Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Acting - Tutors
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Helen Maynard
Lecturer
Helen has been working in the stage management industry for 13 years and is one of two Staff Stage Managers within Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Helen is part of the professional production team that provides production support to almost all courses within the school itself. Helen is also a Stage Management supervisor,...
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Robert Miles
Course Director for Foundation in Acting, Head of Singing
Rob is a musician and works as a composer, arranger, musical director and vocal coach. Recent theatre MD credits include : The Addams Family (Swinburne Hall), The Wall (Mercury Theatre), Godspell (Lakeside Theatre), Ragtime (Kenneth More Theatre) and The Full Monty (Queen’s Theatre). Recent non-MD : All...
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Clifford Milner
Senior Acting Tutor Recorded Media
Clifford trained as an actor at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. His TV appearances include: A Very Open Prison, Brookside, Emmerdale, Drop the Dead Donkey, Poirot, Cold Feet, Pork Pie, The Bill, EastEnders, Coronation Street, Comic Relief EastEnders Special, Crime File, Trial and Retribution II and IV,...
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Lise Olson
Course Director, MA in Acting
Lise is currently the Course Director of MA in Acting at Birmingham School of Acting. She relocated from Merseyside, where she trained actors for a decade at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). Lise has been directing and training actors in the US and UK for 30 years.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Danièle Sanderson
Head of Undergraduate Studies (Acting); BA (Hons) Acting Course director
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...
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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...
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Alex Taylor
Course Director MFA in Acting the British Tradition, MA in Professional Voice Practice
Alex Taylor has worked extensively in the UK, USA and South East Asia as a director, an actor and as a voice specialist. From 1984-1990 he was the Director of the School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University and, at thirty, was the youngest drama school principal in the UK. He created one of the first honours degree...