Our approach to your acting journey
The TAM
Method.
Build the actor
you want to become.
Acting technique, mindset coaching and career development, brought together. Prepare with purpose, build confidence in your work and know what to do next.
Discover the approach
Screen actor, acting coach and founder of TAM.
Three parts.
One stronger actor.
A strong performance, the confidence to share it and a clear career direction support one another. At TAM, you develop all three.
01 / Master Your Craft
Bring the character
to life.
Know how to prepare.
Give yourself freedom to respond.
Explore the world of the script, the people in it and what matters to your character. Build the life beneath the lines, so your performance can come from listening and responding in the moment.
Derek’s SDA Method™ gives this preparation a repeatable structure. You develop it through scenes, self-tapes, auditions and feedback on your work.
What will I work on?
Programme highlights include:
- The Core
- Develop a repeatable foundation for preparing and bringing a character to life.
- Actions & Activities
- Give your character truthful physical behaviour within the scene.
- Circumstances & Senses
- Make the character’s world specific, vivid and believable.
- Moments & Expectations
- Explore what brings your character into each scene and what they expect next.
- People & Places
- Build meaningful connections to the relationships and settings in the story.
- Needs & Attention
- Clarify what drives your character and where their focus goes.
02 / Master Your Mind
Trust yourself
when it matters.
Build confidence through
what you practise and do.
Overthinking a self-tape. Comparing yourself with other actors. Losing momentum after a rejection. These moments can affect how you show up for the work.
Through coaching, reflection and rehearsal, you learn to recognise the patterns holding you back, practise a more useful response and take a concrete next step.
What will I work on?
Programme highlights include:
- The Movie Star & The Mentor
- Explore the qualities you admire and the actor you want to become.
- Self-Reflection & The Five Steps
- Recognise your current patterns and practise a more useful response.
- Mental Rehearsal & Relaxation
- Prepare yourself to approach auditions and acting work with greater calm.
- Thoughts & Limiting Beliefs
- Examine the assumptions that hold you back and build a more supportive outlook.
- The Habit of Happiness
- Develop everyday habits that support your confidence and enjoyment of the journey.
- The S.U.C.C.E.S.S Formula
- Build constructive habits that help you respond to challenges and keep progressing.
03 / Master Your Business
Give your career
a clear direction.
Know what represents you.
Know what to work on next.
Understand your strengths, your casting and the work you want to pursue. Then develop the materials and professional habits that help the industry understand what you offer.
Master Your Business connects your headshots, footage, profiles and visibility, so each improvement supports the same career direction.
What will I work on?
- CV & Spotlight
- Present your experience and skills clearly.
- Headshots
- Understand what your photographs need to communicate.
- Showreel
- Review your footage and identify the next useful improvement.
- Actor branding
- Bring consistency to how you present yourself.
- Online presence
- Connect your professional profiles and materials.
- Actor visibility
- Build a sustainable approach to sharing your work.
From understanding to experience
Put it into practice.
Keep moving forward.
You do not have to figure it all out on your own. TAM brings the training, opportunities to practise and people who understand the journey into one place.
Learn with a focus.
Work through your personal training at your own pace. Use lessons and replays to support the area you are developing now.
Practise with support.
Bring the work into live sessions, learn from feedback and share the process with other actors. Coaching helps you focus on your next step.
Use it in your career.
Apply what you are learning to self-tapes, auditions and your professional materials. Events and challenges give you something to work towards.
Explore membership for the training and support included at each level. Events and additional coaching have their own booking details.
Your next step
Start building
your next chapter.
Find the training and support that fits where you are now.
Explore TAM membershipBuilt around the work of being an actor. Meet Derek Barr