The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare training for actors and directors, built around a method.

Emily Jenkins is a Shakespeare specialist, writer-director, and Globe faculty member who has coached actors from drama school to the West End. Her studio offers practical Shakespeare training at every level, all built around a repeatable way of working.

Shakespeare's Globe
Faculty member for 14 years
West End debut
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Award-winning
Two Fringe Firsts
Professional clients
RSC : West End : Training Actors

A Shakespeare practitioner with a modern performance lens

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Directing

Emily Jenkins grew up in rehearsal rooms, watching actors and directors shape text into performance. After specialising in Shakespeare at university, she trained as a director at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

In 2012 she joined Shakespeare's Globe as a text practitioner, coaching actors on main-house productions. She now serves on the Globe's higher education faculty.

As a writer-director, Emily has won two Scotsman Fringe Firsts and made her West End debut at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Cookies. She coaches for stage, screen, and rehearsal rooms, from actors preparing for drama school to those working at RSC and West End level.

What sits underneath all of that is a specific way of working: practical, actor-first, and built to turn Shakespeare into playable action.

The Emily Jenkins Method

Everything in the studio is built around the same approach: a modern, actor-first way of working with Shakespeare that helps performers make the text playable, specific, and alive in the room.

The programmes differ in format and level. The method stays the same.

Pillar 01

Text into action

Every choice must become playable, not merely clever.

Pillar 02

Emotional truth

Verse work should deepen feeling, not flatten it into correctness.

Pillar 03

Clarity under pressure

The work has to hold in audition rooms, rehearsals, and self-tapes.

Pillar 04

Structure without rigidity

The text gives you clues, but performance still has to breathe.

Come in through a problem. Stay for the method.

The studio is built around three ways in: learn at your own pace, train in a coached room, or work directly with Emily on your material. Move between them as you need to.

Choose the right way into the studio

Start with the library or a £10 live session. Train in a cohort or clinic. Or book bespoke 1:1 coaching for a live problem.

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