Orlando Seale

Orlando is a master of his craft and has the rare ability only very few teachers have: to create an environment of absolute unconditional love and acceptance which gives every student permission to try, fail and succeed.
Janina Picardactor, screenwriter, director
Even an hour with Orlando completely changes my approach to existing text, to creating my own work, and to how I treat myself as an artist. The sensitivity, depth, and playfulness he brings to every session or workshop leaves everyone feeling seen, supported, emboldened, and energized in any creative endeavor. He meets you wherever you are in your process, and gently brings out the best in you as a performer, creator, and artist.
Lucy Ellisactor, writer, clown
Orlando was instrumental in supporting my creative process from the first pages of my play - The Uninvited - through several readings and drafts and onwards until it ultimately became a film that had its premiere at SXSW film Festival 2024 (…) I have internalized his voice as a means to help me go deeper, move past obstructions and find momentum in numerous projects. The reason he has taken such a significant position in my creative process is he always says ‘yes’ to my efforts, and not in a pandering way but in the way of ‘seeing’ what I am trying to say and rather than critiquing it away he coaxed it away from fear and towards something bold and brave (…) with Orlando as a coach I say yes to myself and recognize that my gift is mine alone and it does not have to be like anyone else. He has helped me become myself as an artist.
Nadia Connerswriter/director, The Uninvited
Working with Orlando over the years has been transformative. I can’t sing his praises enough. I went technically for acting coaching but it’s more like a whole artistic system, a way of living, connected and creative - involving dreams, movement, writing, Jung, sensitivity, relationship to the self. And you literally couldn’t ask for a kinder more intuitive teacher
Toby Regboactor

Orlando Seale, creativity and performance coach

Orlando’s teaching and coaching draws on his rich and varied career as a performer and artist, weaving together improvisation, movement, journaling, mark-making, voice-work, guided meditation and Jungian dreamwork. Orlando’s supportive presence helps participants cultivate a compassionate relationship with themselves and their creativity, find freedom and play, and ultimately make soulful, daring creative work.

Orlando has taught and led workshops across Europe and America, working with individuals as well as facilitating/teaching with larger groups. Many of his clients are artists, writers and performers but Orlando also works with people outside the creative industries: encouraging teamwork and creative thinking in companies; helping clients with communication, presentation and performance nerves; coaching barristers; supporting personal development with the embodied dreamwork.

After studying English and French at Oxford University Orlando attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris, and then the Ecole Philippe Gaulier (clown). He was introduced to Creative Dreamwork by Sandra Seacat and Kim Gillingham in Los Angeles in the early 2000s. In 2023 he completed the two year diploma in ‘Integrative movement and performance practice’ at the Thomas Prattki Centre in Berlin.

His varied performing career has taken him from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the West End to roles in film and TV (Hamlet, Sleepy Hollow, Pride and Prejudice, Bobby, Death on the Nile, Doll & Em, the West Wing, The IT crowd, Motherland). He also writes songs and performs with his band. Orlando’s paintings have been exhibited in the UK, France, Austria and Greece. He currently has a solo show of his artwork, “into something rich and strange” at Paul Smith, Rue de Grenelle, Paris.

Actors/movers/dancers/singers
Creating a compassionate container: alchemising nerves and stage fright
Character as constellation
Play, pleasure, and finding the game
Scene analysis and working with text
Improvisation and devising 
Meisner technique, embracing the present 
Play/clown
Shakespeare and verse speaking
On-set coaching
Self-tapes and auditions

Directors
Working with actors, speaking their language, helping them feel at ease and deliver exciting performances.

Screenwriters
Dramaturgy
Character, dialogue, language of the body
Devising and dreamwork

For all creatives 
Dreamwork for creative practice
The speed of trust and the leap of faith
The way of the fool, embracing unknowing and mystery

Corporate and legal clients
Communication and presentation
Alchemising nerves into creative energy
Teamwork and creative thinking 
Facilitation

Personal development 
Embodied dreamwork and coaching

Perhaps you are a performer/artist looking to deepen your connection to your creative practice and craft; you want to create bold, playful and radically present work; or perhaps you’re looking for help speaking authentically and confidently in a corporate field. Please make contact. I would love to share the work with you and help you fulfil your creative potential.
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