Aileen Gonsalves is an actor, director and writer. She was Founder of Butterfly Theatre Collective, as well as creator of the Gonsalves Method. She was Head of the MA in Acting at ArtsEd, Head of Acting at Drama Studio London and has been an associate director for the RSC and Kali Theatre. She trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and specialised in Meisner. She is co-author of Shakespeare and Meisner for the Arden Performance Series (Bloomsbury, 2021).