An Intermediate Acting Course exploring truth, connection, and emotional availability.
Acting doesn’t live in the lines — it lives between them. Relationships — The Actor’s Connection Work is an advanced acting class for those ready to deepen their craft. You’ll learn to work from the truth of relationship — to find the emotional current between you and your scene partner that makes a performance feel real, alive, and human.
Through acting connection work, you’ll discover what it means to connect instinctively rather than intellectually, to respond from your body rather than perform from your head. This is the work that awakens your instincts and builds your emotional freedom.
Duration
12 Weeks
Classes
3 x 2.5hr Class per wk
Level
All Levels
Location
In-person, London
Price
£1,296.00
In stock
What Is Connection Work?
Connection work explores the living exchange between actors — what happens when two human beings meet in a scene. Rooted in BEAT (the Beck Emotional Access Technique) and Meisner-based training, this course develops your ability to stay responsive, emotionally available, and present.
You’ll work on:
Partner responsiveness training — listening deeply and answering truthfully.
Recognising and trusting impulses as they arise.
Building sustainable, repeatable emotional connection.
Developing emotional availability in acting — accessing your truth without losing control.
Through this actor connection training, you’ll begin to experience acting as a living process — not a performance to control, but a connection to enter.
Building Truthful Relationships on Screen and Stage
Every great performance begins with a relationship. In this relationship acting course London, you’ll learn to build authentic actor relationships that hold up under the lights, the camera, and the audience’s gaze.
You’ll explore:
How to build truthful relationships on screen and stage.
The art of scene connection work — what happens in the spaces between dialogue.
Techniques to sustain connection across multiple takes and technical demands.
This is advanced connection work for actors who want to move past technique into lived experience.
Looking for a Spotlight Accredited Course?
This 12 week course will earn you 30 points! Take additional courses at BADA following this course to gain access to Spotlight (180 points required in total).
Course Timetable
WHEN: 5th Jan – 2nd April 2025 (inclusive) (half term 16th – 22nd Feb 2026)
Days: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-8:30pm
Course Features
Duration: 12 Weeks
Location: BADA Studios, Hackney, East London
Sessions: 3 evenings per week (2.5 hours per session)
Group Size: Limited to ensure personalised feedback
Format: In-person group course
Booking Options: One-time payment or instalments
Advance booking is essential. This course fills quickly due to small group numbers and high demand.
The BEAT Approach
At the heart of this course lies the BEAT method — a deep exploration of the systems in your body where emotion originates. By becoming aware of how these systems generate behaviour and response, you’ll learn to direct your emotional experience without forcing it.
BEAT helps you uncover the fine balance between control and freedom — giving you access to authentic emotion while remaining fully present with your partner. It is acting training built on emotional truth, relational depth, and instinctive intelligence.
Relationships 12 Week Acting Course Modules:
Acting Technique:
Deepen your craft through BEAT (Beck Emotional Access Technique), exploring how emotion originates within relationships and shapes behaviour. Learn to balance instinctive truth with technical precision in performance.
VOICE & MOVEMENT:
Free your physical and vocal expression to make the body more responsive and emotionally available. Connect breath, movement, and impulse to support truthful communication.
MEISNER TECHNIQUE:
Discover Meisner exercises that develop responsiveness, listening, and authentic connection. Learn to let emotion arise naturally through genuine moment-to-moment interaction.
STAGE ACTING:
Explore how to build and sustain truthful relationships on stage through presence and energetic awareness. Develop emotional clarity and connection within the physical demands of theatre.
SCREEN ACTING:
Learn how connection translates through the lens with precision and emotional depth. Discover how subtle shifts in attention, breath, and focus reveal truth on camera.
Screen Partner Work & Chemistry:
Strengthen your ability to connect and build chemistry with scene partners on screen. Develop trust, responsiveness, and a shared rhythm that keeps performances alive and authentic.
Fay has trained thousands of actors and has helped develop their talents often from the first classes, all the way to graduation and beyond.
Martina has worked on recent Netflix blockbusters such as Lift and has recently completed work on the hit show, The Diplomat. She has 2 films coming out in 2025.
This is what one of our recent grads had to say about their experience at BADA:
We’ve taken out the stress and confusion and created a course designed to teach you all you need to get started on your acting journey.
I recently graduated from the Beck Academy of Dramatic Arts and it was the best experience. Fay and Martina are incredibly knowledgable, friendly and get the best out of their students. I developed skills that have really transformed me and my character acting. Would 100% recommend if you are serious about becoming an actor.
Lucja Jastrzebska
2024 Graduate
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for:
Actors with prior training seeking to rediscover presence and authenticity.
Professionals returning to acting who wish to deepen their instinctive responsiveness.
Graduates of the 12-Week Ultimate Course or Meisner Technique training looking to explore connection at a higher level.
This is not a technical course — it’s a human one. It’s about relationship, vulnerability, and the courage to let yourself be seen.
The Beck Academy of Dramatic Art Difference
Founded by Fay Beck, creator of the BEAT™ method and an established director, writer, and coach
Training that prioritises emotional truth and self-discovery, not performance gimmicks
Pathways beyond the course: coaching, screen acting, showreel building, and more
Real actor development for people serious about their creative journey
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