Actor Trainer & Researcher | Academic Consultant
Vice Chair of Drama HE
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Leadership & Strategy: Senior Fellow Advance HE (SFHEA) driving curriculum innovation, institutional advocacy, and equity in higher education.
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Expertise: Actor pedagogy, authorial acting, screen performance, VR/simulation frameworks, pedagogy for international & multilingual performers, and portfolio career development.
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Research & Publications: PhD (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). Widely published author with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect, Bloomsbury, and Taylor & Francis.
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Industry & Creative: Experienced actor, writer, and director across stage and screen (UK, Greece, US, EU). Currently developing VR experiences for soft skills and wellbeing. Based in London, creating socially engaged VR storytelling and embodied performance experiences with diverse community cohorts.
Featured Open-Access Research & Media
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Translingual Actioning with GenAI in Actor Training: Integrating Generative AI and multilingual methodologies to support English as an Additional Language performers. [Watch Blueprint Video]
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Self-Taping & Digital Audition Pedagogy: Open-access guidance for self-taping and extracting techniques from outstanding screen performances. [Read Open-Access Essay]
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Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training: Webinar exploring contemporary screen acting methodologies, co-edited publication insights, and technological adaptation in actor training. [Watch Webinar Here Now]
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Learning to Act from Bones: Cinematography for Actors Podcast Guest Appearance discussing screen performance, technical literacy for actors, and bridging the gap between set mechanics and performance. [Watch YouTube Podcast]
Services
Tailored actor coaching, interdisciplinary applied drama interventions, and executive academic consultancy.
Specialist Actor Training & Masterclasses
Stage & Screen Acting: Technical camera literacy, self-taping mastery, and AI/VR-informed Stanislavsky technique (Vakhtangov, Active Analysis, Meisner, Method).
Authorial Acting: Autobiographical performance, political theatre, comedy, and devising tailored to actor strengths.
Creative Interventions & Role-Play: Developing applied drama simulations for healthcare, corporate, and executive settings.
1-1 Coaching: Bespoke individual training (online or in person).
Creative Interventions & Applied Drama
Ethnoacting in VR for Soft Skills Development: Immersive experience workshops for Cognitive Empathy in Nursing, growth mindset in youth and resilience in actors.
EthnoVR: Acting Through Life Transitions: Immersive experience workshops for developing positive attitudes to traumatic life events.
Cultural Competence and Linguistic Empathy: Interactive workshop exploring cultural competence as an ongoing lifelong journey.
Academic Consultancy & Research Leadership
Learning & Teaching: Curriculum innovation, inclusive actor training frameworks, validation, EAL pedagogy, quality assurance, and VR/GenAI integration.
Research Collaboration: Practice-based research leadership, co-authorship, and academic grant strategy.
Industry Commentary: Expert insights on drama education policy and higher education reform.