Mathew Wernham

At RADA Mathew teaches Movement and continues his study of historical & social dance under Sue Lefton. Their work in this area examines what the dance of a particular period has to offer an actor in terms of access to the world they wish to inhabit including the societal and philosophical ideas embodied in the movement as well as looking at these dances as a metaphor for acting and using them to support an holistic understanding of what the students are learning elsewhere in the course.

He is currently on the acting staff at Drama Centre London where he teaches Character Analysis (Movement Psychology) a methodology for actors first brought to actor training by the visionary Yat Malmgren a late pupil of Rudolf Laban where the focus of the work is transformation. Mathew is also a visiting practitioner at LAMDA.

Outside of the drama schools he continues to work as an actor and movement director in the UK and in Europe.