I've recently done a film acting workshop in Berlin called 'Fine Tuning'. It was a really great experience, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I've been doing lots of different short stints on films & TV lately. Some of it has been helping with ADR, some accent work and some acting coaching. Some of these films & TV include: Incendiary, Vantage Point, Beyond the Rave,The Old Curiosity Shop, Echo Beach, The Restaurant, MI High, Lab Rats, Reveille. A very varied year so far.

Have some classes coming up at The Actors' Centre, London in December & one at the Manchester Actors' Centre in November. I've also done some workshps at LAMDA, Rose Bruford's and Drama Centre as well as my private students.

Really good to hear that Control (the film about Ian Curtis of Joy Division that I worked on last year) won Best European Film at Cannes. It was Sam Riley's first film and we had two week's pre-production together. So glad to read glowing reviews.

'..it's the central performance by Sam Riley that really makes Control. For sheer truthfulness, he stand comparison with Tom Courtenay & Albert Finney...(Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard 3/10/2007)

...there's no denyingthe extraordinary performance of Sam Riley in the lead role. (Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph 5/10/2007)

Archive: Danny the Dog/Unleashed opened in 2006 with Jet Li getting wonderful reviews for his fine work. He is an excellent actor (look at 'Hero') but he wanted to prepare differently for this role. This is from the film company's production notes:

   Li notes,  "This film was an occasion for me to go further emotionally, to play something stronger with human significance." Accordingly, he began preparing for UNLEASHED as he had for no other film. "I'd never taken an acting class before," he admits. "I learned just by working. This time, though, Luc found a wonderful acting coach from London. For two months before shooting, she helped me study Danny and discover what he was like - what he's thinking, how he walks, how he reacts."

"Two years ago, while making 'Unleashed,' I met a British acting coach, a very wonderful lady, and she taught me how to act. She told me never think about how to act, just use your heart to believe in what you're doing. That was very helpful." (Lewis Beale. Newsday. 21/9/06)

"Besson's decision to give Li two months with an acting coach also pays off with one of the star's subtlest and most natural performances." (Eye weekly 05/12/05)

I worked as voice and text coach at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's park for her 12th. year as coach there. (Having first worked there in 1975 when I played Hermia in Midsummer night's Dream and first met Ian Talbot, the Artistic Director, who was playing Bottom that season!) Ian Talbot leaves the theatre this year - so I shall probably leave too - but what great memories of this beautiful but challenging place. One of the best places to see Shakespeare in the world!

I have several new books in development (will I ever finish them!) and have had articles published by VASTA and the BVA this year.