Jake Harders
Jake Harders is an English actor and educator.
Early life and education
Harders was born in Heswall, Merseyside. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London from 2000 to 2003.Career
2000s–2010s
After graduating from Central, he worked widely in theatre, television, film, radio and commercials, performing in the UK in the West End, the Chichester Festival and Shakespeare's Globe, in the USA, Iceland, Europe and Russia with Cheek by Jowl, in Australia with Headlong, and in Poland with .He received a Commendation at the UK Ian Charleson Awards 2004 for his performance in Candida, and was nominated for the international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Award 2008 after working with Cheek by Jowl.
He has frequently acknowledged that his main influence is the work of Polish theatre researcher Jerzy Grotowski. He studied with actors from Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium, from the companies of Peter Brook, Complicite, Gardzienice,, Odin Teatret,, and at the .
2020s
Following the birth of his children, Jake pivoted to actor training, and has taught and directed at Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford, Identity School of Acting, Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company and Met Film School, where he specialises in Stanislavski's system and screen acting.He is joint artistic director of the global conference project and has led many international workshops.
In 2024, he was appointed Head of Acting of the BA Acting course at ArtsEd drama school.
Acting Credits
Theatre
The False One - Mark Antony The Winter's Tale - Archidamus The Prince and the Pauper - Miles Hendon - Narrator Agamemnon - Agamemnon The Crucible - Reverend Parris The Hypochondriac - Cléante Six Characters in Search of an Author - The Director and The Cameraman Cymbeline - Cornelius The Comedy of Errors - Balthasar Titus Andronicus - Mutius Journey's End - Hibbert Professor Bernhardi - Father Reder Candida - Lexy MillTelevision
Family Tree - Sherlock Holmes Dark Matters, 'Medusa's Heroin' - William Langston Dark Matters, 'Risky Radiation' - Louis Slotin, ' - Stylish Jack I Shouldn't Be Alive - Ken Peep Show - Conrad Wannabes pilot - Stefan- '