Fridays: 1, 8, 15, 22 February, 1, 8 March 7-10pm.

A contemporary of Stanislavski, Nikolai Demidov pioneered a non-analytical, organic acting technique that enable the actor to access and facilitate their intuitive process with a proven success in accessing the higher emotional spheres. 

Tutor: Andrei Biziorek

Andrei is a director and acting teacher. He has spent 20 years working between Poland, the UK, the US and Australia. In Poland he worked with companies including Gardzienice, Song of the Goat Theatre and was a member of Theatre ZAR, based at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw. He has taught acting and directed at numerous drama schools in the UK and abroad – the last eight years primarily at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. For the past four years he has been working intensively with the Demidov technique in collaboration with colleague Andrei Malaev-Babel, head of acting at FSU/Asolo Actor Conservatory in Florida, US. As a result of this collaboration Andrei founded the London Demidov Studio in 2018. He was artistic director of Waving Not Drowning until 2013 and is currently director of The Tribe Theatre Collective, based in London.