About
Acting For Screen
Acting For Screen - Our Values
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Community & Inclusion - We foster a supportive, inclusive community where actors of all backgrounds can grow, collaborate, and thrive on screen together.
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Confidence - We empower actors to build confidence through practice, guidance, and a safe space to explore and refine their craft
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Learning The Craft - We are dedicated to cultivating a deep understanding of screen acting through hands-on learning, expert guidance, and continuous practice.
Acting For Screen, founded by actor-producer Louise Osbourne
Acting For Screen is an acting workshop that has been running in Birmingham for fourteen years with many actors going on to booking huge parts in both film and TV. When I set up my classes specifically for screen acting in the Midlands there were no other class here, now there is a lot of choices and many are run by my previous students which is wonderful.
Acting for Screen is running classes in St. Mary’s Church Hall in Birmingham's leafy suburb of Harborne, only ten minutes from the city centre. The course operates in terms of 12 weekly classes where group members will participate in a range of pertinent activities from improvisation to script work, all filmed on camera.
Every week you will be coached and filmed and all your scenes will be sent to you via Dropbox.
We also have a great laugh as my class is a safe space to explore and step out of your comfort zone.
Louise Osbourne
Louise Osbourne is an Irish born, award winning actor, writer and producer who spent many years in LA working with Oscar winning actors such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, Dianne Keaton and many more. When she relocated to Birmingham in 2011 she set up ACTING FOR SCREEN. Using all her knowledge of the industry she helps to guide actors to their fullest potential putting them on camera every week and teaching them how to nail that audition.
Louise has had many actors leaver her class to go on and star in hugely successful TV shows and films such as SEX EDUCATION, SANDMAN and MORTAL KOMBAT 2.
Louise is also one of three founders of the Birmingham Film & TV Market an annual event linking filmmakers with some of the top production companies in the UK, she has close ties with SKY, C4, BBC1 and IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT in Los Angeles.
I am thrilled to have Esther Stanford join me and run my classes for the past year using her knowledge of the industry.
Esther Stamford
Esther Stanford is an acting coach, mentor and an award winning actor/writer.
Esther has been an acting teacher/coach for 14 years, training leading actors in roles including Line Of Duty, Raised By Wolves and The Archers. She runs various bespoke workshops and a class at Acting For Screen. Esther works with actors on 1-1’s, coaching them for auditions, helping them build their careers and preparing them for drama school - for which she has 100% success rate.
Esther has been acting since she was 11 years old, training at BAFTA winning ITV Workshop alongside Oscar nominees Felicity Jones, Samantha Morton and Alison Hammond to name but a few. She has been in many TV shows, radio productions and films and has also performed at the RSC and Edinburgh Fringe - winning an award. As a writer she currently has 3 TV shows in development with major production companies and a film of her play. She is also one half of the podcast Limited Time Only, which she co presents and co produces alongside Archers star Susie Riddell. The show is a mixture of chat, comedy, sketches and interviews and has had guests including Paul Ready (BBC’s Motherland/The Bodyguard) Steve Lamacq (Radio legend), Chesney Hawkes and H from Steps.