Your goals. Focused support.
Tailored acting coaching for children, teenagers and adults, seven days a week. Prepare a self-tape with a coach your child already knows, build your technique or plan your next step with directors Milly Zero and Joshua Ely and the HFTD coaching team.
Make your next take count.
From a first audition to a major recall, we help actors make confident choices and deliver truthful performances. Our coaching has helped performers secure roles and recalls, while keeping their individuality at the heart of the work.
Brief landed on Thursday night for Monday? Book a slot any day of the week. We explore the script, find your choices and prepare the performance. Online, we read in and guide your tape. In person, we film in high resolution and edit it for you, so it’s ready to send. Our self-tapes have earned students major recalls and bookings, from TV commercials to drama.
General acting coaching online or in person, for children and adults. Build character, screen technique and confidence with material tailored to you across film, TV, commercials and theatre, including actors moving from stage or musical theatre training into screen work. Weekly, fortnightly or ad hoc drop-ins.
Honest guidance on agents, casting, Spotlight, headshots and showreels. Clear advice on where you are and what to do next.
Find a coach. Choose your time.
Work with our team online or in person. Choose the calendar for the coach or team you'd like to book.
Select Milly's calendar to work with our founder when she's available. Otherwise, our admin team will pair you with one of our four other South London coaches, in person or online if you prefer.
Select the North, Essex or Bury calendar to work with Joshua Ely or his team. Use this for local in-person sessions, online coaching with Josh's team, or if you're outside South London.
Showreel Material and Career Booster packages are bought on our Shop page. Once your order is in, we’ll email to arrange your sessions.
Experience. Encouragement. Honest feedback.
Every HFTD coach is a Lead Teacher at HFTD and a professional actor who understands the craft and the audition process. Milly leads our South London team; Josh and his team cover North London, Essex and Bury St Edmunds. All our coaches offer online sessions.
Milly trained at The BRIT School. She played Hannah in CBBC’s ‘All At Sea’ and Dotty Cotton in ‘EastEnders’. Further screen credits include ‘Too Much’ for Netflix, ‘Call the Midwife’ and ‘Doctors’ for the BBC and ‘Better’ for the BFI, alongside her theatre credits.
Josh trained at LAMDA and East 15 Acting School. His stage and screen experience includes commercials for Stop! Think Fraud, Stamma and Currys, and the short film ‘Inadequate’.
Jake trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and plays Christopher in ITV’s ‘G’wed’. Further screen credits include ‘Miss Austen’ and ‘Doctors’ for the BBC, ‘Midsomer Murders’, ‘Endeavour’, ‘Shakespeare & Hathaway’ and ‘Close Personal Friends’ for Amazon. On stage, ‘The Three Seagulls’ at Bristol Old Vic and ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Rose Theatre Kingston.
Eva trained at Rose Bruford and founded Written Off Theatre Company. Her credits include ‘EastEnders’, feature film work and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ in Concert.
Training at the Guildford School of Acting, Beth’s screen credits include ‘Coronation Street’, the new feature film ‘The Brook’ and BTS’s ‘FRI(END)S’ video. On stage she has appeared in ‘Mary and the Hyenas’ at Hull Truck Theatre and Wilton’s Music Hall, ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ at Northern Stage, ‘Carousel: A Concert’ at Cadogan Hall, ‘A Song for Ella Grey’ on tour with Pilot Theatre and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Durham’s Gala Theatre.
Fintan trained at Guildford School of Acting. His theatre credits include ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Southwark Playhouse, ‘Dick Whittington’ at Oxford Playhouse and the Pilot Theatre tour of ‘Noughts & Crosses’.
“Sadie's audition tape looked very professional and stood out to us, which is why we were keen to offer her representation. We are very selective about who we take on, and it's clear she is getting excellent training at HFTD.”
One session or ongoing support.
Book weekly, fortnightly or for a specific audition. For filmed material and more detailed career guidance, explore our packages.
A focused session for self-tapes, audition preparation, acting technique or career advice. Prices start at £35 for 30 minutes.
Available online or in person: weekly, fortnightly or an ad hoc drop-in.
Three hours of coaching and filming with one of our coaches, creating footage for Spotlight or agency applications.
Includes an ident and multiple scenes, with tailored scripts, high-resolution filming and editing.
Six hours of coaching and filming, arranged around you. Includes everything in the Showreel Material package.
Plus a Spotlight review, guidance on your casting strengths and a list of suitable agents and casting teams to approach.
Your questions, answered.
Yes. Our coaches offer both. Choose the calendar for the team you'd like to work with.
Select the North, Essex or Bury calendar. Use this for local in-person sessions, online coaching with Josh or his team, or if you're outside South London.
Select Milly's calendar to work with our founder when she's available. Otherwise, our admin team will pair you with one of our four other South London coaches, in person or online if you prefer.
Yes. Book for a specific audition, some advice or an introduction to coaching. Regular sessions are available too.
No. We work with children, teenagers and adults, from beginners to experienced actors, including those moving from stage or musical theatre training into screen work.
Three hours of coaching and filming, including an ident, multiple scenes and edited high-resolution footage. Scripts are chosen to show different sides of your casting.
Ready when you are.
Pick a time in the calendar, or email info@hftdacademy.co.uk with a few lines about what you're working towards.