Claire Lichie

Claire has worked extensively in experiential communications and behavioral skills training for 17 years. She has facilitated courses from graduate to senior leadership. Claire is very experienced in Forum Theater, Role-Play, Bespoke Skills Practice, Scripted Scenarios, Feedback and Coaching. She has worked in the public and private sector on a wide range of programs including: Leadership Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Performance Management, Managing Conflict, Customer Service, Recruitment and Selection, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills, Negotiating and Influencing.

Jean-Baptiste Fillon

Jean Baptiste Fillon trained as an actor at the drama school “Cours Florent” in Paris and moved to London in 2005 to start his acting career. Since then he has played in films such as ‘Mission Impossible: Fall out’, ’London Has Fallen’, ‘Survivor’ and ‘Viktor’. Prior to becoming an actor Jean-Baptiste studied Law and Politics at UFR Clermont-Ferrand graduating with a Licence in public Law (equivalent to BA) and working part-time with local lawyers during the summer. He then studied Drama in Paris before moving to London in 2005 to start his acting career. Since 2015, Jean-Baptiste has worked extensively in Role-plays, training professionals from the legal, banking and construction industries on a regular basis. He always enjoys working on projects combining the two degrees (Law/Politics and Drama) he has originally studied.

Howard Corlett

Howard originally studied French, Spanish and Portuguese at university (BA Hons), before completing a MSc in Tourism Management. He worked in the Travel Industry for 8 years up to management level (across Purchasing, Customer Operations, Planning & Trading) before changing career in 2005. Since then he’s worked well over 1000 days in corporate roleplay, forum theatre and videos across a diverse range of industries both as an actor and facilitator in the UK as well as Europe, India and USA. This has covered training over varied subject matters. He has acting credits on TV, Film and Stage in addition to presenting and voiceovers.

Nina Hatchwell

Nina is a multilingual actress living in London and working across Europe mainly in German and English languages.
She is a member of Actors Equity and works in Film, TV and voiceover. Most recently she won an award for Best Actress in a leading role in The Devil You Know at the Hollywood Florida Film Festival. As a corporate actress she specialises in Role-Play, forum, coaching and facilitation in Legal, finance, medical and construction sectors. Some of her previous clients include, UBS, Eon, Tideway Thames Water and the NHS. Nina also has a BA Hons in German and European Studies.

Beverley Limbrick

Beverley holds a First Class degree in Media Performance, as well as winning the coveted Margaret Rutherford scholarship to prestigious London drama school; Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, where she was asked to represent the school with a comic performance in Covent Garden, and was fortunate to win the Kobler Trust Award as a result of that performance. She is also a qualified drama teacher and now specializes in delivering her own Confidence Through Acting courses to a huge cross section of adults at London colleges. Beverley was approached by London councils to take her course to vulnerable women’s groups and refugees around London. She was also asked to deliver a 10 week acting course to 12 men and women who had just been released from serving long sentences in prison. She is a member of Actors Equity and has extensive professional theatre, film and tv experience as an actress.

Kate Copeland

Kate has a BA Hons (2:1) in Classics from Newcastle University and a BA Hons in Acting (2:1) from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is a member of British Equity and works regularly in Theatre, TV and Film. Kate has worked as a Roleplay actor and Facilitator since 2001 in the UK and across Europe. Clients in the Private Sector include UBS, MasterCard, HSBC, British Airways, Accenture, KPMG, Unilever, Virgin and many of the Top 20 Law Firms. She also works in Public Sector for several County Councils, numerous NHS services, Thames Water, Defence Services and many of the UK’s Leading Universities.

Elaine Paton

BA in Communications, Diploma of Theatre. Elaine has worked in various industry sectors, and organised big political and media events. Role-play; KPMG and The Australian Public Service Commission. Elaine founded Talking Brief, Persuasive Communication; assisting barristers and solicitors with presentation skills. Clients include: NSW Bar Association, Queensland Bar, Victorian Bar, Crown Solicitor’s Office NSW, Victoria Legal Aid, and Legalwise Seminars. Guest Speaker at the Australian Advocacy Institute’s 2nd International Advocacy Trainer’s Conference in Italy, 2008 CLEAA Conference, Sydney and Guest Teacher for Gray’s Inn, London.

Herbert Forthuber

After a solid commercial education and various management trainings, Herbert started his career in the finance management department of a leading European steel producing company. Since then Herbert has had many years of experience in high management jobs and leadership tasks across Germany, Austria and Hong Kong. Herbert received his acting training at the Landesmusikschule (Federal Music and Art School) in Upper-Austria/Europe and in a number of acting and improvisation workshops in Munich, Vienna and Salzburg. Since then he has proven his talents in various professional TV, Film and stage productions and is also experienced in internal business role-play training.

John Julian

John Julian obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from California State University, Los Angeles. While in LA he worked as an actor in theatre and film before moving to Munich, Germany in 1995. With over a decade of experience as a speaker, John Julian has lent his voice to video games, audio books, radio, language-training CDs, film and television synchronisation, websites, television commercials, motion pictures, documentaries and museum audio tour guides. In addition to his work as an actor/voice-over talent, he is also employed as a dialogue director and coach on various television and motion picture projects. He’s also been involved with business theatre for Siemens Business Services, Kraft Foods, Texas Instruments, Dialog Marketing and Theater Interaktiv.

Julie Trappett

Julie graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and German from University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She subsequently worked with the MARS Corporation in Australia and Germany in the areas of Market Research, Sales Forecasting, Marketing and HR Management. She also worked as an Executive Recruitment consultant for Morgan & Banks in Australia, for corporate clients in the consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, IT and hospitality industries. Julie relocated to Germany 20 years ago, where she completed formal acting training for theatre and film. She has performed role-play for senior managers in the government sector and coached executives in such organisations as Boehringer Mannheim and Freudenberg in Germany.

Ralph Willmann

Ralph studied acting in many cities including New York, Los Angeles and Paris. In 1997 he founded, together with his wife Corinna von Giese, the actors’ studio “Actors Place” in Munich and started writing and directing. Ralph has been a member of the Improvisation Theatre “TatWort” in Munich since 1998 and is responsible for the department Business-Theatre and Training. Alongside Coaching, Ralph is trained in Systemic Organizational Consulting, Systemic Constellation, EFT, NLP, Mediation and Enneagram, and has been implementing analytic processes at international High Potential Assessment Centers, among others for corporations such as SHL, Siemens, Infineon, Hoerbiger, Allianz, Biogen Idec, Servier and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Roland Trescher

Roland Trescher is a director, actor, improviser, trainer and coach. He studied drama in Munich and Amsterdam. Roland has performed thousands of Improv shows all over Europe. He runs his own Theater Company to perform on stage. Since 1995 he has offered his knowledge to the business world to improve communication, teamwork, change and leadership. Roland teaches at Universities, Acting Schools and Training Companies. Roland is a member of the GSA (German Speaker Association) and the AIN (Applied Improv Network). He has worked for companies like BMW, MunichRe, UniCredit, E.ON, AMGEN, ACCOR Hospitality, W.L. Gore, and Adidas.

Daniel Cotterall-Debay

BA 1st class honours from Victoria University in New Zealand, M. Phil from Oxford University in the UK. Daniel worked as a negotiator for the NZ Government before moving to France, where he lectured on international negotiation at HEC Business School in Paris while managing a European corporate training consultancy. With 30 years of cross-cultural business experience, Daniel is currently based in Shanghai. He speaks English, Mandarin and French. Daniel is experienced in film, tv and theatre. Recent theatre roles include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Claudius in Hamlet and Tito in Lend me a Tenor. On television, he has played French President Pompidou and British PM Clement Attlee among others.

Anne Sieder

Anne has studied in Chicago, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has over 25 years experience as a professional actress and presenter on two continents. As an American who has lived in Europe for over 17 years, she is fluent in English, German and French. Anne is the founder and owner of The Acting Atelier Munich, which offers workshops and master classes to professional actors in and around Munich. Anne has extensive Corporate acting experience as a role-player for companies such as United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Siemens, and Allianz, among others.