Acting is a craft, not instinct alone. It requires discipline and technical training, but technique by itself is insufficient. True creativity comes from the unconscious—where impulse, emotion, and imagination live. Great acting is not controlled; it is surrendered. If the actor is not surprised by their own work, the audience will not be moved.
Method acting places this unconscious intelligence at the centre of the process, turning technique into lived behaviour rather than performance. As Stanislavski understood, great acting is the ability to be private in public. This is the difference between showing emotion and living it—and it is the truth audiences recognise and remember.
METHOD ACTING INTRODUCTION
Step into the legendary work of Lee Strasberg and explore Method Acting, a technique that has shaped actors for over 90 years. These classes are designed for everyone—from complete beginners to professionals—helping you develop your instrument: your thoughts, impulses, and emotions.
Two Evening Classes (Online, 7–10 pm)
Focused entirely on you, these sessions teach Basic Relaxation and Sense Memory techniques, and introduce truthful approaches to text and character. They provide a strong foundation for the Method Intensive Studio Unit, a 4-week course that further develops your craft and skills.
Monday – Intro Talk & Basic Relaxation
Intro Talk: Learn how Strasberg’s Method fits into the actor’s broader work. Understand your creative instrument and the muscles that require training and engagement.
Basic Relaxation: This foundational exercise helps you sit with your thoughts, impulses, and emotions. It prepares you to take creative risks in auditions, on stage, or on camera. No prior training is required—just bring yourself.
Tuesday – Recap & Sense Memory
Recap: Review Monday’s work and explore how Method principles apply to scene study, text, character, and auditioning.
Sense Memory: Connect deeply with your own truths to bring characters and narratives alive. This powerful technique enhances imagination and authenticity in your performance.
Outcome
By the end of these two days, you will have a clear understanding of Strasberg’s Method and its role in the actor’s craft. You’ll take home practical exercises in Basic Relaxation and Sense Memory, ready to build on in the full 4-week Studio Unit, which expands into improvisation and scene study.
Method Acting – Studio/Online: The Actor’s Instrument. Craft, Character, and Creative Process
From Technique to Studio
As you learn and expand the use of the technique on Monday online and Saturday morning, face-to-face, it becomes the foundation of Acting, not just from your head but also from your body. Allowing your impulses, thoughts, and emotions to come into play as you explore the material in a way that goes far beyond trying to impress with a performance. With this preparation in place, the studio becomes a living lab.
Method Acting Studio
On both Friday & Saturday, the Studio offers a dynamic and immersive space to deepen both technique and scene work. It is a place where you can explore not only the Craft of acting but also how to use your complete instrument—body, voice, emotions, impulses—to connect truthfully with text, character, and story.
Scene Work as Discovery
At the heart of studio scene work lies the essential task: understanding the character and their situation. Who is this person? What drives them? What do they want or need? What is happening in the relationship between the characters? These questions guide your exploration, anchored in the text itself. The studio environment encourages greater freedom—more action, more choices, more risks. As you allow your instincts to lead, you develop a deeper relationship with the material, uncovering the Actor you want to be—and the Actor you truly are.
METHOD HOMEWORK Week 4
Monday, 30th 10 – 12 noon or 7.30 – 9.30 pm (Technique)
METHOD STUDIO Week 4
Friday April 3rd 7-10 pm
Saturday Arpil 4th 10-6 pm
Accessible, High-Quality Training Rooted in Excellence.
Sam Rumbelow, with affiliated voice and movement specialists, stands at the very top of the acting field. With decades of teaching experience and a lifetime dedicated to the craft, their expertise is unmatched.
Method Acting's mission is to balance quality with cost to ensure training is accessible to all, not only for those who can afford to pay high costs.
Fees are carefully set to support continued participation.
This structure enables students to return regularly, nurturing the conditions necessary to turn aspiration into genuine ability.
What the training offers
The value of this training lies not only in the development of a versatile and expansive skillset in craft, but also in the deep cultivation of the actor’s instrument. Through techniques and core exercises such as Basic Relaxation and Sense Memory, actors learn to work from a truthful and instinctive place.
The training, supported by improvisation and technical process, unlocks key abilities such as public solitude, heightened sensitivity, and emotional expressiveness—qualities essential to acting rooted in truth, instinct, and creative intuition.
Flexible, Affordable Pricing
Training is delivered in units throughout the year. Each unit comprises 50 hours of instruction, 44 hours in the Studio and 6 hours online, at a cost of £340 per unit. This equates to just £6.80 per hour.
All five units in a calendar year totals £1,700, which equates to just £142 per month
The Rolling 100 Payment Option
We understand that even at this rate, the cost may still be a challenge for some. To support accessibility further, we offer a flexible payment option called the Rolling 100.
With this plan, £100 is paid monthly, continuing through your period of attendance and beyond, until the full balance is paid. For example, if you attend 5 units consecutively over 12 months, you would complete payments over 17 months.
You can choose to participate in additional voice or movement classes and your payment period can be flexed accordingly. You can also flex your monthly payment.
For a single unit, this payment plan can be paid over three months at £114 per month.
Sam Rumbelow is a respected and prolific figure in the UK acting world, best known as one of the longest-standing and most influential Method acting teachers in the country. With over four decades of industry experience, he has trained generations of actors in emotionally truthful performance. Sam continues to shape the next generation of actors through rigorous training and emotional exploration. His work is grounded, transformational, and deeply respected in both artistic and academic circles. Having founded his acting studio in 2002, this broad and deep training enables him to develop the actor’s “instrument,” expanding both their acting technique and craft, unlocking their true creative potential.
Exclusively teaching each session, he has 44 years of experience in the industry, with 25 years of teaching and coaching experience. A long and detailed training, through the National Youth Theatre and the Lyric Youth Theatre, led to his attendance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His extensive training in both classical and contemporary acting craft, combined with his experience as a professional actor, has uniquely equipped him to understand and facilitate the actor’s training.
He has been reviewed and written about in national TV, Radio, and press, as well as in international press, regarding his teaching and collaboration with Gillian Wearing on Self Made, which reflects Sam’s work as a director and creative practitioner outside of his teaching. Recently, Sam has returned to acting around his work as an Acting teacher and Coach. Giving him a refreshed experience of the demands of the modern actor.
Outside his private teaching, Sam has also been a lecturer at The Actors Centre for 18 years, teaching regular classes in Denmark and Sweden. He has also taught workshops in Poland and Italy. In the UK, he has also given workshops on The Creative Process at The Whitechapel Art Gallery, as well as The Hayward Gallery and The London College of Culture. Each year, Sam was a Guest Lecturer at Feature Expanded, held annually in Manchester. He also works privately with several established actors from stage, Screen and TV.
Is an Artist support associate at the RSC as well as being a voice tutor at The Guildhall & The Drama Centre. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and subsequently worked as an actor in TV, film, radio and theatre. She returned to the Guildhall in 2006, completed an MA in Teaching Actors and specialized in voice training, under the tutelage of Patsy Rodenburg. Her thesis was on Audibility in Younger Actors.
Recent theatre credits include: Hitchcock Blond (Hull Truck), Carousel (Opera North/Barbican), The Changeling, A Dolls House, After Miss Julie, Beloved, I Am Yussef and This Is My Brother (Young Vic), Pitchfork Disney (Arcola), ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl), Noises Off (Old Vic), Othello (Sheffield Crucible), GHOST the musical (Piccadilly Theatre), The School for Scandal (Barbican), Work (The White Bear, Kennington), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal Haymarket), 11 and 12 (Peter Brook at the Barbican), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Hampstead Theatre), As You Like It (Watford Palace Theatre).
Danny McGrath trained as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and taught movement at Guildhall for over 20 years eventually as Head of Movement. He was also Programme Leader on an innovative 4 year double degree programme in collaboration with the Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) .
He works as a movement director/coach in film , theatre and TV .
Recent work includes The Yellow Tie with (Ben Schnetzer and John Malkovich) and Prisoner with (Leonie Benesch and Izuka Hoyle)
Danny has taught and led workshops in many countries . In pure movement/mask/expressive movement/ensemble and Animals.
Accessible, High-Quality Training Rooted in Excellence.
Sam Rumbelow, with affiliated voice and movement specialists, stands at the very top of the acting field. With decades of teaching experience and a lifetime dedicated to the craft, their expertise is unmatched.
Method Acting’s mission is to balance quality with cost to ensure training is accessible to all, not only for those who can afford to pay high costs. Fees are carefully set to support continued participation. This structure enables students to return regularly, nurturing the conditions necessary to turn aspiration into genuine ability.
What the training offers
The value of this training lies not only in the development of a versatile and expansive skillset in craft, but also in the deep cultivation of the actor’s instrument. Through techniques and core exercises such as Basic Relaxation and Sense Memory, actors learn to work from a truthful and instinctive place.
The training, supported by improvisation and technical process, unlocks key abilities such as public solitude, heightened sensitivity, and emotional expressiveness, qualities essential to acting rooted in truth, instinct, and creative intuition.
Flexible, Affordable Pricing
Training is delivered in units throughout the year. Each unit comprises 50 hours of instruction, 44 hours in the Studio and 6 hours online, at a cost of £340 per unit. This equates to just £6.80 per hour.
All five units in a calendar year total £1,700, which equates to just £142 per month.
The Rolling 100 Payment Option
We understand that even at this rate, the cost may still be a challenge for some. To support accessibility further, we offer a flexible payment option called the Rolling 100. With this plan, £100 is paid monthly, continuing through your period of attendance and beyond until the full balance is paid. For example, if you attend five units consecutively over 12 months, you would complete payments over 17 months.
You can choose to participate in additional voice or movement classes and your payment period can be adjusted accordingly. You can also adjust your monthly payment.
For a single unit, this payment plan can be paid over three months at £114 per month.
