Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Acting - Tutors

Helen Maynard

Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Stage Management

Helen has been working in the Stage Management industry for over 20 years. She is part of the professional production team that provides production support to almost all courses within RBC. Helen is also a personal tutor on the BA Hons Stage Management degree helping to facilitate the course. She teaches and supervises Stage...

Louise Papillon HEA Teaching Fellow

Acting and Physical Skills Tutor and Director, Librarian, Disability Officer, Personal Tutor, HEA Teaching Fellow

Louise is an acting / physical skills tutor on all BSA acting courses and also directs on the three-year BA Acting and foundation courses. Originally trained at the Legat School of Russian Ballet and Ballet Rambert, she then went on to a successful career as a dancer, singer and actress in the West End and regional...

Rochi Rampal

New Writing and Community Arts Tutor

Rochi graduated from the University of Salford with a 1st class BA (Hons) in Media and Performance, and an MA in Scriptwriting for Television & Radio. She is a visiting tutor on the BA Applied Theatre course and teaches the Performance, Political Stories and Community Stories modules. She is a performer, writer, and theatre...

Professor David Roberts

Professor of English

David's research interests are in theatre and the history and practice of life writing. Publications include monographs for Oxford University Press, Methuen, Palgrave, and Cambridge University Press. He has also worked on major editions of classic texts, most recently of Congreve's The Way of the World (Methuen, 2020) and...

Danièle Sanderson

Head of Post Graduate Studies, and Course Director of MA/MFA Acting

Danièle started life as a Drama student, training at the Drama Centre, London. She followed her interest in the body and actor by training in Physical theatre both in London and in Paris. After working for 10 years as a freelance actor and movement director, her interest turned to directing and she gained a Masters in Theatre...

Stephen Simms

Vice Principal - Acting, Professor of Actor Education

Stephen is the Vice Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Acting, one of the UK's leading conservatoires of acting, where he is also the Head of Acting. He is also Professor of Actor Education, the only person to hold this position in the country. He directs and teaches on the acting courses at Royal Birmingham...

Alex Taylor

Associate Professor (Acting)

Alex Taylor has worked extensively in the UK, USA and in SE Asia as a director, actor, educator, and voice specialist. He has served as the Director of the School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University, as a Master Teacher at the Julliard School (Drama Division) in New York, and as Head of Department at the Hong...

Louise Turner

Stage Management Tutor

Louise is a Staff Stage Manager for Acting. She has been working at BCU for over ten years whilst also gaining industry experience whenever possible. She is a personal tutor on the BA Stage Management course and supervises stage management students across all years whilst working on productions throughout the rehearsal and...

Peter Wynne-Willson

Early Years Specialist Tutor

Peter is a highly experienced Applied Theatre practitioner, who before taking up his current post has had more than thirty years experience as a writer, director and performer in Young People’s Theatre, Theatre-in-Education and Community Theatre.

Andy Yau

Visiting Tutor in Movement

Born and raised in Hong Kong, and now resident in the UK. Andy Yau trained in Musical Theatre Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and achieved a Master of Arts degree in Acting from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Theatre credits: John in Anything Goes (Sheffield Theatres and UK and Tour), Bun Foo in...