FOUNDER AND LEAD MENTOR
Tarrick Benham
Actor. Voice Artist. Educator.
With over 15 years experience in the trade, Tarrick founded Screen Masters not just to prepare actors with technique, but for the craft, the profession and the wider industry of today.
15
Years industry experience
500+
Students taught
100+
International projects
BAFTA
Winning and nominated projects
SELECTED CREDITS
THE ACTOR
A career built across a plethora of mediums.
With over a decade and a half of experience across film, television, theatre, commercials and voice performance, Tarrick has built an extensive and diverse career spanning more than one hundred international projects across the entertainment industry.
His screen work includes collaborations with Netflix, Amazon, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, CBS, Sony Pictures, Little Island, Angel Studios, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, E4, Lime Pictures, E!, Crackle and Twickenham Studios. Selected credits include SNATCH, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, FBI: International, Fortitude, Mary, The Royals, Swimming with Men, USA v RAJ, The Ten Virgins, Drifters, EastEnders, Holby City, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Doctors and the BAFTA award-winning short film The Involuntary Activist.
Rooted in theatre, Tarrick has worked extensively across London theatre, national touring productions and international performance projects, collaborating with organisations including the National Theatre Studio, Paines Plough, The Lowry, Bristol Old Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum, Northern Stage, The Park Theatre, The Orange Tree, Oxford Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse, Tron, Traverse, Brighton Dome, Secret Cinema, The Pleasance, The Albany, Carriage Works, Georgian Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Wakefield, Old Red Lion, Luton Arts Centre, and both the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals.
Voice performance forms a significant part of Tarrick's creative portfolio, spanning television, audio drama, animation, global commercial campaigns and award-winning AAA video games. Credits include BAFTA-winning Netflix series Top Boy, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Pride & Prejudice (Audible), Brainbots (YOTO), BAFTA and multi award-winning video game Expedition 33, Baldur's Gate III, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Warhammer, Knights of the Realm I & II, Total War: Arena, Thrones of Britannia, Hood: Outlaws & Legends, Mercury, Domestik and Mankurt.
Commercial voice clients include Nescafé Gold (Voice of Nescafé Gold Worldwide), Audi, Spotify, Greenpeace, Netflix, O2, Visa, Deloitte, Nissan, Christian Louboutin, DHL, Direct Line, Go Compare, Hermes, Global Radio (Capital, Classic, Kiss, Heart, LBC, Smooth FM and Radio X), BBC Radio 4 and BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
Alongside his creative work, Tarrick has collaborated extensively across the corporate and commercial sectors with organisations including Amazon, Google, Lucozade, Pizza Hut, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, Marriott, Panasonic, PwC, the Metropolitan Police, the NHS, UCL, The Tate Museum, Immersive Octopus, Private Drama, Black Rabbit and Working Cast Productions.
THE EDUCATOR
A teaching practice grounded in real world experience.
Tarrick has built a parallel career in acting education, lecturing and professional coaching, specialising in contemporary screen performance and industry preparation.
As Course Creator and Lecturer at BIMM University / The Institute for Contemporary Theatre, he designed and now delivers the undergraduate Screen Acting programme for the BA Performing Arts degree. His teaching encompasses screen acting technique, text analysis, audition practice, self taping, on-set protocols, professional development and contemporary industry practice, alongside admissions, assessment and institutional representation.
He has also created and delivered screen acting programmes for the Academy of Creative Training, The Brighton Academy and BN1 Arts, developing industry-focused training across diploma, further education and undergraduate pathways.
Additional teaching, directing and facilitation credits include Arts Educational Schools, Stagecoach Performing Arts, The Theatre Workshop, OYO Performing Arts, Streatham Space Project, Portland Place School and Hillside Special Needs School, delivering screen acting masterclasses, short film projects, audition workshops, film combat training, inclusive performance programmes and intensive actor development courses.
Alongside his teaching and performance career, Tarrick spent more than a decade working as a filmmaker, photographer and creative director, specialising in actors' showreels, self tapes, promotional videography, music videos, live events and commercial visual content, bringing a detailed understanding of camera language, visual storytelling and screen performance into his teaching practice.Over the last decade, Tarrick has built a parallel career in acting education, lecturing and professional coaching, specialising in contemporary screen performance and industry preparation.