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We are a community of respect-based coaches and educators committed to acting training that is consent-based, free of harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence.
Every member signs the AACE Code of Conduct for best practices, and agrees to abide by industry standards set out in the AACE Guidelines which include implementing dispute resolution mechanisms. Members also commit to ongoing education of themselves, to keep informed about current conversations in actor training. Read more about the Code HERE.
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An AACE Canada member and part of their administration team and various committees, Alan is originally from Toronto, Canada. He now makes his home in the United Kingdom. His career spans over 40 years in the arts. Starting as an actor then an audio producer and founder of his own voiceover agency which he later sold. After nearly twenty years as a director of educational videos and a handful of multiple award-winning short films, he founded Actor Care® to support resilience and vulnerability in the actor’s creative process.
Actor Care® was one of the processes used during the Mind the Gap resilience research at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance in collaboration with London South Bank University in England. It’s being used in film and theatre and has been a game changer for many actors. It will also be included in the book series Stanislavsky and… (Routledge, Taylor & Francis).
His passion for creating community led to a collaboration with Dr. Mark Seton. Together they produced/curated & moderated the Actor Wellbeing Webinar series hosted by the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA). The series was a five-part panel discussion that brought together practitioners, educators, researchers, & therapists from across the globe to discuss the various aspects of actor well-being, i.e. lifestyle, work, education, actor’s craft & research. The connections made from this project formed the Actor Wellbeing Facilitators Collective (AWFC), a 50+ global membership that has enabled others involved in actor wellbeing work to stay in touch for further collaborations and information sharing.
Alan has earned five certificates in four therapeutic modalities including Humanistic Integrative Counselling, Psychodynamic Integrative Counselling, Psychodrama Theory & Practice, and Therapeutic Spiral Model Experiential Trauma Therapy (level 2). His curiosity about actors and their wellbeing led to the creation of Artists in Depth, a podcast now in its third season.
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Pat began her career as a Stage Manager in the UK before training as an actor at Arts Educational Drama School in the early 1980s. While working as an actor, she also took on roles in directing, producing, and teaching. In her mid-30s, after a late diagnosis of dyslexia, Pat returned to university to pursue her long-standing interest in psychology, counselling, and social sciences, gaining a PGDip & MSc Integrative Counselling in 1999 & 2001, all while becoming a first-time parent.
For the past 25 years, Pat has been a Senior Lecturer, Acting Tutor, and Course Director at Rose Bruford College, as well as a Personal Development and Well-Being Coach, Mental Health Advocate, and Mental Health First Aider. While in higher education, Pat became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Performing Arts). She was also a research fellow twice, focusing on embedding personal development and well-being into the actor’s curriculum and accessibility in actor training. Pat has designed and led Foundation Acting Courses across the UK, helping to nurture young artists at the start of their careers.
In 2016, Pat was a founding member of the Mental Health Charter for the Performing Arts with Annmarie Lewis Thompson at the (former) MTA. She is a regular speaker and trainer in the industry, specialising in building mental fitness and personal development. In 2023, Pat qualified as a Civil Mediator and now offers Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services to the education and arts sectors.
Pat continues to work as a Director, Teacher, Coach, Trainer, and Facilitator. She and Alan have collaborated on several projects focused on actor wellbeing including Mind the Gap and are founding members of the Actor Wellbeing Facilitators Collective in the UK.
AACE members have made a positive commitment to work together to educate, support each other and create a safer work environment for both students and coaches.
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AACE’s mission is to build community, provide educational opportunities and encourage adoption of a code of conduct by acting coaches and educators. Membership in AACE is voluntary and free. AACE members make a commitment to ongoing education and to upholding the AACE Code of Conduct to the best of their ability by being respectful, accountable, and honest as well as by offering a learning environment free of harassment, discrimination, bullying, and violence. AACE coaches have met all the outlined criteria for membership. Information provided by AACE on this website is for informational purposes only. AACE does not provide any professional or other services for or on behalf of its members or perform any duty owed by an AACE member to another person. AACE does not make any representations or guarantees with respect to the provision of coaching or educational services by members. AACE and its founders and partners assume no responsibility or liability for the services provided by any member coach or educator and AACE encourages actors to do their own due diligence and seek advice prior to engaging the services of any acting coach or educator.
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