I'm a coach… my day job is coaching, but I still see myself as an actor first. Memory isn't something I do, it's how I operate. The Prime Focus Method grew out of my twenties (lack of focus, procrastination, overthinking), honed into something that now helps clients facing the same. There's a video production company turning into a film company, and a life on stage. Four corners of one obsession: Listen deeply. Give freely. Keep on growing.
One obsession, four shapes. Pick whichever corner you arrived for — or wander all of them. They borrow from each other constantly.
Bits of data that, taken together, do a better job of describing me than anything else here. Probably.
Two shows I either created or coached on. The format ideas, the memory science, and — in one case — the slightly nervous celebrity in the chair.
A primetime BBC One series that takes ordinary people from all walks of life and, in just two weeks, shows them how to activate their superhuman memory. I devised the show and ran the techniques with the contestants. Here's a clip of the pilot with Paul Coia.
Channel 4's experiment: take three celebrities, give them a memory coach, see what sticks. I worked with the cast on faces, names, numbers, and a few stunts that genuinely surprised them.
Three books in shops. Two on memory, one on the craft I learned from the other half of my life — acting.
Selected credits from the first 15 years of my professional life in acting.
A small, defended list of things with nothing to do with the work. Or so the official line goes.
If anything on this page made you tilt your head — or if a corner of it overlapped with something you're working on — I'd genuinely love to hear from you. No agenda, no pitch. Just thirty minutes between two humans who probably have something to talk about.
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