1. Intimacy : exploring the actors’’ intimate and private space and training them to remove all obstacles and masks that hinder on their ability to truly open up and embrace any character with greater depth and sophistication.

2. Instinct : developing the actors’’ ability to trust and follow their creative instinct and impulses arising from the subconscious in order to add an element of uniqueness to their interpretation of a given character.

Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK and a specialist in the Methodological approach to acting, combining acting techniques from Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Meisner and Susan Batson (among others) in order to give actors the tools to create characters and expand thier acting range. In addition he incorporates theory from movement psychology to teach students how to physically express the characters they play. He trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London under the renowned Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv, a team that has produced a host of extraordinary actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Pearce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Helen McRory, Paul Bettany, Anne-Marie Duff, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy and Lambert Wilson.

He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, Berlin, The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin, Creative Education, The City Lit, NODA, Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel, the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia and the International Festival of Theatre, Athens, Greece. He has run workshops all over the world.

Giles has worked as an acting coach on many movies, including: ‘Ruhestoerung’ directed by Robert Ralston, ‘Romeos’, the Swiss hit movie -’Grounding’, ’Sunny Hill’, ’Sennentuntschi’ directed by Michael Steiner, and ‘Pedaleur du Charme’. Giles also worked as a coach on the Kooks video – ’Sway’.

He regularly coaches a whole range of actors before and during shoots, most recently he worked on ‘Immortals’ with Daniel Sharman and with Alex Gonzalez on X Men First ClassIn 2005 he founded Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studio alongside a group of advanced students and he is the current Director. In September 2011 the Studio was renamed the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting.

Application for financial support in Germany: GVL, FFA and Bildungsprämie

Date & Time: 6 & 7 July 19:00 – 22:00

Participants Max: 14 (space available)

Cost: €165,-