading acting,
movement, voice, analysis, improvisation and camera-technique coaches available.
If you choose to come to GFCA, we provide many ways to participate; regular
part-time acting classes; short intensive workshops; one-to-one coaching; and
2-, 3- and 4-term full-time courses. Since March 2020 we have also embraced a
wider, global community through online training, particularly in Character
Analysis, Movement Psychology and advanced scene-study with Giles Foreman.
People new to acting can discover the skills through our beginners’ classes and
workshops, progressing onward part-time; or take our Foundation Acting ATCL
Diploma over 3 terms (Saturday, and evening route). Those who think they may be
ready – you may have have previous acting or performing experience, have studied
at University, or come via other routes – audition for our 4-term 16-month
advanced intensive Acting Diploma (Post-Graduate equivalent-level). Ours is
amongst the most affordable courses of its kind in the country, and yet it is
built around intensive teaching by renowned coaches, with small class sizes
designed to develop people as thoroughly as possible. It is vigorous, focussed,
demanding; based on a huge tradition, producing actors with skills tailored for
the modern film, TV and theatre industries. Pro weekend session Professional
actors come to develop their skills through acting classes and workshops with
top practitioners from all over the world – and to create projects in both film
and theatre. Actors can use studio coaches and facilities to prepare for
auditions, and to develop in-depth characters for film roles that they have
already secured. Alongside actor-training, GFCA offers casting and
coaching-services, and scriptwriting development to the film industry. Due to
our location in Soho, centre of the UK media industries, GFCA also offers many
opportunities to meet casting directors, directors and producers through regular
events; plays, showcases, castings, play-readings and Industry events. The
acting philosophy at the studio was developed from that of the original Drama
Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv, who
together trained some of the leading UK actors of recent years – from Sean
Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Simon Callow, Geraldine
James, Frances de la Tour – to Helen McCrory, Anne Marie Duff, Paul Bettany,
Tara Fitzgerald, Lambert Wilson, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Santiago
Cabrera, Gwendoline Christie, Ryan Gage and John Simm, to name but a few.
Christopher Fettes, founder of Drama Centre London, holds the title of
tutor-emeritus for our studio. The teaching process utilises a system of methods
within Realism. We are one of the very few centres in the world providing
detailed training courses in the extraordinary Laban/Jungian technique of
Character Analysis / Movement Psychology developed by Yat Malmgren, to develop
people’s psychological understanding both of themselves and the characters they
are playing. Our holistic acting education is influenced by Stanislavski, as
well as the philosophy of Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Sanford
Meisner, creating actors capable of sophisticated, transformative performance.
The Centre has relationships with other similar organisations around the world
and offers many exchange programmes. In 2015 we opened our sister centre, GFCA
Paris, joining GFCA International bases in other cities such as New York & LA;
GFCA Luxembourg, and GFCA Zürich We have substantial expertise in delivering
Corporate training both in the UK and abroad. We have also established a
publishing arm, launching the book A Peopled Labyrinth written by Drama Centre
founder Christopher Fettes in September 2015. Character Analysis - THE Book
Character Analysis – THE Book Additionally we provide space for room-hire,
casting facilities and rehearsal-space for individuals and organisations. Our
premises are bright, clean and air-conditioned. We employ HEPA-filtered
air-purifiers in our studios.
