The Bridge Theatre Training Company

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Meet our Executive team!

Mark is one of our Joint Artistic Directors and the Director of our Shakespeare productions, as well as some of our modern plays.

Mark has a degree in Drama, English and Education and studied at Hull. His credits as a director and performer include national tours of Jazz Audience, The Recruiting Sergeant, and Poem. Other directing credits include Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Good and Faithful Servant, Road, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Fatale, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The House of Bernarda Alba, Under Milk Wood, and Entertaining Strangers. His most recent writing credits are Fatale, The Mystery Plays (a re-interpretation of the Medieval originals) and his acclaimed one man West End show Waiting for Hate Mail which played at the Ambassadors Theatre.

🌟Want to become part of The Bridge? Come to our next audition! Saturday, the 7th of December (link in our bio to apply)

Meet or Executive team!

Judith is one of our Joint Artistic Directors and the Designer of all our productions.

Judith trained at Italia Conti Stage School and The London School of Dramatic Art and has worked extensively as an actress in theatre and television. Theatre credits include The Diary of Anne Frank, A Taste of Honey, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Tartuffe, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Ruffian on the Stair. Television credits include Blithe Spirit, Testament of Youth, War and Peace, Dr Who, The Onedin Line, Sentimental Education, Wives and Daughters, and Little Women. She studied painting at the City Lit and has exhibited her work as well as designing sets for The Bridge. Her work includes productions of Fatale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, Road, Romeo and Juliet, The House of Bernarda Alba and The Tempest, which includes some of her paintings.

🌟Want to become part of The Bridge? Come to our next audition! Saturday, the 7th of December (link in our bio to apply)

Meet our Executive Team!

Rebecca is our Executive Director. As a trained dancer, choreographer and teacher, you can sometimes find her covering a dance class or adding something to a production.

Rebecca has been dancing all her life, receiving her formal training with a Diploma with Honours from The Walnut Hill School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honours from Cornish College of the Arts in the US. She furthered her educational studies with a BSc Hons in Acupuncture from The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine/Reading University and an MSc in Dance Science from LABAN Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She has worked internationally as a dancer, a choreographer and a teacher and spent the past 18 years preparing dancers for their professional training as Course Leader for BTEC Performing Arts programmes. Rebecca also runs Lara Danceworks, providing bespoke dance performances for corporate events and weddings. Rebecca has served as Chair of The Board of Trustees for The Bridge Theatre Training Company since 2007.

🌟Want to become part of The Bridge? Come to our next audition! Saturday, the 7th of December (link in our bio to apply)

Meet our wonderful teachers!

Andrew has been working with our 5-Day Programme students this term on unarmed combat. The results from their exam were very high, as usual!

Andrew Ashenden has worked as an Equity fight director in television, film, and theatre. His credits include: BBC Wales on the Soap POBOL Y CWM since 2006, Welsh National Opera, The National Theatre of Wales, The Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Bath, The Globe (touring Company), Bute Theatre Wales, Birmingham Stage Company, and Harrogate Theatre to name but a few. Andrew is also a Founding Member of the Academy of Performance Combat (A.P.C.), and the resident fight teacher for Guildford School of Acting (G.S.A), Royal Academy of Music (R.A.M) (based in London), and the University of Lincoln. Also the author of Basics of Stage Combat: Unarmed and its sequel which is due out later this year.

🌟Want to become part of The Bridge? Come to our next audition! Saturday, the 7th of December (link in our bio to apply)