Our Teachers

KAREN

  • Professional Actor for 25 Years

    Karen has played multiple leads in the West End, including Les Misérables (she played both female leads), Grease, Blood Brothers, and many others. She’s been in numerous big Pantomimes – so she has worked with a lot of celebrities. ‘Oh, yes she has’. She has just come back from doing a ‘number one’ tour of the country in the big new Take That Musical: Greatest Days.

  • Fully Qualified Teacher for 10+ Years

    Karen has taught drama and music from primary to GCSE. She’s taught LAMDA with her 100+ students all getting top marks. She has also taught at some of the UK’s top professional drama schools including the prestigious GSA (Guildford School of Acting), Laine Theatre Arts and D&B. Karen holds an MA in Voice.

  • And Has Sung for Her Dinner All Her Life

    Karen is a headline cabaret act who, along with being an experienced West End performer, has worked as a cruise ship singer all around the world. She played Candy in ITV's Peak Practice and has fronted numerous TV commercials. She has also been in rep theatre and regularly appears on radio.

JAY

  • BAFTA Nominated Children’s Show

    Jay wrote his own part in Channel 5’s TooMuchTV, nominated for the Best Children’s Entertainment Show BAFTA (sadly losing to Ant & Dec). He's also had lead parts opposite David Walliams, in 7 episodes of the Sky One Children’s sitcom BTV. He has appeared in a wide array of other Children's TV shows for Channel 4, ITV and Milkshake! on Channel 5.

  • Teaching and Coaching

    Jay has multiple coaching certificates. He worked as a volunteer to coach a SEND sports class for a couple of years. He has taught comedy, performance and writing courses to adults. And twice taught the month-long GSA Summer School. More recently he has taught children regularly both in school time and holiday clubs. Along with those sessions he also teaches the occasional master class for children having higher drama training.

  • 20+ Years of Making People Laugh

    Jay is in his sixth year of presenting a weekly London radio show. He’s also a headline stand-up comedian, and performs magic shows, along with his own hybrid 'comedy mentalism' both on stage, and on cruise ships. He was in a Sunday Times ‘top ten’ film of the year, starred in a feature with Martin Freeman, and tours (once or twice a year) the family friendly musicals he writes.

Jane and Andrew (Masterclass Teachers)

  • Puppet Masterclass

    Jane is an in-demand voice actor and currently has lead parts in various BBC Children’s TV Shows, one of which is the CBeebies' show Love Monster. Her production credits include EastEnders and Grange Hill for BBC Drama, The Tweenies, and the UK tour of Barnum. Those credits don’t even take into account her puppeteering work. After drama school she trained with the Jim Henson Company and now has over 20 years of puppeteering credits through the Jim Henson Company, the BBC (CBEEBIES), and touring companies.

  • Stage Combat Masterclass

    Andrew is one of the top Equity recognised fight directors. Over the years you will have, unknowingly, seen his work on TV and the Stage. He has also for over 20 years been the resident stage fighting teacher at the Guildford School of Acting, Lincoln University, and for the Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. He’s so experienced in teaching stage combat he hasn’t just written the book about it – he’s written two books.

  • Masterclasses

    Throughout the year we will have various Masterclasses. The Masterclasses are one off lessons, often taught by outside teachers, in subjects/disciplines not normally covered by stage schools. Many of our Masterclass Teachers are amongst the best at what they do. We believe this makes our performance classes the most exciting and most comprehensive on the market.