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BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

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BA Performance & Creative Enterprise Tutors

Jacob Sam-La Rose

An indefatigable facilitator, mentor and supporter of young and emerging poets, Jacob’s writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Wasafiri, In Their Own Words (Salt, 2012), Poetry by Heart (Penguin, 2014), and more. Commissions include the National Gallery, the BBC and Nitro (Black Music Theatre Co-Operative). He’s toured with the British Council, featuring at a range of international festivals and venues. He co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, developed the Roundhouse Poetry programme, established Barbican Young Poets and Burn After Reading. Jacob is also Artistic Director for the Spoken Word Education Programme and Shot from the Lip.

Detta Danford

Detta is a flute player, composer and project leader whose work involves collaborating, performing and creating new work with ensembles and orchestras and within theatre, film and the visual arts. She is co-founder of contemporary music ensemble Jetsam, whose most recent projects involved collaborations with writer and blogger Gareth E. Rees and actor, poet and director Tanroh Ishida. She has recently worked with the Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Aside from PACE she teaches Masters in New Audiences and Innovative Practice programme at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

Rick Holland

Rick is a poet, thinker and independent artist. He gained recognition for his 2011 Warp released albums with Brian Eno, Drums Between the Bells and Panic of Looking. In recent years he has recorded albums with Eno and Hyde, Jon Hopkins, The Heritage Orchestra and made experimental independent work with Old Man Diode and guests including Beth Rowley, I am Fya, Chris James, Andrew Plummer and Onallee (Roni Size/Reprazent). His traditional collections of poetry have been independently produced and released. Ongoing work with technologist Robert Thomas explores how new relationships with our artistic outputs may look in the future.

Zara Macfarlane

Eloquent and provocative, singer-songwriter Zara McFarlane is one of the UK’s foremost Jazz Vocalists. With two critically acclaimed albums to her name, she inhabits an unusual musical landscape, fearlessly exploring original material & reworking well known classics. In 2010, Zara McFarlane issued her self-produced EP, Until Tomorrow, catching the attention of Gilles Peterson who released her debut the following year on his label, Brownswood Recordings. She went on to receive rave reviews, a MOBO Award Nomination, Urban Music Award for Best Jazz Act and Jazz FM Award Vocalist of the Year in 2015.

Niamh McKernan

Niamh is a movement teacher for actors and opera singers. She is trained at Lecoq and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She works internationally as a movement teacher and director. She has taught at Guildhall, The Royal Ballet Denmark, The Royal Academy of Music, Ireland's National Academy of the Performing Arts, ALRA, Mountview and Method Acting London. Her interest lies in using movement to empower performers to find a greater sense of creativity, freedom and balance both in their personal and artistic lives.

Tom Morrison

Tom is an actor and Voice Coach. His acting career includes numerous stage and screen appearances including The National Theatre, Royal Court, BBC, ITV and most recently in the Oscar winning The Theory of Everything. He teaches Voice at Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he both trained as an actor and completed an MA, with distinction, in training actors in voice. As a vocal coach Tom has worked in various institutions and Theatre companies including Chickenshed Theatre Company and The Royal Shakespeare Company and has coached TV news correspondence, poets, singers, lawyers and members of the cooperate industry.

Justin O'Shaughnessy

Justin is an Independent Producer. His work encompasses performance, theatre, dance, film, fine art, site-specific, spectacles, festivals and community-based work. Projects have included Newham Millennium Celebrations, Live Culture at Tate Modern, Notting Hill Carnival, Spill Festival of Performance, Serpentine Gallery and Frieze Projects. As Creative Producer for Shoreditch Trust he led the Creative Mentoring programme and produced the annual large-scale free Shoreditch Festival. Justin taught on City University London's Cultural Industries Foundation Degree, with live project delivery at the Roundhouse and also chairs the boards of Open School East and Rift Theatre.

Rachael Perrin

Rachael is a musician, facilitator, creative entrepreneur and Director of Soundcastle – The Music Social Enterprise. She is motivated by her belief that participatory music making changes lives and a constant desire to meet more people and hear their stories. She has recently partnered with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Charanga, Trinity College, CBeebies and many others. She explores music with people of many ages and walks of life and is driven by a longing to create art without hierarchy. Her current mission is to find sustainable ways for creative enterprises to thrive beyond arts funding.

Dinah Stabb

Dinah has been a member of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company also performing at The Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester and West Yorkshire Playhouse. Extensive TV credits include Prime Suspect, Poirot, Midsomer Murders, and most recently in The Widower. Her latest feature film appearance to the delight of her students was as Russell Brand’s mother in the 2010 picture Get Him to the Greek. Dinah teaches throughout the Guildhall School, working on performance skills with actors, singers and instrumentalists helping to give them strategies to enjoy and excel in performance.

Bill Thompson

Bill is a sound and video artist whose work involves the combination of found objects, field recordings, repurposed live electronics, and digital media to create evolving structures for installations and live performance. Awards and commissions include the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, an SAC funded residency at STEIM, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission and the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award. He delivers workshops and education programs across a wide range of contexts, including formal and informal settings (for young people and adults), and working with vulnerable and special needs children.

Natasha Zielazinski

Natasha is a London based cellist and composer. She enjoys working collaboratively in dance, theatre and visual arts, most recently composing and touring with Kate Tempest in the theatre show Brand New Ancients. Natasha has performed at Sadler's Wells, the Southbank Centre, the Barbican Centre, the Melbourne International Festival, and Madison Square Gardens. She leads the Barbican Creative Learning ensemble Future Band, and additionally has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Tokyo College of Music, Peabody Institute of Music, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra among others.