Faculty

 

Acting Teachers

 

Please note that it is MTA policy for all staff to be currently working in the industry, therefore teachers are likely to change subject to professional commitments.

 

 

HELEN EVANS

 

Helen trained at Bretton Hall University College, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Acting, and at Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with a Masters Degree (with distinction) in Performance Practices and Research. Further to her MA, Helen is currently pursuing her practice-based PhD at Central School of Speech and Drama.

 

Theatre credits include: Miss Dinsmore in Singin in the Rain (UK Tour); Sole performer in Sonnet Apples (forming part of an installation at The Centre Pompidou, Paris); Jen in John and Jen (The Finborough Theatre); Soloist in An Evening with Andrew Lippa (St John's, Knightsbridge); Various characters in A Memory A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer, (Eve Ensler Premier); Lead in Sanctity of Hair (self-devised and directed, London Institute of Contemporary Arts); Eve in Amapola (Battersea Arts Centre); Multi-roles in The Shakespeare Revue (UK and French tours, and The New End Theatre, Hampstead); Leading Lady/Fan in Inside Out-A Portrait of Ivor Novello, (Premier UK Tour); Nellie Forbush in South Pacific - Concert, (Singapore); Swing in Les Miserables (National Tour); Isabella in various Commedia dell'Arte productions (The Prince's Trust/Fountain's Abbey); Elizabeth in Paradise (Moray House Theatre, Edinburgh); Olivia in Night Must Fall and Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth (St George's Rep); Soloist in We'll Meet Again (Tour); various Musical Cabarets and voice-overs.

 

Television credits include: Ethelena in CBBC's TRAPPED (series1) and Madame Deux Visage and Librarian Mutternot (series 2 and 3, airing currently); Edith Pretty and Cleopatra in BBC's RELIC (airing 2010); Actress in progress in Ivor Novello (BBC Wales documentary); various commercials.

 

As both Visiting Lecturer and Director, Helen has also worked for the following: Central School of Speech and Drama's BA (Hons) Applied Drama and Education and BA (Hons) Theatre Practices courses; The University of Chichester's BA (Hons) Performance Arts; Bretton Hall University College's BA (Hons) Acting and Hertfordshire Theatre School's Diploma in Acting and Musical Theatre. Productions directed include Company, The Beggar's Opera, Annie Get Your Gun and various devised works.

 

Other directorial credits include: Some Like it Scots (Cabaret); movement for Antic Disposition's Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre); Ria Jones - A Very Misleading Lady (The Grande Theatre, Swansea and Jermyn Street; Sanctity of Hair (London Institute of Contemporary Arts).

 

 

TILLY VOSBURGH

 

Tilly has worked extensively as an actress in TV, film, radio and theatre. Film credits include Meantime and Vera Drake, (with Mike Leigh) Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and The Pirates of Penzance. TV credits include 18 months on Eastenders, Murder Prevention, The Smoking Room, Waking the Dead, Tipping The Velvet, Holding On, Teenage Health Freak, A Touch Of Frost, Poirot, etc. She is about to film 6 episodes of Holby City to be screened in the spring. On stage, she appeared in Drag On at the Royal Court, The Pitchfork Disney at the Bush, My Sister In This House at Hampstead, The Threepenny Opera at the Bloomsbury, and Raspberry at the Soho Poly ( also on TV.) She has just completed a radio series, When The Dog Dies, soon to be aired on Radio 4.

 

Alongside acting, Tilly has been teaching drama at the London School of Musical Theatre since 2001, and at CPA College in Romford since 2006. She is also a director and a writer.

 

 

Hattie Ladbury

 

Hattie graduated from the 3 year acting training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama having been awarded the 1996 gold medal for her work and a first class BA (hons) in acting.

 

Theatre credits include Catherine in The Winslow Boy (Salisbury Playhouse), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Lady Be Good (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) Amanda in Private Lives, Ruth in The Norman Conquests (Wolsey Theatre), Marlene in Top Girls (Oxford Stage Company tour & West End), Mother & Stella in After Mrs Rochester (West End & Shared Experience tour), Gwendoline in The Importance of Being Ernest (Bath Theatre Royal & tour), The Spanish Lawyer in Tejas Verdes (The Gate), Candida (Oxford Stage Company tour), The Comedy of Errors (Sheffield Crucible), Romeo & Juliet (tour), Tess in Tess of the D’Urbevilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge (tour) The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe (RSC) Absent Friends (Harrogate Theatre).

 

TV and film credits include Eastenders, Holby City, Doctors, Midsomer Murders, The Worst Week Of My Life, Mrs Brown and Casualty 1906.

 

Hattie is a trained singer and plays the violin and piano. She has a special interest in theatre movement and period dance and teaches Swing, jive and other authentic dances from the 30’s & 40’s.

 

 

 

GILES TAYLOR

Giles has been teaching Shakespeare to students and professionals alike for over ten years. He teaches regularly at The Actors’ Centre and at Birkbeck College, as well as at various drama schools and on several acting courses. He also works as a Shakespeare Consultant on individual productions – most recently on As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Comedy of Errors (Manchester Royal Exchange), Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe on tour). He is a founder member of Bardolatry, an Associate Artiste of the National Youth Theatre, and is regularly involved with Scene and Heard, a mentoring project for inner-city children. Giles is also an actor, whose credits include work at the National Theatre, the RSC and the NSC, as well as in television, film and radio.