About Me

I am a highly-skilled, passionate, and creative performing arts teacher with over twenty years of industry experience. I love working with students of all ages, from toddlers through to adults, and I have a particular interest in working with those who are often excluded from perfoming arts due to their condition or disability.

My primary skills include lesson planning, choreography, teaching, and teacher training and mentoring.

Career Review – Highlights

Creative Director and Principal – Starbrite Studios School of Performing Arts Limited

September 2002 – Present

• Devising lesson plans and physio/sensory programmes for disabled students
• Developing choreography
• Teaching classes at our studios, satellite locations, and within local schools
• Managing teachers
• Organising and overseeing examination sessions, competitons, workshops, holiday clubs, and other events (local community events, Move It, West End stage performances, national touring celebrity pantomimes)
• Operating children's and adults' dance parties
• Liaising with governing bodies (IDTA, NATD)
• Making class bookings
• Attending follow-up meetings with parents and carers

Creative Director and Principal – Triplestar College of Performing Arts Limited

September 2017 – 2019

• Devising lesson plans
• Developing choreography
• Teaching BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma classes
• Mentoring and counselling students
• Marking assessments
• Liaising with governing bodies (Pearson)

Freelance Teacher and Choreographer

September 2000 – September 2002

For a number of dance schools in my local area, I taught IDTA technique and exam coaching classes, taught show preparation classes, developed choreography for solos, duets, trios, troupes, and operated workshops in tap, modern-jazz and commercial dance styles.

Previous Performance Experience

• Cheerleader for Castleford Tigers rugby league club
• Touring can-can dancer
• Professional dancer in the New Pantomime Productions, 'Snow White and Seven Dwarfs'
• Dancer and choreographer for a touring cabaret troupe
• Dancer and singer for the Mark Kerrins (Winner of 'Star for a Night') tour
• Minster FM Radio – Resident teacher for their version of the 'Big Brother' television show.
• IDTA Tap scholarship nomination
• IDTA Modern-Jazz scholarship nomination
• Choreography award for Troupe ('Drum Invasion')