A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe You are ready for the room.
You have some foundation with classical text, or you are building one fast. What you want now is rigour: feedback on your choices, accountability to a schedule, and material that gets shaped in front of other actors. The library teaches technique. The cohorts and clinic test it under pressure, with a coach in the room holding a standard. This is group coaching, not passive learning. The work is demanding, the numbers are small, and the standard is practical readiness.
Structured programmes, clear outcomes.
Each cohort is a capped, live, multi-week intensive with its own focus, audience, and dedicated page. The format is the same: small group, coached by Emily, built around the method.
Classical Audition Cohort
Six weeks of structured, practical Shakespeare audition training for actors preparing for drama-school entry or classical auditions. You work on your material each week in a small coached group, apply the method to real audition speeches, and test your choices in self-tape practice.
Outcome: audition-ready material, shaped in class and tested in self-tape practice.
Canonical Deep-Dive Cohort
Eight to ten weeks inside one play. For working actors and serious trainees who want sustained, detailed engagement with a single text. Brings Emily's modern-performance lens to canonical Shakespeare.
Deep canonical immersion with a clear modern-performance application. Built for actors already in training or professionally active.
Director's Cohort
Practical Shakespeare work for directors: how to read the text, how to run the room, and how to make confident choices under rehearsal pressure. Led by Emily as a working writer-director with Globe faculty experience.
Rigour and clarity for directors who want to approach Shakespeare with more practical confidence in the rehearsal room.
A live, recurring room for current material.
Not a cohort. Not a course. A monthly coached session for actors who have something to work on right now.
How it works
The clinic runs monthly. You bring what you are working on: an audition speech, a rehearsal problem, a self-tape. Emily coaches it live. It is the simplest way to stay in the work between intensives.
There is no fixed arc, no application, and no multi-week commitment. You book a session when you have material to work on, and you bring it to a coached room with other actors.
Open to anyone with material to work on, from drama-school auditionees preparing a classical piece to working actors mid-rehearsal.
One method across every format.
The cohorts, the clinic, and every 1:1 session are built around the Emily Jenkins Method: a modern, actor-first approach to Shakespeare that makes the text playable, specific, and alive in the room. The format changes. The method stays the same.
Read more about the method →Three ways into the work.
Learn Shakespeare with Emily
Self-paced entry. An on-demand library and monthly live sessions for £10. No schedule, no application.
View the Learn layer →Train with Emily
Coached group work. Cohort intensives and a monthly clinic for actors with material to work on. You are here.
View cohort programmes →Work directly with Emily
Bespoke 1:1 coaching for a live problem: an audition, a rehearsal, a self-tape. By arrangement.
View 1:1 coaching →The work behind the coaching.
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King Lear, Shakespeare's Globe Ready for the room?
View the cohort programmes, join the monthly clinic, or book bespoke 1:1 coaching for a live problem.
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