Drama school preparation and acting coach. Teach at LAMDA, Mountview and Rose Bruford. Have worked for BBC1, BBC3, Apple, Netflix, Amazon and Trafalgar Studios.

I am elated to share my experience working with Chris Lakewood over the past 10 months. As my elocution coach, Chris has been nothing short of incredible. From our very first session, I felt supported and motivated to improve my speaking abilities.

His expertise, tailored guidance, and constructive feedback have made a significant impact on my communication skills. I have gained not only clarity in my speech but also confidence in my delivery, to the point where I've started receiving compliments on my public speaking skills—something I never even dared to dream of. Chris has a unique ability to adapt his teaching methods to fit my needs, making me feel at ease even when my sound isn’t right, and ensuring that each session is both engaging and productive.

I truly value Chris’s input and appreciate the dedication he brings to each lesson. Thanks to Chris, I am now able to articulate my thoughts with greater ease and poise. I wholeheartedly recommend Chris to anyone looking to enhance their elocution and or public speaking skills!

Christopher is very flexible and accommodating, tailoring his classes to his students' needs.

I really benefitted from his help with presentations and received excellent feedback from my boss after his tutoring!

Christopher is a real patient, and supportive tutor who will guide you in the best way to get you the best outcome that you want out of his lessons. Whether you are looking to study a new accent, you need help in building your actor tools for character analysis and text analysis or strategies to help you overcome audition or performance nerves, he will help you unlock all that work at the best standard possible so you can use all those tools in the industry.

Amazing teacher . Really helped me to develop my public speaking by allowing to level up my public speaking skills. My diction wasn't always the best but Chris helped me through this by going through different articulation exercises to help me through this problem. He also emphasised the importance of being concise which made my speeches feel more refined. Chris is very organised and for my grade 8 exam has never missed a lesson and in the rare event he would like to reschedule he allays tells me well in advance.

Christopher was insightful and patient throughout our lesson together. He offered practical advice to sharpen my performance and left me feeling confident and prepared for my auditions.

Absolutely brilliant accent coach. Chris helped me for 2 hours nail the General American accent and helped me with my self tape. I couldn’t recommend highly enough, he was able to pick out what I was doing wrong and fix the issue straight away. Thanks Chris, will be booking again!

Christopher is truly an expert in his field who pays attention to every detail and aspect of accent training. It feels comfortable taking lessons with him because you know and can feel that he truly knows what he's doing. He also gives exercises and resources to continue your practice on your own in between classes, which I really appreciate. Most of all, Christopher knows how to make the lessons really fun and not stressful at all, whilst managing to still cover lots of material every week. I would recommend him to anyone!

I have had three sessions with Chris and I am really enjoying it. He is very professional and has a lot of knowledge and patience. I definitely enjoy working with him and I recommend Chris 100%.

Having done several session for accent reduction with Chris, I can confidently recommend him as a great tutor. Not only is he knowledgeable about the subject overall, but he is also familiar with the issues facing speakers from different language background. Together with an approachable and engaging manner of teaching, I can highly recommend Chris to anyone wishing to reduce their accent.

Chris is brilliant! He probably knows everything about accents in general, not just RP. That makes him a perfect tutor, as he knows exactly how to explain mistakes and correct them with right exercises.

Chris is incredibly warm and relaxing to be around, as well as being knowledgeable in all things voice. His approach to vocal training make him a pleasure to learn with and he will always go the extra mile to help and finds way and tips to improve your voice. I’ve appreciated his ability to bring out the best of my voice and the correct pronunciation of words. I absolutely recommend Chris! You’ll find a great teacher and a friend.

Chris is an amazing teacher, always punctual, always prepared, but most importantly he is very professional and very knowledgeable. My accent improved tremendously with Chris!

Christopher helped me tremendously to improve my accent. He is a very professional accent couch with a deep knowledge on pronunciation of different languages, and, on top of that, he knows linguistics and phonetics too. I really enjoyed the lessons and I hope to continue in the near future.

I have worked with Chris on RP, General American, New York and Southern American accents for acting jobs and have found him to be a terrific tutor - helpful, encouraging, clear and friendly. I'd highly recommend getting in touch with him for accent work.
Seylan Baxter, actress (Dr Who, Macbeth, Outlander etc)

Chris has a great understanding of phonetics. He also has loads of experience in working with students of various backgrounds. I've only had several classes with him but I can already see I've significantly improved my understanding of vowels and consonants and am also more conscious of various sounds of the English language. I wholeheartedly recommend Chris as an excellent accent tutor.

Chris has been absolutely great with my son. We initially started with Chris while trying to complete skills section of DofE but went further to complete Grade 5 Public Speaking certification through LAMDA.

We found Chris to be a very patient, articulate, open-minded, experienced, and intelligent person. His critique is always constructive which has benefited my son very much. I am hoping that he will be helping my son through the future levels of Public Speaking.

Chris is great tutor , my son found his confidence in public speaking after he met Chris, he passed his Grade 5 level after 2 months tutoring, that’s really amazing! Now he wants to challenge to grade 7, he feels he can do it under Chris’ helps, I really want to say thank you and recommended Chris to everyone!

Christopher is a great tutor, his knowledge and approach were really well tailored to the premise of what I want to deliver publicly, and his critique was honest and constructive. His communication was swift and he offered flexible appointment choices. Very highly recommended.

My lessons with Chris were filled with new way to hear English pronuciation. It was very fun and challenging at the same time.
I am now able to hear the difference of voices which I was not able to do before and someone in office recognized my change. Thank you.

Fantastic, professional, astute to various factors which can affect the performance and able to provide tools to oversome these barriers in addition to providing necessary acting skills. Great at time management and reaching client's objective - also in a very creative lateral way - i.e. creating a video pitch at a moments notice - within the session. Highly skilled, professional, non-plussed re working with any age.

I found Chris' advice and endless support a massive help! He has a great approach to teaching – we worked together to achieve what I wanted from the speech. Chris has a great eye for Shakespearean language and helped me find honesty behind the text, as well as giving me exercises to bring the words off the page. I've recently been offered a place at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for three years, without Chris's help this wouldn't have been possible! Thanks for everything Chris!

Christopher's expert help really made the difference with my audition pieces. He helped me access characters in ways that made them very human and real. He has a deep knowledge about acting and how the drama school audition process works and he was incredibly supportive. Having these sessions made me feel a lot more confident, relaxed and open to direction in the audition room. I came out of the process a much better actor and I would highly recommend Christopher to all ages. I wish I'd found him sooner.