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No previous theatre experience necessary

Do you have a passion to perform? Have you performed in your school/ college show? Then a place on our week-long Autumn course could be for you! You’ll spend the week working alongside top industry professionals. This intensive course is driven by an inspiring team of creatives - director/ musical director and choreographer – who will work with you every day to enable you to experience life as a performing arts student and to find out more about yourself and your ambitions. The course will combine morning lessons in technique in all three Musical Theatre disciplines - singing, acting and dancing - with afternoon sessions, which bring all three disciplines together by working on scenes and numbers from a musical. Morning lessons will have a maximum of ten students per class. At the end of the week, parents will be invited to come and watch a demonstration of the students’ work. They will show short pieces from their morning lessons and then will perform scenes and numbers from the musical they will have studied in the afternoon sessions. The students will write a journal at the end of each day, showing what they have learned that day and how they will incorporate it into the following day’s rehearsal. There will also be a Question & Answer session after the demonstration on the last day, covering all aspects of the theatre profession, including individual feedback. To sign up click the Sign Up link. CREATIVE TEAM:
Producer – Daryl Back
Singing Tutor – David Ashley
Acting Tutor – Charlie Barker
Choreographer – Damian Czarnecki

David will also head up the afternoon Musical Theatre sessions and will be joined by Charlie and Damian. Producer: Daryl began her acting career at the National Theatre and for the following fifteen years worked in theatre, television and film. She has been a Theatre Producer for twenty years. Singing Tutor: David has had a varied and successful career as a West End performer (Cats, Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, Starlight Express etc.). As a freelance theatre creative and lecturer he has worked extensively at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London College of Music, Millennium and was also Head of First Year for Arts Educational School London for many years. Acting Tutor: Charlie trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and her first job was in the West End, playing Lynne in Stepping Out. She worked as a professional actress for twenty five years before becoming Head Of Acting on the Musical Theatre Course at Arts Educational School London. Choreographer: Damian trained at Laine Theatre Arts and has performed in the following: Ich War Noch Niemals in New York, Beauty and the Beast, High School Musical, La Cage Aux Folles and Dirty Dancing. He has recently choreographed Peter Pan and Cinderella, The Pirates Of Penzance (UK Tour), Patience (King's Head Theatre, London) Do I Hear A Waltz? (Park Theatre, London) plus numerous shows at Laine Theatre Arts.