VOICE & MOVEMENT

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.