About
Founded by theatre practitioner Greg Shewring, Meisner Company West is a performance and training collective dedicated to cultivating truthful, responsive acting through attention to the other.
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Rooted in Sanford Meisner’s approach to acting, and informed by contemporary research, our work bridges practice and inquiry — empowering actors to deepen their craft through the lived experience, intersubjective relationships and impulsive exploration.
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​Greg Shewring is an actor, writer, and educator based in Bristol. A Designated Meisner Teacher, certified through the Meisner Institute (Los Angeles) under the guidance of Scott Trost.
Greg’s practice is rooted in the belief that an actor’s greatest tool is their attention to the other—listening, observing, and allowing genuine responses to shape performance in the present moment. His current doctoral research explores how Sandford Meisner’s emphasis on relational truth can be deepened through the sociocultural theory of the lived experience, where meaning is discovered through dynamic interaction shaped through unity with the other.
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Greg trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (MA Acting), the Guildford School of Acting (BA Theatre), and the University of Plymouth (Foundation in Theatre, Media and Performance). Greg has UK qualified teacher status and a PGCE in Drama from Plymouth Marjon University. Greg is currently a Lecturer in Acting at the Bristol Conservatoire of Theatre Arts.
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As an Associate Artist of the Bristol based Wardrobe Ensemble, Greg has toured devised and award-winning productions with the group, such as Education, Education, Education and Riot, both of which foregrounded ensemble listening and playful responsiveness to audience and each other.
A former member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company, Greg developed his theatre making practice through productions where devising and ensemble focused activity placed relational awareness at the heart of storytelling.
His professional credits extend across theatre and screen, including Skins (Channel 4), Taggers (Formula 1 Grand Prix short), and Morniel Mathaway (Independent short).
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Greg is also an accomplished writer and director. His solo show Guttermouth toured nationally, while Poll Function, which he also directed, won the Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance Award.
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Through Meisner Company West, Greg seeks to develop training and performance that makes attention to the other central to the craft of acting, blending the emotional rigour of the Meisner Technique with the sociological insights of emotional transformation. His work champions performance as a relational act: alive, responsive, and always shaped in the space between the self and the other.