Giles Foreman Centre for Acting

The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting (formerly known as the Caravanserai Acting Studio) is an exciting new professional studio in the heart of London’s Soho district and houses some of the top coaches in the country in the disciplines of acting, movement, voice, improvisation and camera technique.

It offers the opportunity for professional actors to develop their skills through regular classes and workshops with top practitioners from all over the world - and to create projects in both film and theatre. Due to its location in the heart of the UK film, T.V and theatre industry it also offers many opportunities to meet casting directors, directors and producers through its industry events – showcases and actor casting network evenings.

Actors can also use the studios facilities and coaches to prepare for auditions and develop their characters for film projects that they have already secured.

The Centre's post-graduate course is amongst the cheapest courses of its kind in the country due to its private institution status, yet still has substantial teaching hours, renowned coaches and class sizes deliberately kept small in order to train people as thoroughly as possible.

The acting philosophy at the studio is broadly in line with that of the original Drama Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. A teaching team and school that trained some of the great UK actors of our generation – Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Helen McRory, Anne Marie Duff, Paul Bettany, Lambert Wilson, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Santiago Cabrera, Geraldine James, Frances de la Tour – to name but a few. The Centre boasts the founder of the Drama Centre London, Christopher Fettes, among its staff, offering master classes in directing and classical text analysis at the studio.

The acting philosophy is Methodological and deals with realism/naturalism. The work is influenced by the philosophy of Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner. We are one of the very few centres in the world that offers the extraordinary Laban/Jungian technique developed by Yat Malmgren and we have introduced the work of body psychotherapy and Gestalt to further develop people’s psychological understanding both of themselves and the characters they are playing.

The studio has developed relationships with other similar organisations around the world and offer many exchange programs.

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