Romy Irene

Acting Classes

We offer classes and private coaching for actors and directors

Directory Acting Course

Actors

Take your craft to the next level through in-depth scene study and the powerful Chubbuck Technique. Our hands-on acting classes guide you in creating authentic, dynamic characters that truly move your audience.

Directory Acting Course

Directors

Empower your vision by mastering how to guide actors to deliver authentic, compelling performances. We help you to enhance communication with actors, elevate storytelling, and craft dynamic, emotionally impactful scenes.

Directory Acting Course

Private Coaching

Get personalized coaching designed for your unique acting journey. Whether you’re preparing for auditions, refining a role, or deepening character analysis, our one-on-one sessions help you unlock your full potential.

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Ivana Chubbuck

Ivana Chubbuck

Founder of the Chubbuck Technique

Romy has a profound understanding of my technique and human behaviour. With her intuition and eye for detail, she gives actors effective tools to use their own personal experiences and recreate interesting and dynamic characters with many psychological layers

Empowering Actors and Directors

Empowering Actors & Filmmakers with Hollywood-Level Training in the Heart of Europe


Romy Irene is an internationally recognized acting coach based in Amsterdam. As Europe’s first accredited Chubbuck Acting Coach, Romy has been personally trained by Ivana Chubbuck, one of Hollywood’s most influential acting coaches.

At the core of Romy’s coaching is the Chubbuck Technique, a 12-step acting method that teaches actors to use emotions not as an end result, but as a driving force toward a goal. Instead of letting pain, insecurities, or fears create self-destructive behaviors, actors learn to transform them into fuel for action, empowerment, and breakthrough performances.

Romy Irene has worked with some of the most talented actors in and outside of Europe, including Sallie Harmsen, Matteo Franco, Yehuda Nahari, Halevi, Rifka Lodeizen, Melody Klaver, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and Sinem Kavus, all of whom have delivered critically acclaimed performances in film and television.

With a growing reputation in both the Dutch and international acting industries, Romy Irene is shaping the next generation of actors and directors, helping them develop the skills necessary to deliver high-stakes, emotionally gripping performances that captivate audiences worldwide.


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Testimonials

Read what actors and directors say about Romy Irene

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Matteo Franco

Romy is committed, professional, and purpose-driven. My acting process has been profoundly enriched by the quality questions she’s been helping to raise. Working with her helped me deepen my exploration of my character, understand his universal nature, and find the fire to win. I couldn’t recommend enough working with her.

MELODY KLAVER

Melody Klaver

Romy is a super powerful and inspiring acting coach. The classes I took with her were spicy, honest, and raw – in the positive sense of the word. You have to have the guts to work with Romy, but I also think you have to have the guts to play interestingly. At least, to portray lifelike and unpredictable characters. To show unfiltered and unpolished all the facets of human drama. Romy goes much further than just trying to play ‘as realistically as possible’. She searches for the core, for the heart of the scene. Even if it’s comedy. That’s what she tries to steer you towards. And that’s exciting, but incredibly liberating afterwards. That, I think, is why we ultimately like to watch actors or why we like to play ourselves.

Golden Calf Winner Best Actress 2019
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Claire Schuyffel

Romy is an amazing teacher; she doesn’t just give you feedback, she really works and thinks WITH you, to make sure you reach your highest potential. The technique has done so many amazing things for me; it has literally changed my acting. Recently, I asked Romy for help when a very important audition came up for a part in War Horse that I had wanted since I first saw the play years ago. Thanks to the technique and Romy’s help… I got the part! After each round of auditions I called Romy, she was so supportive and always gave me advice for the next round. My dream has come true and I am forever grateful!

BILAL EL-AOUMARI

Bilal El-Aoumari

Romy coached me for my rol in the series ‘Laura H’ and I am super grateful to her for that. Our sessions  were intense and sometimes heavy, but they allowed me to dig deeper. Thanks to her guidance I was able to discober interesting layers in my character, which helped to win a ‘Golden Calf Award’! 

Golden Calf Winner Best Supporting Actor 2025
Roel Dirven

Roel Dirven

Thanks to the Chubbuck Technique and Romy’s guidance over the last few years, I have been able to bring tremendous depth to my work. Romy is extremely sharp and analytical and gives you the safety to explore the darker sides of yourself, making your work more interesting, successful and human. She creates a safe environment in which you as an actor dare to tap into your darker side and deepest fears. She has keen powers of observation; senses exactly what a scene needs and knows how to get it out of her actors in a penetrating, yet loving way.

2022 Winner Jury Prize Best Ensemble
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Sallie Harmsen

With her deep psychological insight and knowledge of the Chubbuck Technique, Romy has helped to deepen my acting skills and really grow as an actress. Working with her allows me to make characters deeper, more layered, and fuller. Romy is very professional and inspiring to work with and I will look forward to working with her many more times in the future.

Golden Calf Award Winner
CHARLOTTE PETERS

Charlotte Peters

What is so unique about Romy is that she does far more than guide and facilitate the actor. She has the ability to connect with her students to the point of creating a safe bubble. In doing so, one can dredge up the deepest and most raw emotions from real life and harness what one can often describe as “that shit” in order to turn it to gold. She doesn’t just teach the technique and craft of acting; she teaches the individual how to be a better actor. To represent our unified humanity, an actor needs to understand their own. Romy walks this journey hand in hand with you, helping you to find the truth, so that you can offer it to others in your performance. Romy gets you to the point where you can let go and live your character’s life in the moment the director calls “action”. The Chubbuck technique is a harmonious marriage of craft and method. Romy is your facilitator and there is no better woman, whom I’ve worked with to do the job!

MATTHIJS VAN DE SANDE BAKHUIJZEN

Matthijs Van De Sande Bakhuijzen

Romy is a great acting coach. Her classes are a safe place to experiment with the Chubbubck technique. She has a sharp eye and dares to push your boundaries, but at the same time is precise in her instructions. The Chubbuck technique is something I have been looking for all along. A technique with practical tools and concrete steps that serve to make the line between fiction and non-fiction as thin as possible and allow you to make games dangerous. Really dangerous, and scary, because you are working with everything that is you. The Chubbuck technique has opened the doors for me to a dimension that is infinite and both terrifies and excites me, both make me feel confident and incompetent: exactly the area you need to be in to grow. I am grateful: acting has become a great new journey for me.

Golden Calf Nominee

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