About Giles Foreman,
our Coaching Team,
& our Ethos

Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK, USA and throughout Europe. He is a specialist in realism for stage and screen using the Methodological approach to acting, and notably in the Yat Malmgren/Laban technique known as Character Analysis or Movement Psychology. He has introduced the work to a new generation of actors in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Madrid, Rome, Cairo. He was recently awarded a special Swiss Film-Academy award for his work as a film-acting coach.

Lindsay is a professional singer and actor, who first trained classically at Trinity College of Music, London and in musical theatre and acting. She has performed as a soloist at many of Britain’s major venues and festivals, recorded both on CD and DVD, toured and performed across Europe. Radio broadcasts include Radio 3′s In Tune, Danish Radio, and Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour. She has directed opera; and devised, coached and staged modern musical drama. She provides individual vocal coaching for presenters, singers and actors, and those in public life. Lindsay coordinates the work of the GFCA London and GFCA Paris centres; in London; she coaches, directs and teaches singing voice privately, and on the Advanced Intensive Programme; she coaches and directs film-scenes for Pro-Intensive actor-courses; coaches and directs Classical scenes and film-scenes for the 1-year diploma at GFCA Paris. Her theatre directing projects include Fear and Misery of the Third Reich; and plays devised for and with Advanced actors: including The Ascent of Woman, Refugee, Exist Other Wise, Hero’s Journey; & Les Liens Qui Unissent (London & Paris combined project) Lindsay designed the groundbreaking book on Character Analysis - A PEOPLED LABYRINTH - for and with the author, Christopher Fettes, & with Giles Foreman, for GFCA Publishing.

Janet is a working actress who originally trained in the Art & Science of Movement for three years before training at the Drama Centre for a further three. Whilst at Drama Centre, Yat encouraged her to learn and teach the Movement Psychology aspect of his work, which when she is free she she continues to do.

Grant trained at the Drama Centre London, under the tutelage of Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren, Reuven Adiv. He was developer & Head of Acting for the Foundation course at the Drama Centre London, and resident director & acting coach on their main 3 year acting course. He was Artistic Director, producer & actor with the Pentagon Theatre Company based out of Milan in Northern Italy. He continues as an independent acting & audition coach at institutions including E15, Rose Bruford, Central School of Speech & Drama; and is a role-play facilitator/workshop leader/communication skills & body language coach for many UK & International companies. Since 2018, he has been a regular acting coach and director for GFCA London programmes and workshops, and continues to be in demand for varied acting roles in Theatre, Film & TV.

Trained at the Royal Ballet School, Glen has danced extensively with ballet companies in Europe, North America and South East Asia. Recent choreographic engagements include The Bacchae for Thiasos Theatre Company performed in the amphitheatres of Pafos and Limassol (Cyprus); La Cenerentola and The Love For Three Oranges for English Pocket Opera; The Saint of Bleecker Street for Trinity College of Music; teaching historical dance in Tokyo plus a recent ballet, Von Ewiger Liebe to music by Johannes Brahms, and choreographic engagements including a ballet to Bach cantatas. Glen worked for many years at Drama Centre London, where he was Ballet Master and also taught social and historical dance.

Alex originally trained as an actor and later trained as a voice teacher at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Since then, he has trained actors in both conservatoire drama schools and professional theatre. Alex was head of voice at Drama Centre London and has also worked at Lamda, Rose Bruford, Drama Studio, and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. From 2009-2016 Alex trained voice teachers on the MA Voice Studies course. From 2013-2018 Alex was assistant head of voice at Shakespeare’s Globe and he continues to work in Globe Education. Alex has also coached for the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse. Alex is passionate about the connection between acting, language and voice.

Sam is an actor, movement director and movement tutor. He started his formal training over a decade ago at the London School of Dramatic Art, later to complete the BA at Drama Centre London. Having had varied experiences within the discipline over the years, through the likes of Liana Nyquist, Shona Morris, Jackie Snow and Roisin Rae, his practice aims to give actors strong fundamentals, emotional freedom, and the most expressive body available to each individual. His practice is heavily based in Viewpoints, Animal Study and Laban. The ultimate goal simply is to achieve successful, clear and embodied physical storytelling.

Training: Drama Centre London. Theatre includes: King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth (RSC), Mother Courage and Her Children (ETT), Strangers on a Train, Frankenstein, Strictly Murder, Holmes and the Ripper, Deadly Nightcap and Murder with Love (Colin McIntyre Thriller Season, Nottingham), Relatively Speaking and The Reduced Shakespeare Company (Tabs Productions). Dealer’s Choice, Sherlock Holmes & The Ripper Murders, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Rope, Murder Weapon, Random Harvest, Suddenly at Home, Up N’ Under, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, (Talking Scarlet). Wind in the Willows (ABA Productions). TV includes: Casualty (BBC), Family (LWT), Captain Travel (Disney). Samuel directed Celia Imrie and David Warner in audio series ‘Shilling & Sixpence Investigate’ for Big Finish Productions. Directing: a national tour of his father’s play, ‘Strictly Murder’ (Hello World Productions) which is being developed into a feature film. With his brother George, he also directs film as ‘The Clemens Bros’ and has won numerous awards on the festival circuit.

Mandana trained as an actor at the Drama Centre under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. She started working in the theatre, touring with Julius Caesar for Compass Theatre; and The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, Cymbeline and Julius Caesar with the English Shakespeare Company. She worked at The National Theatre in Robert Lepage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and various new writing projects at the NT Studio. At Watford Theatre John Godber’s The Office Party, and at The Northcott Theatre, Tis Pity she’s a Whore. TV credits include: London Bridge, Bad Girls, Coming up for Air, Powers, Holby City, Born and Bred, Doctors, Casualty, EastEnders, The Bill, Silent Witness, Law & Order, Emmerdale, Line of Duty, New Blood, Liar, CB Strike. Mandana also teaches Acting/Screen Improvisation at the International School of Screen Acting in London

Stuart trained at the Drama Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. He has worked extensively for over 20 years in Film, TV, Theatre and Radio. Major TV roles in Blood and Peaches, Strikeforce, a 10-part BBC series In a Land of Plenty and Berkely Square, Vincent, Cambridge Spies, Spooks, Burn It and Every time you Look at Me, amongst others. Stuart was Rob Minter in Eastenders for two years and the lead character in a live one-hour special of The Bill.
Theatre work includes the Royal Court, Soho Theatre and the Bush in many new plays including premiers by writers such Neil La Bute, Simon Bent and Johnathan Harvey’s Hushabye Mountain at Hampstead theatre. Stuart has also appeared in the plays of Joe Orton, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, Ayckbourne, Manuel Puig and Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money; West End appearances include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. He teaches at various academies, including on the directors’ course at RADA. In 2020 he directed the graduation play for the MA programme at the Drama Centre London.

Odne is an actor, he has performed in Australia, Norway, and the UK. As a teacher, he has also taught at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Fourth Monkey, and The Impulse Company, and provides workshops and private coaching for smaller groups. Odne specialises in the Meisner Technique, which he has been teaching since 2018. Based on a series of progressive exercises, the Meisner technique is unique in its ability to train an actor to get out of their own head, responding truthfully to what is happening in the moment, and creating performances grounded in a sense of expressive freedom. While it is the actor’s job to overcome barriers in their work, it is the job of the teacher to provide a safe and encouraging space to do so, and the values of patience, self-compassion, and taking charge of your own journey as an actor are essential elements of Odne’s teaching style.