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

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
YEHUDA NAHARI HALEVI

Yehuda Nahari Halevi

Romy is an amazing teacher and a beautiful soul. She immediately connected with me on a profound level, which helped me access new depths in myself, reflected in my acting. I was so happy to work with her, and I highly recommend you do the same

Nominee Award Best Actor Israeli Film Academy
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Imanuelle Grives

Romy gives me clear tools to consciously use unconscious psychological processes from everyday life. This helps me to create interesting and layered characters. For many of my role in the series ‘Fighter’s Heart’ I worked intensively with her. The result of our hard work paid off. Laudatory press reviews emphatically talked about the layering and intensity of my character.

Nominee Rembrandt Award Best Dutch Actress
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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.

2024 Winner Beste Filmmaker Gouds Film Festival
NANETTE DRAZIC

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…!

Golden Calf nominee
RIFKA LODEIZEN

Rifka Lodeizen

Unfortunately, it often happens that you are on your own as an actor on a film set because the director is busy with so much more than the actors. With one or more coaching sessions from Romy, I always come prepared, and know what I need to do to portray emotionally charged roles.

Golden Calf nominee Best Actress
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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
Martijn Winkler

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).

10 Wins & 9 Awards

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