Acting with English as an Additional Language

About the course

This course is an exciting opportunity to develop your confidence and connection to text and character when performing in the English language.  

Taught by LAMDA tutors and industry professionals, you will work in a supportive, creative and joyful space. Classes will explore different ways of accessing and inhabiting text and character: through voice, through imagination, and through the body.  

You will work closely with a within a small group of international actors and actors for whom English is an additional language. Throughout the course you’ll rehearse a selection of scenes, allowing you the opportunity to put your new skills into practice. The course concludes with an ‘open rehearsal’ of these scenes, attended by your tutors and fellow students. 

What will I learn?

• Learn techniques to help you find greater fluency and freedom when acting in the English language 

• Find confidence speaking in the English language whilst using and celebrating your own accent 

• Explore physical, vocal and imaginative methods of connecting to text and character when working in an additional language 

• Delve into Text Analysis (with particular emphasis on nuance, idiom, vernacular and syntax)

• Gain confidence in auditioning and self-taping in English as an international actor through our industry masterclass

Is this course for me?

This course is designed for anyone for whom English is an additional language and would particularly benefit professional actors seeking to build confidence and flow when acting in English, as well as anyone who is considering auditioning for an English-language Actor training course at higher education/conservatoire level.  

The course is taught by LAMDA tutors and industry professionals who are adept at aiding each student’s development within a group with a range of experience.

Applicants must be 18 or older to take part in this course and you must have a level of English that is approximately IELTS 6.0.