Acting Classes in Manchester

Scene Study
In-Person
£120
£120
A four-week-long, intensive scene study acting class with a maximum of 6 members. Students are paired up and each assigned a different scene for the month from a different published stage play, chosen for their specific casting. Guaranteed hour of 'up on your feet' individual exploration time per pair/trio in each class. This class runs in association with Play With Fire Productions.
What to expect
- Maximum of 6 participants in each class, to allow enough time for individual work and feedback.
- Class will involve pairs/trio’s of actors working on one scene from a published play over 4 weeks
- Really get to commit to a character focusing on one full-length scene specifically chosen for your individual casting.
- Guaranteed hour of 'up on your feet' individual exploration time per pair/trio in each class.
Info
- Cost: £30 per class*
- Duration: Every Thursday evening for 4 weeks.
- Time: 6pm - 9pm
- Location: Play With Fire Acting Studios, 113 Pollard St, Manchester, M4 7JA
Ethos
Scene Study is about growth, safety, going beyond your boundaries and being able to make mistakes. We aim to help you push through personal barriers, and learn the intricacies of working with high-quality text, while being willing to experiment and fail, in a supportive environment.
This class is designed specifically for those actors interested in or already pursuing performance as a career.
*£120 total for 4 week block. All sessions are compulsory unless approved by Daniel personally previously.
Class must be booked at least 1 week prior to start of course to provide ample time for preparation and assignment of scenes/partners.

Film Scene Study
In-Person
£120
£120
A four-week-long, film scene study based acting class with a maximum of 8 members. This class will work specifically with high-quality film and television scripts to hone your craft of acting in front of a camera.
Students are paired up and each assigned 2-4 different scenes over the course of 4 weeks, chosen for their specific casting. You will receive a guaranteed hour of 'up on your feet' individual exploration time per pair/trio in each class.
A great way to develop your acting craft with specific emphasis on film and TV scripts and how to translate your acting skills directly to the camera. This class is designed to learn the craft of working with film and TV scripts in 'on your feet' conditions. This is not an audition class, but a class to learn what to do when you actually get the job.
What to expect
- Maximum of 6 participants in each class, to allow enough time for individual work and feedback.
- Class will involve pairs/trio’s of actors working on a different scene each week/fortnight depending on their successful grasp and execution of each scene.
- Really get to work with multiple scenes and characters focusing on scenes specifically chosen for your individual casting.
- Guaranteed hour of 'up on your feet' individual exploration time per pair/trio in each class.
- Depending on the number of people, classes may be divided into two shifts in order to minimise direct contact. These will be rotated weekly.
Info
- Cost: £30 per class*
- Duration: One evening per week for 4 weeks.
- Time: 6pm - 9pm
- Location: Play With Fire Acting Studios, 113 Pollard St, Manchester, M4 7JA
Ethos
Film Scene Study is about growth, safety, going beyond your boundaries and being able to make mistakes. We aim to help you push through personal barriers, and learn the intricacies of working with high-quality text, while being willing to experiment and fail, in a supportive environment.
This class is designed specifically for those actors interested in or already pursuing performance as a career.
*£120 total for 4 week block. All sessions are compulsory unless approved by Daniel personally previously.
Class must be booked at least 1 week prior to start of course to provide ample time for preparation and assingment of scenes/partners.

Practical Aesthetics
In-Person
Online
Practical Aesthetics (PA) is a practical approach to acting, developed by the director and playwright David Mamet and actor William H Macy. It was developed as an antidote to the confusing, inaccessible and shame-inducing acting approaches, often promoted in mainstream actor training. It draws from the later writings of Stanislavsky, the works of Sanford Meisner, Joseph Campbell, Aristotle, William James, Carl Jung and philosophy of stoicism.
PA's ethos is simple and effective and is an essential tool for anyone who feels they have never had a truly reliable and systematic technique from which to approach any and every script. Too many systems and teachers ask you to ‘have a technique’ without ever giving you a basic scaffolding on which to develop your own person approach, or alternatively demand you only adopt and memorise their specific ‘all encompassing’ textbook. This is not another 12-20 step system that tends to confuse you further. This is a simple 4 step technique that will do the only thing an acting technique should do, set you free.
What to expect?
- Learn from scratch the fundamentals of the Practical Aesthetics approach to acting
- Learn to apply your common sense through a simple 4-step script technique breakdown
- Be guided through how to correctly navigate the technique and apply it to any script
- Translates directly into ‘on-your-feet’ exercises that mirror the script technique
- Learn how to be a self-sufficient actor and form a foundation from which to build upon
- Strictly limited number of participants to allow enough time for discussion, individual work and feedback
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Meditation for actors
Online
£ - Pay What You Can
£ - Pay What You Can
Join Dan for online drop-in guided meditation sessions every fortnight to discover how the wisdom of mindfulness can benefit our art and creative lives.
Sessions are 'pay what you can'. Please give whichever you can afford.
Below are some recommended payment ranges to help decide:
- Starving Artist: £0 - £3
- Concession: £4 - £6
- Full Rate: £7 - £10
Actors and performers spend their lives in the public eye, under the constant scrutiny of others. They face rejection and criticism constantly - both internal and external - whether in an audition room, in front of a camera or onstage.
In sessions we explore not how to make our anxieties or other unpleasant feelings go away, but how to learn to live with them, alongside them, in relationship to them. What we need to be reminded of is that these feelings, thoughts and emotions are not wrong, and nor are we wrong for having them.
A place for the complete beginner and the experienced meditator, feel free to come with questions about the practice, your own experiences or anything else. Open to actors and non-actors alike.

Mindful acting classes
In-Person
Online
Working as a group, students will explore the experience of acting through the lens of mindfulness and humanistic psychology to help break through personal barriers and blocks. It will examine the often-overlooked questions of what to do when we perform and how to integrate our acting into our life and our life into our acting, so that we can get the most out of both.
Actors will have the opportunity to explore topics such as self-consciousness/nerves, concentration, listening, voice, stakes, awareness, emotional life, sustainable acting routines and Meisner repetition, to name a few.
No experience with acting in necessary. Everyone will work from the foundations of the Mindful Acting approach.
Classes are under the guidance and tuition of Daniel Bradford & Cristina Fuentes.
This course is co-led by Daniel Bradford and Cristina Fuentes. Read more about Cristina’s teaching bio below!
Cristina Fuentes
Cristina Fuentes is an actor and meditation teacher. She is currently studying a Ph.D. in Mindfulness and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, where she is developing a Mindfulness-Based Performer Training (MBPT).
Cristina studied acting at Universidad Diego Portales; she has three years of Psychology studies at the same University. She holds "Mindfulness in Relations" diploma from Instituto Mindfulness Chile, where she worked as a mindfulness teacher.
Cristina has worked as an actress, acting teacher, mindfulness teacher, and communication consultant. She has experience in the field of physical theatre working with national and international companies; teaching at acting schools, universities and cultural centres in Chile and the UK.
For further information, you are welcome to visit her website www.presenciautentica.com
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Testimonials
"I would go so far as to say that 'Scene Study' is absolutely necessary training for the professional actor. Dan uses his seemingly limitless knowledge and insight into practitioner theory, plays and the craft of acting to guide actors through a very personalised journey of discovery."

Nancy Monaghan
"If you are thinking about doing Scene Study stop thinking about it and just do it!!! Daniel's knowledge and passion for scripts and techniques is incredible and infectious. I would urge any actor, experienced or not, to do this course."

Francesca Heraghty
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