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Featured student:Lucy Grace
Lucy Grace is a graduate of the 08/09 Advanced Performance Diploma. As a result of the agents showcase she gained representation with 21st Century Actors Agency. She has worked continuously since graduating. Theatre credits include the title role in Salome at Camden Roundhouse, UK Theatre tours with Tall Stories and Listed Theatre, and performing with the Clod Ensemble at Sadlers Wells. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Nokia, Xbox Kinect and Comedy Central. In 2011 and 2012 she will be touring the United States with Tall Stories after a run at the Roundhouse.
Latest news on former students:
Christopher Poke, 10/11 Advanced Performance diploma graduate, is appearing in Othello at the Chelsea Theatre from 1st - 12th November and will then be touring Essex in Habeus Corpus, beginning with a short run at the Southend Palace Theatre, 29th November to the 3rd December.
Drama dance and speech department tutors Georgina Sowerby and Jon Lee are directing new production Something About You ( makes me want to hurt you) at the Asylum in Peckham from the 6th to the 20th October. It is choreographed by tutor Anne-Gaelle Theriot . The cast includes Advanced Performance diploma graduates Tom Harris, Stephane Middleton, Oscar Gibbs, and Arti Naithani and Alumni Francesca Dale and Mayuko Kawai.
Alex Rendall, 07/08 Advanced Performance diploma graduate, has just finished filming a feature film A Confident Man in which he played the lead role.
Sarita Plowman and Lucinda Lloyd, C L Theatre Company members, are appearing in Birds of Pray at the Courtyard Theatre from 13th - 16th of October.
Anita Gollchewsky, 10/11 Advanced Performance Diploma graduate and Anne Marie Hughes, 09/10 Advanced Performance Diploma graduate are appearing in The Hang of the Gaol at the Brockley Jack from the 27th September to the 15th of October.
Duncan Pearce, C L Theatre Company member and 08/09 Advanced Performance Diploma graduate, is appearing in The Viewing at Riverside Studios, on the 27th September.
Nick Ticehurst, 09/10 Advanced Performance Diploma graduate, appeared in Last Tango in Littlehampton at the Ropetackle Arts Centre on the 9th of September.
Patrick O'Halloran. 09/10 Advanced Performance Diploma graduate, appeared in The Stick at Stratford Circus on the 3rd of September.
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