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.
You’ll leave with a sharper craft, greater confidence and a deeper understanding of how to master screen work.
How To Act is 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 film and television scripts of different genres and styles. Classes are open to professional actors at all stages, whether preparing for auditions, building a showreel or stepping onto set for the first time. The focus is always on giving you clear, usable tools.
To participate you must be over eighteen and have at least one professional acting credit. Each class is limited to twelve participants.
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.
You’ll leave with a sharper craft, greater confidence and a deeper understanding of how to master screen work.
How To Act is 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 film and television scripts of different genres and styles. Classes are open to professional actors at all stages, whether preparing for auditions, building a showreel or stepping onto set for the first time. The focus is always on giving you clear, usable tools.
To participate you must be over eighteen and have at least one professional acting credit. Each class is limited to twelve participants.