TOM LINDEN-MCCARRON
Performance Director
I am a Performance Director with 18 years industry experience. As a performer I worked on various mocap projects, and now, as The Mocap Coach, I have utilised all this expertise to become a sought-after director and actor trainer. I direct on professional productions as well train actors to perform in the medium at multiple drama schools.
Actor Trainer
I am currently working across six UK drama schools training actors as well as coaching performers one-to-one. I have clients who have never performed in a mocap vault before and others who have done everything from independent to AAA games. I coach with the utmost professionalism and ensure those I work with reach their optimum performance level whilst enjoying their sessions/classes/rehearsals.
I apply the practices of Laban, Viola Spolin, Stanislavsky & Yevgeny Vakhtangov to provide a range of techniques and styles to help the actors draw on a range of skills and processes.
My Experience
As a performer & director with over 18 years’ experience I have transferred my skillset in the last decade to work for many institutions such as:
Course Leader in Motion Capture & Lecturer in MA Acting for Screen.
Module leader in Creative Technologies
Module Leader in the Virtual Actor
Lecturer for Motion Capture in MA Acting for Digital Media & Screen Lecturer
Visiting Voice Over, Motion Capture and Director
Head of
Motion Capture
And more...
I also coach actors online and in person for auditions, pre-recording prep, mocap performances as well as being used as a director and performer for immersive live motion capture productions
I recently spoke at the S Word: Stanislavski International Symposium at the University of Athens and I was the host of the first Motion Capture Symposium at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
If you wish to know more about booking a session or arranging a chat, then please get in touch.
I worked with Tom firstly as an Actor and since have witnessed him excel at his role as a Teacher of Motion Capture and screen, his passion & understanding of the medium is excellent and his skills as a facilitator are exceptional, his experience both creatively and academically make him a an ideal coach and on top of this he’s a thoroughly lovely person to be around.
Kezia BurrowsMocap leading actor from Alien Isolation 
Tom is an incredibly gifted, enthusiastic , dedicated and passionate teacher. He has such a wonderful rapport with his students and I could see how engaged the students were in the room. Not only were they learning, they were genuinely having fun. Tom has a wonderful way of motivating the room and you could see the students gaining more confidence in their work as the class progressed. I learnt a lot myself as a teacher from witnessing his classes and I truly believe that any student who has the opportunity to study with Tom is very lucky.
Amy Pemberton Actor: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 
I've had the pleasure of observing and co-teaching with Tom McCarron, and recognise him as a knowledgeable and informed instructor. Tom keeps abreast of current trends in the gaming industry, always making sure that the information he is passing onto his students is current and relevant. Most important, in this quickly changing field! His students love working with him as his passion for his subject is infectious. He offers his students the confidence they need to break into this highly competitive of Motion/Performance Capture, all of which is couched in a solid foundation in actor training and the art of performance.
Jane PerryBAFTA Award Winning Voice Artist, Actor and Actor Trainer. 
I worked with Tom firstly as an Actor and since have witnessed him excel at his role as a Teacher of Motion Capture and screen, his passion & understanding of the medium is excellent and his skills as a facilitator are exceptional, his experience both creatively and academically make him a an ideal coach and on top of this he’s a thoroughly lovely person to be around.
Kezia BurrowsMocap leading actor from Alien Isolation
Tom is an incredibly gifted, enthusiastic , dedicated and passionate teacher. He has such a wonderful rapport with his students and I could see how engaged the students were in the room. Not only were they learning, they were genuinely having fun. Tom has a wonderful way of motivating the room and you could see the students gaining more confidence in their work as the class progressed. I learnt a lot myself as a teacher from witnessing his classes and I truly believe that any student who has the opportunity to study with Tom is very lucky.
Amy Pemberton Actor: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
I've had the pleasure of observing and co-teaching with Tom McCarron, and recognise him as a knowledgeable and informed instructor. Tom keeps abreast of current trends in the gaming industry, always making sure that the information he is passing onto his students is current and relevant. Most important, in this quickly changing field! His students love working with him as his passion for his subject is infectious. He offers his students the confidence they need to break into this highly competitive of Motion/Performance Capture, all of which is couched in a solid foundation in actor training and the art of performance.
Jane PerryBAFTA Award Winning Voice Artist, Actor and Actor Trainer.
