How To Act: Boot Camp (10am-1:30pm, Monday 5 January-Friday 9 January, Hackney Showroom, London)
This intensive screen acting Boot Camp will kickstart your year with clarity, confidence, and craft. Across five half-day sessions, you’ll work through a carefully structured programme that equips you with the tools and experience you need to thrive in front of the camera in 2026. Each session focuses on a different aspect of screen acting, giving you a complete toolkit to take into auditions, self-tapes, and professional sets.
Day 1 – Textual Analysis
Learn practical approaches to breaking down screen material, uncovering what’s on the page and how to bring it to life with clarity and precision.Day 2 – Screen Duologues
Work in pairs on duologues tailored to your casting, exploring connection, listening, and truthful exchange on screen.Day 3 – Non-Verbal Work
Discover the power of what’s unsaid. Through target work, sharpen your confidence to embody action-led, non-verbal scenes.Day 4 – Self-Taping
Gain confidence in one of today’s most essential skills. You’ll learn best practices for delivering authentic performances on tape.Day 5 – Mock Casting Audition
Put everything into practice in a mock casting audition, working in person with a professional casting director who will provide feedback.
By the end of the boot camp, you’ll leave with a sharper craft, greater confidence, and a deeper understanding of how to master screen work.
To participate you must be over eighteen and have at least one professional acting credit. There will be up to twelve participants.
How To Act is an acting class led by Acting Coach Andrew Whyment - Masters Of The Air (Apple TV), Jerk (BBC), My Father’s Shadow (Element Pictures) - for professionals who want to develop their craft and sharpen their approach to screen acting.
This intensive screen acting Boot Camp will kickstart your year with clarity, confidence, and craft. Across five half-day sessions, you’ll work through a carefully structured programme that equips you with the tools and experience you need to thrive in front of the camera in 2026. Each session focuses on a different aspect of screen acting, giving you a complete toolkit to take into auditions, self-tapes, and professional sets.
Day 1 – Textual Analysis
Learn practical approaches to breaking down screen material, uncovering what’s on the page and how to bring it to life with clarity and precision.Day 2 – Screen Duologues
Work in pairs on duologues tailored to your casting, exploring connection, listening, and truthful exchange on screen.Day 3 – Non-Verbal Work
Discover the power of what’s unsaid. Through target work, sharpen your confidence to embody action-led, non-verbal scenes.Day 4 – Self-Taping
Gain confidence in one of today’s most essential skills. You’ll learn best practices for delivering authentic performances on tape.Day 5 – Mock Casting Audition
Put everything into practice in a mock casting audition, working in person with a professional casting director who will provide feedback.
By the end of the boot camp, you’ll leave with a sharper craft, greater confidence, and a deeper understanding of how to master screen work.
To participate you must be over eighteen and have at least one professional acting credit. There will be up to twelve participants.
How To Act is an acting class led by Acting Coach Andrew Whyment - Masters Of The Air (Apple TV), Jerk (BBC), My Father’s Shadow (Element Pictures) - for professionals who want to develop their craft and sharpen their approach to screen acting.