Our Passionate Faculty
We are delighted to have a wonderful team of staff here at D&B who represent all aspects of the industry.
All of our tutors have worked professionally and many are still active in their field and are therefore able to bring the most current techniques and styles to D&B Students. As well as encompassing a team of highly regarded performers within the faculty, many of our staff are creatives on major West End Shows including, Billy Elliot (Resident Director), Dear Evan Hansen (UK Associate Director), Jersey Boys (Resident Director), Book of Mormon (Resident Director) and Dreamgirls (Resident Director). This direct industry link is often a shortcut to audition opportunities.
A major advantage to students is small class sizes, enabling them to receive a large amount of care and attention from their tutors, allowing strong professional relationships to develop. Often, teachers have been highly instrumental in providing audition opportunities for students upon graduation.
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Donna Sullivan- Director
Bonnie Sullivan- Director
Nikki Huggett – Deputy Principal
Joel Cooper – Creative Director
Alison Pollard – Artistic Advisor
Jasmine Avis- Course Co-Ordinator
Barbara Sullivan- Financial Manager
Emma Gilbert- Financial Assistant
Matt Flint- Showcase Director
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- Belle Erskine- Ballet
- Ughetta Pratesi- Ballet
- Lizzie Moore- Ballet
- Licia Becke- Ballet
- Laura Gillham- Ballet
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- Head of Dance – Joel Cooper
- Freddie Clements – Technical Jazz
- Adam Haigh – Technical Jazz
- Natasha Thomas – Technical Jazz
- Jess Buckby – Technical Jazz
- Laura Hills – Free work Jazz
- Kirsten Wheeler – Commercial
- Amie Mills – Commercial
- Jess Keable – Tap
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- Jo McInnes- Screen Acting & Acting Technique
- Acting for Musical Theatre and Voice & Speech- Jon Emmanuel
- Philip Bertioli- Acting Through Song
- Kieran Mellish- Television Technique
- Alison Pollard- Production Director
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- Head of Singing- Alex Southern
- Sophie Earl- Singing Technique, Private Vocal Tutor
- Alison Pollard- Singing Performance Classes
- Nikki Huggett- Ensemble Singing and Production Musical Director
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- Subject Coordinator- Joel Cooper
- Jasmine Avis- Student Welfare and UDO teacher training
- Kieran Mellish- Production and Stage Management
- Alex Southern- LCM Teacher Training and Career Development
- Michael Vinsen- Musical Theatre Style and Appreciation
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We regularly invite highly regarded guest tutors to take class at the College and believe that this exposure to different styles and industry professionals and creatives hugely benefits their training. These guest stints have often resulted in professional opportunities for the students. These are just some of the expert visitors who have worked with the lucky students over the past few years whether for a one-off master class, for showcase rehearsals, or for more regular classes.
- Adam Lyons- Mrs Doubtfire
- Andy Langtree- Ghost, Emmerdale, Coronation Street
- Bob Harms- Chicago, Pretty Woman
- Cleve September- Hamilton, Bonnie and Clyde
- Damian Jackson- Resident Choreographer- Billy Elliott
- David O’Reilly- Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, The Book Of Mormon, Lady Windemere’s Fan, Benidorm
- Durone Stokes- Graduate- Dreamgirls, A Taste of Honey
- Emma Johnson- La Cage Au Folles
- Garnon Davies- Hollyoaks
- Justin Thomas- Graduate- Back to the Future, Grease, Mamma Mia, Dirty Dancing, Wicked
- Josh Nkemdilim – Graduate- Newsies, Crazy For You, Hairspray, Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, I Like The Way U Move (BBC3)
- Katie Dunsden- Grease, Moulin Rouge
- Libby Watts – Associate Choreographer- Burlesque, Associate Choreographer-Shrek, Assistant Choreographer- We Will Rock You
- Lucy Jane Adcock- A Chorus Line, Guys and Dolls, Chicago
- Marvyn Charles- Bring It On, Hamilton, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
- Matthew Malthouse- Singing in the rain, My Fair Lady, Matilda, 42nd Street, Chicago, Edward Scissorhands, Mary Poppins, Anything Goes
- Matt Flint- Choreographer for BBC (Strictly, Children in Need), So You Think You Can Dance Winner
- Matt Terry- Graduate- Rock of Ages, X-Factor winner
- Mike Denman- Matilda, Never Forget, Chicago, Ghost
- Mohammed Mansaray- Graduate- Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, The Long Song
- Nicola Munns- Only Fools and Horses
- Rachel Rawlinson- Graduate- Six, Heathers, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Grease
- Richard Peakman- Choreographer- Grease, P&O, Qdos
- Roan Pronk- Matilda, Cats
- Roxanna Shirley- Headliners Musical Director
- Sarah Richards- Some Like it HipHop, Into The Hoods, Zoonation, X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, Dancer for Cheryl Cole, Peter Andre, Take That, Calvin Harris and Kanye West
- Simon Hardwick- A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon, Jesus Christ Superstar
- Sophie Cosson- Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey
- Sophie Pourret- La Cage Aux Folles, 42nd Street
- Stephen Rahman-Hughes- EastEnders
- Zach Morris- Graduate- EastEnders, Goosebumps