ABOUT ANDREW
I am an acting and performance coach, director, and executive trainer. Running workshops internationally and works at leading drama schools.
My training began at Rose Bruford College and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. I would go on to work intensively with Bred in the Bone Theatre Laboratory at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
After joining the company, I continued to work extensively as an actor and workshop leader. I toured internationally eventually finding a home at Theatre De Menilmontant, Paris where the company ran the ‘Dreams Before Dawn’ festival.
Working in a laboratory company led to hundreds of hours of intensive and exhaustive research in actor training. This experience acts as a core foundation to my way of working.
Additionally, I was a core member of the award winning ‘The Third Arrangement’ working internationally with actors of the acclaimed Cricot2 Teatr. My travels as an actor took me from The Grotowski Institute to the A.P Chekhov Theatre and beyond.
I have worked for the last ten years as a visiting lecturer and director at leading Drama Schools. My training focuses on psycho-physical techniques under the name of ‘Totality’.
As an acting coach I have recently completed work with actors for Disney +, Hulu, Netflix and BBC. I work with actors to help bring the best out of their performances throughout the process. To see what some of the actors that have worked with me have to say visit the testimonials page.
In addition to my work, I am a fitness fanatic, coffee nerd and train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. My fitness challenges have raised money for charity, recently running 500KM in 30 days for Macmillan Cancer Support.
COACHING
Why do I get to do what I do?
This is a question that was at the forefront of my mind for an enormous amount of time. As I continued to work, progress and research, I found myself in the fortunate position whereby the answer became simple: because I was repeatedly asked to do it and I love to do it. My passion as a practitioner is predicated on being the most informed, the most helpful and the best at what I do.
Before I committed to any form of publicising myself, I worked solely with those who sought me out. To this day, the greatest and most complementary form of advertising is: word of mouth. No matter the success of this website, I still wish for word of mouth to continue to be my most successful form of advertising. Thus, this website is not an advertising campaign stating reasons why you may wish to work with me. Rather, it is the destination whereby you may begin to touch base with my ideas and have an insight into what it is that I do. Not through my own words of self promotion but through the kind words of the successful people that I have had the joy and pleasure to work with.
“So that you can achieve what you have always wanted to achieve”
Coaching in and of itself is a discipline. A discipline which I have committed many countless hours refining and developing. My job is to bring the best out of you. To tell you what you may not want to hear. To see what you may not see so that you can achieve what you have always wanted to achieve; whether you are an actor, in business or politics.
I hold a very close relationship with my clients, a relationship built on confidence and trust. Any publicising of our work together is done with the discretion and disclosure of the client.
