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Acting Tutor Profiles
Julian Caddy
Julian is an actor, director and
producer. He has produced shows at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival since 1996 and has been Director of
Sweet Venues since 2003. Over this time he has
programmed, directed or produced close to 400 shows
attracting audiences of over 75,000 people. He has
also produced, co-produced and promoted numerous
theatre tours both across the UK/Ireland and around
the world. He is currently working with Shakti from
the Garage International, producing shows at the
Adelaide and Avignon Festivals.
As an actor he has toured nationally
with Broadway Theatre Company (Golden
Boy)
and Opera Piccola (The
Barber of Seville
and
La
Traviata).
Other theatre includes
Prisoner of War
(Hen and Chickens),
Great Expectations
(Shaw Theatre) and
Three Sisters
(Edinburgh Festival and Moscow Arts Theatre). TV
includes
Reality Check
(Channel 4),
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
(BBC4) and
Tableau of Love
(AIM Image Productions). He has also featured in
numerous television commercials including BT,
British Gas, Kingsmill Bread, Kohler (USA), NatWest,
Nikol's (Israel), BBC TV Licensing and Heat
Magazine.
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Julian trained for 4 years with the
late Sam Kogan, an acclaimed Russian teacher and
director (alumnus of GITIS in Moscow under Maria
Knebel, a student and colleague of Constantin
Stanislavski) at what is now known as ASAD (the
Academy for the Science of Acting and Directing).
Julian's teaching combines the Kogan and
Stanislavski techniques.
Odette
Garvey
Odette Garvey is an actress, director and teacher.
As an actress she has appeared nationally including
An evening with Gary Lineker
York Theatre Royal,
Wind in the Willows
Chester Gateway
Trap for a lonely Man
Wimbledon Theatre and several operas for the Royal
Opera House & Bath Theatre Royal. Other credits
include Baywatch, Casualty, Poltergeist
Files, Solitaire for Two
and adverts for Orange Mobile, Post
Office, Bristol and West and the Daily Mirror.
Odette has trained in many varied techniques
including four years at the Academy of the Science
of Acting and Directing, one year of workshops at
the Michael Chekhov Centre with
Mala
Powers and a six month placement at the Gate Theatre
Notting Hill under Erica Wyman. Mater classes
include the Russian Academy of Arts Moscow,
Stanislavski Centre in Barcelona and a Directors
Guild members’ workshop with Peter Brook.
Teaching includes
ASAD, Chelsea and Westminster
College, Anglo Russian School.
Directing includes
‘Newsrevue 2003’
at The Canal Café Theatre in London and a sell out
run in Edinburgh which received universally rave
reviews. Other directing includes Dolls
House for Two Way
Mirror Theatre, Cassandra
at The Cockpit
Theatre, La Ronde
for The Tabernacle, Romeo & Juliet
at Gravesend Civic
Centre.
Recently Odette has
concentrated on documentaries including
Hidden Gem Sky TV,
Mozart Memories
Austrian TV, and Rave on Wheels
a film about the London rollerblading scene still in
post production.
Adam Morley
Adam has worked as the
assistant director at the Cockpit Theatre and also
directed at The Watford Palace and Old Town Hall
Theatre as well as the Bull Theatre Adam was also
the theatre development officer at Verve
Productions. He then went to The Bournemouth Film
School and after graduation started working for SFX
and then moved to Transparent Productions UK working
in commercials and Promos.
Adam has since
written, directed and produced for clients including
MTV, Nickelodeon, Toyota, Orange, Island Records,
Jessops, Alliance and Leicester amongst others. Adam
was nominated for a Cannes Lion Award in 2005 and
was on the creative review Creative Futures
shortlist for 2005.
He won
The YDA Award at Cannes Lions in 2006 for a series
of test films. Adam directed his first feature film
in 2006 set for release in summer 2008 and has since
directed a sci–fi series made specifically for the
mobile phone as well as directing
NewsRevue
at the
Canal Cafe Theatre (The World's longest running live
comedy show).
Adam has in 2007
directed for the British Amy was the creative
director at Impact Universal and has just started
work directing for an internet television channel.
Mitchell Mullen
Having recently arrived in the UK
from his native America (hometown: Boston,
Massachusetts) Mitchell Mullen has worked
professionally as an actor/teacher for more than 20
years.
In the
US, he was a company member at Maine’s Theater At
Monmouth for 5 seasons, performing in more than 30
mainstage roles there including Thomas Gradgrind in
Hard Times,
Autolycus in The Winter’s
Tale,
Hastings in She Stoops to
Conquer,
Arlechinno in The Venetian
Twins
and Nicola in Arms and the
Man.
He has also logged more than 700 performances
playing Tony Whitcomb in the hit American comedy
“whodunit” Shear Madness
(the longest running non-musical theatre piece in
American history, over 25 years and still going
strong!).
UK
theatre credits include:
The Canterville Ghost
(Southwark Playhouse),
Muscles!
(Landor Theatre), Scotch
and Water
(Hen and Chickens), Parade
(Edinburgh Festival) and Sir Peter Hall’s
As You Like It
(Rose
of Kingston, US Tour).
Film credits include roles in The Kennedys of
Massachusetts,
Blown Away,
and All The Rage.
He has completed work on 4 films to be released in
2006: Infinite Justice,
L.V.J.,
Big Nothing
(with David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg) and A
Good Year (with
Russell Crowe).
He is a member of SAG, AFTRA and
American Equity (as well as a proud member of
British Equity).
He holds a BA in English and
American Literature from Boston University as well
as an MFA in Performance from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (where he taught acting for 3
years). He has studied acting with Billie Whitelaw
and Michael Shurtleff , as well as at the Herbert
Berghoff Studios in New York.
His teaching methodology
incorporates traditional Stanislavskian methods
tempered with the more “modern” techniques and
approaches of David Mamet and Michael Shurtleff, all
in the context of scene study.
Jessica Swale
Jessica is a theatre practitioner,
director and acting tutor. She is joint Artistic
Director of Red Handed Theatre Company, a New
Writing company which focuses on creating vibrant,
original work. She is currently directing The Glass
Tower by Katie Bonna for production in 2007 (London
and tour), and regularly runs master classes and
workshops for the company.
She
trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, with an
award from the AHRC, and graduated with an MA with
Distinction in Advanced Theatre Practice- Directing.
Previously she achieved a First Class Honours Drama
Degree from the University of Exeter, having trained
previously with Italia Conti part-time and at Linda
Butler’s School of Dance.
She
has worked as assistant director at the National
Theatre with Out of Joint, for Max Stafford-Clark on
The Overwhelming, and also for Greenwich
Theatre with Jonathon Moore and the Northcott Theatre,
Exeter, with Ben Crocker. She now directs freelance
for a range of companies including New Zealand’s
London based company, Shakey Isles Theatre and
for a National Shakespeare festival. She has directed
works including Cigarettes and Chocolate
(Anthony Minghella), Be My Baby (Amanda
Whittington), Twelfth Night (William
Shakespeare), Animal Farm (George Orwell/ Peter
Hall), Anansi (Alistair Cambell); A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare), 4.48
Psychosis (Sarah Kane), Amy’s View (David
Hare), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams),
Anowa (Ama Ata Aidoo) and several plays by new
writer Colleen Campbell, including Between the
Lanes and the verbatim play
Sticks and Stones.
In addition to teaching acting,
providing audition coaching and tutoring students for
LAMDA exams, Jessica also works professionally as a
dancer for Contrast Theatre Company. Her interest in
movement and dance has influenced her work as a
director and she enjoys creating physical theatre and
using music in performance. She works as choreographer
for a range of companies, and teaches a range of dance
genres in London.
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