Special workshops with Guest Coaches

Roberta made her professional acting debut at 16 in the film version of The Effect Of Gamma-Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds opposite Joanne Woodward and directed by Paul Newman. She studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, HB Studio, and with such masters as Lee Strasberg, Robert Lewis, Susan Batson, Gary Austin, Sondra Seacat, Giles Foreman, Andreas Manolikakis, and Elizabeth Kemp. She became a member of The Actors Studio in 1980.She has taught and coached privately for over twenty five years … at The New York Film Academy, the former “Black Nexxus” (now, The Susan Batson Studio),at HB Studio, at Yoko Narahashi’s school, UPS (United Performer’s Studio) in Tokyo – and in London and Paris for GFCA As an actor, she has worked on television, on film and on stage, with such extraordinary artists as: Bette Davis, Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Susan Batson, Shelley Winters, Arthur Penn, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Tony Danza, Frank Corsaro, James Gandolfini, Brian Murray, Eileen Heckert, Kate Valk, Anne Meara, Doug Hughes, Elizabeth Franz, Lynn Cohen, Melanie Mayron, Robert Glaudini, Larry Pine, Olivia Wilde, Melissa McCarthy, and many others. Roberta appeared in the films Rabbit Hole with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart; directed by John Cameron Mitchell, Last I Heard, starring Paul Sorvino, Michael Rappaport and Paul Ben Victor, Emerald City directed by Colin Broderick, Can You Ever Forgive Me with Melissa McCarthy, and on HBO’s Vinyl, produced by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese. During the recent pandemic, she appeared in the 3-part short film, Driftwood, which has been nominated for and has won several awards. Boy Wonder; That’s What She Told Me (shown at the New York International Film Festival).

Barbara specialises in the combination of the methodological approach to acting, with the groundbreaking technique of Movement Psychology. She is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and works as a teacher and coach all over Europe. She has taught a great number of actors and introduced directors to the challenges of acting, in weekly classes and workshops. In recent years Barbara has taught in Paris, London, Berlin, Munich and Madrid as well as all over Switzerland. Barbara owes her craft to the master teachers of Drama Centre London, Christopher Fettes and Reuven Adiv; and the second generation including Giles Foreman, with whom she has been teaching for many years; together they co-founded Caravanserai Productions & Acting Studio in London in 2005. Since 2012 the studio has been based in Soho as Giles Foreman Centre For Acting, and has established itself as an internationally leading centre for the teaching of Method acting and Character Analysis. Barbara increasingly works with individual directors, supporting them in their analysis and development of scripts. She has coached many actors in their preparation for castings and roles: among others Carla Juri, Matthias Hungerbühler, Delia Mayer, Oriana Schrage, Michael Neuenschwander for “Dällebach Kari“ (Xavier Koller, 2011), “Fossil” (Alex Walker, 2014), “Dead Fucking Last“ (Walter Feistle, 2012), “Das Missen Massaker” (Michael Steiner, 2012), Tatort (2014), “Vaterjagd” (Rahel Grunder, 2014), “Der Bestatter” (2014), “Finsteres Glück” (2015). Barbara regularly works as a voiceover artist and on staged readings; in the last few years, together with Siri Hustvedt, Shirin Ebadi, Dame Ruth Rendell, Donna Leon, Alice Schwarzer and Andrea Levy.

Liana was born in Sweden. She studied at the Drama Centre and then became the assistant to the founder of the Drama Centre Dr Yat Malmgren, in the Laban analysis of character movement. Liana studied classical ballet at the Royal Academy in Sweden and the Martha Graham Technique at the London School of Contemporary Dance (The Place). She is a vanguard figure of physical theatre, having performed with various dance theatre/physical theatre companies all over Europe. While living in Brazil, she devised and gave workshops, worked for the British Council, the universities of Sao Paulo and Campinhas and performed with Brazil’s leading dance company Cisne Negro. She gives workshops in Movement and Analysis of Movement all over Europe and beyond. As a Movement Director in the theatre she has extensive experience working with numerous directors in a varied repertoire: classical, contemporary, farce and beyond. As a Movement Specialist, she coaches actors in both TV and Film – most recently, Sennentuntchi (Kontra Production), Pedaleur de Charme (Maigimax Production) and Clash of the Titans (2009) with Liam Neeson. Liana is a lecturer at CSM, College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts, lecturing across the MA and BA courses. She is Head of Movement at the Drama Centre. MOVEMENT TUTOR & COACH, WORKSHOPS

Georgina was brought up in Scotland. She trained as an actor at Drama Centre London 1991-1994 then worked for The National, NT Studio, Royal Court, Almeida, Tron Glasgow, The Wrestling School, Unicorn, Derby Playhouse, Greenwich Theatre, Thiasos, National Theatre of Scotland and Soho Theatre - also for BBC, BBC Scotland, STV, Carnival Films and Ideal World. Georgina has been teaching acting since 1998. She is inspired by Demidov’s idea of the Creative Actor. She combines a specialism in Stanislavski Technique with Zapora’s Action theatre, Bogart’s Viewpoints, Goat Island devising practice other stimulating practitioners, to help actors open up their imaginations and fulfil expressive potential. She calls her innovative combined practice Bricolage.

Lena Lessing started off in the 1980s as a film actress, working with such exquisite actors as Donald Sutherland and Geraldine Chaplin, Bob Hoskins and Kate Winslet. Parallel to her acting career she began working as an Acting Coach in 1996, and as a German Dialect Coach in 2003. She has coached Michael Fassbender, Kate Blanchett, Grispin Glover, Nina Hoss, Julia Jentsch, Laura Tonke, Michael Neuenschwander and many other wonderful actors. She works mainly in Berlin, but also in Switzerland, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland and the UK. In 2016 an actress with whom she had been working for years, Laura Tonke won the Lola as Best Actress, and as Best Supporting Actress at the Deutscher Filmpreis, the German equivalent of the American Academy Awards.