Course: Musical Theatre in Performance
Lynne trained at the Lillian McNeil School of Dance in Glasgow. Since graduating she has worked in Britain and all over the world as dancer and choreographer, notably with Latoya Jackson at the Moulin Rouge. She is choreographer and co-founder of an internationally renowned swing show which has toured in the UK and Dubai and her work ranges from stage and screen to fashion and pop videos. Lynne is resident jazz teacher at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and is resident jazz teacher and choreographer at the Dance School of Scotland and with many theatre credits to her name.
Course: Musical Theatre in Performance
Jodie was the first student of Musical Directing at Mountview Academy; prior to this she studied music at Edinburgh University, specialising in piano accompaniment, and as a youngster trained with the National Youth Music Theatre.
Recent credits as MD include: Hey Mr Composer (York Opera House); SLP Showcase (Criterion Theatre, London); Oklahoma (SLP); Godspell (SLP); Anything Goes (Arts Ed), Diary of Me (Trafalgar Studios, London) and Cabaret (Mountview).
As Assistant MD: Little Shop of Horrors (UK Tour); Mathilde (Vaudeville Theatre, London) and Titanic (Shaw Theatre, London).
Recent credits as composer include: 'Flashmob' and 'Aberfan', both for Youth Music Theatre UK. As audition pianist / accompanist she works nationwide, and regularly teaches singing and repertoire.
Course: Musical Theatre in Rehearsal
Ian has worked in most areas of Theatre starting as a director and moving into acting. Both careers have run parallel working on or being in many regional, national and international productions.
He also is the winner of three International student drama awards for The Threepenny Opera (America), Of Mice and Men (Germany) and Serious Money (France).
Theatre: The Dumb Waiter; The Devils; The Beaux Stratagem; Thark; The Lesson; The Exception and the Rule, in Newcastle. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Odyssey; The Dumb Waiter in Milford Haven. Element of Doubt, Sons of Light; As Time Goes By; The Beggars Opera in Ipswich. National tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Relatively Speaking, Vanity Fair, King Lear, Threepenny Opera, Faustus.
Television: The Bill (four episodes), Soldier Soldier, Holding On, Brazen Hussies, Blue Peter, When the Boat Comes in, Trial and Retribution (Series One and Two.), Micawber.
Film: Evita, Mountains of the Moon, Some Voices, Lamplight, Anxiety and Dear Rosie (Oscar, Best short film winner)
Directing: Be Prepared at Chichester Festival Theatre and The Actors Stage New York, University Theatre, Newcastle, Equus and Touch of Class, Leeds, By Appointment, Bye the Way, Touch of Class and Robin Hood. Ipswich, The Max Factor, Romantistan, Look back in Anger, Stags and Hens. Also in New York U.S.A. Torch Song Trilogy at The Actors Studio, Saved at The Yellow Space 53rd Street and Romeo and Juliet with The American Shakespeare Company.
Ian was also Artistic Director of The Dumfies and Galloway Theatre Arts Project from 87 to 89 directing over 20 productions and guest director with Interplay Trust Leeds, Millpond, Newcastle, Clerwood Theatre, Edinburgh, Bill Kenwright Productions, Tour (Resident Director), Rolling Stage, Ipswich, Polka Theatre, London, and many special events up and down the country. He also directed the UK tour of Hairspray the Musical, starring Michael Ball, Les Dennis, Brian Conley, Nigel Planer and Mickey Dolenz.
Ian is also a regular director at many Drama Schools such as Arts Educational Schools, London and Tring, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, E15 Drama School, Guildhall and APS London.
Course: Musical Theatre in Rehearsal
Dane read music at Nottingham University and Birmingham Conservatoire and his early career as a pianist took various forms as concerto and recital soloist, accompanist and opera repetiteur. He has broadcast many times on radio and TV and was a regular member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company music staff until its closure in 2003.
MD credits include Spend, Spend, Spend (Piccadilly Theatre), Singing in the Rain (National Theatre), Macbeth (RSC) and Into the Woods. Dane has been singing coach to many celebrity performers including Jason Donovan in Sweeney Todd, Maureen Lipman (Glorious), Barbara Dickson, Henry Goodman and Sir Willard White. Dane is an associate of the Royal College of Music and an entrant in the International Who's Who in Classical Music and in 2008 became head of music for the Musical Theatre Department at Arts Educational School in London.
Course: Sing Sing Sing
Pamela Rudge studied at the Royal College of Music and now combines a busy singing
career with the post of Head of Music at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Pamela is a freelance singer and performs extensively in oratorio, recitals and concerts in this country and abroad. She has sung as a soloist on Radio 3 and 4 and worked for HTV Television. Pamela also adjudicates and is much in demand for running vocal workshops for choral societies and theatre groups.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Course: RSC
The course will be tutored by highly experienced tutor from the world renowned Voice and Text department at the RSC
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Course: Acting Skills
Giles Foreman trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London under the renowned Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv. An academy that produced a host of Internationally celebrated actors including - Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Anne Marie Duff, Paul Bettany, Michael Fassbender, Geraldine James, Tom Hardy and many others.
Theatre credits include; Double Tongue (Border Crossings), Don Quixote (Gate Theatre), The Island (Eurocircles Tour – Georgia, Germany), A Language of Love (GIFT Festival, BAC), Shivah (Royal National Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Peter Hall Company – Haymarket Theatre, Merlin, The Broken Heart (Arts Threshold), Aubrey Beardsley in Beardsley (Stage One) and Boffi in Pirandello’s As You Desire Me (New End). T.V credits include Bonekickers, Warwalks, The Bill, 100 per cent and his film work includes Trigger Tiger, Napanee, The Cave, Summer Suite, Red Wolf and The Changeling.
His directing work includes: Macbeth, The Other Side of the Wall (Tristan Bates Theatre), Hilda by Marie Ndiaye (Pentameters Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival for the Caravanserai), The Wall – a piece Giles created and directed after a two year process in which he visited the Saharawi Refugee Camps in the Southern Algerian Saharan desert (performed as part of the Sandblast Festival Nov 2007), The Tempest (Central School of Speech and Drama), Dr Faustus (The Caravanserai at the Bridewell Theatre), Trenches (Pentameters). He co-wrote and directed Kicking Oscar’s Corpse (Man in the Moon – a true story dealing with human rights in Syria – the idea arising from a journalistic trip), ‘Joan of Arc’, ‘The Mayor of Zalamea’, ‘Britannicus’, ‘A Month in the Country’, ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’, ‘As You Like It’ (Drama Centre, London), ‘Party Time’ (Landor Theatre), ‘The Suspicious Truth’ by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (Garage Theatre) and ‘Armenia – A Thousand Branches’ (Hellenic Centre).
He is now one of the leading acting specialists in the UK and is the founder of Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studios based in London’s Ladbroke Grove.
He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, Berlin, The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin, Creative Education, The City Lit, NODA, Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel, the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia and the International Festival of Theatre, Athens, Greece. He has delivered workshops all over the world.
Giles has worked as an acting coach on many movies, these include, ‘Ruhestoerung’ directed by Robert Ralston, ‘Romeos’, the Swiss hit movie -'Grounding', 'Sunny Hill', 'Sennentuntschi' directed by Michael Steiner, and ‘Pedaleur du Charme’. Giles also worked as a coach on the Kooks video - 'Sway'.
He regularly coaches a whole range of actors before and during shoots, most recently he worked on ‘Immortals’ with Daniel Sharman and with Alex Gonzalez on X Men First Class.
Course: Greek Theatre for the Modern Actor
Stephe Harrop completed a practice-based PhD in 2007, exploring the physical performance of Greek choruses in modern poetic translation (Royal Holloway, University of London). Her subsequent research has largely been concerned with the performance reception of ancient tragedy and epic, with recent publications including ‘Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy’ (co-authored with David Wiles, 2008), and Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice (co-edited with Edith Hall, Duckworth, 2010). She is also a post-doctoral associate of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford), and teaches Greek drama and its later performance history at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths College (University of London), and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Stephe also works as a professional performance storyteller, re-telling telling extemporised versions of traditional oral narratives to audiences across the UK.In 2011 she was one of six emerging storytellers chosen to showcase their work at the Annual Gathering of the Society for Storytelling, and she also uses storytelling to promote public engagement skills within higher education. Her research in this area is particularly focussed on the challenges of telling historical narratives in live performance, and using this living practice of improvised epic performance in order to reflect on the surviving epics of ancient Greece.
Course: Directing for the Stage
Susie was born and bred in Fife, where she cut her theatrical teeth in the local companies Kirkcaldy Amateur Operatic Society and Fife Youth Theatre, before heading to London to train at The Royal Academy of Music in 1994. Her work as a performer has included West End and regional theatre.
She joined The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a Lecturer in Musical Theatre in 2009 and combines this with freelance directing and vocal consultancy. She founded her own theatre company The Melodramatics in 2004. ‘The Melos’ was formed to promote the development of amateur performers, whilst producing lesser known or rarely performed musical theatre productions. Many of the company’s alumni have gone on to study at some of the country’s top theatre schools.
Theatre:(includes) Olga/Sarrighina Nine (Donmar Theatre, London); u/s Madame Thenardier Les Miserables (National Tour); Ellen & u/s Aunt Eller Oklahoma! (Royal National Theatre), Eliza Doolittle My Fair Lady (Perth Theatre, Perth); Mrs Pembridge Whistle Down the Wind, Alyson Grand Night for Singing,
Film/TV (includes) Les Miserables 25th Anniversary O2 Concert, Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman and Maureen Lipman, Chess at the Albert Hall starring Josh Groban, Harry Bailey Show starring David Soul, The Royal Variety Performance 1998
Directing: Dunfermline Royal Command Performance 2010, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Secret Garden, Jeykll & Hyde, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Grand Night for Singing, Jesus Christ Superstar, Company
Associate Director: Sunday in the Park with George, In Touch, Oklahoma!
Course: Back to Black - exploring the role of the deputy stage manager
Mark Shayle is a graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has worked extensively in the theatre and corporate sectors, for many years as a freelance Stage, Company, Production & General Manager.
He is a former Course Director of the LAMDA Stage Management and Technical Theatre course. Currently he is working as the Senior Production Manager for M4 Entertainments planning projects such as the UK tour of Science Museum Live! and the stage version of Sky Ones Brainiac show. He combines freelancing with occasional Stage Management lecturing, supervision and seminar work. As an organised stage manager he undertakes productivity coaching and consultancy work under the banner www.theproductivedesk.co.uk for business’s and individuals 
Course: Musical Directors
Rob hails from Yorkshire and having been on stage in both leading roles and in the back row of the chorus, from lighting and stage management, he feels he has been through most jobs amateur theatre has to offer over the years. As well as directing theatre, he is chiefly known in the Midlands as a Musical Director and is equally comfortable on the keyboard or with a baton (although he usually uses a blue pencil!). Rob would say his main hobby is and has always been musical theatre. He has written, composed and arranged for bands, orchestras and chorus for many societies and groups in the UK.
Course: Lighting Design for the Theatre
George Thomson has worked in the theatre industry for over 30 years and is currently Technical Manager at Scottish Ballet. He also works as a freelance lighting designer and is a guest tutor at the RSAMD in Glasgow teaching lighting design.
George has lit over 400 professional productions around the world and presented work in a wide range of venues from Wick Town Hall to The Opera House in Paris.
Course: Sound Design for the Theatre
Paul is currently the Chief Electrician at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and has previously worked in the Lighting and Sound departments of several producing theatres around the country. This involved working as sound designer on over 30 professional productions including national tours and the West End, as production sound engineer on many musicals as well as sound supervisor on more than 50 professional plays.
Paul also has many credits as lighting designer and has been responsible for video in various forms for theatrical production as well as two years as Business development for two of the country’s leading theatrical suppliers.
Course: Physical Theatre
Naomi is an actress and theatre practitioner. As Creative Learning Practitioner for Frantic Assembly www.franticassembly.co.uk (whose productions include "Othello", "Stockholm", "Beautiful Burnout" and most recently "Lovesong") she has led workshops and residencies in physicality and devising at schools, colleges, universities, drama schools and theatres throughout the UK. For Frantic Assembly in 2010, she also co-directed Hold That Thought at London Southbank University, delivered educational activities for 'Beautiful Burnout', their co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and ran practitioner training workshops for the National Association of Youth Theatres. A movement tutor working for other companies including Birmingham DanceXchange, she has also delivered theatre making projects for Fairgame, Creation Theatre, Sixth Sense Theatre for Young People, Oxfordshire Youth Offending Service and Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre.
Naomi studied English Literature at The University of Birmingham, before going on to drama school, training at Birmingham School of Acting. She graduated in 2006 with distinction and was presented with the Brian Shelton Award for classical acting, representing the school in The Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare's Globe.
Naomi attended NODA as a participant in her teens when she was a member of Coventry Youth Operetta Group. She is delighted to be returning as a professional tutor for this exciting course.
Course: Mime
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