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
Leder af den internationale linje / Uddannelses koordinator
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

Anette Nørgaard
Stemme- og performancecoach
Uddannet stemmecoach i Vocal Integration fra Performers Career Center NYC 2008-2011
Bosat i New York City 2006-2019 som udøvende, skabende og producerende kunstner indenfor teater og musik, sideløbende med stemmecoaching.
Forfatter til bogen “The Vocal Paradox” (USA, 2019). Blandt mange andre inspireret af: Linklater, Skinner, Estill, Byrne og Laban.

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

Anja Owe
Shakespeare
Uddannet skuespiller fra Statens Teaterskole 1988 og har siden arbejdet som free-lance skuespiller og instruktør.
Er akkrediteret lærer i Nadine George Voicework. Desuden uddannet Body-SDS behandler, og har gennem mange års træning et dybt kendskab til Tadashi Suzukis metode.

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.

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.

Lisbeth Rysgaard
Entréprenuership
Lisbeth is a musician, author and certified artist coach from Dispuk.

Lykke Sand
Creative entrepreneurship
Actor. Known from TV/film/theater, including Rita, Strisser på Samsø and Badehotellet

Nadia Rantzau Hunderup
Iscenesætter på Performer / Kontaktlærer på 1. Årgang
Trained actor from Acting School Ophelia / Copenhagen Acting School

Magnus Bruun
impro / selftape/ Kontaktlærer på 2. Årgang
Trained actor from Acting School Ophelia 2007-10 and Acting School v/Odense Teater 2010-14
Copenhagen Acting School Advisory Board

Birgitte Fredsby
Member of the CAS Advisory Board
Director of the Film Workshop

Sune Bang
Member of the CAS Advisory Board
Advertising and communications advisor

Thomas Levin
Member of the CAS Advisory Board
Screenwriter and actor

Nadia Rantzau Hunderup
Member of the CAS Advisory Board
Former student and now actor and director

Sisse Garfield Lund
Member of the CAS Advisory Board
Co-founder of CAS / Acting School Ophelia.