Knowing where to start with your acting training can be difficult. There are so many Drama Schools and Acting Schools in London, with a multitude of acting courses to choose from.

An actors’ studio specialises in actor training for beginners who are serious about entering the profession.

One of the main barriers to taking the leap into professional acting is a lack of confidence and not knowing whether you are any good or not.

This is a hard question to answer at the beginning. You have to view actor training in the same way as you would any other job. How would you know if you are any good at being an accountant until you have studied the subject?

Most beginners have a desire and aptitude for acting, and that’s enough to start with. If you take the correct drama course, you can begin to develop your raw ability to a professional standard.

Right from the start it’s important to consider your acting training and what kind of acting approach you would like to study. A typical Drama School or Acting School tends to give you a pick’n’mix approach. They teach you a little bit of different techniques, and then you have to cobble together a mixture of everything.

The problem with this approach is that it leads you to being a ‘jack of all trades and master of none’. In my experience, it’s sensible to look at what the most successful actors do to achieve a high standard of acting.

With a little research on the subject, you will discover that many leading actors, particularly in the US, use Method Acting classes. One of the reasons they use it is because it achieves an exceptionally high standard of acting consistently.

It is important to teach this approach - Method Acting - to people who have little or no acting experience. There are acting classes and acting courses that focus in depth on Method Acting, to allow you to improve your acting ability to an exceptional standard, from day one.

Some acting lessons are split between acting technique and practical application within scenes. It is important to find a Method Acting class that is fundamental in training your talent, and are not about merely saying lines effectively and repeating them the same way each time.

Best wishes

Brian Timoney