Copenhagen Acting School Team

Carsten Kressner

Founder and CEO of the school

Meisner and Hara technique / Piece reading / Genre

Actor and director. Trained at the Acting School at Odense Theater 1981 and screenwriter at the National Film School of Denmark 1993. Further training in New York, among other places.

Camilla Gottschalck

Administrator

Trained as an actor at the Ophelia School of Acting 2010

Former administrative manager in Teater Sult, Boldhus Teatret. And another 18 years of experience in management, theater production and administration.

Christine Wolff

Education coordinator / Head of the international line

Meisner Technique / Stager / EIA

Trained as an actor at The William Esper Studio, New York. Has participated in a number of different theater productions in New York as well as Denmark.

Has worked as a stage director for the past 15 years.

Script developer at SDU. Founder and jury member of the reading festival "Fra Skrift Til Scenen" at Teater Momentum.

Theresa Sølvsteen

Voice / solo

Graduated as an actor from the Acting School at Aarhus Theater 2011.

Certified voice teacher in the Anne Rosing Method in 2018 with competencies in singer body training, voice rehabilitation and functional voice use. Teaches stage presence and communication at the Anne Rosing Institute.

Inspired by Patsy Rodenburg and Cicely Berry, among others, when working with the actor and voice.

Performing actor with experience in dubbing, theater, musicals and musicals, most recently at Folketeatret and Østre Gasværk Teater.

Lisbeth Holdt Jørgensen

Voice

Trained as an actor at the Danish National Theater School. Lisbeth has a master's degree in audiologopedics and rhetoric, specializing in teaching actors how to use their voice.

She has also been employed as a speech teacher at the Royal Danish Theatre, where she supported the actors in their artistic work, as well as a permanent member of the Royal Danish Theatre's Management Academy. Now teaches a wide range of Danish businesses.

Stine Gyldenkerne Nielsen

Voice

Stine teaches on the 3-year and international programs, as well as on the long-term courses.

Trained as an actor in 2014 at Europäisches Theater Institut Schauspielschule, Berlin

Graduated Voice coach in 2019 from Voice Coach Academy

Rasmus Ferdinandsen

Voice

Educated cand.mag. in Audiology (University of Copenhagen, 2023)

Graduated from Copenhagen Acting School (2016)

Teaches voice and communication at CAS, Copenhagen Film and Theater School (KFTS) and at DDSKS Odense.

Rasmus works with voice technique, artistic expression and stage presence.
In my teaching, I use principles from Rudolph Laban and Meisner technique.

David Silset

Film technology

Trained film director from the film school 18Frames and script developer from SDU. Has directed a dozen short films spanning different genres and expressions.

He has several years of experience writing scripts for film and theater and several years of experience in the editing room on film and TV.

Has been a jury member at The Next Film Festival and the reading festival "Fra Skrift Til Scenen" at Teater Momentum.

Morten Suurballe

Shakespeare

Trained actor from the National School of Performing Arts.

Starred in several productions at the Royal Danish Theatre, such as Witch Hunt and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in TV series such as Alfa, Vikings, Forbrydelsen and more.

Sarah Boberg

Stage work

Trained as an actor at William Esper Studio and Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York. Appeared in numerous film, theater and TV productions.

Jens Kløft

Comedy

Actor and playwright. Educated at Dell' Arte International in California.

He is the man behind the annual performances with Teatret Brændende Kærlighed in Kongens Have. As a playwright, he has written meters of satire for DR radio and TV and drama for the Royal Danish Theatre, Dramafronten and Betty Nansen.

Sidse Ploug Sørensen

Scene Studies in English

Sidse Ploug Sørensen has lived and worked in New York since 1998. For the past 16 years, the award-winning off-Broadway theater company The Barrow Group has been her artistic base.

Sidse started out as an actor and playwright at TBG and later received her teacher training and became a teacher at TBG's acting school, which reaches over 4,000 students a year. Since then, she has taught performance art, script analysis, professional scene study and audition preparation coaching in New York and internationally.

Trine Jensen

Voice Over

Trine Jensen lives in LA and works as a voice over director, teacher and performer. She holds a BFA in Theater from New World School of the Arts and has also studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.

Christian Vincent

Dubbing / Live Dubbing

Trained actor from Ophelia Acting School 2011-2014.
Has voiced films, series, computer games and cartoons since 2009, and has also been a live-dubber since 2011 and most recently director for Buster Film Festival.

Teaches and instructs voiceover and dub techniques for studio recordings and live screenings.

Bo Madvig

Impro

Actor, physical performer, director and choreographer

Jesper Bruun

Chekhov Technique / Physiodrama

Trained as an actor at the Ophelia Acting School in 2013. Has played at the Royal Danish Theatre and Teatret Zeppelin, and has most recently played in the critically acclaimed performance Det testikkelløse samfund på vildskud and the performance Træer vokser ind i himlen, with Teater Pondus.

Yael Gaathon

Open Training / Butoh

Yael Gaathon has been working with Butoh for over 20 years choreographing, performing and teaching. She views Butoh as an extreme form of sincerity, both in presence and in creation. It is the soul that dances, revealing itself, sharing intimacy and darkness, joy and weakness.

Helle Friang

Physiodrama / Dance / Physical solo course

Trained at the Ballet Academy in Stockholm and Stott Pilates. Works as a freelance dancer, with pilates
as well as other artistic projects in the form of acrylic painting and photos/modeling.
Helle's classes are physical in the form of floorwork, self-awareness created from movement, body control,
strength, breathing, getting into your own body and thereby creating calm and presence as well as a creative process with
text and movement.

Malika Pattey

ManuVision / Physiodrama

Malika Pattey graduated as a Manuvision therapist and trainer in 2013. She teaches at Manuvision Soft in Manuvision Huset 2015 - 2017, Filmskuespillerkademiet 2016/17 and through her own practice in Manuvision Huset. Malika has previously worked with acting and physical theater. She has her own practice as a body therapist with Maerkbarkrop.dk

Mathias Kromann

Manuvision / Physical solo course

Trained Manuvision body therapist and trainer in 2020
Trained Shock and Trauma therapist in 2023, focusing on the nervous system and internal blockages.

In addition, he graduated as a Theater Technician from the Royal Danish Theatre in 2007, and has since worked freelance on the country's largest stages with personal flight (Aerial -automation, -rigging and -design) and to make the artists feel comfortable with it.

Has own practice as a body therapist.
mathiaskromann.dk

Tina Croome

Rolfing / Physical solo session

Tina Croome is a complementary body therapist through the medium of Rolfing, Movement and Healing.

With a background in musical theater and contemporary dance, Tina has pursued a career in the field of movement -amalgamating elements of dance into her work as a body therapist and rehabilitative practitioner. During the years Tina has developed her own programs and retreats her mission is to help people reconnect with themselves.

Klaus Hjuler

Stagefight / stunt

Professional stunt coordinator since 1990. Has choreographed stunts for many theater performances and Danish films.

Amanda Maag

Physiodrama

Amanda Maag is a versatile actor with more than 20 years of experience in theater, film, television and performance. She graduated in Los Angeles from Theatre of Arts and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and holds a Master's degree in Theater and Performance Studies. She has performed at the Royal Danish Theatre in Cyrano de Bergerac and Don Carlos, created her own one-woman show The Jungle and toured Shanghai. On film and TV she can be seen, among others. In Klown and The Story of Denmark. Her method is based on a holistic understanding of the body as an emotional archive, creating authentic and emotionally nuanced characters.