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I graduated from Mountview’s inaugural musical theatre course in 1991. I’d switched from the acting course simply because I thought it was better value for money; more training in more disciplines seemed to make sense to me. Sam Kogan had been the highlight of the acting course but he’d left after just a term. I … Read more

In my experience if you use any kind of technique as an actor and tell people you do, they will, 9 times out of 10, knowingly confirm for you… ‘ah, you’re a Method actor.’   Well no, I’m definitely not. As the extra classes continued above the pub so did regular classes and drama school … Read more

So, from being initially horrified at the preposterous idea of The Science of Acting I was now enthralled.  It was lucky for me then and about 10 other like-minded students, that Sam, who taught us all only once a week on the school timetable, started extra evening classes above The Duke of Edinburgh pub around … Read more

I first met Sam Kogan at Mountview Theatre School (now known as Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts), it must have been 1990/91. I knew nothing about him only that he was a new guest teacher who was going to teach us acting – more specifically a technique he had developed, called The Science of Acting. … Read more

I realised at the age of 11 while performing in a school play called The Miasma in Mostyn Mews that telling a story was somehow very important to me. A fellow cast member, playing her role, tied to a chair and struggling (with ten times more vigour now we were in front of an audience), … Read more