ABOUT GFCA

About GFCA

The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is a dynamic professional acting studio based in Soho, in the heart of London’s theatre and media industries; and there are GFCA International Centres in Europe and USA. We are the leading Centre for Character Analysis.

We provide distinctive, enjoyably rigorous and person-centred training for aspiring individuals and professional actors – taught by some of the leading acting, movement, voice, analysis, improvisation and theatre- and film-technique coaches available.

If you choose to come to GFCA, we provide many ways to participate; part-time acting classes; short intensive workshops; one-to-one coaching; and 5-term full-time training.

Since March 2020 we have also embraced a wider, global community through online training, particularly in Character Analysis, Movement Psychology and advanced scene-study with Giles Foreman.

People new to acting can discover the skills through our beginners’ classes and introductory workshops, progressing onward part-time.

Those who think they may be ready – you may have have previous acting or performing experience, have studied at University, or come via other routes – audition for our 5-term 20-month advanced intensive Acting Diploma (Post-Graduate equivalent-level).

Ours is amongst the most affordable courses of its kind in the country, and yet it is built around intensive teaching by renowned coaches, with small class sizes designed to develop people as thoroughly as possible. It is vigorous, focussed, demanding; based on a huge tradition, producing actors with skills tailored for the modern film, TV and theatre industries.

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Professional actors come to develop their skills through acting classes and workshops with top practitioners from all over the world – and to create projects in both film and theatre. Actors can use studio coaches and facilities to prepare for auditions, and to develop in-depth characters for film roles that they have already secured. Alongside actor-training, GFCA offers casting and coaching-services, and scriptwriting development to the film industry.

Due to our location in Soho, centre of the UK media industries, GFCA also offers many opportunities to meet casting directors, directors and producers through regular events; plays, showcases, castings, play-readings and Industry events.

The acting philosophy at the studio was developed from that of the original Drama Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv, who together trained some of the leading UK actors of recent years – from Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Simon Callow, Geraldine James, Frances de la Tour – to Helen McCrory, Anne Marie Duff, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald, Lambert Wilson, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Santiago Cabrera, Gwendoline Christie, Ryan Gage and John Simm, to name but a few. Christopher Fettes, founder of Drama Centre London, holds the title of GFCA tutor-emeritus.

The teaching process utilises a system of methods within Realism. We are one of the very few centres in the world providing detailed training courses in the extraordinary Laban/Jungian technique of Character Analysis / Movement Psychology developed by Yat Malmgren, to develop people’s psychological understanding both of themselves and the characters they are playing.

Our holistic acting education is influenced by Stanislavski, as well as the philosophy of Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner, creating actors capable of sophisticated, transformative performance.

The Centre has relationships with other similar organisations around the world and offers many exchange programmes. In 2015 we opened our sister centre, GFCA Paris, joining GFCA International bases in other cities such as GFCA New York & LA;  GFCA Luxembourg, and GFCA Zürich 

We have substantial expertise in delivering Corporate training both in the UK and abroad.

About GFCA Character Analysis

We established a publishing company, in order to launch the book A Peopled Labyrinth written by Drama Centre founder Christopher Fettes in September 2015.

Additionally we provide space for room-hire, casting facilities and rehearsal-space for individuals and organisations. Our premises are bright, modern and air-conditioned. We employ additional HEPA-filtered air-purifiers in each of our studios.
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Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is accredited by Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities (ASIC) which is an independent body providing accreditation services for independent, further and higher education colleges.  ASIC accreditation helps students and parents make a more informed choice and will also help a school, college, university, training provider or distance education provider, demonstrate to the international student body that they are a high quality institution.

Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is a registered examination centre for Trinity College London.

 

About GFCA