The Jack Ryder Sessions offer personalised coaching, available worldwide, for performers at every stage. Whether you’re just beginning your training, developing your craft, or preparing for auditions and professional opportunities, each session is tailored to support your growth. That comes from nearly thirty years working in the industry, as both an actor and a director.

Together, we focus on what matters most: building a truthful, compelling performance, strengthening your confidence on camera and in the room, and developing the skills needed to approach self-tapes, auditions, and roles with clarity and precision.

This isn’t just another acting class — it’s an intimate, focused experience that feels more like a relaxed conversation around the kitchen table. Here, you'll find a safe space to experiment, grow, and discover the approach that brings out your best performance in front of the camera.

"Everything I teach comes from actually being in the room — on set, in rehearsal, on the other side of the camera as a director. I'm not passing on theory. I'm passing on what actually works. My job is to give you a space where you can take risks, hear the truth about your work, and leave every session with something you can use."

Credits

Acting

Television: Five years as Jamie Mitchell in EastEnders (BBC), plus In The Club, Henry V, Holby City, Silent Witness and Doctors (BBC), and M.I.T. (ITV).

Film:The Boy In Darkness (BBC); Popcorn (dir. Darren Fisher); Unconventional (dir. Stu Gamble); Semolina Pilchard (dir. Mike Clarke).

Theatre:The Play What I Wrote (dir. Kenneth Branagh); Single Spies (dir. Christopher Luscombe); Romeo and Juliet (dir. Michael Bogdanov); Calendar Girls (dir. Hamish McColl); Plenty (dir. Thea Sharrock); The Safari Party (dir. David Taylor).

Voice Over:The Archers (BBC Radio 4); The Last Story (Nintendo Wii).

Directing

Film & TV:Casualty (BBC); Act of Memory (Sky Arts); Dog (short film).

Musical Theatre:The Band — the fastest-selling UK tour of all time, transferring to Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End, and Theater des Westens, Berlin; The Girls (associate director), Phoenix Theatre, West End.

Plays:The Full Monty (Lyceum Theatre Sheffield / Noël Coward Theatre, West End); Calendar Girls (UK Tour); The History Boys (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre).

Writing

Film & TV:Dog; Act of Memory (Sky Arts).

Books:Jack's Secret Summer; Jack's Secret World; Wish; Wish – Voyage to Mermaid Island (Hachette Children's Group).