Introduction

Acting School North assembles specialists in the areas of actor instruction, teaching/learning, and business. This infrequent merger of expertise has been conceived in response to a growing problem in professional acting: explicitly, an insufficiency of self-confidence in trained actors when attempting to administer their career tactically. A modern day actor needs two things in order to earn his bread with the profession chosen: a water- tight acting technique and mercantile facility; self- management becomes indispensable in a milieu where the hazard of failure is constant.

Mission Statement

Operating in cosmopolitan Leeds, West Yorkshire, the Mission of Acting School North is to provide high quality training in acting for live and recorded media based on the combined teaching of a no-nonsense, versatile trademark acting technique with entrepreneurial and business management skills.

Vision Statement

It is our vision to improve variety in the casting landscape of British modern media by training proficient actors who capitalize on their personal and cultural individuality via the achievement, sustaining and even the creation of employment.

It’s Always All About You!

Believing as we do that the ultimate guarantee for success as a performer is individuality, we will accommodate to put you at the hub of a flexible learning process yet scaffolding it with a secure framework. We hope that you will become as excited as we are about this new approach to preparing actors which will set a standard in the profession for years to come!

Our Philosophy

Our Philosophy: in acting it pays to be an artist. Being a creative and sensitive performing artist, aware of his social and cultural environ and fully committed to its betterment, is not at odds with pragmatically managing an acting career. Likewise, a truly successful artist will always treat his profession as an Art rather than as a Craft.

In a time in which joblessness is ever present, we would feel it wrong to risk turning out yet more performers destined for unemployment. Therefore, we envision providing our students not only with peerless acting skills but with the knowledge which will enable them to make these abilities pay. In many leading acting schools, teaching staff membership constantly fluctuates and each member’s contribution to the final product is partial, anonymous and very rarely forcefully individual or innovative; very much like in a conveyor-belt assembly line.

In our School, it will be the Principal, supported by a crack team of tutors, who will take on the personal and individual responsibility of training our students, in a distinctive and engaging style, from beginning to end of the course.

It is our opinion that, regarding ability and employment, even leading acting schools often take a fatalistic position: hesitant to scratch beneath the surface, they choose to train only candidates whose abilities, as well as appeal, are the most evident during auditions. Therefore, it seem s to us,  schools like these habitually limit their provision of professional practice to ensuring that their graduates are “employment literate”.  Aware of this situation and analytical of the particular way in which agents, as well as casting directors, are conservative in taking in new performers, we conceive the Professional Practice part of our programme, along with its timescale, as one that will allow our students to start addressing the pervading situation by marshalling their resources even before graduating from our school.