Darren Smith
Training – Workshops with Darren Smith – The Expressive Gesture
Darren Smith studied acting, 1994-1997, at the Drama Centre London, tutored by its founders Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren, and had the privilege of the generous financial support of Sir Anthony Hopkins. He was an apprentice actor at the Globe theatre under the guidance of Sir Mark Rylance with whom he made his professional acting debut. After working as a professional actor in London and UK touring productions he took the lead role in an award winning, Time Out Critic’s Choice English language production of Gerhart Hauptmann’s Lonely Lives, directed by Eddie Marsan. Darren moved to Berlin (for love!) in 2004. He has produced many English theatre productions in Berlin; driven a horse and theatre-wagon, that he designed himself, to Edinburgh in 2015 performing at the Fringe festival and then lived in it for 8 months with his dog on a farm. Darren embarked on a further training for two years at the Michael Chekhov International Academy under the tutelage of Joerg Andrees. Darren began teaching acting, after graduating, and fell in love with it. In 2018 he was invited to teach at an alternative, non-government, summer camp in Russia (under happier circumstances) and has most recently taught at the Cours Florent School in Berlin. Darren is currently recording a podcast series for budding acting students called The Pocket Theatre School Podcast.