Who will teach you

There are 17 full-time members of staff in the Technical Theatre department. All have had extensive and varied careers in professional theatre as Stage Managers and Theatre Technicians. The department maintains constant industry contacts via incoming Directors, Designers, and through professional colleagues and ex-students working with all the major UK theatre and opera companies, productions and suppliers.

Designers and Lighting Designers who have worked at the School recently include Bob Bailey, Matthew Eagland, Philip Engleheart, Rick Fisher, Colin Grenfell, Susannah Henry, Bruno Poet, Tom Rogers, Dora Schweitzer, Johanna Town, Hugh Vanstone, Jamie Vartan and Naomi Wilkinson.

The particularly high staff/student ratio is one of the strengths of the programme. As you move through the programme, staff input changes from formal teaching to empowering and supporting your production work. This allows you freedom to demonstrate and develop your professional standards and skills.

Click here for a list of staff.

A member of the teaching staff will also be your personal tutor and will follow your progress and act as a mentor for your personal development.

On productions, all students, whichever year they are in, work together. Peer learning is therefore important with senior students in organising roles and more junior students being able to observe how skills and knowledge are acquired and used.

To reinforce your experience on the programme, we arrange for you to undertake backstage visits and to see professional productions in performance. You are encouraged to take an active interest in all forms of the performing arts both inside and outside
the School. In your third year you undertake a Secondment of about six weeks' duration with a company or production of your choice, again widening your contacts in the industry.