Who we are

ALL IN ACTORS has been set up by Stephen Sobal and Ami Sayers who have a wealth of experience in teaching and training actors. We are passionate about celebrating our students and supporting them in whatever they hope to achieve.

What we believe

Ultimately we aim to achieve one goal, which is to unlock a person’s potential and to embrace who they are. This is the very foundation of ALL IN ACTORS - celebrating your potential.

Why Us?

If you are looking for a fresh and challenging approach to building your skills and your confidence, then ALL IN ACTORS is the place for you.

We will discuss with each individual at the start of the course what they would like to achieve and build a plan that will help them get there.

If further training on a 3 year course at drama school is your goal, we offer advice to help you through the application and audition process.

Our Core Team

Everyone in our team has our students best interests at heart. All our tutors are not only currently working in the industry but, more importantly, have many years of teaching experience. They love teaching because they love guiding their students to discovering their potential and seeing the life changing effect this can have.

**Stephen Sobal**
**Co-Principal & Theatrical Clown Teacher**
Stephen is a multi award winning director, performer, teacher and the artistic director of All In. He studied acting at ALRA and clown, bouffon and physical comedy with Philippe Gaulier. Stephen has taught for many educational and performance based institutions including RADA, RSC, ArtsEd, Rose Bruford, ALRA, Doreen Bird, Theatre Royal Bath and The Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Directing credits include, Bon Ami - All In (Show of the Week Award at Vault Festival), Love Sick - All In (Best Comedy Award Brighton Fringe), Hysterical - Hoax (Peoples Choice Award at Vault Festival) and Father of Lies - Bête Noire Productions (Highly Commended Award at Vault Festival).

**Ami Sayers**
**Co-Principal & Head of Acting**
Ami is an actor, writer, director and teacher with an MA in Actor Training and Coaching from The Royal Central School Of Speech and Drama. Her focus is on developing the use of Stanislavsky’s system in actor training and how it can be combined with other methods to help unlock the inner life and power of the actor.
As an actor she has worked consistently in theatre playing varied roles and has particular experience with classical text. Her credits include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre), Hermia in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Miranda in The Tempest (Middle Temple Hall), Viola in Twelfth Night (open air tour) as well as contemporary work including Jon Fosse’s Visits (Theatre Deli) and Someone Found (Pleasance, London).

**Samantha Atkin**
**Company Administration Manager**
Sam plays a crucial role at All In Actors as our Company Administration Manager. With her impeccable organisational skills, she ensures the smooth operation of our company on a day-to-day basis.
She is a proactive problem solver and consistently seeks opportunities to streamline operations, ensures that everyone has the resources they need and creating a positive environment for staff and students at All In Actors.
As well as being super organised, friendly and thoughtful, she is also an acting graduate from Institute of Arts Barcelona.

**Funlola Olufunwa**
**Acting - ACT 3**
Funlola is an actor, writer and actor trainer. She has performed with the RSC, Creation Theatre and the English Theatre of Hamburg, and has appeared on *No Return* and *Emmerdale (ITV)*, and *EastEnders (BBC)*.
She has taught acting, text, and embodied practice across conservatoire and university programmes for many years, with roles at LAMDA, the University of East London, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, to name a few.
Funlola has loved working with All In Actors over the past two years, where she supports performers in developing confident, imaginative, and grounded practice.

**Frankie Aaronovitch-Bruce**
**Voice - ACT 3**
Frankie is a trilingual voice and accent coach specialising in Practical Voice, Heightened Text and British dialects of English. Her practice draws on her experience in linguistics, choir leading, and teaching English and other languages. She received her MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama. In her own time she volunteers in outdoor education with children and young people, plays folk music and sings, and performs stand-up comedy. She's dedicated to research-led, inclusive pedagogy and thinks Voice work should be available to everyone.

**Samuel Adebayo**
**Movement - ACT 3**
My name is Samuel Adebayo. I am a creative and movement practitioner from London. My practice has influences from Laban, Gaulier, Lecoq, Jane Gibson and animal flow.
My ethos is that there is a connection between mind, body and spirit. And in order to get the full experience of our existence and expression, we have to do the work of connecting all three. I believe this to be our birth right, but some how in the modern world, this is no longer as accessible to us. Through undulation of the spine and loosing the joints in the body, we can begin to open portals to our primal, creative and spiritual instincts. Thus coming back to ourselves.
My work is to help as many people as possible know and embody this experience of freedom through movement.

Robert Gilbert

Acting for Screen - ACT 1 & 3

Robert is trained in many different disciplines from Improvisation training at Amy Poehler’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Specialised Meisner and Stanislavski training with Stephen Buckwald, devising and company work with Melly Still and Annabelle Arden (Theatre de Complicite), Shakespeare at The Royal Shakespeare Company with Greg Doran, Katie Mitchell techniques with Ellen McDougal and screen work with Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth) and Stella Corradi (Killing Eve).

**Jonathan Oldfield**
**Devising/Improv/Clown - ACT 3**
Jonathan is a multi-award winning performer, writer and director. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and recent acting credits include as Joydali in *Star Wars: Andor* on Disney+, The Officer in *Kanpur: 1857* (Scotsman Fringe First Award) and in Nick Mohammed's *A Christmas Carol-ish* in the West End. He co-wrote and starred in the critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 sketch show *Time of the Week,* was a BBC New Comedy Award Finalist (2024), and won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize (2026). His debut character comedy show *Exquisite Corpse* had a sold out run at Edinburgh Fringe, and was nominated for the Next Up Biggest Award in Comedy. He teaches across the UK and internationally including at places like Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Q Factory (Amsterdam), Scottish Storytelling Centre (Edinburgh) and as a visiting lecturer at higher education institutions in the United States. He founded and runs the Character Comedy Lab at Soho Theatre.

**Luisa D'Ambrosio**
**Movement - ACT 1**
Luisa is a movement practitioner and dancer with extensive experience in teaching within a range of abilities and styles. Her background includes dance physical theatre, (Lecoque) visual art and stage design. She has worked internationally with Compagnia ‘Circo a Vapore’, ‘Altroteatro danza’, and ‘Storm’ and with choreographers such as Siobhan Davies, Temujin Jill, Athina Valha and Toby Sedgwick. She is researching a multimedia approach to movement training to enhance performer perception and performance. Luisa is fully qualified as a Pilates mat and studio work practitioner and skilled in a broad range of somatic techniques which strongly informs her practice. Luisa is a member of the faculty and guest lecturer in several courses in London including, Italia Conti Academy, Trinity Laban, and Goldsmiths College.
She has recently been awarded an MSc in dance science is an avid Swimmer and regularly practice Aikido (weapon) and contact improvisation.
Passions: site-specific performance, Images, and movement, contact impro and drawing. She is also an anatomy nerd and proud of her neurodiverse mind.

**Nell Bradbury**
**Voice - ACT 1**
Nell is a voice coach, facilitator and actor. She is interested in the relationship between breath, voice and the material body, and looks to interrogate the power dynamics of the free, natural voice movement. She is currently in the throes of her dissertation for her MA in Voice Studies: Teaching & Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, whilst also teaching voice at institutions such as Leeds Conservatoire and the University of Northampton.
Continually looking to expand her approach and anchor her practice, she has participated in Linklater, Rodenburg and Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshops, as well as bringing in influences from Lucid Body, Viewpoints and Clowning.
Nell trained as an actor at Drama Studio London after completing a Politics BA (Hons) at the University of Sheffield. She has performed at venues including Clapham Omnibus, The Churchill Theatre and The Cockpit.

**Zoë Glen**
**Wellbeing Officer**
Zoë is a performer, educator and researcher with expertise in access and inclusion in actor-training. Alongside her work at All In Actors, Zoë teaches at several drama schools, including Rose Bruford College, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Mountview, and works in wellbeing and access support roles in professional and participatory contexts.

Sarah Crompton-HowesProducerSarah studied Drama at Manchester University and began producing work during her time there. She is currently Senior Producer at two award-winning international theatre companies, New International Encounter (NIE) based i… — **Sarah Crompton-Howes**
**Producer**
Sarah studied Drama at Manchester University and began producing work during her time there. She is currently Senior Producer at two award-winning international theatre companies, New International Encounter (NIE) based in Cambridge, and Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Sarah’s own ventures include Producing for renowned devising company, All In Theatre and a long-standing relationship producing for Shon Dale-Jone’s HoiPolloi Theatre.
Sarah Co-Founded *Night Light Theatre Company* and children’s theatre company Flying Eye.

PATRONS

Our patrons are working professionals from the world of theatre, tv, and film, who support and encourage our mission and ethos.

Jade Anouka

Actor/Writer/Poet

Dune: Prophecy - HBO His Dark Materials - HBO/BBC The Drowning - Channel 5 Cleaning Up - ITV, Turn Up Charlie - Green Door Pictures/Idris Elba, Fisherman’s Friends - Feature Film, Shakespeare Trilogy - Donmar Warehouse, Trauma - ITV

Siobhán McSweeney

BAFTA winning Actor/Writer/Presenter

Derry girls - Channel 4, The Great Pottery Thrown Down - Channel 4, Extraordinary - Disney, The Fall - BBC, Pity - Royal Court Theatre, The Alchemist - RSC & Barbican, As You Like It - National Theatre

Amalia Vitale

Actor/Writer/Director

Much Ado About Nothing - The Globe Big Mood - Channel 4, Willow - Disney, The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel - Told by an Idiot, Shaun the Sheep 2: Farmageddon - Aardman, Midsomer Murders - ITV

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The board of trustees for All In Actors (Charity Number 1215612) consists of Mona Goodwin (Chair), Pandora Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Dr. Jessica Ruth Hartley & Marilyn Evers