Acting Coaching
Welcome to the central hub for acting coaching at Beck Academy of Dramatic Art. This page connects you to all private coaching services we offer — online, in-person, and with our leading acting coaches. Whether you’re looking for deep technical training, emotional access work, audition preparation, or long-term development, this page helps you find the perfect coaching route for your goals.
We train actors with a modern, psychologically informed approach rooted in Meisner Technique and the BEAT Method (Beck Emotional Access Technique). Our coaching is tailored, rigorous, and designed to elevate your craft quickly and truthfully.
Fay Beck & Martina Avogadri
In the coaching sessions we can you with:
- Self-tape & Audition Preparation
- Screen Acting Technique
- Script breakdown
- In depth text analysis
- Emotional preparation
- Advance Character Work for Screen & Stage
- Stage Acting
- Monologues
- Classical Speeches (eg. Shakespeare)
- Industry & Career Pathways
- Headshot & Showreel Review
- Casting Type Development
- Presence and Presentation
- Success Coaching
- Confidence
- Overcoming Anxiety & Nerves
What Is Acting Coaching?
Acting coaching is personalised, one-to-one training designed to strengthen your technique, deepen emotional access, and develop presence for stage and screen. Unlike group classes, coaching gives you:
- Individualised feedback and precise adjustments
- Focused skill development based on your needs
- Direct work on emotional truth and instinct
- Support for auditions, self-tapes, and character work
- Long-term development of confidence and artistic identity
Acting coaching is ideal for both emerging actors and seasoned performers seeking refinement, clarity, and artistic depth.
Why Choose Private Coaching?
Tailored to Your Journey
Every actor is different. Our coaching adapts to your unique goals, experience, and learning style—whether you’re preparing for an audition, building confidence, or honing your screen and stage skills.Support That Moves You Forward
We offer more than technical training. You’ll gain emotional support, clarity, and honest feedback to help you overcome creative blocks, self-doubt, or performance anxiety.Focused Role Preparation
Working on a specific character or project? Sessions can be geared towards deep script work, character analysis, emotional access, and scene exploration—so you walk in ready and grounded.
Our Coaching Approach:
BEAT™ – Beck Emotional Access Technique
A modern, neuroscience-informed method that teaches actors how emotion originates in the body, how behaviour forms, and how to access emotional truth without force or strain.
Meisner Technique
We work with one of the most respected and effective acting methods worldwide — developing instinct, emotional truth, and moment-to-moment connection.
Psychology-Informed Training
Grounded, safe, and emotionally intelligent coaching — helping you understand your system, your blocks, and how to work with your instrument effectively.
Screen & Stage Calibration
Learn how to adjust emotional intensity, physicality, and presence for different mediums.
Depending on your requirements, coaching sessions follow this pattern:
1. Initial Needs Assessment
We begin by understanding your goals and where you are in your development—so we can focus on what matters most to you.
2. Technique & Presence
You’ll work progressively with tools from a range of acting methodologies to access truth, imagination, spontaneity, confidence, and presence—both on stage and on screen.
3. Continuous Scene Work & Practical Application
We will work on increasingly more complex material—from theatre, film, or TV, depending on your requirements— you will receive direct, actionable coaching to strengthen your choices, emotional range, and connection.
4. Confidence & Creative Ownership
As you gain mastery over performance, we advance to more specialised techniques to strengthen trust in yourself, instinct, encourage to take risks, and stay present in your work—whether you’re working on continuous growth, auditioning or rehearsing for a major role.
Types of Coaching Available
1. One-on-One Acting Coaching (General)
If you’re new to private coaching or aren’t sure where to begin, start here. This option gives you access to personalised training across technique, emotional access, confidence, and character work.
Explore One-on-One Acting Coaching →
2. Work with Fay Beck – Leading Acting Coach in London
For actors seeking the highest level of private training, work directly with Fay Beck — recognised for her Meisner expertise, precision, and her original emotional access method, BEAT™.
Her coaching helps actors:
– Break performance habits
– Access emotion safely and consistently
– Build presence and truth for screen and stage
– Prepare professionally for auditions and roles
3. Online Acting Coach – Train from Anywhere
Private Zoom-based coaching for international actors or those needing flexibility. Online coaching is ideal for self-tapes, screen acting, emotional access work, and developing technique remotely.
4. In-Person Acting Coaching in London
Train face-to-face at our London studio with personalised, immersive sessions focused on technique, presence, and emotional truth.
5. Drama School Coaching
We offer specialised acting coaching packs for actors who are actively applying to Drama Schools. We provide support, references and work with you on confidence, pressure handling so you feel 100% ready to submit application materials. We also help you prepare for important in-person auditions, interviews and workshops.
Our Acting Coaching Professionals are Industry Leaders
Fay Beck
Studio Founder, Award Winning Writer, Film Director, producer and Success Coach
Martina Avogadri
Actress (The Diplomat,Lift, Emergency Exit) Film Producer, Filmmaker and Acting Coach
How our Coaching Sessions Work:
Session Format
All sessions are 60 minutes. Choose from online coaching via GoogleMeet or in-person sessions in London.
Flexible Booking Options
Single Session
5-Session Pack
10-Session Pack
15-Session Pack
Packages are ideal for those seeking consistent progress over time.
Simple to Start
Just click on the Booking Product option you prefer below.
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