Giles Foreman

 

 

Giles is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK and a specialist in the Methodological approach to acting.

Giles has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, Berlin, The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin, Creative Education, The City Lit, NODA, Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel, the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia and the International Festival of Making Theater, Athens, Greece. He has run workshops all over the world and has coached on the Swiss movie ‘Swiss Grounding’,  a German film ‘Sunny Hill’,a German/French/Swiss/Austrian coproduction – ‘Sennentuntschi’, dir by Michael Steiner, due to be released in 2010 and most recently ‘Pedaleur du Charme’, dir by Daniel von Aarburg.  He also worked on the video for the Kooks single – Sway. 

He was a founder member of EuroCircles – a company created to promote pan – European cultural exchange and has produced a variety of pieces from around Europe – notably Lorca’s ‘In Five Years Time’, directed by the Spanish director Marta Momblant-Ribas (Critics Choice – Time Out and The Guardian), and an installation/performance event ‘The Krankenhaus’ from Berlin. He worked with Visiting Arts (British Council) and the Gate to bring Tbilisi’s Basement Theatre to the Gate’s ‘East Meets West’ season.  

Giles Foreman trained as an actor himself at the Drama Centre, London under the renowned Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. Theatre credits include; Double Tongue (Border Crossings), Don Quixote (Gate Theatre), The Island (Eurocircles Tour – Georgia, Germany), A Language of Love (GIFT Festival, BAC), Shivah (Royal National Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Peter Hall Company – Haymarket Theatre, Merlin, The Broken Heart (Arts Threshold), Aubrey Beardsley in Beardsley (Stage One) and Boffi in Pirandello’s As You Desire Me (New End). T.V credits include Bonekickers, Warwalks, The Bill, 100 per cent and his film work includes Trigger Tiger, Napanee, The Cave, Summer Suite, Red Wolf and The Changeling.   

His directing work includes: The Other Side of the Wall (Tristan Bates Theatre), Hilda by Marie Ndiaye (Pentameters Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival for the Caravanserai), The Wall – a piece Giles created and directed after a two year process in which he visited the Saharawi Refugee Camps in the Southern Algerian Saharan desert (performed as part of the Sandblast Festival Nov 2007), The Tempest (Central School of Speech and Drama), Dr Faustus (The Caravanserai at the Bridewell Theatre), Trenches (Pentameters). He co-wrote and directed Kicking Oscar’s Corpse (Man in the Moon – a true story dealing with human rights in Syria – the idea arising from a journalistic trip), ‘Joan of Arc’, ‘The Mayor of Zalamea’, ‘Britannicus’, ‘A Month in the Country’, ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’, ‘As You Like It’ (Drama Centre, London), ‘Party Time’ (Landor Theatre), ‘The Suspicious Truth’ by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (Garage Theatre) and ‘Armenia – A Thousand Branches’ (Hellenic Centre). 

 

In 2005 he founded Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studio alongside a group of advanced students and is the current Director.

Giles also works as a freelance journalist. He is currently a trustee of the Sandbast Charity www.sandblast-arts.org