Actor Training
Foundation. Core. Advanced. Shorts
Are you a passionate actor wanting to go deeper in the craft of acting? Are you a curious individual who have always dreamed they could act but life got in the way or were too fearful to try? Are you an actor who feels stuck in the same old patterns feeling unfulfilled?
Welcome, to the Training – A reliable, truthful, expressive, transformational acting technique that gets at the heart of what it is to be an actor.
The Meisner Technique is a tried and tested system of exercises designed to create a more skilled, specific and authentic actor with an organic, spontaneous, and disciplined instrument. Actors learn they can respond instinctively and connect with their emotions on a profound level, enhancing their craft and captivating audiences.
Foundation
The Foundation is a part-time course, open to all and provides you with an in-depth experiential training. No prior acting experience or training is required, simply a willingness to approach the work with curiosity and a passion to become a truthful and spontaneous actor. You will build a foundation from which you act. This course is compulsory for anyone wishing to join the Core Training.
Dates & Fees
The Foundation Training lasts for 6 weeks. Acting classes run once per week for 2 hours each.
Full Term dates are available upon request.
For Course Prices, please contact us.
Structure
Day time courses will be
6 weeks | 2 Hours per week |
Evening courses will be
6 weeks | 2 Hours per week |
Course Content
The Foundation is a period of intensive improvisational work using the Repetition exercise, in which actors learn to take the attention off themselves and put it on their partners’ behaviour, allowing it to affect them and cause a truthful reaction. Meisner’s approach emphasizes the importance of active listening and observation skills. We look at the principles of good acting, stressing the actor’s connection to their spontaneous impulses.
Meeting once a week to enable flexibility for the working actor or actor new to the work.
Outcome
Actors at the end of the Foundation Training will have immersed themselves in the present moment, enhancing their ability to deliver powerful, memorable performances and profoundly impact the audience both on and off the stage.
Actors will effectively connect with their emotions and create truthful performances and compelling portrayals.
Students will also benefit from:
- Meisner Institute London
- Accreditation
- Access to the online MIL community hub
- Online Play readings
- Self-tape challenge
Entry Requirements
To join the Foundation training, we do not require previous acting credits or that students attend an audition, just an openness and curiosity to explore the craft of acting.
The Institute makes every effort to maintain a continuity of training while accommodating the scheduling needs of professionals who are auditioning and performing.
Free Consultation
To find out more about The Foundation Training and whether it is the right course for you, you can book a meeting or a telephone call with Law, who can offer you a detailed explanation about course content, structure, fees and answer any questions you might have before signing up.
Email la*@**************te.com directly to organise your free consultation.
For further information or to book contact us here.
Actors suffer from having their attention on themselves. In this state, they wait for cues, plan their responses, push for emotion and indicate. Our training aims to alleviate these issues, so actors develop an ability to express themselves responsively to their imagination, other actors and the demands of text.
By the end of the Core training actors will possess a reliable and fulfilling way of acting fearlessly with ease, depth and clarity that will prepare you for life as a professional working actor and our Advanced Training.
Students must have completed The Foundation Course to apply for The Core Training.
The Core Training
The Core Training is a transformative part-time acting course inspired by the traditional principles as taught by Sanford Meisner. Students must have completed The Foundation Course to apply for The Core Training.
Over nine months, meeting once a week, actors are introduced to progressively complex and sophisticated improvisational exercises using truthful reactions then a heightening of this sense of truth and the actors’ emotional depth through scene work.
- Exploring the power of your imagination and the ability to craft dynamic and purposeful ‘circumstances’ that allow you to act without effort and tension.
- To fully surrender to all parts of yourself so that you can go deeper into what it means to be free and truthful on stage, set… and in life.
- To become impulsive and spontaneous actors, adept at improvisation and confident working in any working scenario, audition or rehearsal process.
- To explore scene-work in a way that is free from the constraints of ideas or concerns about ‘text’.
By the end of the Core training actors emerge more honest human beings with instruments ready to act truthfully, you will possess a reliable and fulfilling way of acting fearlessly with ease, depth and clarity that will prepare you for life as a professional working actor in film, television, the stage and our Advanced Training.
Dates & Fees
The Core Training lasts for 9 months and consists of 6 x 6 week terms. Acting classes run once per week for 4 hours each.
Full Term dates are available upon request.
For Course Prices, please contact us
Structure
Day time courses will be
9 Months | 6 terms | 6 weeks | 4 Hours per week | Work outside class.
Evening Courses will be
11Months | 6 terms | 7 weeks | 3.5 Hours per week | Work outside class.
Course Content
Actors will learn how to work from simple Repetition to Improvisation through the introduction of Independent Activities and Imaginary circumstances.
You will learn how to craft inspiring, motivating and engaging circumstances that allow you to deeply connect with your inner emotional life on stage.
We will build upon this, with the introduction of the ‘knock at the door’, exploring the ‘entrance’ onto the stage and how to prepare emotionally and mentally so you can respond from instinct.
You will learn how to use your imagination specifically and purposefully to enable you to immerse yourself in a ‘scene’ with complete faith. Increasingly complex relationship exercises will serve to deepen your ability to create the illusion of relationships and learn to listen and engage with your partner and imagination.
Students will gradually drop repetition in favour of impulsive responding, creating realistic dialogue invaluable for script development and rehearsal processes. The introduction of Emotional Preparation will teach you to prepare internally for any scene or improvisation.
You will apply everything you have learnt to a second round of more complex scene work. Bringing the scene to performance standard and finishing the course with Open Classes; an opportunity to invite people to observe your work.
Outcome
Actors at the end of Core Training have:
- A strong sense of ‘who they are’ and the emotional life within them
- An ability to put their full attention on other actors in the scene, to listen and respond genuinely to their partner’s behaviour.
- An ability to bring deep and honest emotions to the scene and find them through their own imaginary circumstances – which run parallel to the scene.
- An ability to create a clear objective that will guide them naturally and instinctively through a scene.
- A developed imagination which can invent personal justifications to do anything the script or director calls on them to do.
- A mature sense of truth and a sound ability to live truthfully in an imaginary situation.
- The ability to promote spontaneous behaviour from within themselves and act from their impulses. They have developed their sensitivity to the point where they respond to their partner’s behaviour and always work with their genuine feelings.
Students also benefit from:
- A student buddy system to help provide additional guidance and support
- Discounted workshops
- Several Open Class opportunities in front of an invited audience.
- Access to the online MIL community hub
- Self-tape challenge
- Meisner Institute Accreditation
- Meisner Institute London Accreditation
- Visiting professional actors
- Text Analysis
- Online Play readings
- 1-2-1 teacher sessions
On completion of The Core Training, actors will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Meisner Institute London (and affiliated Meisner Institute) and be eligible to apply for The Advanced Training.
Alumni will also continue to be part of a strong and ever-growing community of actors developing and creating their own work.
Entry Requirements
To join the core training students must have completed The Foundation Course. We do not require previous acting credits or that students attend an audition. However, we do assess all students during The Foundation Course to ensure we mutually feel this training is for you.
Students are expected to be seriously committed to learning the craft of acting and actively wanting to pursue a career in acting. The Institute makes every effort to maintain a continuity of training while accommodating the scheduling needs of professionals who are auditioning and performing.
Free Consultation
To find out more about The Core Training and whether it is the right course for you, you can book a meeting or a telephone call with Law, who can offer you a detailed explanation about course content, structure, fees and answer any questions you might have before signing up.
Email la*@**************te.com directly to organise your free consultation.
For further information or to book contact us here.
Dates of the next Core Training
2026 dates T.B.A
The Advanced Actor Training
The Advanced Actor Training runs part time over nine months, meeting once a week, to allow flexibility for the working actor, concentrates on developing performance skills including stagecraft, monologues, character work, external physicality and text analysis. We will be covering the character work and external elements of the Meisner Technique, you’ve done the inner hard graft, now it’s time to put it into practice and transform into an unrecognisable you!
The Advanced is by invitation only; students will be asked back, based on the quality of their work in the Core Training. The work moves into advanced and highly emotional improvisational work, script interpretation, character work and advanced scene study. The Advanced course is about creating characters different from yourself, and having them be just as honest, impulsive and interesting. If the Core is learning the steps, the advanced is when you get to dance.
This course extends the work of acting into the area of advanced character work and interpretation. Students work with modern or classical texts by major writers such as Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, Caryll Churchill and Henrik Ibsen among others. Actors explore their interpretive powers without losing their authentic sense of self.
Dates & Fees
The fee for this will be £300 per term, payable two weeks before the term starts and a deposit of 20% on booking your place.
Full Term dates are available upon request.
Structure
9 Months | 6 terms | 6 weeks | 4 Hours per week | Work outside class.
Course Content
Using what you’ve already learned in the Core Training, that you are enough, you will be working at an exceptional level by being a truthful actor from the outside in, making a deep exploration into the character, the role of imitation and the question of how we understand characters in a truthful way if they are the opposite of who we are, discovering what impact a change in physicality can have and creating new elements through the use of tools, improvisation, emotional expression and play, in line with script and writers intent.
Here is what we will cover and as ever, many other additional elements to keep you on your toes.
- Character work, a deep exploration
- Imitation, human behaviour & research
- What it means to look at extreme points of view – things from a point of view that is not your own.
- How to behave physically like someone else.
- Exploring what it’s like to be drunk, on drugs and physically disabled.
- How to authentically lose yourself to the moment.
- Business of acting, your type, how to get an agent and create your brand.
- Individual monologue work
- Advanced challenging scene work
- Creating & developing your own work
- Self-tape mastery & self-critique
Outcome
Students will be supported in their preparation for life as a working actor, covering casting preparation, the business of acting and rehearsal processes.
Term 6 will consist of a series of performances in front of an invited audience and will culminate in Term 7 with a Showcase at a central London venue.
You will also continue to be part of a strong and ever-growing community of actors developing and creating their own work.
Upon completion you will have a solid understanding of your craft and your instrument. You will be able to work confidently and instinctively, having all the tools necessary to embrace the nature of a true actor.
This course is through invite after application only. Open to those who have experience of the Meisner Technique up to and including complex scene work, you must have attended a core training or equivalent.
Students also benefit from:
- A student buddy system to help provide additional guidance and support
- Discounted workshops
- Several Open Class opportunities in front of an invited audience.
- Access to the online MIL community hub
- Self-tape challenge
- Meisner Institute Accreditation
- Meisner Institute London Accreditation
- Visiting professional actors
- Text Analysis
- Online Play readings
- 1-2-1 Teacher sessions
On completion of The Advanced Training, actors will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Meisner Institute London (and affiliated Meisner Institute) and be eligible to apply for The Super Advanced Training.
Alumni will also continue to be part of a strong and ever-growing community of actors developing and creating their own work.
Entry Requirements
To join the Advanced training students must have completed The Core Training. However, we do assess all students during The Core Training to ensure we mutually feel this training is for you.
Students are expected to be seriously committed to learning the craft of acting and actively wanting to pursue a career in acting. The Institute makes every effort to maintain a continuity of training while accommodating the scheduling needs of professionals who are auditioning and performing.
Free Consultation
To find out more about The Advanced Training and whether it is the right course for you, you can book a meeting or a telephone call with Law, who can offer you a detailed explanation about course content, structure, fees and answer any questions you might have before signing up.
Email la*@**************te.com directly to organise your free consultation.
For further information or to book contact us here.
Dates of the next Core Training
Monday evenings from 6-9pm in February 2025