Acting Coach
Working screen actors wanted for our contractor coaching roster. Remote one-to-one sessions with adult actors and, where appropriate, young performers.
Tingley's Acting Studio is hiring working screen actors to join its contractor coaching roster. The role is fully remote, contract-based, and built around your own working-actor schedule. You will coach adult actors, and young performers where you hold a current child-safety check, in one-to-one video sessions covering audition preparation, self-tape, scene study, cold reading, and accent work.
Responsibilities
- Deliver one-to-one coaching sessions by video to adult actors and, where you hold a current jurisdiction-appropriate child-safety check, to young performers aged 7 to 17.
- Cover audition preparation, self-tape direction, scene study, cold reading, and accent or vocal work, based on the session brief agreed with the student.
- Send each student a short written summary within 24 hours of the session: what was worked, what landed, what to rehearse before next time.
- Maintain your own working-actor practice. Our coaches are current to the industry, not recent to it.
- Attend a short quarterly roster check-in by video with the head coach.
Requirements
- You are currently a working screen actor with at least three on-set credits in the last three years.
- Verifiable credits on IMDB, Spotlight, Casting Networks, Actors Access, or an equivalent professional industry profile.
- Native or near-native fluency in spoken and written English, for live session delivery and follow-up notes.
- A home setup suitable for remote coaching: a camera, a lit room, a quiet background, and a stable internet connection sufficient for clear two-way video.
- If you intend to coach young performers: a current jurisdiction-appropriate child-safety check (Working with Children Check in Australia, Police Vetting in New Zealand, Vulnerable Sector Check in Canada, DBS Enhanced check in the United Kingdom, or the local equivalent). Documentation sighted before the first session with a minor.
- Legal right to work as an independent contractor in your country of residence.
Nice to have
- Formal training in Meisner, Chekhov, Stanislavski, Linklater, Fitzmaurice, or another recognised technique.
- Prior experience coaching in a drama school, private studio, or as an established private coach.
- Working command of one or more named accents beyond your native register.
- On-set experience at episodic, feature, or streamer-scale productions.
If you will coach young performers
This role may involve one-to-one coaching of performers aged 7 to 17 by video. If you intend to coach minors in Canada, you must hold a current Vulnerable Sector Check, issued by the RCMP or the local police service in the applicant’s municipality. Canada does not have a single national check. Authorities, naming, and turnaround vary by province. Documentation is sighted by us before your first session with a minor. See our Child Safe Policy for the full safeguarding framework.
How this is paid
Paid per session against a fair rate for your market. Rate is confirmed in the introductory interview and paid monthly for sessions delivered in that period.
How contractors are engaged in Canada
Contractor engagement in Canada uses a Business Number (BN) from the CRA and invoices in your own name or through a corporation. You are responsible for your own tax with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) or Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) as applicable, plus any Registered Retirement Savings Plan contributions you choose to make, and professional indemnity insurance where required in your market. This is set out in a written contractor agreement before your first session or project.
Apply by email
Email us with your cover note, your current credits link, and a recent reel or self-tape link. The button below will pre-fill the subject and a template in your mail app.
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How we handle your application
Your application is reviewed only by the Tingley's Acting Studio hiring team. We do not share it with third parties. If we do not progress your application, we delete your materials within 12 months unless you ask us to retain them for a future role. See our Privacy Policy for the full retention policy.
We hire on working-actor evidence, not on background
We do not discriminate on grounds of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any other characteristic protected by the law in Canada. Where a role requires a jurisdiction-specific check, we disclose that above.
Apply for Acting Coach
Email us with a short cover note, your current credits link, and a recent reel or tape.