Giles Foreman

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Giles Foreman (Born 25th December 1968) is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK and is the founder of Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studio[www.caravanseraiproductions.com] based in London’s Ladbroke Grove district.

Training

Giles Foreman trained as an actor at the prestigious Drama Centre, London(1988-1991) under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. An academy that produced some of the leading names in UK and international film and theatre including Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Helen McCrory, Paul Bettany, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, John Simm, Anne-Marie Duff, Francis de la Tour and many others. In 1996 Christopher Fettes invited him back to assist the then Head of Acting – Reuven Adiv (Who himself was a pupil of Lee Strasberg and a member of the Directors Unit of New York’s Actors Studio) and it was here that he learnt to teach acting

Coaching Work

He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, Central St Martins, the Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, Berlin, The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin, Creative Education, The Method Studio, The City Lit, NODA, Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel and at the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia. He has run workshops all over the world. He has coached on many movies including, 'Pedaleur du Charme', directed by Daniel Von Aarburg, ‘Swiss Grounding’ directed by Michael Steiner, and a German/French/Swiss/Austrian coproduction – Sennentuntschi featuring Roxane Mesquida. He also worked on the video for the Kooks single – Sway.

Acting and Directing

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: Hilda by Marie Ndiaye (Pentameters Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival for the Caravanserai) The Other Side of 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 and then later in more complete form at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2009), 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).

History

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 Theatre to bring Tbilisi’s Basement Theatre to the Gate’s ‘East Meets West’ season.

Activism

He is currently a trustee of the Sandblast Charity [www.sandblast-arts.org] and is an activist in support of the Saharawi right to self determination. He was involved in the recent successful campaign to ensure the right for Saharawi activist and hunger Striker - Aminatou Haidar - to return to her home in the Occupied Territory of Western Sahara and he continues to campaign on behalf of other political detainees in the region.

Giles Foreman is also the current UK representative of the FISAHARA [www.festivalsahara.com]- The Sahara Film Festival.