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Associate coaches Paul
McKenna (London W)
TV credits include: The Ice House, Brinks Mat: The Greatest Heist, Uprising, Ellington, Ultimate Force, The Bill, Minder, and The Chief. Most recently Judge John Deed and the forthcoming Holby Blue both for the BBC. Film credits include
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, Venus, Vanity Fair, The Libertine, To Kill a King;
appears in forthcoming dramas Chromophobia and Like Minds. Paul works currently for Sylvia Young Theatre School and Jigsaw Performing Arts. For the National Youth Theatre he has served on the audition panel and delivered outreach work. Also delivered drama workshops and extended programmes at the Guildford School of Acting (GSA Conservatoire), Battersea Arts Centre, The Charter School Dulwich, Tiffin School Kingston, and Drama Key-Stage 3 and 4 at Oakwood High School, Surrey. Member of the
National Council for Drama Training. Sam
Parks (London NW)
Television credits include: Fred Dale in Silent Witness (three series), Father Saunders in The Chase (two series), Life Begins, MIT, London's Burning, Judge John Deed, Family Affairs and Harry and Cosh. Radio credits include: The Franchise Affair and From Abstraction. Sam has run drama workshops for Dramalab in Kent and at North London schools Malorees Junior and Belmont Independent. City and Guilds
Certificate FE Teaching (Kensington and Chelsea College). Shannon
Polly (New York City)
She has worked with executives, managers and partners of such clients as Booz Allen Hamilton, Lehman Brothers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, Citibank, the United States Olympic Committee and Mackenzie Consulting. Shannon combines business experience with nine years as a professional actress, singer, and playwright in New York and regional theaters. She received her graduate degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and a B.A. with honors from Yale University. Ian
Price (London NW and North Devon)
Theatre credits include: Quartermaine's Terms (Salisbury Playhouse), Semi Monde (Shaftesbury Theatre), Freedom of the City (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), St. Joan (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Sound of Music (Perth Repertory Theatre), Bedroom Farce (Royal National Theatre), St. Joan (Royal National Theatre), Under Milk Wood (Shaw Theatre), Light Up The Sky (Old Vic), Abelard and Heloise (Wyndhams Theatre), June Moon (Vaudeville & Hampstead Theatres), Dr. Faustus (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford & Aldwych), Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford & Aldwych), Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford & Aldwych), All's Well That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford & Aldwych), The Marrowitz Hamlet (Open Space), According to the Evidence (Savoy Theatre), Private Lives (Folger Theatre, Washington DC), A Handful of Dust (National Tour, Cambridge Theatre Co), Patriot for Me (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles), Absent Friends (National Tour), Wild Oats / Crucifer of Blood / Quartermaine's Terms / Absurd Person Singular / White Devil / The Country Wife (Bristol Old Vic), Importance of Being Earnest (Vienna), The Play's the Thing (Budapest), Woman in Mind (Wilmington Theatre, Delaware). Ian taught and directed at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama. Roderick
Smith (London SE) Rod has worked with Actor Space since 2006 including delivering workshops on Peter Sklar's Beginnings project, New York. Hilary
Tones (London NW)
Work with the RSC includes Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet and Have; for Hull Truck Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Woyzeck and Salt of the Earth, running theatre workshops for both companies. Also delivered classes in Acting for Camera for the Central School of Speech and Drama. Television credits include: Casualty, The Bill, Holby City, Doctors, Judge John Deed, London's Burning, Tenth Kingdom, Heartbeat, Body Story, Persuasion, Coronation Street. Trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama. |
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Theatre credits include: Trevor Nunn's Royal National Theatre productions
of Troilus and Cressida, Summerfolk and Merchant of Venice.
Other productions at the National include Peter Pan, Money
and The Villains Opera; also The Count of Monte Cristo (Royal
Exchange, Manchester), Flanders Mare (Sound Theatre, Wardour
Street), Widow Twanky in Aladdin (Greenwich Theatre),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Edinburgh Festival)
Recent
theatre credits include: Oliver Twist (Manchester Library Theatre)
and Misconceptions (Richmond Theatre). Sam has also appeared
as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Derby Playhouse), Sebastian
in The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Hong Kong),
Two Noble Kinsmen (The Globe), A Fool and His Money
(Birmingham Rep), What a Performance! (Queen's Theatre, West
End), Animal Farm (World Tour) and The Fireraisers (Riverside
Studios).
Improviser/trainer/actor/coach.
Shannon works with New York City company Performance of a Lifetime
and consults with North Carolina based company Flynn Heath Leadership.
Coaches privately and at Columbia Business School where she currently
works with 40 students from mainland China for the Columbia-China
programme. 
Screen
credits include: Le Barzellette, Poirot, The Ice House, Eastenders,
Drop the Dead Donkey, Dombey and Son, Jeeves and Wooster, London Bridge,
Dream Team, The Tichborne Claimant, The Darling Buds of May, The Gentle
Touch, The Mixer Yorkshire, Henry V, Court Report Gibraltar, Gems,
Dempsey and Makepeace, Betzi, The Famous Five, The Bill, Conjugal
Rites, Jamie on a Flying Visit, Airline, Quatermass, Franklyn and
Johnny.
Recent
theatre credits include: Pat and Margaret (Salisbury Playhouse),
Walt Hemmings in The Glee Club (The Bush and The Duchess),
Tragedy: A Tragedy (The Gate), Best Mates (Royal National
Theatre Tour), The Winter’s Tale (Southwark Playhouse)
Other credits include Enjoy (Nottingham Playhouse), The
Birthday Party, Tales From Hollywood, Antigone,
Neaptide, Garden Of England, True Dare Kiss and
Command Or Promise (all at Royal National Theatre), The
Wicked Cooks and Outskirts (Birmingham Rep Studio), The
Beaux’ Stratagem and Rhinoceros (The Nuffield Southampton),
Artists and Admirers, The Changeling and One Fine
Day (Riverside Studios), The Fool (Royal Court).
Theatre
credits include: Christine in The Maintenance Man (Mill at
Sonning); Thaisa and Dionysa in Pericles directed by Kathryn
Hunter (Shakespeare's Globe); Elizabeth in Mary Stuart (Derby
Playhouse); Mariana in Measure for Measure with Mark Rylance
(Shakespeare's Globe, London); Shirley in Shirley Valentine
directed by Uzma Hameed (Derby Playhouse);Signora Ponza in Franco
Zeffirelli's production of Absolutely (perhaps) (Wyndhams Theatre);
Lady Macduff in Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe); Charlotte Verrinder
in The Magistrate and Charlotte in She's in Your Hands
(Royal Exchange, Manchester); Nicki in Things We Do for Love
(Library Theatre, Manchester); Maria in Oxford Stage Company's Twelfth
Night (National and Middle East Tour). Hilary worked with Lauren
Bacall in The Visit (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Vanessa
Redgrave in The Liberation of Skopje (Riverside Studios). Again
for the Redgrave company she played Anna in The Fireraisers
with Frances de la Tour. She played Queen Anne in Willis Hall's Three
Musketeers (Sheffield Crucible); Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal Husband
(Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Gertrude in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead (Skopje, Macedonia); Vera in Private View by Vaclav
Havel, (Rokoko Theatre, Prague).
