• Guest Teachers Biographies •
Betsy Allen: VOICE WORK (GUEST)
Betsy Allen was certified as an Associate Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher in 2003. She holds an MA in Voice Pedagogy and Voice Performance from New York University, where she studied individually with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Jonathan Hart Makwaia of The Roy Hart Theatre and also a BFA from NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. She has taught voice and speech for six years, including such places as Arts Ed, MA Acting, Kingston College, The Actors Centre and London Metropolitan University, and has performed as an actor, singer and voice over artist for over 15 years in Los Angeles, New York City and London. She is also a certified Pilates Mat instructor.
Rafael Bonachela: CONTEMPORARY (GUEST)
Rafael Bonachela founded Bonachela Dance Company in 2006 and is enjoying much success as the project’s Artistic Director and choreographer. He has recently finished his term as Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre in London and has been delighted to accept the appointment of Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company in Australia, which has just returned from a highly successful tour to the Venice Biennale Festival, Italy and Shanghai, China.
From being an outstanding dancer with Rambert Dance Company to being one of the world’s most intriguing and inventive young choreographers, Rafael’s career has seen him successfully bridge the divide between high and popular culture.
His career has included being Associate Choreographer of Rambert Dance Company to being sought after by artists such as Kylie Minogue and Tina Turner.
Rafael’s work has achieved critical acclaim worldwide and he is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the inaugural Place Prize in London. Rafael’s commitment to innovation has seen his work stretch to include film, musicals, television, live concerts, installation and theatre.
Chrissie Cartwright – GUEST DIRECTOR
Chrissie appeared in the West End musicals Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum and Blondel and in Variety at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace.
Television appearances include The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, There’s Something Wrong in Paradise, The Stanley Baxter Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Good Old Days and three Royal Command Performances. She appears in The Great Muppet Caper, Lassiter and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Chrissie staged and choreographed the West End productions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes The Musical and the London premiere of Mack and Mabel. She choreographed Matilda, The Entertainer, Devil’s Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, several pantomimes and – for The Guildhall School of Drama – On The Twentieth Century. She has choreographed for Millennium Performing Arts and for television, Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones and Hit Dancing. She did the musical staging for the Showbizpops Orchestra’s concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Chrissie was assistant director and choreographer on the London, New York and Australian productions of Five Guys Named Moe and was resident director and choreographer of the London production of Cats. She has re-created the direction and choreography of Cats for its UK tours and has mounted productions in Berlin, Madrid, Moscow, Antwerp and Amsterdam as well as assisting on the video of the show. She was associate to Gillian Lynne on The Likes of Us for the Sydmonton Festival, and Brick by Bricusse, was children’s director on Mary Poppins and resident director on Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat both in the West End. She recently finished the run as resident director on Sister Act at the London Palladium.
Daniel Crossley: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE (GUEST)
Theatre credits include: Hello Dolly, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Mary Poppins, UK tour; A Chorus Line, Sheffield Crucible; Twelfth Night, West Yorkshire Playhouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ripley Castle; I Really Must Be Getting Off, White Bear Theatre; Modern Dance For Beginners, Etcetera Theatre; Roast Chicken, Hen and Chickens; Abigail’s Party, Northcott Theatre, Exeter; Anything Goes, Love’s Labours Lost, Royal National Theatre; Trust, RNT Studio; As You Like It, Romeo And Juliet, Oh What A Lovely War, Desires Of Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labours Lost, Where’s Charlie, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Irek Mukhamedov And Co, Sadler’s Wells Theatre; Dorothy Fields Forever, Jermyn Street; Cats, New London Theatre; Fame, Cambridge Theatre; Song And Dance, European tour; Boyband, Derby Playhouse and Gielgud Theatre; Chicago, (original West End cast) Adelphi Theatre; Fosse (original West End cast), Prince Of Wales Theatre.
Television includes: Doctors, BBC; The Last Enemy, BBC; Coronation Street, ITV; Heartbeat, ITV.
Concerts include: Ruthie Henshall At The Royal Festival Hall, Chicago 10TH Anniversary, Cambridge Theatre; Anything Goes for BBC radio, Manchester Opera House.
Recordings include: Original cast recordings of: Chicago, Boyband, Anything Goes. The Best Of Ute Lemper.
Carlton Edwards: MUSICAL DIRECTOR (GUEST)
Theatre: Wolves in the Walls, National Theatre of Scotland/Improbable Theatre Co; Mamma Mia International Tour; Full Monty, Prince of Wales Theatre; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, London Palladium; Mamma Mia, Prince Edward Theatre; and Oliver! National Tour and Toronto; Animal Farm, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester; Cinderella, Buxton Opera House; Dream Nights and Twelfth Night Fever! Key Theatre, Peterborough; Chicago, Swedish Tour; and The Good Person of Sichuan, Regional Tour.
Composition: The scores for Patrick Sandford’s productions of Hamlet, Mary Stuart, 101 Dalmatians and Oedipus (which toured to Cyprus for the Greek Tragedy Festival); composed the music for theatre production of Maisie Mouse, Peter Pan, Polka Theatre; The Mandrake and The Snow Queen, Oxford Touring Theatre Company.
Kate Flatt: CONTEMPORARY (GUEST)
Kate is an acclaimed theatre choreographer and her career spans a wide field, nationally and internationally. Her work is embedded in a number of landmark productions including film, text-based theatre, opera and musical theatre. She has also worked with a range of contemporary dance companies, in educational contexts, and was a pioneer in emergent contemporary British dance. She was part of the original creative team of Les Misérables and has worked on the feature films Chaplin, and Restoration. She created The Dancing Room for BBC2, and contributed to the award winning opera productions Gloriana and Peter Grimes. In 2009 she revived Turandot in Washington DC, made dances for Merchant of Venice in Seoul, worked on Pains of Youth at the NT and Kreutzer Sonata at the Gate. In Spring 2010 she toured her dance theatre production Soul Play which next goes to South Korea. In Autumn 2010 she will direct and choreograph a new work: Songs From a Hotel Bedroom, a staging of American songs by Kurt Weill with tango dance, co-commissioned by ROH 2 for performances at the Linbury Theatre.
Michelle Hodgson – MUSICAL THEATRE & CHOREOGRAPHER (GUEST)
Michelle born in London, trained at the Royal Ballet School and The Arts Educational School.
Her West End credits include: Hunyak and Roxie in the original company of Chicago (Adelphi Theatre). Budgie (Cambridge Theatre), Cats (New London Theatre), Tess in Crazy For You (Prince Edward Theatre),Grease (Dominion Theatre), Marge in Spin (NT Studio), Natasha Smirnoff in Wimbledon (Fortune Theatre) and Vanya in Bumpy Ride (Greenwich Theatre).
Regional credits include: A Chorus Line (UK Tour), Oliver! (Crucible, Sheffield), the infamous RSC production of Carrie (Stratford /Avon & on Broadway), Pickwick (Apollo Theatre, Oxford) and Gladys Bumps in Pal Joey (Chichester Festival).
She lived in Germany for 3 years and appeared in Cats (Hamburg), Anything Goes (Theater Des Westens, Berlin), and Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris (Stray Cat Theatre Company). She created the role of Doreen in the original stage play of Fly Away. She was then asked to recreate her role for the film of Fly Away. Her most recent appearance was in a production of The Vagina Monologues.
Television credits include: Bluebell, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, Tuckers Luck, The Fame Game, Smack the Pony, Enchanted Autumn, Delivery, 100 greatest Love Songs and Do you blame me? Michelle was recently seen on the BBC in the ‘Do you do digital’ campaign.
She has also performed in, and staged corporate entertainment events and training modules for companies including Tiffany, Synergy, Eurostar, Pirrelli, BMW, Clear Channel, Sodexho Cable and Wireless and Leagas Delaney.
For Radio, Michelle has made many voice-overs and jingles and recordings include cast albums for Budgie and Chicago and I’ll give you the Strength a dance track she co-wrote.
However, her greatest credits are her two daughters Morgan and Ruby.
Bernadette Iglich: THEATRE REPERTOIRE (W’SHOP)
Bernadette’s career as a dancer and performer includes working for Tanztheater Wuppertal, ARC Dance Company, Siobhan Davies, Aletta Collins, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and many leading choreographers and directors in dance, opera and theatre.
She now works as both Director of Opera and choreographer for theatre and opera.
Opera and Theatre: The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO, OTC, Choreographer), Hansel and Gretel (Stowe Opera, Director), Sweeney Todd (RAM Choreographer), Who Killed Mr Drum (Treatment Theatre, Choreographer), Jenufa (ETO, Director), Orfeo (ETO Assistant Director), Jeptha (ETO, Director) Eugene Onegin (ETO, assistant Director and Choreographer), Marriage of Figaro (RCM assistant director and choreographer), Casanova (Told by an Idiot, Choreographer) Marriage of Figaro (Iford Arts, Director);
Dance: Void and Encounters (Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Riley Theatre, Leeds), Fluminis (Northern Ballet School, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester), Three Short Dance Pieces (London Studio Centre, Shaw Theatre, London).
Junior Laniyan: TAP DANCE (GUEST)
Junior is an accomplished actor/dancer having appeared on stage as Master Juba in Master Juba, Pete Spivy in Blues for Mr Charlie for the Tricycle Theatre, Kamel in D’you Know What I Mean and Him in Fifteen Minutes Before, both at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre. As a Dancer he has appeared in New York on Tap and Cross Currents Turned on Tap at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Robbie Williams Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Feet Fusion Tap Concert in Finland’s Gloria Theatre, Finding Synaesthesia at the Purcell Room, as well as Riverdance in Germany as well as the UK.
On screen he played The Photographer in Kill Kill Faster Faster & Private Bell in 28 Days Later. He has also worked extensively in numerous television productions including A Respectable Trade, Doctors, Rough Diamonds, If You See God Tell Him Prime Suspect 2 and Holby City for the BBC. Stealing Lives for Channel Four. Family Affairs for Channel Five as well as Twenty-Four Seven, Wavelength and Coronation Street for Granada Television.
In his efforts to share his love of the dance with others, he has taught numerous workshops in Greece, France, Finland, Italy and Estonia as well as the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Collin’s Performing Arts School, Danceworks, Mountview, the North London Performing Arts Centre, London Studio Centre, and Sylvia Young Theatre School. He is also a faculty member of Pineapple Studios London. Junior is also the co-founder & host of the London Tap Jam, which is held at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s club.
Jarkko Lehmus: BALLET (GUEST)
Jarkko was born in Finland and trained at the Finnish National Ballet School, Helsinki and Millennium Performing Arts in London. He has worked with the National Youth Dance Company, Fabulous Beast Dance Company in Dublin, Arc Dance Company, David Hughes Dance Company, Errol White Dance and performed in various operas at The Royal Opera House, The Colisseum, Opera Comique in Paris and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. He has also worked on commercial projects in Finland and in the UK including appearances at The Record of the Year Awards and The Brit Awards. Jarkko danced with Scottish Ballet from 2003 to 2009 creating roles in Page’s The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer), Cinderella (Father), Acrid Avid Jam, Night Swimming Into Day, Refurbished Behaviour, The Pump Room, The Sleeping Beauty (The King), Pennies From Heaven, Alston's Carmen (Zuniga, Captain of the garrison), Pastor's Romeo and Juliet (Capulet). He has also danced in Arthur Page's 32 Cryptograms, Room Of Cooks and Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Pastor’s In Light and Shadow, Loosmore’s Sirocco and Lull, Davies’ White Man Sleeps, Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Ashton’s Façade. Jarkko received a Herald Angel Award for excellence in his performance of Ashley Page works during Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005.
Stephen Mear: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE, CHOREOGRAPHER (GUEST)
Kiss Me Kate (CFT)
Crazy For You (Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Novello Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination for Best Choreography, Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival 2012)
She Loves Me Director and Choreographer (CFT)
Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre)
Shoes Director and Choreographer (Sadlers Wells Theatre, The Peacock Theatre)
Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible Theatre)
Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Olivier Award Nomination)
Hello Dolly, Gigi (Regents Park, Received Olivier Award for best Choreography in 2010 for Hello Dolly, Hello Dolly also won the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical 2009) Mary Poppins (joint choreographer with Matthew Bourne, london, Broadway, UK tour, US Tour and Australia, Received Olivier Award for best Choreography. Tony Award and drama desk nomination for best Choreography. Received LA Drama Circle Critics Award for best Choreography 2010 and in 2011 the Helpmann award in Australia for Best Choreography) The Little Mermaid (Broadway) Music Man, Funny Girl, How to Succeed, Putting it Together, The Grapes of Wrath (CFT) Sinatra (London Palladium, Olivier Award Nomination for best choreography, UK tour) On The Town (ENO, Paris) Acorn Antiques (London and UK Tour) Tonight’s the Night, (Victoria Palace Theatre) Anything Goes (National Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Olivier Award for outstanding Musical Production) Singing in the Rain (Yorkshire Playhouse, National Theatre and Tour, Olivier Award Nomination for best choreography) Witches of Eastwick (joint choreographer with Bob Avian, London and Australian Tour) The Three Musketeers (Rotterdam) Honk! (Japan and Singapore) Just So (CFT and North Shore Music Theatre USA) Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House) Stepping Out, Smoking With Lou Lou and Half a Sixpence (Yorkshire Playhouse) Soul Train (London and UK Tour, Olivier Award Nomination for best choreography) Of Thee I Sing (Bridewell Theatre) A Little Night Music (Japan) Bouncers and Women In Love (Derby Playhouse) Shakers (Northampton/Windsor) Love Off The Shelf (Harrogate /Nuffield) Snoopy (Watermill, Newbury) Grease (Athens Greece) She Loves Me (Canada) Ruthie Henshall in Concert (London and Tour)
IN 2009 STEPHEN ALSO BECOME ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER AT THE CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE. Music Video’s Number 1 – Goldfrapp The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis Television credits
Psychobitches - Samantha Spiro as Judy Garland (Sky Arts 2012)
So You Think You Can Dance (2009-2010)
Victoria Wood's Christmas Special (2009) (Stephen also appeared in the show as Nick from the apprentice)
WinkBingo.com (Advert 2009) Halifax (advert) Megamaths (two series) Monster Café Hanger 17 Showtime at the Stadium (Cardiff)
Riccardo Meneghini: CONTEMPORARY (GUEST)
Riccardo worked and collaborated with companies such as Russell Maliphant, Scottish Dance Theatre, DV8 Physical Theatre, Opera North, Transitions (Laban Centre), Zephir in Zanussi Dance Company. At the same time developing vocabulary in his own choreography working as a freelance performer and teacher. He performed dance pieces created by Didi Veldman, Janet Smith, Rui Horta, Carolyn Calrson, Liv Lorent, Jasmion Vardimon, Jan De Schynkel, Maresa von Stockert, Henry Oguike, Robert Moses, Beth Cassani, Michael Popper, Lucy Suggate, Sean Feldman, Victor Quijida, Annabelle Bonnary, Aletta Collins, Anthony Missen, Cristina Caponera. Riccardo teaches release technique, improvisation, composition, contact improvisation in the UK and abroad – in schools like Rotterdam Dance Akademie Codarts, Plasni Campus-Slovenia-Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Karl Morgan: JAZZ DANCE (GUEST)
Karl trained at Doreen Birds. Musical Theatre credits include: Cats (UK Tour and West End), Cats (Hamburg) playing Mistoffelees. Song And Dance, Guys and Dolls NT, Oh What a Lovely War NT, Billy Elliot original Cast.
Theatre credits: Two Gentle Men Of Verona NT, Merry Wives Of Winsor RSC, Coriolanus RSC, Midsummer Nights Dream Coventry.
TV credits: Wicked Commercials, Doctors BBC, Auf Wiedersehen Pet BBC, Peak Practice ITV.
Dance credits: Bolero with Sylvie Guillem.
Film credits: Cats, Phantom of the Opera.
Teaching credits: BBO, Millennium Performing Arts, National Youth Theatre Young Offenders Program, Heathfield Pupil Referral Unit, Barnet College, Movement Warriors.
Jo Morris – CHOREOGRAPHER (GUEST)
Currently Jo is working as Assistant Choreographer/ Dance Captain on Kiss Me Kate (Chichester).
Jo trained at Bodywork Theatre School & Millennium Performing Arts on The Doris Sonne Scholarship.
Theatre credits include: Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain in Crazy For You (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Assistant Rehearsal Director on Shoes (Peacock Theatre); Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain in Me & My Girl (Sheffield Crucible); Dance Captain/Onstage Swing in Shoes (Sadlers Wells); Assistant choreographer for Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal Haymarket & Menier Chocolate Factory); Assistant choreographer/Dance captain in the Olivier Award-winning Hello, Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Assistant choreographer for Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dance captain in On The Town (English National Opera/Coliseum, London & Chatelet Theatre, Paris); Assistant choreographer/Dance captain in Gigi (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Assistant choreographer for The Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wicked (Victoria Apollo); Sinatra (London Palladium); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Grease (Scandanavian Tour); Tonight’s The Tonight (Victoria Palace); Fame (UK Tour).
Workshops include: Shoes for Sadlers Wells; The Little Mermaid for Broadway; Mary Poppins for Broadway.
Other credits include; Assistant Choreographer to Stephen Mear on So You Think You Can Dance - Series 1 (BBC); Blessed (BBC); Celebrity Big Brother (Endamol); Rebourn (BBC); Bustamove (MTV) music video for Goldfrapp; Orange Mobile Phone commercial and Showtime at the Stadium (BBC).
Rachael Nicholson: ACTING (GUEST)
Rachel studied for the MA in Voice Studies at The Central School of Speech and Drama under David Carey. Since graduating Rachel has been teaching regularly at several drama schools in London including; ALRA, LAMDA, RADA, Mountview Accademy, Central School of Speech and Drama, Webber Douglas Academy and GSA Conservatoire.
Recent coaching, for professional productions, includes Peut Etre Theatre Company, The Revenger’s Tradgedy at the Southwark Playhouse and Crock of Gold for London Bubble Theatre. Before becoming a voice teacher Rachel worked as an actress for several years. Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Wimbledon Theatre), Alcina (Bath Theatre Royal), Knives in Hens (Wimbledon Theatre and tour), Trainspotting (tour), The Aspern Papers and Hamlet First Cut (Red Shift Theatre Company) and She Stoops to Conquer (Northcott Theatre, Exeter).
Rachel currently teaches voice at LAMDA, ALRA and at Millenium Performing Arts to BA and MA students. She is also course leader and acting tutor for ALRA’s Foundation acting course.
Joseph Pitcher: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE (GUEST)
Joseph trained at Millennium Performing Arts and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes: George Boleyn in Fallen In Love (The Round House and Tour), Buttons in Cinderella (Devonshire Park, Eastbourne), Will Parker in Oklahoma! (National tour), Thomas in The Ebony Box and Jonah in Cherry Picker(Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds), Silly Billy in Jack and the Beanstalk (Capitol, Horsham), Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale (Rendlesham Forest), Gordon in Dangerous Corner (New Vic, Stoke), Dick in Love’s A Luxury (The Mill at Sonning), Peter in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep), Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rendlesham Forest), Neal in Love and Understanding (Rosemary Branch), Charlie Brown in Snoopy (Jermyn Street Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and Lady Be Good (All Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Alice In Wonderland (Birmingham Rep), Anything Goes (National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Chicago (Adelphi), Singin’ In The Rain (National Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Sunset Boulevard (National Tour), The Boyfriend (National Tour), Me and My Girl (Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham), Elegies (Bridewell) and Of Thee I Sing (Bridewell).
TV and film includes: The Autograph, Sight Test, On The Boulevard, The Sacrament and Children In Need.
Choreography includes: Secret Garden (Mountview), Grand Hotel, Lucky Stiff and Kiss Me Kate (Guildhall), Sentimental Journey (Mill at Sonning, El Portal Theatre, L.A), Too Marvellous For Words (King’s Head and Mill at Sonning), That’s Love, That Old Feeling and Silver Wings (all Mill at Sonning), Aladdin (King’s Theatre, Glasgow), and Snoopy (Jermyn Street Theatre).
He will be working as a movement co-ordinator on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Olympics 2012. Joseph is also the co-creator of the board game ‘Game For Fame’.
Oliver Senton: ACTING IMPROVISATION (GUEST)
Trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), The Scarecrow and His Servant (Southwark Playhouse), The Lady’s Not For Burning (Chichester), Beyond The Front Line (Lowry Centre/Slung Low), Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Romeo & Juliet (BAC), The Mob (Orange Tree), A Christmas Carol (Taunton), The Invention of Love (Salisbury), Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby), Five Finger Exercise, Salad Days (Southwold) The Three Sisters (Harrogate). In London: Ripper/Sweetmeat (Terror 2007!, Union Theatre), The Warp (Deptford Albany, Millennium Dome), Sympathetic Magic, Natural Inclinations (Finborough Theatre), The Rose and The Ring (Hen & Chickens), Soap Opera (Caird Company), The TellTale Heart & Other Stories, New Work, The Starless Sky at Midnight (BAC, King’s Head, Pleasance Edinburgh), title roles in Macbeth (Greenwich Studio), The Jew of Malta (Rose Theatre) and The Wanderer (Drayton Court).
Oliver is a founder member of Showstopper – The Improvised Musical!, still playing regularly in theatres around London and beyond after a year and a half - see www.showstopperthemusical.com. He is a member of Ken Campbell's School of Night, with appearances including Décor Without Production (Royal Court), Shall We Shog? (Shakespeare’s Globe), In Pursuit of Cardenio (Underbelly Edinburgh) and Terror 2006 & 07 at The Union Theatre. He has also appeared in several marathon long-form impro shows, including the 2007 and 2008 50-hour London Improvathons and the mighty 53-hour Die Nasty Soapathon (2006) in Edmonton, Alberta.
TV: Hollyoaks, Bear Behaving Badly, The Friday Night Project, Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand, Cathedral, My Dad’s The Prime Minister (2 series), Casualty, Eastenders. Film: Wimbledon and short films Ex, Camera Attack, King of Toads. Radio includes: Bomber, The Casebook of Sherlock Homes, The Roads to Freedom, The Life of Galileo, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Duchess of Malfi and Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions.
Oliver has run workshops and courses for The National Student Drama Festival, The National Theatre of Scotland, The Actors Centre London and The Shakespeare Schools Festival, and is an Associate Artist of The National Youth Theatre.
Spencer Soloman: MUSICAL THEATRE; PAS DE DEUX (GUEST)
Spencer’s Theatre work includes Resident Director Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Resident Director/Choreographer Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre); Associate Choreographer A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (National Theatre); Choreographer The Old Vic Fund Raiser 2007 (Annabel's, Berkley Square); Assistant Choreographer Pardon My English (City Centre, New York); Resident Choreographer On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall).
As a performer, credits include Contact (Queens Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); TV and Film credits include Assistant Choreographer Beyond The Sea Directed by Kevin Spacey. The Royal Variety Performance; Comic Relief; Paul O'Grady Show; Blue Peter; Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Spencer trained at the Royal Ballet School and Sylvia Young's Theatre School. He has had a successful ballet career as a ballet dancer in companies such as The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Berlin Ballet, Dusseldorf Ballet, Duisburg Ballet, Bonn Ballet, Nice Ballet, and Basel Ballet.
Dott Atkinson: ACTING (GUEST)
Ciara Burrows: SINGING (GUEST)
Esther Ruth Elliott: ACTING (GUEST)
Peter Francis: ZOONATION (WORKSHOP)
Brendon O’Hea: ACTING (GUEST)
Kevin Rowntree: STAGE FIGHTING (WORKSHOP)
Timothy Sheader: ACTING (GUEST)
Harriet Thorpe: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE (WORKSHOP)
Bryn Walters: HAIRSPRAY (WORKSHOP)