Ellis Jones, former Head of Acting and Vice-Principal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), hosts no-nonsense acting, voice and presentation training.
Photo by Simon Annan
Actors who trained at RADA during Ellis’s time as Head of Acting are everywhere, including Siân Brooke, Sally Hawkins, Katherine Kelly, Maxine Peake, Matthew Macfadyen, Tobias Menzies, Joanna Page, Matthew Rhys, Andrea Riseborough, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Hiddleston, Danny Mays, Eve Best, Bertie Carvel, Ben Whishaw and many more.
“A word about teachers…..your first and most important tool is common sense” David Mamet, “True & False” (Faber)
One-one coaching and group workshops for actors at all levels of experience, and presentation training for the business world (see below). This autumn student clients have been offered places in full-time training at LAMDA, Rose Bruford, Mountview and Guildford School of Acting.
“Brilliant, challenging, intensive – a rare level of training”
AUTUMN WORKSHOPS : SHAKESPEARE FOR THE CAMERA
These sought-after workshops in association with Acting Gymnasium are on-going. Please contact for the 2024/25 agenda.
Contact : +44 7778 456 193 info@teachyourselfacting.com
MYLES HORGAN as YORK in ‘Henry VI Part Two’
SAMANTHA STREIT as OPHELIA in ‘Hamlet’
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
The TYA team, as well as providing effective and successful training for actors, has quietly established a strong reputation in the world of corporate and business communications training, helping build confidence in making presentations, in public speaking and interviews, in both “live”and on-line situations.
We deliver this under the banner of PETERSON LANE TRAINING – please check our new Web link: www.petersonlane.co.uk
“You teach people how to connect. How to be authentic, without being exposed. You also do it with respect and humour.”