Professional Guildhall trained actor with 20+ yrs experience teaches drama school auditions, mentoring, working actors, LAMDA, Trinity, online or in person.

David is an outstanding talent, professional and dedicated, what you might call, 'the real deal' in the industry. I trained with David at the Guildhall School and Music and Drama in London, where he was awarded the prestigeous Gold Medal award. David is also an incredibly nice person, win, win.

I have had the pleasure of working with David a number of times over the last 25 years. He has that rare combination of being both a talented actor and a great communicator of ideas. Importantly, he has a generous spirit and is always encouraging. David is knowledgeable about acting practice and is energetic in his desire to share what he knows. David is trustworthy, reliable and inspirational. I highly recommend him as an acting coach.

Mr Blair taught me for my grade 5 and 6 Trinity Acting exams and helped me hugely helping me get distinctions in both :) We covered a huge variety in our lessons from objectives, iambic pentameter and hot seating. I learnt lots and will take all these skills with me into the future and has helped me prep for any monologue I perform. The lessons were also fun and engaging!

Mr Blair helped me with my Grade 6 Trinity Exam, as an external helper for my school. For my exam, I had to learn a Shakespearean piece as well as a post 1900's piece. Mr Blair was an excellent help to me, especially with my Shakespearean tone of voice and body language. Additionally, due to the covid situation at the time, I was given some of my feedback online and I still felt this was very beneficial at all.

Mr Blair is an amazing teacher with an incredibly detailed knowledge of acting and stagecraft which is conveyed with precision through his teaching. I was coached through my Trinity Grade 6 by Mr Blair and through the use of acting exercise, character development and encouragement to do my own contextual research, was able to achieve my desired outcome. His extensive experience within the industry would be of help to anyone looking to improve their audition technique, work towards an exam or just improve their acting skills generally.

David is an excellent teacher who is extremely committed to improve the ability of each individual he tutors. He is very enthusiastic, encouraging and really helped me to gain confidence when I perform. Anyone would be very lucky to have him as a tutor!

I've been taught by David for two years, and I have learnt more about various acting techniques, exercises, and styles than with any other teacher; he is a teacher who truly takes time for each of his students and gives specific feedback to help every one of them, and all the while makes sure to retain the fun there is to be had in acting! I am very glad to have been taught by him.

Worked with David on green screen videos and voice over work - excellent, very professional - a pleasure to work with.

Ive been teaching,directing and working with actors at conservatoire level for 26 years, so My excellent opinion of David's work is based upon that experience. Supportive, intuitive and generous, David would make any teaching institution proud to have him.

"David is an excellent teacher, he is enthusiastic, highly skilled and builds confidence in the pupils. As well as being dedicated and reliable he really cares about those he teaches. With us, he taught the students all aspects of Trinity grade 5, 6 and 7 acting, with some of them never having acted before and achieved a 98% pass rate. Highly recommended!”

- Mr Julian Smith, Head of Drama, Creative Arts Faculty, Beaconsfield High School