School Ethos

I am an acting coach and teacher having taught at drama schools around the world. My private coaching clients range from novice actors to Hollywood stars.

I have developed my approach over more than 25 years as a coach, director, teacher, life coach, actor, comedian and improviser in London, New York and Tokyo.

I studied The Method at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York and am a certified Co-Active Training Institute professional life coach.

I’m also very proud to have written A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen.

Prior to my career in the entertainment industry, I earned an honours degree in business studies at Middlesex University and worked as an executive with a major multinational company.

As an actor, I have appeared in hundreds of films, commercials and live performances. 

My long-standing favourite saying is by Oscar Wilde; “Be yourself; everyone else is taken”.

I’ve been a casting assistant, agent and actor. I run the Union Management agency and have 4 agents working for 85 partners. We work across the board in Film, TV, Commercials, Stage and Corporates.

I also run the Online Actors Retreat where we connect actors worldwide with casting directors, agents, managers and other industry professionals. 

I connect with actors worldwide in workshops about the Business of Acting (it is a business, like any other) and Life from the Agent’s Perspective which involves what a good agent does, how they work, expectations, what to bring to the relationship and how to work when you don’t have an agent. 

I hold weekly meditation, creativity and connection workshops.

My teaching work is based in simplicity. To get out of your head and into your body more. This being a visual medium, we pay attention more when something isn’t being said than when something is. 

Learning to let go of control and stepping into a power greater than you is both a scary and more effective way of being -we have to trust ourselves a lot more than before. 

I am an actor, acting coach and reiki practitioner, originally from Ireland. I love to weave my skills into my craft and business.

I have trained in Musical Theatre at The Royal Academy of Music & The College of Dance Dublin, Ireland before completed 2 years of Meisner Technique at The Actors Temple London. I am no stranger to theatre having performed internationally.

Teaching, producing, writing and directing for my performing arts school Dance LA , has been one of my proudest achievements. I have been a holistic practitioner for over 8 years. Qualified and attuned with the Tera Mai linage under the Reiki Master Pauline Cooley.

I am currently training in (NLP) Neuro Linguistic Practice and I have a fascination with human design, and transforming and evolving physically mentally and energetically. 

My skills transfer between both industries with wellbeing , alignment and authenticity at the forefront of both. I believe that love joy and abundance is our birthright and I am honoured to be part of the Actors Coaching International journey.