Teacher

Octavia is passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential. She teaches acting, improv and communication skills. She works with classes, groups and individuals in person and online.

Octavia currently teaches at Hoopla Impro and Collective Acting Studio. In the past she worked with Hampstead College of Fine Arts, King’s College London, P4HE and Boom Chicago.

As a communication coach and facilitator she worked with a wide variety of clients including those at the Labour Party, BBC and UNHCR.

To discuss working with Octavia please get in touch via the contact page.

Improv

Octavia is a passionate and experienced teacher of improv.

Meisner for Improvisers - Octavia's specialist training helps improvisers to see clearly, listen deeply and bring emotional truth to their improv comedy. This unique training enables improvisers to get out of their head and improvise from the gut.

Octavia’s improv workshops and courses cover:

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  • Beginner’s - learn the basic building blocks of improv, fall in love with the fun of improvisation and bring into your life the core skills of improv - listening, commitment and cooperation.

  • Character - discover distinct and compelling characters that serve the show.

  • Improvised Shakespeare - learn how to improvise the plays the Bard never wrote.

  • Relationships - build relationships that the audience care about

  • Truth in improvised comedy - Bringing yourself to your scenes

  • Narrative - discover how to craft a play live on stage with no script.

  • Musical - learn how to perform an entire unscripted musical on stage. Discover the joy of improvised song!

  • Acting for improvisers - connect to your fellow players and improvise with honesty

  • Long form - weave scenes together inspired by an audience suggestion, learn editing techniques and a variety of formats

  • Acting for improvisers

Acting

Learn to give responsive, compelling performances - connect to the text, connect to yourself, connect to your audience.

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A qualified teacher in the Gonsalves Method, a modern evolution of Meisner, Octavia supports actors to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances whilst maintaining spontaneity.

Teaching specialisms:

  • Acting for stage and screen

  • The Meisner Technique - for truthful, responsive and alive performance

  • The Gonsalves Method - an evolution of Meisner providing a framework to bring the technique to scripted work

  • Character

  • Improvisation for actors

  • Making your own work


 

Communication


Octavia is the founder of OPG Coaching. She works with the changemakers of today and the leaders of tomorrow to find their voice and refine their message.

Through one-to-one coaching and group workshops, she supports clients in public speaking, storytelling and speechwriting. She also brings the skills of improv into businesses to help them communicate, collaborate and discover their adaptability.

Clients are guided through a supportive, creative, and focused process that empowers them inspire action.

Octavia and her expert OPG coaches support you to:

  • Speak with confidence and power

  • Craft a speech, talk or presentation that lands

  • Connect with your audience through storytelling to achieve tangible results  

  • Unearth your greatest strength - adaptability

  • Turn your talk from an endurance event into something people actually want to listen to!