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Thinking Actors is based in Manchester UK and was founded in 2016 by Peter Carroll - an acting teacher with extensive experience as a drama practitioner and workshop facilitator. In addition to Peter's work with TA, he's a teaching fellow, lecturer and consultant at a number of leading drama schools in the higher education sector. As an actor, Peter is represented by PiP Talent in Manchester and London. His most recent work includes Coronation Street for ITV and The Night Caller for Channel 5 and Paramount.

 

A graduate of both Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan, Peter also developed his craft with The Chicago Actors' Workshop Theater and The Acting Studio in New York City. He specialises in The Meisner Acting Technique and the core principles of Stanislavski and Uta Hagen. He's a member of British Actors' Equity, Spotlight and The Royal Television Society. 

 

Peter’s clients can be seen in FX/BBC 'Devs', 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 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' , BBC's 'Alma's Not Normal', 'Netflix' 'Hard Cell' , BBC ‘Inside No.9’, Amazon Prime's 'The Peripheral' , BBC's 'Casualty' and ITV's 'The Bay'.

"A great actor is independent of the poet because the
supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse but in the accent with which it is delivered." - Lee Strasberg

Peter Carroll plays Rupert Copley
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