Harry has served in the  public, charity  and voluntary sectors. Recently retired after 30 years as an inner city primary school headteacher, he has been active in the Headteachers’ association and still serves as Wandsworth President of the NAHT. He chaired an Education Achievement Zone and Battersea Extended Schools’ Cluster.

He serves on the Board of Polka Theatre - where he has also been chair - for nine years. He chairs the board of Merton Vision and is on the board of Merton Talking Newspaper for the Blind.

Harry has also been Leader of a local authority (London Borough of Merton – eight years and a member for fifteen) and chairman of a health authority (Merton & Sutton/ Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth – seventeen years altogether). He also served on Wandsworth  and Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trusts and was chair of a nursing and midwifery college.

Harry is an active member of his church where he has also served as Churchwarden. Experienced in working with and supporting minority communities Harry enjoys theatre, film, travel, reading and gardening.

Jimmy graduated from the Three Year Acting course in 1999. He’s currently best-known for his rolesas registrar 

Antoine Malick in Holby City, and the washed up Mick in the BBC comedy Rev. He began his acting career on the stage in The Nativity at The Birmingham Rep, his stark and kinetic performance drew audiences in; he followed on from this with Baby Doll at The National Theatre, and the hit play The Player Room. 

He starred alongside Ian McKellen in the world premiere of Mark Ravenhill’s play The Cut (Donmar Warehouse and national tour). He went on to take the title role in Frantic Assembly’s acclaimed production of Othello. He won a TMA Award for his performance in Joe Penhall’s Blue / Orange.

He is co-founder of TriForce Promotions, which seeks to develop young talent and hosts legendary networking events for actors, writers and producers, working frequently with the BBC workshopping new writing. Jimmy is also one of ALRA’s Trustees.

Peter grew up in London where he went to what he describes as a not very good school that was good for him.   The good part included regular visits to student productions at RADA and LAMDA, to art exhibitions and talks, all of which made a big impact and created a strong interest in the arts.  

He went on to Swansea University where he stayed for 6 years following an undergraduate course and then research in political philosophy.   He was intrigued by trying to understand how other people thought about politics and, after deciding that an academic career was unsuited to someone who clearly had no ability to teach, translated this into trying to understand other peoples and joined the British Council.

Work in the British Council included 3 or more years in Mexico, Croatia / Slovenia, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Kenya.   It also included periods in Human Relations at the London HQ with a special interest in diversity.

Peter retired in 2004 and since enjoys contributing to a number of charities, seeing family and friends, and spending time in Croatia.

Richard Gill began his theatre life as an actor, director and playwright. He was senior lecturer at Central before being head-hunted to run the Drama School at Dartington.

In 1967 he founded the Polka Theatre for Children, which toured to all the major theatres of Britain for 21years. In 1979 he created London’s first permanent theatre for children and Polka is still flourishing in Wimbledon.

In 1988 he moved on to create Parasol Theatre which toured all over the world until his retirement in 2005. He is the author of 37 plays, mostly for young people. In 1980 he was awarded the Lord Mayor of London’s Prize for 'The outstanding contribution to the cultural life of the nation'.

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Kathryn is Senior Lecturer in Media Performance and Course Leader in TV Production at the University of Bedfordshire. She has extensive TV directing experience in news, current affairs, children’s, magazine and documentary programmes.

BBC credits include Breakfast Time, The Clothes Show, Crimewatch UK, Playschool, Jackanory, Record Breakers, Teletubbies, and over seventy episodes of Tweenies.

ITV credits include Michael Winner’s True Crimes, Britain’s Most Wanted, Drivers from Hell, One in a Million, Strange But True, Crime Monthly and The Six O’Clock Show. Kathryn has directed over one hundred educational programmes for Teachers TV.

The dozens of TV presenters Kathryn has worked with include Chris Tarrant, Danny Baker, Emma Freud, Penny Smith, Nick Ross, Selina Scott, Michael Aspel, Paul Ross, Justin Fletcher and Hermione Cockburn. In 2003 Kathryn set up Pukka Presenting to train TV presenters and deliver business presentation skills. Since then she has coached hundreds of TV presenters and launched countless careers.

Kathryn is a regular tutor in adult education and has devised short courses in TV presenting and presentation skills for City Lit, Actors Centre, Actors Centre North, Ravensbourne, University of Bristol, University College for the Creative Arts,  ALRA and London College of Communication.

After attending Henrietta Barnett School in London, Kathryn read Drama at Bristol University. Kathryn is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy and member of Directors UK.

Kathryn is author of ‘So You Want to be a TV Presenter?’ published by Nick Hern Books.

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Co-Director

Clive Duncan joined ALRA in 2004. Performing for 28 years as an actor, writer and theatre director, he began his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to work in the West End, regional and touring theatres. Frequent work in television dramas, series and presenting children’s television consolidated his skills.

He writes for stage and screen and has had numerous scripts broadcast by BBC, Scottish TV and Channel 5.

As a director, his experience encompasses a wide range of classical, contemporary, educational, devised and pantomime for companies in the UK and overseas.

Working with students, he has taught at East 15, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the Oxford School of Drama.

He has successfully completed a Certificate of Education at the Institute of Education and a Master of Arts in Screenwriting at the University of the Arts.

Currently, he is the external moderator for Bath Spa University’s Performing Arts BA & FDA.

Co-Director

Adrian joined ALRA in the summer of 2009 before which he spent 22 years as a professional actor and the last ten years as Head of Production at GSA. Adrian trained at Arts Educational School and has worked extensively in TV, radio & theatre including the West End production of 84 Charing Cross Road. He has taught at all levels from primary school to Drama School including A Levels, BTEC, BA & MA.

He has worked as Director, Designer, Lighting Designer or Production Manager on over 250 productions in the education sector and was Academic Advisor to the Royal Scottish Academy.

He has been involved with short filmmaking for many years as producer and actor.

Programmes Manager

Sarah studied Stage Management and Technical Theatre at LAMDA. On graduating she worked for 10yrs as a Stage Manager in theatres across the UK, the Middle East and Australia.  On returning to the UK she was the Senior Events Manager at Kempton Park Racecourse where she ran the events there for 2½ years.  Missing theatre she did her PGC in Arts Management and in 2003 cofounded Youth Music Theatre: UK, where she worked for 5 years. 

She joined the ALRA team in September 2008.

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Working for ALRA since April 2010 Leanne (based in London) supports Clive and Adrian administratively; arranging and minuting meetings, organising travel and managing their diaries.  She also Co-ordinates student council meetings, an extensive out reach programme and all tour travel for the graduates final year plays, she is also secretary to The Board of Trustees. 

Following a 12 year career in the Railway Industry, Leanne followed her dream and re-trained in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting and can be heard on book recordings and seen on film from features to corporate training videos. A writer. producer and performer of cabaret in the West End, she has performed in New York & London.  She is also a volunteer at Jermyn Street Theatre and in her spare time manages their membership scheme.

Head of Movement

Fiona joined ALRA in 2010, before which she taught movement and dance at Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview, GSA, The Bridge and London Centre for Theatre Studies. She has taught, choreographed and managed outreach projects with companies including YMT-UK, RAD, London Youth Dance, Ice and Fire Theatre Company, KSDT and Creative Partnerships.

As a movement director and choreographer recent credits include: 

Daisy Pulls it Off (The Watermill), Oliver! (Merchant Taylor’s School), You be Ewe (The Round House Studios), Holoray Holiday (The Arcola), Fish (Camden People’s Theatre), The Marilyn Monroe Show (Brighton Festival).

For Central School of Speech and Drama, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Brecht Fest (Embassy Theatre).  Corporate clients have included RBS, Coutts and Microsoft APAQ.

Training- Central School of Speech and Drama - MA in Movement Studies London Studio Centre - BA (Hons) in Theatre Dance.

Head of Voice

Head of Stage Management

Stage Management Co-ordinator

Head of Technical

Dan graduated in the summer of 2002 from Derby University with a 2:1 in 3-D Visualisation and Computer Graphics (Bsc - hons). He joined ALRA later that year as the college Librarian and now runs both the IT Network and the TV/Radio studios.

Prior to this Dan worked as a Systems Developer for Enterprise Park (E3), a Design / IT tutor for Mackworth College Derby and a Graphic Designer for Illustrated Arts. Dan's free-lance web-design portfolio includes projects for SONY, OTB Soul and The Actors Centre. 

Dan is also a CISCO Certified Network Instructor (semester 1 standard - 98%) and has written dissertations on 'Systems Design Methodologies' and 'Multimedia in Learning' focusing specifically on the development of learning resources for different learner styles.

Dan's portfolio of work can be viewed at www.so-media.co.uk

Technical Assistant

David joined ALRA summer 2010 as the schools technical assistant supporting TV and Radio lessons as well crewing the third year films as gaffer and technical chief.

Spearheading the overhaul of the schools ever expanding I.T. network including site wide Wi-Fi access, recorded lesson media and production based I.T. systems, he continues to keep ALRA up to date with industry technical standards.

Having trained for four years in Technical production (GSA-School of Production Level 3 BTEC ND Triple Merit “Technical” Level 6 Trinity ND “Professional Production Skills”), he assists with lighting, sound and stage craft on the schools stage output both in house and touring.

Being brought up into a wide variety of professions, David has experience in many areas including mechanics, engineering, circuit level/mains installation electronics, carpentry/restoration, agricultural/site machine operation and estate management to name a few.

Bursar

Registrar

Student Advisor

Marketing & Development Officer

Administrative Assistant

Facilities Manager

Learning Support

Counsellor

Head of Postgraduate Studies

Web Services Manager

Anthony joined ALRA in September 2011 after spending 11 years as the Web Services Manager at Winstanley College.  Anthony is a keen follower in web technologies and is a CiW Certified Web Professional, he also qualified with a HND in Business Information Technology, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Management in Education, whilst also boasting a 7407 Teaching qualification.

Anthony uses Joomla to build the ALRA websites, and is a high level user of Adobe CS5 packages (Photoshop, Fireworks, Premiere and After Effects).  Some of Anthony's external freelance work is with musical acts, where promo videos and album artwork have been created.

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Administrative Assistant

Security & Maintenance Manager

Deputy Security & Maintenance Manager

Counsellor & Learning Support

Over the years Erinna has been involved in various aspects of the Arts.

Now a counsellor at ALRA North, Erinna is delighted to be in her 2nd year!

Erinna has a history of teaching Drama and Art, and has worked for many years as an actor and singer.

Erinna has a penchant for The North and despite 20 years in London she is now back on firm northern ground.

Cafe Manager

Since graduating from Mountview Theatre School Andrew has enjoyed over twenty years of stage, screen and radio work.

He has worked with the RSC, Royal Court, on Number 1 tours and in regional repertory theatre, and has also toured abroad performing as Othello in America, as well as touring in China, Hong Kong, Italy, France and Spain.

Alongside acting Andrew has been working as a guest director at ALRA since 2007, specialising in storytelling, narrative skills and improvisation.

Having recently finished a hugely successful production of Bleak House at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Andrew is looking forward to sharing his experience and passion for the acting profession with his students prior to an international tour in 2011 of Katrina, a unique promenade production about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.

Andy trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Since leaving Andy has gained a teaching qualification and works with various groups around the North West, teaching Youth theatre, Private Classes, BTEC and 'A Level' as well as other speciality projects. 

Andy has worked in theatre and TV professionally, but more recently his work includes an ITV commercial and a BBC Radio play. He has done extensive Corporate and Roleplay work and has an Advanced Certificate in Stage Combat.

Andy is excited to be working at the new ALRA North.

Teaching Staff (acting)

Clive Duncan joined ALRA in 2004. Performing for 28 years as an actor, writer and theatre director, he began his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to work in the West End, regional and touring theatres. Frequent work in television dramas, series and presenting children’s television consolidated his skills.

He writes for stage and screen and has had numerous scripts broadcast by BBC, Scottish TV and Channel 5.

As a director, his experience encompasses a wide range of classical, contemporary, educational, devised and pantomime for companies in the UK and overseas.

Working with students, he has taught at East 15, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the Oxford School of Drama.

He has successfully completed a Certificate of Education at the Institute of Education and a Master of Arts in Screenwriting at the University of the Arts.

Currently, he is the external moderator for Bath Spa University’s Performing Arts BA & FDA.

Since training as an actor at the former Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre, Paul has worked widely in theatre, radio, film and television, including in BAFTA-winning and Olivier-nominated productions on stage and screen. He has worked as a director with UK touring group ImpAct and has directed numerous public productions with student casts, many of which have been staged ‘in the round’.

Paul recently completed work on a PhD thesis that examines the work and legacy of theatre maker Stephen Joseph, and saw Paul record video interviews with a range of theatre figures including Alan Ayckbourn, Faynia Williams, Ben Kingsley, Trevor Griffiths, Mark Ravenhill and the late Peter Cheeseman. Alongside his research Paul has been working as a part-time lecturer at the University of Hull, specialising in acting and performance. He is the author of the Methuen handbook Acting Characters - designed to develop greater physical and vocal versatility among student and professional actors – and is currently planning an expanded second edition for release in the United States in 2011. Paul is a visiting professor in Performance at the Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia, US

Lheila trained as an actress at Guildford School of Acting. In 1995 she was awarded a BEd (Hons) in Teacher Education at Oxford Brookes University and has worked in over 150 schools as a class teacher or drama practitioner.

As well as working professionally in theatre, tv and film, other fields of performance have included clowning, physical theatre and improvisation. She trained with Keith Johnstone, also performing in "Keith Johnstone's Micestro" at the Cockpit Theatre, London. She ran regular improvisation workshops and performed in weekly shows with ‘Off The Cuff’ comedy troupe for three years.

Lheila has taught street theatre and clowning at Portsmouth New Theatre Royal, The Komedia comedy club and Circus Space. She has presented many live stage shows for clients including Disney and Sesame Street. In August 2011 she directed “Slug” for the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Lheila also performs regularly on the London comedy circuit, originally in musical double act “Aliens Ate My Schnitzel!” and as numerous solo comedy characters. >

Peter Cregeen trained as an actor and teacher of Drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a College of which he is now a Fellow.

After working in the theatre at Watford and Salisbury, where he began his directing career, he joined BBC Television.

Since then his work has been split evenly between the BBC and ITV, where he has produced or directed many of the most successful Drama Series on both channels

From 1989- 1992  he was Head of Drama Series at the BBC after which he joined Stoll Moss theatres as Production Director, finding and developing the productions for 13 West End Theatres.

He has served on the BAFTA Council, the board of the Directors' Guild, and the board of the Royal Television Society.

I attended LAMDA to study Stage Management and Technical Theatre having dropped out of an economics degree at Vienna University. A few years in Rep. followed and I worked at Chichester, the West End and the National before joining the BBC in the drama department in 1974. 

 Over the years I worked on a wide variety of major productions, mainly at the BBC, and learned at the hands of major talents.  Play for Today, Testament of Youth, Dennis Potter’s Brimstone & Treacle, Dr Who, Blake’s Seven even Blue Peter. Setting up EastEnders as a Production Manager gave me the opportunity to train and cut my teeth as a director. 

I am fortunate to work pretty consistently in this business, which I still find enjoyable. With occasional forays into the corporate market and documentary work, I am best known for my work on popular drama and the soaps: Casualty, Coronation Street, My Parents are Aliens and most regularly, Emmerdale.

My outside interests inform the way I direct. Most actors get treated like the bees I have tended for 30 years or the plants I tend when gardening. I sail when I can and have made two Atlantic crossings. My wife, who is a teacher, fails to understand how I have the tact to cope with students when I teach occasionally at ALRA or elsewhere!

Peter has acted professionally from an early age and completed his Actor training at London Drama School 'Arts Ed'. His TV & Film credits include 'Coronation Street', 'Hollyoaks', 'City Halls', 'Videopolis', 'Be Aware', 'A&E' & 'Wilmot'. Peter has recently filmed the role of Gary in BBC 3 sitcom 'The Gemma Factor'. His Theatre Credits include the UK premier of Ciaran McConville's 'Lay your Sleeping Head', 'Eight', 'As You Like It', 'Romeo & Juliet', 'A Duty of Care', 'Friendly Fire', and 'Company'. He has worked at some of the finest regional Theatres including 'Stephen Joseph Theatre - Scarborough', 'The Lawrence Batley Theatre - Huddersfield' & 'The Nottingham Playhouse'.  

Having graduated with a degree in Film & TV production Peter has also worked behind the camera. He has worked on productions including 'Where the Heart is' (ITV), 'Shameless' (C4), and 'The Innocence Project' (BBC) to name a few. In 2006 Peter spent a year working for ITV Drama Manchester organising and co-ordinating top dramas including 'Mobile', 'Cold Blood' and the popular 'Blue Murder' starring Caroline Quentin. 

Experiencing both sides of the camera has also led Peter to work in Casting, both as and agent and a casting assistant. During his time as an assistant he helped out on castings for 'Where The Heart Is', 'Coronation Street', 'Casualty', 'Doctors', 'Eastenders', 'Holby City', 'Judge John Deed' and 'Waking the Dead'. He has also worked with agents in London's West End and has helped manage the careers of various leading artists. Having returned to the North, Peter continued working as an agent and in the past year has helped provide artists of different ages to productions such as 'Emmerdale', 'Heartbeat', 'Shameless', 'Casualty 1909', 'Britain's Fattest Man', 'Coronation Street' and 'The Street'. 

Peter was chosen as one of the assistants to help cast additional roles in the Manchester filming of Guy Ritchie's 2010 Warner Brother's movie 'Sherlock Holmes'.  

As well as teaching at ALRA Peter runs top part time Acting Academy 'ActUpNorth' working alongside top UK Casting Directors and Directors from the world of TV and Film.

Guy Slater began his career as an actor working in repertory, West End and Television, his last performance being in I Claudius. He has also written books and many scripts both for television and radio. As a free lance theatre director he has worked in theatres throughout the country as well as in London and California. He founded the Horseshoe Theatre Company in Basingstoke which he ran for seven years with seasons at the Haymarket Theatre and tours both local and national. On televison he has produced and directed many single plays / films and long running series such as Miss Marple (with Joan Hickson) and Love Hurts with Zoe Wanamaker and Adam Faith. He was Head of Drama for the SelecTV group.

Teaching Staff (Acting for Camera)

Peter trained first as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. On graduating, he was a recipient of the BBC’s prestigious Carleton Hobbs Award, and as such has worked extensively as a performer in radio drama both as a freelance and as a member of the Radio Drama Company.

Highlights include Ruby on Tuesday by Charlotte Jones, Les Miserables, Anthony and Cleopatra, and The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 

In theatre, he has played leading roles at Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, The Northcott (Exeter) the Sherman Theatre (Cardiff) and Leeds Opera House.

Having retrained as a theatre director, he directed Beautiful Thing at the BAC, and his company recently staged the first London run of Arden of Faversham for 20 years, at the Rose Theatre, Bankside, which is set to be revived in the New Year.

He is set to return to the Rose with a new production of Marlowe’s Edward II, in the theatre where the play was first performed 400 years ago. His production of Mysterious Skin was hugely successful at this year’s Edinburgh Festival and will be transferring to a London venue in the New Year.

Gordon House joined the BBC in 1972, and worked in Children’s Television and Radio Sport, before becoming a Radio Drama Director.   He headed the small BBC World Service Drama team for fourteen years, and directed over 200 plays. He was a founder member, and ex-Chair, of The Worldplay Group – an association of  Radio Drama directors from around the world

In April 2001 he became Head of BBC Radio Drama, a post which he held until his retirement from the BBC in 2005.  During this time he was a judge at Prix Italia and Prix Europa conventions, and his tenure as Head culminated in the Department winning its largest ever number of awards in a single year.

Gordon is now an Executive Director of Goldhawk Essential.  Last year he went to Guyana where he was the drama consultant for the new Aids-based Radio Soap, Merundoi. He has recently directed a radio version of Alan Bennett’s “Lady in the Van”, - Alan himself starring alongside Dame Maggie Smith.  Gordon’s production of Peter Souter’s Goldfish Girl has just won a 2009 Sony Radio Award.

Gordon is a guest lecturer at several drama schools, but teaches primarily at ALRA .

I’m an experienced drama director, writer and producer mostly making audio for BBC networks through Sparklab Productions www.sparklabproductions.com.  I also work as a freelance: running workshops, teaching, writing, directing and producing.  I work with Bafta winners and very new writers to develop stories and ideas for both broadcast and web content, including dramas, readings, documentaries, features and digital stories.  I love weaving documentary with fictional stories and am currently developing audio trails for various sites in the Northwest.  As an experienced script editor www.talkscript.com I can help with any kind of script and call on highly talented actors to bring words off the page.  

Head of Voice

Melanie holds an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama.

She was awarded a BA (Hons) in English and Drama by Leicester University is a fully qualified Drama teacher and professional actress training at the University of Edinburgh and Queen Margaret College respectively.

Voice work has included Cygnet Training Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama, Edinburgh Lyceum Youth Theatre, The Centre for Performing Arts in Greenwich, The Millennium Dance Centre, Caravanserai, King’s College London, and King Street College Shepherd’s Bush, teaching Vocal Technique, Voice and Text, Accent and Dialect, Presentational and Communication Skills.

Mel has worked professionally in Theatre/TV and Film and has directed over 30 performances for schools and youth groups.

Natalie trained as an actor at Drama Centre London and has gained extensive experience in the business working with acclaimed actors and directors including Samuel West, Chris Honer, Douglas Hodge, Tim Piggot-Smith, Sir. Nicholas Hytner, Meera Syal and more.

Theatre credits include See How They Run (West End and Tour - Olivier and Whats on stage awards runner up 2006)), As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare company and Sheffield Crucible), Gallithea (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rafta, Rafta (National Theatre - Olivier Award winner 2007) What the Butler Saw (Salisbury Playhouse) The Importance of Being Earnest (Library Theatre Company), Tiger at the Gates (National Theatre), Merlin and the Woods of time (Chester Open air) and most recently played Rosalind in Nikolai Fosters acclaimed production of As You Like It.

Television Credits include Doctors (BBC), Jam and Jerusalem (BBC) and Coronation Street (Granada TV). Also, Silver Street for BBC radio Birmingham.

Natalie works as a freelance voice tutor specializing in phonetics, RP and accents and alongside ALRA teaches and directs at the Arden School of Theatre and runs acting and text workshops for the Library Theatre Company, Manchester and Actors Centre North. She has recently developed a professional development scheme for the Library Theatre Company, ‘Playing Up North’.

`Natalie studied voice under Stewart Pearce (Master of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe for many years) and William Conacher (renowned accent and voice specialist in Theatre, TV and film) and has also worked with Kate Godfrey and Jeannette Nelson at the National Theatre and Cicely Berry at the RSC.

Jennifer graduated with a BA in Applied Drama from Queen Mary University of London then went on to study and train at RADA in 2006 for an MA in Text & Performance.

In 2007 she toured throughout the UK and Europe with indie-pop outfit The Hoosiers (Sony BMG) as their session musician (backing vocals, keyboards and percussion). She continues to spotlight as a lead and backing singer with various rock, pop and jazz bands. Jennifer also spent a year managing independent record label in London, Beatroute Records. Jennifer’s music television credits include T4 on The Beach (Channel 4), MTV Brand Spanking New (MTV), and Top of The Pops Christmas Special 2007 (BBC). Her Radio credits include sessions for Dermot O Leary (BBC), Craig Doyle (Capital FM), Live from Maida Vale (BBC), and NRJ Radio Stuttgart.

In parallel to her work in the music industry Jennifer has been developing a career in Acting. Prior to taking up her position at ALRA, she performed in the controversial Philosophy In The Bedroom by Marquis De Sade at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2011.

Jennifer has worked independently as a singing teacher and vocal coach since 2008, continues to tutor privately and to pursue her career as a professional Singer and Actor. 

Janis trained originally as a speech & language therapist at the Central School of Speech & Drama and specialised in neurological rehabilitation. This work gradually led her from therapy into developing a long-term management service for victims of traumatic brain injury.

Her clinical interest in voice, speech and language skills is matched by a passion for voice, speech and text in performance and prompted a further career change. At the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Janis gained an MA in Training Actors Voice, under the leadership of Patsy Rodenburg.

Janis is keen to expand her work teaching acting students, coaching actors and providing company voice work for productions.

Choral & Musicianship

Jane Vicary is a Northerner who lives in the South Lakes. She read Theatre Studies and English at Lancaster University a long time ago and then worked in libraries, newspapers, advertising, antiques and fine art and as a drama teacher in Adult Education for many years. Whilst bringing up her family and teaching part time, she acted and sang in various small scale Northern companies, one of the high lights being a tour in Sri Lanka. The re-discovery of her singing voice and requests to teach singing led to a need to know more about the voice. In 2002 she sold a picture by Ben Nicholson and commuted to London (leaving the children with a very patient and supportive husband) in order to do the MA in Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. They all survived this very challenging year and so, after completing the MA, Jane worked as a freelance voice and drama teacher.  To further the voice work begun at CSSD, Jane began working (and continues to work) with Nadine George (Roy Hart Theatre) and this now forms a significant element of her work and vocal philosophy. For the last four years Jane has been teaching voice at The Arden School of Theatre in Manchester and is delighted to be part of the ALRA team.

Teaching Staff (Voice)

Gary trained as an actor at Guildford School of Acting and has worked throughout the UK in film, theatre, television and radio. It was because of his love of language and teaching he completed his Masters Degree in Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Gary currently teaches voice in various institutions around London. Furthermore, has coached on a variety of professional shows, such as Romeo and Juliet (The Chocolate Factory) Reverie (The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh) The Arsonists (Watford Palace Theatre) In His Image (Hampstead Theatre) and the award winning Play on Words at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. Finally, Gary is currently investigating the ‘Choral Voice’ and the ‘Actors Ensemble’ trying to push its boundaries through an understanding of voice, movement and audience participation. This has led to Gary directing a short Greek tragedy as part of the Battersea Arts Centre Scratch Project in October 2011, which involved a group of second year ALRA students. 

Lucinda Worlock is a Voice, Speech & Accent Coach who focuses on physical exploration of sounds for clarity and intelligibility in speech training.

Trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin and Central School of Speech and Drama, London, Lucinda has worked as an Actress, Voice and Dialect Coach in Ireland, Spain and the UK and is based in London.

She has trained actors at Italia Conti, Birmingham School of Acting, East 15, Rose Bruford, The Drama Centre, ALRA and MTA in technical voice, speech, accents and phonetics. She has also worked with English speakers of Other Languages at City Lit and King Street College; leading courses in accent softening, pronunciation and voice fluency and presentation skills.

As a freelance dialect coach Lucinda has worked on productions including When the Chickens came Home to Roost at the Brixton Empire, Behna at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Parade at the Lowry Theatre, Manchester, Worldplay: 3 at Theatre503, London and Whispering Happiness at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London.

Lucinda gained an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama and is a member of The Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA), the International Centre of Voice (ICV), the Institute of Further Learning (IFL) and holds PTLLS qualification.

She is a trained Pilates Instructor and has devised an innovative system of Integrated Pilates and Voice Training (IPVT) for the strengthening of breath support musculature in speech. As a fluent Spanish speaker, she works as a bilingual vocal coach.

www.lucindaworlock.com 

Heather trained at Manchester University, where she gained a BA Honours in Drama. She is an actor and freelance Voice and Acting teacher, with 20 years experience in the industry. Teaching includes Liverpool Theatre School, The Arden School of Theatre (Manchester), The Northern Actors’ Centre and private tuition, speech and singing. As an actor she has worked with numerous directors in many major theatres around the country, including Keswick Theatre by the Lake, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Manchester Library, Oldham Coliseum, The New Vic Stoke, York Theatre Royal, Harrogate Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse, The Watermill Newbury, Theatr Clwyd, Coventry Belgrade, The Dukes Lancaster, Worcester Swan Theatre, The Courtyard Hereford, as well as many Number 1 touring venues. Much of her musical theatre work has been in the actor-musician genre. TV credits include Coronation Street, Emmerdale and A Touch of Frost, as well as film, radio, corporate video and voice-over. As both an experienced practitioner and Estill-trained voice teacher (Royal Academy of Music), Heather combines her practical skills and technical knowledge with a current and ongoing overview of the industry, to provide thorough and relevant training.

Head of Movement

Fiona joined ALRA in 2010, before which she taught movement and dance at Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview, GSA, The Bridge and London Centre for Theatre Studies. She has taught, choreographed and managed outreach projects with companies including YMT-UK, RAD, London Youth Dance, Ice and Fire Theatre Company, KSDT and Creative Partnerships.

As a movement director and choreographer recent credits include: 

Daisy Pulls it Off (The Watermill), Oliver! (Merchant Taylor’s School), You be Ewe (The Round House Studios), Holoray Holiday (The Arcola), Fish (Camden People’s Theatre), The Marilyn Monroe Show (Brighton Festival).

For Central School of Speech and Drama, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Brecht Fest (Embassy Theatre).  Corporate clients have included RBS, Coutts and Microsoft APAQ.

Training- Central School of Speech and Drama - MA in Movement Studies London Studio Centre - BA (Hons) in Theatre Dance.

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Emma began her professional Theatre training at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts where she attained a high honours degree in Theatre, specialising in Movement and Contemporary Dance. After graduating she joined Ludus Dance Company in Lancaster as their Resident Apprentice. At Ludus, Emma trained across the company ultimately focusing her training within Dance Development. Teaching across a broad spectrum Emma experienced teaching movement to all ages and abilities and continues to work in Arts Organisations across the North.

Choreographing for a number of Youth Dance Companies Emma has enjoyed seeing her choreography performed both nationally and internationally. In addition to teaching Emma is a founder member and performer of the Contemporary Dance Company, Out of Bounds.

More recently Emma has successfully completed her GTP in conjunction with Edge Hill University where she was awarded ‘Outstanding’ in all areas.

Fight

Ruth Cooper-Brown is the Chair of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, an independent Fight Director and BADC certified Fight Teacher. She is also the co-founder of Rc-Annie Limited with Rachel Bown-Williams (established in 2005 to specialise in the training and execution of theatrical violence for stage and screen) She regularly Fight Directs for Film and Theatre and teaches internationally. Ruth advises theatre companies and organizations such as the Stage Management Association and The RSC on Theatrical Handgun law and usage.

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Marcello is a professional fight director and registered BADC (British Academy of Dramatic Combat) combat instructor offering fight direction, workshops and training to film,opera, tv and stage companies .He is the fight master at two established drama schools in London .

Being an actor as well as a fight director gives Marcello a particular knack of understanding how the actor`s process works and the ability to communicate effectively and get the best out of whoever he is directing.His awareness as an actor also gives him a sensitivity for what directors want and the ability to work as part of a creative team.

He has worked in and around England in venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Covent Garden Opera House , the West End , The Globe, Glynebourne Opera House to mention a few. He has also worked around Europe at theatres and Opera Houses in Spain , Italy and the Czech Republic.

He has had the pleasure of working with some of the worlds best fight directors and weapons specialists such as Mike Loades, Ric Sordelet, Richard Ryan and William Hobbs to name but a few.

website: www.fightdirectors.com

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Carran Waterfield is an international theatre director, teacher and performer. She is also artistic director of Triangle Theatre, which she founded in 1988

(www.triangletheatre.co.uk). 

Most recently she has been developing a new work Birnam Wood in association with the RSC.

She has presented her work in Europe, Japan, Africa, Australia and America. In particular, as well as her performance work, Carran has mentored and directed undergraduate and post graduate student projects since 1994 working with, amongst others: the Universities of Warwick, Exeter, De Montfort, Birmingham, Aberystwyth and Manchester.

On theatre projects she has collaborated with, amongst others: Odin Teatret (Denmark), Pantheatre and members of Roy Hart Theatre (France), Royal Shakespeare Company Studio, Belgrade Theatre, Snarling Beasties, The Little Herberts, Bare Essentials Youth Theatre, Crescent Theatre, Kindle Theatre, Cosmino Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Creative Partnerships, Coventry Cathedral, and various museums and National Trust properties in the West Midlands. 

She has appeared in two independent films with Matthew Kelly and Ricky Tomlinson and has produced and directed several short films demonstrating her award-winning immersive history inspired theatre projects with and for young people. In 2007 she produced the extensive DVD resource Triangle’s Work in Times of War in collaboration with Richard Talbot.

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Teaching Staff (Movement)

Clive Duncan joined ALRA in 2004. Performing for 28 years as an actor, writer and theatre director, he began his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to work in the West End, regional and touring theatres. Frequent work in television dramas, series and presenting children’s television consolidated his skills.

He writes for stage and screen and has had numerous scripts broadcast by BBC, Scottish TV and Channel 5.

As a director, his experience encompasses a wide range of classical, contemporary, educational, devised and pantomime for companies in the UK and overseas.

Working with students, he has taught at East 15, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the Oxford School of Drama.

He has successfully completed a Certificate of Education at the Institute of Education and a Master of Arts in Screenwriting at the University of the Arts.

Currently, he is the external moderator for Bath Spa University’s Performing Arts BA & FDA.

Teaching Staff (Contextual Studies)

Teaching Staff (Contextual Studies)

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Gerrard has performed in both conventional and experimental theatre in Europe and the UK.

In recent years he has worked, with Pina Bausch, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Burrows, David Gale and Improbable; made pieces with dance film and video-makers Magali Charrier, Shelly Love, and Lucy Cash, for the BBC, CHANNEL 4 and shown internationally. He has made experimental films of Krapp’s Last Tape and Prufrock; installation work at NottDance, SBC, and The ICA (with A2), and site specific work (with PunchDrunk, dreamthinkspeak and Stacked Wonky).

He worked at the Orange Tree Richmond, Sheffield Crucible and the National Theatre. He has directed at the Edinburgh Festival and the ICA.

The Temptation of the Lamb was written for him by the Hungarian playwright, Andor Silagyi.

He has been filming in Hungary, on Dr Who and on La Chinoise with the Chinese Director Xiaolu Guo, with Chris Nash on his NESTA fellowship and mentored for Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion on Speaking Dance which premiered at The Place in Dance Umbrella. He is working on a series of time based installation pieces with Adam Roberts. He collaborated with Stan’s Café on The Cleansing of Constance Brown for the Vienna Festwochen: and will work on a new piece to premiere in Montpellier next spring.

In 2007 he began investigating the nature of performance and developing his own work with the support of ArtsAdmin.

Trained as an actor at Central.

Theatre includes: Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court), The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), Three Sisters on Hope Street (Everyman Liverpool, Hampstead), Two Thousand Years (Mike Leigh-National Theatre and tour), Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre); The Dwarfs (Tricycle Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (UK Tour), As You Like It, Sweat (Bloomsbury), Hedda Gabler, The Man of the Future is Dead (Edinburgh), Rose and the Ring; Guys & Dolls, Les Grandes Meaulnes, Judging Billy Jones (Young Vic.)

Television includes: The Runaway (Sky), Trinity (ITV), The Passion (HBO/BBC), Maxwell (International Emmy), The Candidate, Judge John Deed, Dwarfs, Band of Brothers (HBO/BBC, winner of Golden Globe and Emmy), A Touch of Frost, Soldier, Soldier, Inspector Morse, The Perfect Blue, Where The Heart Is.

Film: Leapyear, Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla, Driver (official selection for the London Film Festival 2009), Hospital, Patrick Mann’s Daughter, Scotch Corner.

Directing credits include: The Collector (Underbelly Edinburgh and Arcola London), King Lear, As You Like it, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Orphans.

Short films- Park Life, Hope, Intern, Man’s Best Friend, Kung Fu Action Chic, Wilting.

Started Aslan Productions in 2002 and co-produced Everything is Illuminated (Hampstead Theatre).

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Robert was born in London and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

He has worked in repertory in Manchester, Oldham, Bristol, Southampton, Chichester, Edinburgh, Ipswich and Westcliff, his roles including Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, John Merrick in The Elephant Man (for which he was awarded the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actor of the Year), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Miller in The Deep Blue Sea, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

More recently he appeared as Nightingale in Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre at the Manchester Library Theatre, and as the Duke in The Revenger’s Tragedy and as Dr David Kelly in The Palace of the End, both at The Royal Exchange.

He has twice appeared at the Crucible, Sheffield, in Michael Grandage’s productions of Edward II and Richard III. For Deborah Warner’s Kick Theatre he played Prospero in The Tempest, the Duke in Measure for Measure and Lear in King Lear, and worked with the English Shakespeare Company on a ten-month British and world tour of The Winter’s Tale and Coriolanus.

Robert spent six years with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London, playing such roles as Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Hubert in King John, Duke Senior in As You Like It, Lord Talbot in Henry VI  and the General in Jean Genet’s The Balcony.

Other London work includes Marya (Old Vic), Medea (Wyndhams), The Rules of the Game, The Doctor’s Dilemma and The Jew of Malta (Almeida), Trelawney of the Wells and The Seagull (National), The Duchess of Malfi (Wyndhams), A Busy Day (Lyric), Oxygen (Riverside) and The Woman in Black (Fortune, plus national tours). He has worked with Thelma Holt on two British tours, playing Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew and Polonius in Hamlet, the latter directed by Yukio Ninagawa and playing at the Barbican.

He was also at the Barbican in  Julius Caesar for Deborah Warner, before touring to Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg. More recently he appeared in The President’s Holiday at Hampstead.

Robert has made over sixty appearances on television, from By the Sword Divided to Waking the Dead, from Forever Green to the last series of Doctor Who. Film credits include Little Dorrit, Wuthering Heights, Different for Girls, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, Orlando, Secret Passage and Longitude.

Des was educated at Queen's University Belfast, King's College Pennsylvania and trained on the National Theatre Directors Programme. 

He has worked as an Assistant Director under Dominic Cooke at the Royal Court, Mike Bradwell at the Bush and Max Stafford-Clark at Out of Joint. 

Recent directing credits include The Prophet of Monto (Flea Theater, New York), JonnyMeister + the Stitch (Mead Theatre, Washington D.C), The Great Ramshackle Heart (Public Theater, New York), Dying City (Project Arts Centre, Dublin), Seven Jewish Children (Queen’s Studio, Belfast), Salaam Mr Bush! (Rehearsed reading, Royal Court Young Writers’ Festival), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Brian Friel Theatre, Belfast), Scenes from the Big Picture (Callan Theatre, Washington D.C) which was named one of the best 10 productions of the last decade by the Washington Post, and The Laramie Project (NSDF) for which he won the Bush Theatre Directing Award. 

Des is currently Associate Director of Out of Joint Theatre Company.

Siggi trained as an actor at the Arts Educational London School of Acting. He has worked extensively as an actor both in the UK and in his native Iceland, working both in traditional text based forms, and in forms more concerned with improvisation and physical embodiment.

Siggi has  more than 50 directing credits to his name. From 2000 - 2003 he was the Associate Director of Two Colour Theatre Company, the resident company at the Tabard Theatre. During his residency at the Tabard Theatre many critically acclaimed productions were mounted, both premieres of new work and revivals of forgotten masterpieces. 

Siggi has been teaching and directing at drama schools for over a decade. He recently completed an MA in Arts Policy and Management from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Siggi has written, co-written and adapted numerous scripts, translated a number of plays and written several pieces for newspapers. He has worked with a number of new playwrights, both as director of workshop performances of new work and as a script advisor.

Hannah studied BA (Combined Honours) Drama & Theatre Studies and Sport, Physical Education and Recreation.

Hannah’s short documentary London Cruisers premiered at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 2007.

Theatre directing projects include Quien Es? by Alan MacNaboe, Fringe Festival of New Writing (Old Red Lion Theatre); The Ladies Room by Nicola Albon ‘joinedupwriters' Fringe Festival of New Writing (Old Red Lion Theatre).

Assistant directing work includes: The Brownstones by Nona Hendryx (Lyric Hammersmith, London); The Runaround  by Cassie Werber (Camden People’s Theatre, London); Yellow Lines by Steve King (Oval House Theatre, London) and most recently Vanessa and Virginia (Théâtre Antoine Vitez, Aix-en-Provence, France).

Hannah has also had a ‘directors week’ at the NT Studio and participated in the Bite Size directing project at the Young Vic Theatre exploring Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee.

Hannah is also a part of the Young Vic Genesis Directors Network.

Guy Slater began his career as an actor working in repertory, West End and Television, his last performance being in I Claudius. He has also written books and many scripts both for television and radio. As a free lance theatre director he has worked in theatres throughout the country as well as in London and California. He founded the Horseshoe Theatre Company in Basingstoke which he ran for seven years with seasons at the Haymarket Theatre and tours both local and national. On televison he has produced and directed many single plays / films and long running series such as Miss Marple (with Joan Hickson) and Love Hurts with Zoe Wanamaker and Adam Faith. He was Head of Drama for the SelecTV group.

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Graduating from The Drama Studio London in 1977, Roman has enjoyed working almost non-stop in his 33year career.

His forté has been devising visual and physical theatre with a strong understanding of the technical aspects. Having joined Polka Theatre as an actor in 1980 he was asked to become the Associate Director and has worked consistently with Polka for 31 years, directing over 60 shows, helping it to become one of Britain’s leading theatre companies for children along with world wide recognition. Over the years he developed his devising, mime and puppetry skills and has been able to help actors to lose their doubts and inhibitions of puppetry, developing their own skills in manipulating objects and puppets.

As a an actor he has played various roles at Polka, West End and on TV including a variety of commercials. Roman has worked with; the Henson Organisation, Spitting Image and even helped animate Kate Bush's last pop video. Along with ALRA Roman has directed at East 15 and Drama Studio as well as master classes with CSSD and RADA. As a puppetry consultant Roman has assisted in productions with, to name a few; Birmingham Stage Company, Savvy Theatre, Pied Piper, Watershed Productions and WebPlay.

Adam has been acting professionally since the age of five. He has performed in many children’s theatre productions and has very strong opinions about how they should appeal. In December 2005 he was able to express some of his ideas as an actor/deviser in The West Yorkshire Playhouse production, ‘The Magic Paintbrush’…

'In the plastic-fantastic age of hi-tech counter attractions for children, the power of storytelling is still paramount, and nowhere can do that better than theatre, where imagination costs nothing but opens a window to everything…these 55 minutes are a brush with magic.'

Charles Hutchinson, York Evening Press.

The response to this piece encouraged Adam to approach Northern Broadsides with a proposal for a children’s show. The Water Babies became his directorial debut with Northern Broadsides in 2007…

'Theatrical invention, boundless energy, choreographed ensemble performance, clever transformations and hearty music make Sunderland’s debut tremendously promising' Charles Hutchinson, York Evening Press.

As a director, Adam has developed a rehearsal process based on his experience as a professional actor, working with directors such as Nicholas Hytner, Michael Grandage, Barrie Rutter and Lee Beagley.

One of his biggest influences however is the internationally acclaimed director David Glass whom he has worked with several times. David gave Adam the opportunity to assistant direct the re-tour of his Ensembles’ flagship piece Gormenghast and since then has mentored Adam’s move into direction.

In 2008, Adam directed Heidi, A Goat's Tale for Northern Broadsides. The show was wonderfully received across the country, made its way into the best pick lists of The Guardian, Indepenent and Times and was nominated for the T.M.A. Best Play For Children and Young People Award…

'With Adam Sunderland directing, there is much imaginative work to enjoy' Kevin Berry, The Stage

Adam was also movement director on Broadsides’ Accidental Death of an Anarchist and has directed two shows at Edinburgh Festival as well as Puck’s Dream and The Dumb Waiter at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

Rob Swinton is an actor, writer and director with a career extending over thirty years. Trained as a teacher of Drama and English, he worked as Head of Drama in a Leeds comprehensive for five years, before retraining as an actor at Studio 68 in 1979/80. As an actor he has toured in two one-man shows, worked in the West End, on no 1 Tours, regional repertory theatres, at the Royal National Theatre and the Almeida, as well as on Radio (for a while on “the Archers”, frequently harassing the Grundy family), Television and in film.

At the beginning of his career he was asked to write and direct a community show in Birmingham for Second City Theatre, and has juggled acting and directing ever since.

He has been working as a guest director in Drama schools since 1996, and ALRA in particular, since 2004, specialising in classical texts within the three year course and the OY course, having specialised in renaissance drama texts in his MA at Oxford. He has also worked a great deal with new writers, as actor, director and dramaturge, a role he would like to give more time to. His next play “No one shot the Secretary of State for Education” is now underway.

Natalie trained as an actor at Drama Centre London and has gained extensive experience in the business working with acclaimed actors and directors including Samuel West, Chris Honer, Douglas Hodge, Tim Piggot-Smith, Sir. Nicholas Hytner, Meera Syal and more.

Theatre credits include See How They Run (West End and Tour - Olivier and Whats on stage awards runner up 2006)), As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare company and Sheffield Crucible), Gallithea (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rafta, Rafta (National Theatre - Olivier Award winner 2007) What the Butler Saw (Salisbury Playhouse) The Importance of Being Earnest (Library Theatre Company), Tiger at the Gates (National Theatre), Merlin and the Woods of time (Chester Open air) and most recently played Rosalind in Nikolai Fosters acclaimed production of As You Like It.

Television Credits include Doctors (BBC), Jam and Jerusalem (BBC) and Coronation Street (Granada TV). Also, Silver Street for BBC radio Birmingham.

Natalie works as a freelance voice tutor specializing in phonetics, RP and accents and alongside ALRA teaches and directs at the Arden School of Theatre and runs acting and text workshops for the Library Theatre Company, Manchester and Actors Centre North. She has recently developed a professional development scheme for the Library Theatre Company, ‘Playing Up North’.

`Natalie studied voice under Stewart Pearce (Master of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe for many years) and William Conacher (renowned accent and voice specialist in Theatre, TV and film) and has also worked with Kate Godfrey and Jeannette Nelson at the National Theatre and Cicely Berry at the RSC.

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Andy trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Since leaving Andy has gained a teaching qualification and works with various groups around the North West, teaching Youth theatre, Private Classes, BTEC and 'A Level' as well as other speciality projects. 

Andy has worked in theatre and TV professionally, but more recently his work includes an ITV commercial and a BBC Radio play. He has done extensive Corporate and Roleplay work and has an Advanced Certificate in Stage Combat.

Andy is excited to be working at the new ALRA North.

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Teaching Staff (Visiting Directors)

Phil Clark trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama where he studied for a Diploma in Theatre Arts and a teaching qualification.

His professional career began as a founder member of Theatr Powys before becoming a founder member of Bruvvers Theatre Company based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 1983 he joined Tyne Wear Theatre Company as a Director and established and directed Britain's largest annual Youth Theatre Festival. 

The position of Artistic Director at the Crucible Theatre in Education and Community Theatre followed. While in Sheffield, Phil was also on the advisory panel for Tertiary Education for Sheffield Education Authority and established a programme of training for school governors on 'Theatre for Young People'.

He was appointed Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Sherman Theatre Cardiff in 1990. He prioritised new writing and commissioned some 104 new plays for the company.   In 1993 he was nominated BBC Artist of the Year.

He received the Arts for Young Audiences Award from the Commonwealth Conference for Young People in Canada.  He has edited two new books of Welsh plays and a collection of his plays has been published by Oberon Books.

Teaching Staff (Public Productions)

Ned Glasier is the Director of Islington Community Theatre.  He last worked with Company of Angels on A Story and a Song (Soho Theatre) as part of Young Angels - New Writing for Children in 2008.  Other recent work includes You Me Us by Pete Lawson (Pyramid Theatre) and Success by Nick Drake with Islington Youth Theatre, which has been selected to be performed at the National Theatre as part of the New Connections Festival 2009.

Recent directing credits include ‘The Entertainer’ at Lichfield Garrick and his widely acclaimed production of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ with Matthew Kelly at Trafalgar Studios . Will be directing UK tours of ’Stop Four Hearts’, a new play by Rachel Edwards in the Autumn of this year and the stage version of Stephen King’s ‘Misery’ in Spring 2010. As an actor he most recently starred as Bill in the West End production of ‘Mamma Mia!’ and as Richard Greatham in the UK tour of Sir Peter Hall’s production of ‘Hay Fever’.

Max trained on the National Theatre Directors' Course, studied Theatre Directing at the Drama Studio London and Fine Art (Painting) at Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Assistant Directing includes: Sean Holmes 'Treasure Island' (Haymarket Theatre) Tony Harrison and Bob Crowley ‘Fram’ (Royal National Theatre – Olivier), Peter Gill ‘The Voysey Inheritance’ (Royal National Theatre), Francesca Zambello ‘La Bohème’ (Royal Albert Hall), ‘Netia Jones ‘Susanna’ (Queen Elizabeth Hall), ‘Partenope’ (Linbury Studio), ‘Hansel and Gretel’ (Wilton’s Music Hall) and Aci, Galatea and Polifemo (Batignano Opera)

Directing includes: ‘Year 10’ by Simon Vinnicombe (BAC - Time Out Critics’ Choice) ‘Mariana Pineda’ by Federico Garcia Lorca (Arcola Theatre), ‘Vote By Ballot’ by Harley Granville Barker (Royal National Theatre – Platforms), NT Connections (Royal National Theatre and Brazil), ‘Wilde Tales’ by Oscar Wilde (Southwark Playhouse), ‘DNA’ by Dennis Kelly, ‘Mister Paradise and Other Plays’ by Tennessee Williams and ‘Grimm Tales’ adapted by Carol Ann-Duffy (Alra Theatre), Theatre Café (Unicorn Theatre), Sweet Peter By John Retallack (Muz Theatre – Amsterdam ‘Silk Road Tales’ (Shaw Theatre), ‘Routes’ and ‘The Glass Menagerie’ (Young Vic Studio), Penguin Café (Cochrane Theatre), Danger:Memory! By Arthur Miller (Calder Theatre), ‘The Carpenter’ (Soho Theatre – NAAA Festival), ‘Love and Understanding’ and ‘Blue/Orange’ (Soho Theatre Studio), ‘La Ronde’ (Edinburgh Festival).

Max Key was invited last year to participate in the ‘European Directors’ Festival in Strasbourg and Rennes (TNB) with his critically acclaimed production of ‘Year 10’.

Titania trained at the University of Birmingham and Central School of Speech and Drama and has an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University, where she completed her first novel for teenagers, Fallen Wings.

Her writing credits include an adaptation of The Little Match Girl (Salisbury Playhouse) and The Real Boy, a version of Pinocchio for 7-11 year olds (RADA and London schools tour). Titania also wrote and directed Beauty Sleeps at the Young Vic in 2002. It was translated into German and performed at the Theater der Jungen Welt in Leipzig in 2005. She was commissioned to write Something Wild, a storybook encouraging children to engage with artwork, by The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 2009.

More recently Titania directed Diane Samuels’ play How to Beat a Giant (Unicorn Theatre, 2007) and worked with Pentabus and Kindle theatre companies as Dramaturg and Associate Director of their summer project Underland, a site-specific piece at Clearwell Caves (2008).Titania works regularly with drama schools across London as a director and tutor. She has also assisted on several projects at the RSC, Lyric Hammersmith and Young Vic and was Arts Council Trainee Director with Shared Experience and Salisbury Playhouse in 1998.

Katie Lewis trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck College and as Resident Assistant Director for The Library Theatre Company. Katie also worked as an Assistant Director for The Off Broadway Theatre, The Flea, in New York.

Directing includes:  The Summer Display (Off Cuts, Old Red Lion), Eight (Lowry Studio), Mr Happiness, The Jewish Wife (Library Theatre), Unmanned (Miniaturists, Arcola) Fractures, The Mixer (Slice, Theatre 503) Shelflife (Old Red Lion), Spoonface Steinberg (Etcetera, King's Head) and various rehearsed readings of new plays at The Library Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factor, Brian Friel Theatre and Blue Elephant Theatre.  

Katie works as a freelance workshop leader and tutor for The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Churchill Theatre Bromley and Arts Educational Schools London.  Katie is currently devising the first stage of an Artist Development Programme for Manchester Library Theatre and developing a new play titled The Firewatchers by Bruntwood finalist Laura Stevens.

Sophie trained with the National Theatre's Young Company. She read Drama and German at the University of Bristol and went on to study directing at Drama Studio London.

Sophie’s production of “Retreat” by James Saunders won a FringeReview award for Outstanding Theatre Show at the Edinburgh Festival 2007 and transferred to the New End Theatre.

Recent directing projects include “Numbers” (King’s Head Theatre), “My Best Friend” (Courtyard Theatre), “Deepcut: Scenes from an Inquiry” (Landor Theatre), "The Game" (Liberties Bar) and co-directing new musical “Pages”

(Pacific Playhouse). Assistant directing work includes “The Vagina Monologues” (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), “Wolves at the Window” (Arcola Theatre), “The Shadowmaster” (Kings Head Theatre), ”Die Söhne der großen Bärin” (Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin). She produced the Theatre Café Europe Youth Encounter 2007/ Theatre Cafe Festival 2008 with Company of Angels (Unicorn Theatre/ Southwark Playhouse).

Kwong trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and studied Balinese mask movements in Bali after obtaining a Masters degree in classical Asian and Greek theatre forms.

Directing credits include plays by Mishima, Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money (in Hong Kong), All Nudity Shall be Punished and Our Lady of the Drowned (Time Out Critic’s Choice), by Brazil’s foremost playwright, Nelson Rodrigues. Other productions include Rashomon, DOGS, Darkness in the Wooden Bell, Festival for Fish, staged playreadings at Soho, Hampstead Theatre and Birmingham Rep.

Kwong regularly directs at the Birmingham Rep on their new writing programmes with young writers. He also runs directing and acting workshops in London and Asia. 

He is joint Artistic Director of StoneCrabs, and a founder member of Yellow Earth Theatre, with a great interest in international theatre works and genres.

Ken graduated in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He was Artistic Director of the Old Red Lion Theatre, London from 1988 – 2002.

Recent directing/designing credits include: REGOLITH by Chris Lee at the Finborough Theatre, Jan 2010, DOIG THE MUSICAL WITH NO SINGING, NO DANCING AND VERY LITTLE MUSIC by Greg Freeman at the Tabard Theatre, Sept 2009, THE CRUCIBLE, PUNISHMENT WITHOUT REVENGE, ROAD all Bellairs Playhouse, Guildford. A NIGHT OUT by Harold Pinter , Electric Theatre, Guildford, SPITE THE FACE by Greg Freeman, New End Theatre  & Underbelly Caves, Edin. & Lon. ICE CREAM & HOT FUDGE by Caryl Churchill, Wimbledon Studio THE COMING OF GOWF AND OTHER GOLFING TALES by P. G. Wodehouse adaptor/dir, Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and Old Red Lion Theatre, KATHMANDU by Greg Freeman, Pleasance Dome & Menier Theatre,  London Edinburgh SLAP by Knight, Smiley & McClymont,  The Stand, Glasgow BURNING BRIGHT by Seamus Finnegan, Soho Theatre WAITING FOR THE ANGELS, MURDER IN BRIDGPORT, DIASPORA JIG and LIFE AFTER LIFE all by Seamus Finnegan, Old Red Lion Theatre, THE TIMEKEEPERS by Dan Clancy, SANTA’S WAR STARS IN SPACE writer/director, A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE by Thomas Middleton, THE ARRANGEMENT by Hana Azulay-Hasfari and Michal Vered, CELEBS by Sam Tilley & Ben Smith, ASSOCIATES writer / director, COME DANCING by Sam Tilley, EAT THE ENEMY by Chris Lee, THREESOME by Laurence Pritchard, THE AMBER ROOM by Michael Black, REDEMPTION by Michael Skelly, GRAVE PLOTS by David Kane, BLACK DOVE by Robin Keys, GOLDEN OWN GOAL by Paul Pavitt, HUMMINGBIRD by Chris Lee, SANTA STOLE MY GIRO by K. Carney, UNTIL DAVE…! by Julian Perkins, THE BOYS OF SUMMER by Roy Smiles, AFTERS by K. Carney, END OF THE ROUND by Glen Neath, STRAIGHT TAILED BILL by Tim Blackwell WON BEST DIRECTOR AWARD LNPF, RAT PLAY by Michael Skelly, THE RISING OF THE  MOON by James Doherty and THE SLAB BOYS by John Byrne, WON BEST PRODUCTION OF A COMEDY AWARD Charrington London Fringe Awards (all Old Red Lion Theatre).

Other productions include: HOTEL PARADISO by Georges Feydeau, Mountview Theatre, BLOODY POETRY by Howard Brenton, Bellerby Theatre, Guildford, DANNY BOY by Roy Smiles, Palace Theatre, Westcliff, THE TRILOGY by Michael Smiley, Riverside Studios, London, THE PARTING GLASS by Michael Smiley, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, RE-CYCLING by Michael Smiley, Gilded Balloon Theatre, Edinburgh, AFTERS by K. Carney, Gilded Balloon Theatre, Edinburgh & Battersea Arts Centre, THE SEX COMEDIES by Iain Heggie, Watermans Art Centre & Edinburgh Fringe, JACK’S OUT by Danny Miller, Bush Theatre, London, POLITICS IN THE PARK by Iain Heggie, Tour-Spring 1993 Tron, Glasgow & Edinburgh Fringe.

He was Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director based at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow under the aegis of Michael Boyd (RSC) from 1992-94.

He WON OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO FRINGE THEATRE AWARD in recognition of consistent programming of an exceptional standard in 1989-1990. Charrington London Fringe Awards. He continues to produce paintings and designs (exhibited Gallerie Croissant, Brussels Nov. 09) and you can view more of his work at www.kenmcclymont.co.uk

Gareth is a theatre director based in Glasgow who makes work with a sense of play, innovation and investigation at its heart across a range contexts. His directing work includes Pause With A Smile (Arches/Traverse), Sandholm (Company of Angels/ALRA), Do a dance no-one can see you do and put it in a little bag (National Theatre of Scotland), Starting From Now (Strathilsa distillery), The Chrysalids (Lyceum Theatre) and Violent Night (Arches). As Associate director he has worked on Real Men Dream In Black And White (Eastwood Park theatre) and Crunch (UK Tour 2011/12).

As assistant director he has worked with Mark Thomson (Royal Lyceum) Pol Heyveart (Campo, Belgium), Graham McLaren, Simon Sharkey (National Theatre of Scotland), Richard Gregory (Quarrantine), Andy Arnold (Tron Theatre) and Graham Eatough (Suspect Culture).

Currently Gareth is Imaginate artist in residence creating several new pieces of work for teenage audiences including Educating Ronnie (due to open summer 2012) and Dede the Treeman (due to open autumn 2012).

Awards include Arches New Directors Award (2011), National Theatre of Scotland Emerging Artist (2008) and The Bruce Millar Award (2006).

Paul is Joint Artistic Director of Olivier Award-nominated Theatre503 for whom he has directed Salt Meets Wound, They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina (503/R4) and The Lifesavers (503/Colchester Mercury) for which he received a TMA nomination. 

Other recent credits include the West End premiere of Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye (ETT/Trafalgar Studios) and Breakfast with Mugabe (Bath Theatre Royal)  He also directed Who Killed Mr Drum? (Riverside Studios), World’s End (Pleasance / Trafalgar Studios) and the West End transfer of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Having graduated from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he received the Arts Council Bursary at the Manchester Royal Exchange for whom he directed Isolated Children in Far Away Places and Bus Stop. He was further selected to attend the National Theatre Studio’s Directors’ Course. He was then Staff Director on five consecutive shows at the National Theatre, where he directed Falstaff and Duck Variations.

He is a fervent advocate of new writing being the lifeblood of the theatre and has developed new plays at many of the country's leading theatres. 

Tim Roseman is Joint Artistic Director of Theatre503, where his productions include Breed, Peter and Vandy, This Much Is True, Natural Selection, The Final Shot and Decade.

His other theatre directing credits include: Overspill (Soho Theatre, Churchill Theatre, Bromley), Don Juan Comes Home from the War (National Theatre Studio), Skittles are a Reason to Live (BAC), The Arab–Israeli Cookbook (Gate/Tricycle), revival of Journey’s End (New Ambassadors), A Number (Dailes Theatre, Latvia), You Might As Well Live (New End), To My Man (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford/Haugesund Teater, Norway), Lovers (New End), Così (New End), What Didn’t Happen (Old Vic), 90 Minutes (Southwark Playhouse), Blackrock (Young Vic), Recruitment (King’s Head), Karen Morris Tribute (Old Vic), Our Town (Warwick Arts Centre), On Cigarette Papers (Old Vic/RADA), Kingdom on Earth (Landor), Nearly All Sondheim (Greenwich Playhouse).  

He has worked extensively in new writing and has developed plays with the Old Vic, Young Vic, Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Pleasance, Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh), Caird Company and RADA. He was Joint Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s New Directions season.

He has worked in many of the country's leading drama schools where his productions have included: The Winter’s Tale, The Plough And The Stars, Good, Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, The Good Hope, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Love For Love, The Good Person Of Szechwan, The Women Of Troy.

Dan is Artistic Director of Real Circumstance Theatre Company. Recent credits include: A Lady of Letters, Lough/Rain, LIMBO and Inside/Out. Previously Dan was a staff director at the National Theatre, working for Mike Leigh. Dan trained at the National Theatre Studio and RADA.

Daljinder has previously directed 'The Trial', 'Fewer Emergencies', 'The Penal Colony', 'The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari', 'Heer Ranjha' and 'The Indian Wants the Bronx'.

She has previously worked with Citizen's Theatre and TAG, The Arches, Tramway, Traverse, Playwrights Studio, National Theatre Scotland and Young Vic. Daljinder has been the recipient of The Arches Award for Stage Directors and the Jerwood Award for Directors.

Theatre includes: The Laramie Project (Arts Educational School); Gut Girls (ALRA); The Bogus Woman (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Pacifiers (Present: Tense 9, Southwark Playhouse); The Disorderly Women (Arts Educational School); The Memory of Water (ALRA); The Promise (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio); The Giving of Flowers (Bite Sized Festival, Theatre 503); After Miss Julie (Nottingham Playhouse); A Kind of Alaska (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Last Days of Mankind (Warwick Arts Centre). Also rehearsed readings of various new plays at Soho, Leicester Haymarket, Lakeside Arts Centre, Warehouse Theatre, Farnham Maltings and Theatre 503.

As associate director: All Quiet on the Western Front (UK tour for Nottingham Playhouse) and Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down (The Arcola).

Zoë was the recipient of the New Wimbledon Theatre’s Emerging Directors Award 2007.

Max Webster read English at Cambridge then trained at the Lecoq school in Paris and the Odin Teatret in Denmark. In London his work has been seen at the Riverside Studios, Southwark Playhouse, Soho Theatre, Arcola, Unicorn Theatre and Theatre503. Internationally he has directed Feast Kakulu and Carnival Under the Rainbow for the Hilton Festival in South Africa, The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Aarohan in Nepal and El Mono for Hopballehus in Argentina. He has also worked as an assistant to Eugeio Barba and Simon McBurney, and is currently an associate of Company of Angels.

Jenny directs and teaches at several drama schools, most recently directing Lysistrata and Caucasian Chalk Circle at ALRA and My Night With Reg at Drama Studio, where she is also a tutor.

Jenny has directed new writing for companies such as Paines Plough, Hull Truck, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Manchester Contact Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, London New Play Festival and the Brighton Festival, including the premiere of Peter Nichols’ new play So Long Life; Everlasting Rose (Judy Upton); Lady Chill (Kay Adshead) and Workers’ Playtime (Toby Whithouse).

She has also worked as a dramaturg and on script development with Paines Plough, North West Playwrights, Yorkshire Playwrights, The Actors’ Centre and Show of Strength Theatre Company. Jenny has also directed for Shakespeare’s Globe: Women, Beware Women, The Devil’s Law Case, Custom of the Country, The Tragedy of Hoffman, Selimus, The Fair Maid of the Exchange, John a Kent, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labours Lost, King Lear and Richard III. For the National Theatre Studio: A Trick to Catch the Old One and A Mad World, My Masters.

Jenny has worked as Associate Director to Michael Blakemore on Afterlife by Michael Frayn at the National Theatre; Democracy by Michael Frayn at the National Theatre; Wyndham’s Theatre, West End; Broadway, New York and Sydney Theatre Company; Embers by Christopher Hampton at the Duke of York’s Theatre, West End and Three Sisters at the Playhouse Theatre, West End. Also as a Resident Director: Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall at the Duchess Theatre, West End and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter at the National Theatre and Stadsschouwberg Theatre, Amsterdam (both with Roger Michell) and The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson with Matthew Warchus at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Dee Evans originally trained as an actress at LAMDA, but after two years performing in rep, her career moved behind the scenes. Dee joined Shakespeare and Company in America, and on her return to England she spent eight years developing the education and community work for the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Whilst in Plymouth, Dee directed various productions and became a producer before moving to the Mercury Theatre Colchester where she is Artistic Director.

Dee began to establish the Mercury Theatre Company in 1998. For the company she has directed King David, Man of Blood, Julius Caesar, Devils Advocate (Which went on to be performed at the 2006 Edinburgh festival), Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Provoked Wife. She returned to acting in 2009 appearing for the Mercury Theatre Company as Martha in Through the Leaves and Flora in the 2010 production of A Slight Ache.

In 2008 Dee was awarded an honorary degree by University of Essex. 

Samuel Dore has been a London-based freelance film maker since 2000, and works in all genres of film. His work is primarily focused on drama and music videos; he’s won awards for his short films and has been developing a music video portfolio with mainstream bands. He’s also worked in television making short VTs for See Hear, Vee-TV and Wicked!

His website is www.bursteardrum.net

Teaching Staff (Film Directors)

Course Co-ordinator [North]

Emma began her professional Theatre training at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts where she attained a high honours degree in Theatre, specialising in Movement and Contemporary Dance. After graduating she joined Ludus Dance Company in Lancaster as their Resident Apprentice. At Ludus, Emma trained across the company ultimately focusing her training within Dance Development. Teaching across a broad spectrum Emma experienced teaching movement to all ages and abilities and continues to work in Arts Organisations across the North.

Choreographing for a number of Youth Dance Companies Emma has enjoyed seeing her choreography performed both nationally and internationally. In addition to teaching Emma is a founder member and performer of the Contemporary Dance Company, Out of Bounds.

More recently Emma has successfully completed her GTP in conjunction with Edge Hill University where she was awarded ‘Outstanding’ in all areas.

Teaching Staff (Foundation Course)

Course Co-ordinator [South]

Diane joined ALRA in 2008 before which she toured professionally as dancer with The Dance Movement, Movement Angol, Adzido Dance, Sakoba Dance Theatre, Méta Méta, Mashango Dance Company. She worked with Holders Season from Barbados at the Edinburgh Festival.

Diane is a movement and dance tutor at a number of drama schools in London – Central School of Speech and Drama, ALRA, East 15 Acting School, and Mountview  – working across Foundation, BA and MA courses. 

Her movement direction and theatre choreography credits include The Relapse (Embassy Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama), Lola (Preview Tour, Trestle Theatre) and All About It (Little Fish Theatre Company).  Diane trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Teaching Staff (Foundation Course)

Gary trained as an actor at Guildford School of Acting and has worked throughout the UK in film, theatre, television and radio. It was because of his love of language and teaching he completed his Masters Degree in Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Gary currently teaches voice in various institutions around London. Furthermore, has coached on a variety of professional shows, such as Romeo and Juliet (The Chocolate Factory) Reverie (The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh) The Arsonists (Watford Palace Theatre) In His Image (Hampstead Theatre) and the award winning Play on Words at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. Finally, Gary is currently investigating the ‘Choral Voice’ and the ‘Actors Ensemble’ trying to push its boundaries through an understanding of voice, movement and audience participation. This has led to Gary directing a short Greek tragedy as part of the Battersea Arts Centre Scratch Project in October 2011, which involved a group of second year ALRA students. 

Samuel Dore has been a London-based freelance film maker since 2000, and works in all genres of film. His work is primarily focused on drama and music videos; he’s won awards for his short films and has been developing a music video portfolio with mainstream bands. He’s also worked in television making short VTs for See Hear, Vee-TV and Wicked!

His website is www.bursteardrum.net

Bristol-born David Ellington landed his first experience of acting in the Deaf Festival at the Swan Theatre in 1997. Since then, his career has flourished. David’s roles have been diverse, including film, theatre, television drama and BSL presenting. David is a Graeae Associate Artist, and a director of VS1 Productions. He is the Education Director of DRoots Theatre Company – www.droots.co.uk.

Course Leader

Ria has been working as a Stage and Production Manager since graduating with a degree in Technical Theatre in 2004. Since starting her career at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, Ria has gone on to work in venues such as Buxton Opera House, Hackney Empire, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As well as working extensively in the West End and on many touring productions, Ria has worked at many music events and festivals such as Glastonbury.

Nik studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts, specialising in Animation.

After working for clients such as Bloomberg and the V&A he's moved into the practice of Stage Design.Nik has just designed the world premier of Peter Morris’ The Death of Tintagel, directed by Vik Sivalingam of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by the design for a staged reading of Wallace Shawn’s The Fever.

Nik continues to work for various theatre collectives including Behind the Bikeshed and SaltPeter Productions. Through his stage work he’s worked with various people and venues including, Dave Ball (Soft Cell), The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The People Show and The Courtyard Theatre.

Teaching Staff (Lighting Design)

Aideen trained in Dublin and London. She has worked extensively in theatre, dance and opera since 1994. Some of the companies she has collaborated with are; English Touring Opera, Theatre Rites, Clod Ensemble, Akram Khan Company, Angika Dance Company, Bush Theatre and Paco Pena.

For information on Prema pleas view this website:

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Ian studied at Rose Bruford College and since graduating has designed the lighting for a variety of scales and styles of shows including straight plays, musicals, opera, comedy and site specific theatre in a shop, a tent and a nightclub.

Credits include: Timon of Athens (Cardboard Citizens / RSC), Woyzeck (Cardboard Citizens), The Shy Gas Man (Southwark Playhouse), Inglorious Technicolour (Scarborough), The Wizard of Oz (New Theatre, Oxford), The Importance Of Being Earnest, (Manchester Library Theatre and UK Tour), The Smallest Person (Trestle Theatre Co UK tour), Charity Wars (Pleasance, London), Beauty & the Beast, Hans Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales (Creation, Oxford), It's Now Or Never (Chester Gateway), Cor Blimey, Wait Until Dark, Darkness Falls, Three Steps To Heaven and Passport To Danger (Watford), Talent (Mercury Colchester), Lucia di Lammermoor (New Sussex Opera) and An Italian Straw Hat (Trinity College of Music).

Ian is a Professional Designer member of the Association of Lighting Designers.

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Teaching Staff (Lighting Design)

Teaching Staff (Stage Managers)

Teaching Staff (Stage Managers)

Natasha Brain

Design work includes set and costume for Brighton Beach Scumbags at The King’s Head Theatre; A Patriot for Me, The House of Bernarda Alba, Undiscovered Country, and Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, for the Actors’ Company at the New Players Theatre; Measure for Measure for Reckless Endeavour, New Players Theatre; Copenhagen, Tabard Theatre; Lucia di Lammermoor, Diva Opera (touring); Warm, Breathing, Talkin’ Loud, Roger and Vanessa, and Fishbowl, all at Theatre 503; costumes for The Baby at ALRA, The Tempest at CSSD, and One Glass Wall at Theatre 503; set design for the Puppini Sisters concert, Bloomsbury Theatre; and La Traviata and The Marriage of Figaro, Hampstead Garden Opera. Recently Belle has worked at Peckham Shed with the children’s and youth theatre groups, in event design and as an art director for film.

Belle trained at Motley.

Teaching Staff (Wardrobe)

Teaching Staff (Wardrobe)

Teaching Staff (Wardrobe)