Master the Chubbuck Acting Technique with Acting Coach Romy Irene
Acting Classes
We offer classes and private coaching for actors and directors
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.
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.
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
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.
With almost 20 years of experience, Romy has established herself as a go-to acting coach for professional actors, directors, and screenwriters seeking to push artistic boundaries and deliver emotionally compelling performances. Her expertise lies in guiding actors to access deep, psychologically complex emotions, enabling them to bring authenticity, intensity, and vulnerability to their roles.
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 Bakhuijzen, and Sinem Kavus, all of whom have delivered critically acclaimed performances in film and television.
Beyond individual coaching, Romy is committed to elevating the European acting community, bridging the gap between Hollywood-level training and European film and theater traditions. Her students consistently praise her for her depth of knowledge, direct yet nurturing approach, and ability to unlock an actor’s full potential.
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.
Testimonials
Read what actors and directors say about Romy Irene
Matthijs Van De Sande Bakhuijzen
Romy is a great acting coach. Her classes are a safe place to experiment with the Chubbuck 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.
Martijn Winkler
Romy taught me to think (and act) from the actor’s perspective. What is needed to portray a character convincingly, to embody genuine emotions, and to arrive at logical, compelling actions that make a scene sparkle, feel authentic, and fit within the overall dramaturgy of the film? Her approach provides me, as a director, with greater insight and tools when it comes to directing actors: less focus solely on the cinematographic aspects of a scene, but in collaboration with actors, also focusing on the character’s motivations, actions, and goals to make the scene succeed. It also offers me, as a director, a pleasant mutual ‘language’ and understanding, which strengthens the collaboration with actors (and ultimately improves the results).
Nanette Drazic
I am absolutely convinced that Romy has opened a door to infinite growth in my profession. Ivana Chubbuck’s technique is a technique of courage, hope and self-knowledge and makes you not only a better actor but a better person, if you dare…!
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!
Poal Cairo
Thanks to Romy my bag of emotional stones became a bag of tools that I can use in my acting and in my life.
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.
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Workshops
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