An Actor’s Guide to Corporate Role Play: The Best Side-Job for Actors

For too long the world of corporate role play has felt like a closed shop that only a few privileged actors have had access to. Now, this book provides any actor with what they need to start and build a side-career in corporate role play, utilising all of the skills they already have in their portfolio.

Detailing what corporate role play is, how to do it, how to get the work and how to get re-employed, this book offers up a clear roadmap, enabling actors to deliver top-quality role plays and evidence-based developmental feedback time and time again.

Using the author’s masterclasses as a foundation, the book includes a range of role play briefs an actor may encounter, each accompanied by top tips on how to execute them successfully.

Syrus Lowe trained as an actor at RADA and has a successful career in theatre, TV and animation. Most recently, he appeared in the hit West End show The Inheritance and on HBO’s Avenue 5 and Channel 4’s Home. He is also a leader in the field of corporate role play, having worked in the sector for over 20 years and, since 2015, having run the UK’s only corporate role play masterclass for actors (www.roleplaymasterclass.com). His clients are from across the world and include Nike, the BBC, General Electric and the British Army. He has also delivered masterclasses to graduating students at 6 of the UK’s leading drama schools and sits on the audition panel for one of the UK’s top corporate role play companies.