Create Engaging and Dynamic Performances Acting for Stage & Screen Essentials
1-Week Acting for Stage and Screen Essentials is a dynamic and immersive short course which offers an initial understanding of the core technical and artistic elements required for acting in theatre, TV and film.
The course culminates in the production of a duologue for camera. This course is suitable for beginners; no previous experience is required.
Why take the course?
1-Week Acting for Stage and Screen Essentials gives you the opportunity to work with professional directors and acting, voice, and movement coaches to create engaging, dynamic performances.
The course is designed to improve your understanding, knowledge, and practice in the following core areas:
- Screen acting techniques for TV and Film
- Text
- Voice
- Improvisation
- Movement for Actors
- Audition Technique
Screen acting techniques for TV and Film
These sessions start your journey in developing the key skills required for performing for screen. You will discover the core screen actor’s artistic tools: voice, body, imagination and creative interpretation. Throughout these classes you will be taken through a process of creating, developing and delivering a partnered scene for camera, building an understanding of technical language that may be used on set whilst filming.
Text
Text classes will focus on how an actor brings a writer’s work to life to tell an engaging story for an audience whether on stage or screen. You will analyse scripts, using a variety of methodologies to deeply understand, interpret and create characters with depth and detail.
Acting Technique
Technique classes allow you to work with a range of scripts, exploring some of the foundational methodologies to turn instinct into craft. You will end these classes with a rehearsed reading of a monologue, chosen in collaboration with your lecturer as a mock audition with feedback.
Voice
You will be introduced to voice work and will cover both practical and theoretical components. You will discover how embodied voice work is integrated into spoken text. Core elements of breath and resonance will be introduced.
Improvisation
Improvisation classes will be explorational, varied, and will incorporate elements from different acting practitioners. The essential building blocks of improvisation will be introduced and developed during the course, encouraging you to work flexibly, spontaneously and with a range of stimuli.
Movement for Actors
The movement element of this course begins with a focus on physical release techniques alongside body-based improvisations. This practical workshop will focus you on your understanding of your body as a tool for expression and offer techniques that allow you to release physical tension, and experience being open to your own impulses within improvisatory work. Laban’s efforts will also be explored, and the focus will be on developing flexibility within your physicality to help you with playing a range of characters.
Duration and location
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
Duration: 1 week
Locations: Birmingham
Entry requirements
Minimum Age: 18 at the start of the course.
This course is open enrolment and there are no entry requirements.
In order to get the most out of the course, you should be able to both speak and write in English to a reasonable standard.
Please be aware that we have a limited number of places available for each course intake and operate on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dates and fees
Course dates: 27th July – 31st July 2026
Course fees: £600
Any questions?
Our enquiries team is always available to answer your questions. Just call 01273 840 346 or email [email protected]
