Steve North

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Actor

Steve has been acting professionally since 1990 when he first appeared on our screens as Firefighter Colin Parish in the highly popular TV series London’s Burning. He has subsequently appeared in numerous TV shows and theatre including: Essex Serpent, All Those Things, Unforgotten, The Bystanders, Closed Circuit, Hallo Joe, South West Nine, War Horse NT Live, Mongrels, Doctor Who, EastEnders, Is Harry on the Boat, The Day Britain Stopped, Midsomer Murders, Casualty, The Bill, Murphy’s Law, Holby City and Woof.He played the leading role in the National Theatre NT Live global live broadcast of War Horse and also viewable on NT Home. Other stage credits include: RNT’s War Horse in the West End, Offies Nominated Museum Pieces, Meeting Joe Strummer (Fringe First winner), The Football Factory, Fever Pitch solo show (nominated Best Actor MEN awards) and Shared Experience Theatre's premiere of Mermaid.

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DIRECTOR

As a film maker Steve's credits include co-writer and producer on the feature film South West 9. He was also Associate Producer on The Football Factory.He directed the award-winning short film Cregan for Screen South under the Digital Shorts Scheme and screened at film festivals in the UK and around the world including Foyle, Waterford, Leeds, Soho Rushes, New York.Other directing credits include the short film Greensleeves and film sequences for an original commission of 13 for the Brighton International Festival.Theatre directing includes the premiere of Funny Guy by Patrick Nash at the OXO Gallery in 2021 and Love Goddess, the Rita Hayworth Musical.The Cockpit Theatre in November 2022.

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Educator

Steve is a highly experienced lecturer in acting and skilled workshop leader who specialises in screen acting and devising. He is Head of MA/MFA Acting with Digital Media at East 15 Acting School.Steve runs his own Devising and shooting scenes for showreels weekends. With Steve as director and deviser, participants create a scene in pairs and then shoot and edit them for use on their reels, to send out to agents, casting directors and to promote themselves as screen actors. The workshop starts with a character generated exercise which leads in to hot-seating. The actors are then paired and given a basic scenario using their characters to develop into a short two minute high stakes scene. These scenes are then shot on location on the Sunday and edited to a professional level. Examples of these can be viewed on Steve's Vimeo channel.Please use the form below to be kept updated for when he is running these (normally around 4 per year). Places are strictly limited and are kept affordable to allow all actors to participate.

Testimonials

"Brilliantly pioneering. Devising and performing online were far more satisfying than I expected. Online video is a new medium rich with possibilities that I'm keen to explore further."
-- Antony Quinn“Steve created a fun and relaxed environment to get our creative juices flowing. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in building their acting skills in front of the camera.”
-- Sandra Hamalwa"Steve's course totally exceeded expectations. What we came up with in two days was amazing. We devised something far more interesting than anything I would have created on my own."
-- Laura Whyte