Faculty

The Midsummer Conservatory Program's faculty features distinguished artists from British theatre.

Recent faculty include

  • Christopher Cook

    Christopher Cook

    DEAN

    Broadcaster, journalist, writer, presenter and producer of many arts, feature and documentary programs for Radios 2,3,4. His published work includes: The Lion and the Dragon: British Voices from the China Coast (Hamish Hamilton 1985) and The Dilys Powell Reader (OUP 1991).

  • Norman Ayrton

    Principal of LAMDA (1966-72) and Dean of BADA (1985-96). Extensive teaching and directing in Australia and the United States where he joined the faculty of the Julliard School in New York in 1974.

  • Marcelle Davies

    Initially worked as a drama teacher & clown with the Raree Show. After mainstream teaching, she worked as an actress on the London Fringe with Trickster Theatre Company. She has also taught at Syracuse University & the London Center for Theatre Studies. She is currently the movement tutor at the Poor School.

  • Simon Dormandy

    Director of Drama at Eton College. Before teaching he was an actor, spending five years as a principal with the RSC, two with Cheek By Jowl & playing leading roles in major British theatres at The Old Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, & the Donmar Warehouse as well as on television & in film. He is a graduate of Oxford University.

  • Jessia Higgs

    Vocal coach on many productions in London and elsewhere including the musical Mamma Mia. She has taught at Mountview Theatre School, Middlesex University and Rose Bruford College and has directed a number of productions for Tandem Theatre Company.

  • Johnny Hoskins

    Fifteen years of experience acting on stage, screen & theatre, working at the Young Vic, the National, Savoy & West Yorkshire Playhouse. He has toured throughout Germany, Holland, France & the UK. He currently teaches at the Oxford School of Drama.

  • Eunice Roberts

    Trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre & has over 26 years of professional acting experience in theatre and television. She was the director of the theatre department at Vassar College and has taught at Santa Monica College, Actors Centre and been examiner for Trinity College, London. Associate Director of Actors From The London Stage & has written & produced her own one woman show; Wonderful Women as well as a devised piece ...one, two, three... based on Twelfth Night.