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
Educational coordinator
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.
Sisse Garfield Lund
Study coordinator and student counsellor
Co-founder of the school.
Trained as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and Ophelia.
Theresa Sølvsteen
Voice / solo / class teacher
Lisbeth Holdt Jørgensen
Voice
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
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.
Lykke Sand
Creative entrepreneurship
Actor. Known from TV/film/theater, including Rita, Strisser på Samsø and Badehotellet
Martin Spang Olsen
Martial Arts / Film technique
Film director, actor, stuntman, stunt coordinator and sensory trainer
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.
Klaus Hjuler
Stagefight / stunt
Professional stunt coordinator since 1990. Has choreographed stunts for many theater performances and Danish films.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Katharina Kamber
Feldenkrais / Physical solo course
Therese Damsgaard Manley
Class teacher
Trained as an actor at the Acting School in Odense in 2011. Before that, two years at the Ophelia Acting School.
She has done everything from theater, film and TV to narration and voice over.
Thea Kastberg
Entrepreneurship
Trained as an actor at the Ophelia School of Acting in 2015.
Actor, reader and podcaster at Scenegeist, among others. Founder of Æ Teater in Southern Jutland.
Stine Schrøder Jensen
Improvisation
Trained as an actor from the National Theater School in 1999. Currently at the Royal Danish Theatre, and can be seen on TV in NamaStay and Carmen curlers.