About Thinking Actors
Manchester-based Thinking Actors is a leading Spotlight-accredited acting studio, dedicated to providing professional training for aspiring, emerging, and established actors. We are a screen-focused studio and training community based in the city - built for actors who want truthful work and repeatable results.
Our mission:
To create a supportive, inspiring space where creativity thrives and talent is nurtured to its highest potential. Guided by experienced industry professionals and a comprehensive, practice-based curriculum, we help actors refine their craft and excel in the art of screen and stage performance.
Our clients’ credits include:
BBC Silent Witness, FX/BBC Devs, Sky Brassic, BBC Flatmates, Netflix Dracula, ITV Sanditon, Netflix The Haunting of Bly Manor, NBC This Is Us, Channel 4/HBO It’s A Sin, BBC EastEnders, ITV Emmerdale, Sky Atlantic Domina, 20th Century Studios Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, BBC Alma’s Not Normal, Netflix Hard Cell, BBC Inside No.9, Amazon Prime The Peripheral, BBC Casualty, and ITV The Bay.
Who We Are
Thinking Actors is a Manchester-based, Spotlight-accredited acting studio led by actor, coach and filmmaker Peter Carroll. We specialise in screen-focused training that builds truthful, repeatable craft and camera-ready confidence. Through structured Acting for Camera modules, on-camera scene study, audition and self-tape coaching, and real-world location filming days, we help emerging and working actors raise their standard and become more bookable. We also offer 1-2-1 coaching, self-tape clinics, showreel filming and bespoke workshops - with one goal: stronger performances and better outcomes.
