DRAMA Classes London

DRAMA Classes London Evening acting course in London, for adults that wish to start, practice or improve in acting. Konstantinos Kavakiotis was born in Athens in 1980.

After studying Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he trained as an actor at the Drama Studio of Thessaloniki, at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, at the Moscow Art Theatre, with Steppenwolf in Los Angeles, and with Outil Theatre at the Montpellier Mime Festival. He has worked as an actor on stage and screen in both Greece and the UK, and is a member of the Director’s Lab at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Meet the Faculty | Konstantinos KavakiotisWe are delighted to introduce Konstantinos Kavakiotis, a member of the Drama C...
04/09/2026

Meet the Faculty | Konstantinos Kavakiotis

We are delighted to introduce Konstantinos Kavakiotis, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.
Konstantinos is a Greek-British actor, director and experienced acting teacher based in London. His professional training includes the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Moscow Art Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Los Angeles.

His extensive career spans theatre, film and television in the UK and internationally. His stage credits include leading roles such as Macbeth with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, Rhett Battler in Gone with the Wind at the Peiraeus Theatre, Herod in Salome by Theatre Lab, while his screen work includes Vikings: Valhalla for Netflix, The Double Life of George Michael as well as productions for Channel 5, Netflix, ITV and major Greek TV Channels.

Alongside his professional acting career, Konstantinos has extensive experience in actor training and education. He is the Founder and Director of Drama Classes London, where he works with actors at different stages of their development, from beginners to advanced performers and professional actors. He also taught for Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where he is a member of the audition panel, BADA in London and the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki -Greece.
His teaching draws on his training and experience across a wide range of acting methodologies, with a particular focus on developing truthful, versatile and confident performers for both stage and screen.

Meet the Faculty | Pano MastiWe are delighted to introduce Pano Masti, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get...
03/09/2026

Meet the Faculty | Pano Masti

We are delighted to introduce Pano Masti, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.
Pano Masti was born in Athens, Greece. He studied acting with Th. Papageorgiou (STOA Theatre, Athens) Earl Hyman and Lisa Pelikan (HB Studios, NYC) Jennie Buckman (RADA-Shakespeare Summer School, London)

Theatre/ Performance/ Opera/ Dance:
Miss Margarita’s Way (dir. Th. Papageorgiou) Please Kill Me (dir. G. Kakanakis) Oresteia (dir. Michael Seibel) The Needle’s Eye (dir. Julia Munroe ) The Living and the Dead (dir. Simon Breden) Aida (dir. Bob Wilson) Salome (dir. David McVicar) material/ rearranged/ to/ be (chor. Siobhan Davies) To Tavli (Mazi Theatre)

Film:
The Devil’s Double (dir. Lee Tamahori) A Private War (dir. Matthew Heineman) In Fabric (dir. Peter Strickland)

TV:
Waking the Dead (BBC) Law and Order-UK (BBC) Collision (ITV) Sherlock (BBC) Endeavour (ITV) Line of Duty (BBC) Killing Eve (BBC) Payback (ITV) Bodkin (Netflix)

Radio:
A Greek Drama (BBC/ Radio4) The Len Dimension (BBC/ Radio4) Tumanbay (BBC/ Radio4)

Video Games:
Total War-Attila, Assassin’s Creed-Odyssey, Star Citizen, Redout-Space Assault

Meet the Faculty | Luke HarrisWe are delighted to introduce Like Harris, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. G...
01/09/2026

Meet the Faculty | Luke Harris

We are delighted to introduce Like Harris, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.

Luke Harris has an MA in Classical Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared in TV, films, radio plays, commercials and on the stage. He has performed internationally at The Athinais in Greece as well as on a tour of Spain, performing in Spanish as Lorca in a devised production.

Having lived in both Madrid and Paris, he is fully fluent in Spanish and French. He has also taught English as a foreign language for many years. He is currently working as an accent and voice coach, helping students to perfect a range of accents as well as helping actors that have English as a second language to improve their RP. He also teaches mindfulness and meditation to actors.

Meet the Faculty | Benoit GouttenoireWe are delighted to introduce Benoit Gouttenoire, a member of the Drama Classes Lon...
31/08/2026

Meet the Faculty | Benoit Gouttenoire

We are delighted to introduce Benoit Gouttenoire, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.
Benoit is an actor, director, and educator whose work moves fluidly between the stage and the study of wellbeing. Trained in literature and theatre in France and with a Master’s from UCL, he has built a career bridging performance and mental health, most recently supporting university students’ wellbeing while continuing to teach and direct.

Directing credits include A View From the Bridge, Midsummer Night’s Dreams and Skellig, alongside classic musical theatre productions including Matilda, Annie, Guys And Dolls and more recently Singin’ In The Rain. He has also trained in psychodynamic approaches to wellbeing, bringing a deep understanding of human development to his work with actors and performers. Benoit is also a director and trustee of Hackney Children’s Theatre Company.

Meet the Faculty | Shani ErezWe are delighted to introduce Shani Erez, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get...
29/08/2026

Meet the Faculty | Shani Erez

We are delighted to introduce Shani Erez, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.

Shani is a London based director, writer and actor, working both internationally and across the UK. She is a Co-Director for BOLD Theatre, where her play The Foreigners’ Panto premiered. Other selected directing credits include the Old Red Lion, New Tower Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Playground Theatre, RWR at Theatre 503, Brighton Fringe Festival and Fleet Street theatre in Hamburg. She is a member of the Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab and regularly directs and teaches acting & directing in leading drama schools in the UK.

As performer, selected stage credits include playing Shylock for the RSC; Titania at Southbank Centre, Olivia at Minack Theatre; various roles at Southwark Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, nationwide tours and The Open Couple for Mazi
Theatre; screen credits include the BBC, Lionsgate and as series regular for Pandora on the CW. In Israel, Shani worked as a radio anchor and journalist on national press for nearly a decade.

Meet the Faculty | Fabrizio MatteiniWe are delighted to introduce Fabrizio Matteini, a member of the Drama Classes Londo...
28/08/2026

Meet the Faculty | Fabrizio Matteini

We are delighted to introduce Fabrizio Matteini, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.
Fabrizio is born in Genova, Italy. He graduated at the the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London (MA) and at the Theater Academy at the National Theatre of Genoa. He also graduated in Ancient Drama cm laude at the Univ. of Genoa (BA). He played in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, U.S.A. and United Kingdom. He has created and directed several shows. He’s been teaching acting for years and he has taught Drama and Direction at the University Theatre IUAV of Venice. He won a Hystrio Vocational Award. He played in the show La strada, first UK tour and in London West End.

He is Cardinal Mosca in the“Medici-Masters of Florence”, (Netflix) and Albert Einstein in The children of Uranium directed by Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke.
Other Credits:
Theatre: Platonov (Fr-Belgium-Italy), A Number (Italy), Candido Soap Opera Musical (Italy), Angels in America (Italy), Bashir Lazhar (Italy), Afghanistan-The Great Game (Italy), Tarantella (UK), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (UK), Galapagos (UK), La strada (UK) and The Foreigners Panto (UK)
Screen: Guido che sfidó le Brigate rosse (Italy), Peopling the palace (Peter Greenaway), Koning van Katoren (NL), The Souvenir (BFI-Joanna Hogg), Coronation Street (ITV), Kidnapped (BBC) , The Julia Set (TFF) Panic Carefully by Sam Esmail (Julia Roberts and Eddie Redmayne)

Meet the Faculty | Nasia PapadopoulouWe are delighted to introduce Nasia Papadopoulou, a member of the Drama Classes Lon...
26/08/2026

Meet the Faculty | Nasia Papadopoulou

We are delighted to introduce Nasia Papadopoulou, a member of the Drama Classes London faculty. Get to know the artists and educators behind our training.
Nasia is a Greek-born, London-based artist working across acting, movement and direction. She trained as an actress at the Drama Studio of Thessaloniki and as a physical theatre performer at the Duende School of Ensemble Physical Theatre, and holds a master’s in Movement Direction from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

She has performed widely in Greece and the UK and directs her own work, including a production staged as part of the Voilà! Europe Theatre Festival. Across her years in the UK she has worked with leading organisations and drama schools including Rose Bruford College, Project Europa, ArtsEd and LAMDA. She currently teaches acting and movement at Drama Classes London, runs her own workshops, and is a co-founder of MELT Movement Classes.

Movement is where her training started and it remains the centre of her teaching: actors find the character in the body before they find it on the page.

Nasia Papadopoulou

24/08/2026

Have You Ever Thought About Trying Acting?

Now is your time to join us! New Courses begin on the 21st of September!
Three Levels. One Acting Journey.

🎭Beginners Acting Level - Tuesdays, 19:00-22:00
🎭 Intermediate Acting Level - Thursdays, 19:00-22:00
🎭 Advanced Acting Level - Wednesdays, 19:00-22:00



☎️ 07515017485
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20/08/2026

Have You Ever Thought About Trying Acting?
Now is your time to join us! New Courses begin on the 21st of September!

Three Levels. One Acting Journey.

🎭Beginners Acting Level- Tuesdays, 19:00-22:00

🎭 Intermediate Acting Level- Thursdays, 19:00-22:00

🎭 Advanced Acting Level- Wednesdays, 19:00-22:00

Contact :

☎️ 07515017485
📧 [email protected]

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Diorama Arts Studios, 201 Drummond Street
London
NW13FE

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