Freshly updated my fight reel with the help of @robbiecapaldi
Showcasing some of the groovy work from Opera, Theatre, TV and Film I’ve done over the last 25 years.
Let me know what you think.
My career through many modes of storytelling has always been driven by my fascination with connection.
How connection is made through a multitude of mediums and how it can set an audience on fire.
❤️
When it comes to professional actor training, stage combat offers so much more than just learning how to look like you can fight.
Good quality training can supercharge an actor’s kinaesthetic awareness — sharpening problem-solving, spatial awareness, and physical human connection — all while working under speed and urgency.
For me, stage combat has always been a craft of care as much as danger. Being an advanced combatant isn’t about just looking cool on stage (though it certainly does 😎). It’s about loving and protecting your partner at 100 miles an hour, under extreme stakes, while convincing an audience you’re in immediate peril.
That practice demands resilience, calm under pressure, and empathy. The best combatants I know are the last people to crack when production stress kicks in. They stay grounded, practical, connected, and compassionate — because that’s what the work trains into you.
If you want to be the actor who keeps a cool head when things get tough — the actor who can be trusted when the pressure’s high — then stage combat should be part of your training journey. Don’t just dabble. Go deep.
Because the truth is: the deeply human qualities it develops will strengthen you in every area of your craft.
…and yes, let’s not forget — it looks pretty damn cool too. ⚔️
#stagecombat @idfight #stunts #katanasword
A brave creative space, or even a wonderfully dangerous space, can only truly exist if the base line is safety. The first thing to die is creativity if the person does not feel inherently safe in the space.
Creating good quality consent is crucial in our Meisner practice. Human beings can be tremendously tactile animals and our search for connection is primary in our instincts whether we like to admit it or not. The trick is how to create good quality consent, agreement for contact and respect for boundaries, without putting actors in their heads.
Remember Meisner training is meant to be about the following of impulse. A conflict of interest? Not nessecarily.
Good quality consent work is just another form of training in how to listen. Consent is all about listening. And at the very bottom line in acting. If acting is about doing then the doing is the listening.
At Body Mind Voice we incorporate good quality consent practices, from the very beginning of our training right through to the extremes. Making it a part of the inherent listening in our training.
A ‘safe’ spaces can give way to bold creative spaces. And bold creative spaces can give way to glorious dangerous story telling. And after all, that’s what we buy tickets to see.
Come train with us –
#actingclasslondon #londonactingstudio #londonactor #actortraining
“The acting is so natural and raw as to make you forget you are watching actors” - London Theatre 1
“Lawrence Carmichael’s Doug manages to portray a man of deep complexities” - Everything theatre
“Lawrence Carmichael, putting on two hats, puts his vocal chords to use with great success.” - London Pub Theatre
@selinafillinger Thank you for writing such a layered, real, struggling man. He’s been fun to find.
Thanks to our directing team @alexstroming and the team @jessica_potts_
My fellow actors @katherine.oliver.actor & @_felipechavez
It’s been a fun ride!
@t.reginatheatreco@t.d.d.studio for pics & movement. 👍
Over and out Doug.
#londontheatre
Opening night is TOMORROW! We are so excited to share this beautiful, challenging, uplifting story with y’all.
Have you nabbed your tickets yet? 👀
Wednesday, April 29: Over half-way sold
Thursday, April 30: Over half-way sold
Friday, May 1: Good availability
Saturday, May 2: Only a few seats left!
Sunday, May 3: Over half-way sold
🔗🎟️ in bio
Don’t miss SOMETHING CLEAN, an intimate, messy, and moving drama by Tony-award nominated playwright Selina Fillinger.
🗓 April 29-May 3, 2026
📍Lion and Unicorn Theatre
CW: Themes of SA
@landutheatre
#somethingclean #londonfringe #offwestend #londontheatre #selinafillinger
Come see the show!
Opening this week!
Wed - Sun
April 29 - May 3rd
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Something Clean by Selina Fillinger
Tony-Award nominated playwright Selina
Fillinger soars in this intimate drama
following one woman struggling to make sense
of her own grief, love, and culpability.
Charlotte has been a mother for nineteen years,
a wife for three decades, and a respectable
community member her entire life. But when her
only child is incarcerated for sexual assault, her
once-immaculate world is forever tainted.
Produced by T. Regina Theatre Co. (Scenes
with girls, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Late A
Cowboy Song).
Raising awareness for The Survivor’s Trust, (supporting specialist rape and sexual abuse services)
Cast -
Katherine Oliver - Charlotte
Lawrence Carmichael - Doug
Felipe Chavez - Joey
Production Team -
Director Alex Stroming,
Assistant Director/Stage Manager Jessica Potts
Co-Designers Emily Nelson and Agathe Williamson
Movement Director Tutu Ching
Lighting Designer Phil Hamilton
Intimacy Director Liz Kent
Voice & Dialect Coach Meighread Dandeneau
Follow us on social media:
/t.reginatheatreco/
Tickets:
/event/something-cle
At The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London
NW5 2ED, United Kingdom
Run Time: approx. 90 minutes
As the body prepares the voice follows.
Voice is a physical object and should be treated so.
It is a thing that an actor fires like an arrow. From where they stand to the target/ partner / human they are engaging with. And like an arrow, it will only be as pennatrive as the stance of the person who fires it.
In these stills I’m working with @sofia.toniuk in Meisner 3-American Classic on developing strength and resilience in her body for more powerful voice work in the final moments of her scene. Palm Tree in the Rose Garden.
Though the core of my practice is imaginative and impulsive based actor work. The quality of vocal and physical training cannot be ignored as part of the path way to quality actor training.
The body and voice is the delivery device. If the delivery device is not grounded and strong the thought will remain unclear.
#actortraining
Ready...set...GO!!!🤩
What the play about about in 30 SECONDS?🧭
Don't miss SOMETHING CLEAN by Tony-award nominated playwright Selina Fillinger🧼
🗓 April 29-May 3, 2026
📍Lion and Unicorn Theatre
CW: Description of SA
@landutheatre
#somethingclean #londonfringe #offwestend #londontheatre #selinafillinger
🔗🎟️ Ticket link in bio!
The independent activity is a fundamental exercise, and one of the great jewels in the crown of the Meisner approach to actor training.
To the naked eye it might seem a bit ridiculous to see someone crying their eyes out over a rubik’s cube or a house of cards. But an actor’s ability to do so convincingly shows the fruit of training in acting as a high stakes engagement in the reality of doing.
If they can make a rubrik’s cube a life and death situation imagine what they can do with defusing a bomb or saving another character’s life.
Come see for yourself -
#meisner #meisnertraining #londonmeisner #londonmeisnerclasses #truthfulacting
Actor Drop In’s return next week! 🎉
Get sharp, stay sharp.
Hold yourself accountable with a discounted block booking for the next 6 weeks!💪🏼
Curious to be a fly on the wall? Limited observer seats available for £5.
Book this and other ongoing training at -
Good Day / Bad Day Has Already Happened
This work is not anticipation.
It is aftermath.
You are not waiting for something to occur —
you are living with the emotional consequences of something meaningful.
The horse has bolted.
Deal with it.
#meisnertechnique #meisnerclasses #bodymindvoice #londonactor
