Becky O' Brien

Becky O' Brien

Performing Arts Principle

Becky, BGT Singing Sensation, is arguably best remembered for bringing TV’s harshest talent judge, Simon Cowell, to tears with her rendition of ”Over The Rainbow”.

Becky was raised in a show business Family, making her stage debut at the age of 2 years old and taking on her first professional job at the age of 7. She worked hard throughout her younger years to learn the vocal, dance and acting skills she would need to make her dream of being on stage, reality.

Becky has toured extensively across the globe with various shows & also had the honour of performing at some wonderful venues including the Edinburgh Fringe, Disneyland Paris, Various Theatres from America to China, but possibly her favourite to date is the London Palladium.

In 2005 she starred alongside Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest and Will Young in the Pathe feature film ”Mrs Henderson Presents”. She and two of her sisters performed the title song for the film ”Babies of the Blitz”. She was then asked to sing at a private party for Dame Judi Dench’s 70th birthday. She went on to perform in Trafalgar Square with Will Young for the BBC VE Day Celebrations in a Star-studded line up, featuring Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Vera Lynn and Katherine Jenkins.

Following her appearance on BGT, Becky appeared as a guest star alongside Lorna Left in the UK theatrical tour of ”The Songbook of Judy”, followed by a season as guest star in the show ”Puttin on the Ritz” with stars from TV show, Strictly Come Dancing. This was followed by a series of guest appearances in shows such as ”Sinatra, the Centennial Tour”, ”The Rat Pack and Judy”, ”That’s Entertainment” and ”The Talents of Britain”. Becky also played lead role of LV in the stage show ”The Rise and Fall of Little Voice”. Since 2017, Becky has toured her solo shows internationally and has performed her tribute show ”A Garland for Judy” in London’s West End and on 42nd Street, Broadway.

Alongside her stage career, Becky is the Survivor Ambassador for the domestic abuse charity, Women’s Aid UK, official supporter of the NCDV and works as an advocate for families who have been bereaved due to fatal domestic abuse. She has been involved in various campaigns, spoken in Parliament to help change the law for safe child contact, been invited to 10 Downing Street, given talks at national conferences and appeared on ITV’s This Morning and BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire to help raise awareness and make positive changes for victims and survivors alike.

 

KerryJane Bailey

KerryJane Bailey

Performing Arts Teacher & Choreographer

Kerryjane is a fellowship member of the I.S.T.D

Kerry has been teaching for over 30 years and teaches a variety of Genres including Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre, singing and also specialises in choreography.

Kerry has Choreographed shoes for many theatre venues including the musical Oliver, Grease and Hairspray.

Kerryjane has performed in many professional shows including Summer Seasons, Touring With a cabaret group in the UK and abroad, lead roles of Principal Girl in Panto’s such as Aladdin, Mother Goose and Dick Whittington, Dancer on various TV programs such as The National Lottery, Smith and Jones, The Big Breakfast along with many other well known programmes, and was also a Professional cheerleader/Director of the famous Crown Jewel cheerleaders who were part of The London Monarchs American Football Team.

Robbie Merchant

Robbie Merchant

Performance Consultant & Acting Coach

Robbie is an actor and voice over artist who trained at Italia Conti Academy signed by David Hahn associates/Celeb agents. He has worked in all areas of TV, Film, Stage and Voiceover over the past decade. Robbie works alongside some of the UK’s leading casting directors scouting new talent for TV and stage.

He has played the parts of Malcolm in the European tour of Macbeth, Diggie in A Warwickshire testimony directed by Kate Williams and Rudge in History boys directed by Lawrence Evans at London’s Avondale theatre. Robbie worked on and played the part of Leo in “Spin” which watch Aired on Sky.
Robbie also played the part of Henri in the three lives of Lucie Carol which premiered at the Edinburgh fringe festival. He has played the part of Buttons at the compass theatres Cinderella and shortly after went on to work with Mark Jackson for London creatives Shout credit card campaign commercial. He played the part of Freddie in feature film Voices directed by Chris Jupe and Rufus in Chocolate films “the Bullingdon Boys” directed by Tim Marrinan.

Robbie works alongside the agency as an Acting Coach/ Consultant preparing students for professional castings and auditions. He informs us of students progress as well as their strengths and weaknesses. He is passionate about our clients progress and doesn’t just deliver quality acting classes, he assists clients with profiles, headshots and showreels in order for them to strengthen and strive to become the best they can be.

Elaine Spires

Elaine Spires

Head of LAMDA

Elaine is a writer, actor and director who also has over 20 years experience as a drama teacher.

She has appeared on stage in the Vaudeville and Gielgud Theatres in the West End; at the Anna Scher Theatre and Bridewell Theatres, in London; at the Edinburgh Fringe and with the August Rush Theatre Company in Antigua, West Indies.  She is the author of twelve novels, two selections of short stories, two novellas, several plays, a TV series (Paradise View for HAMA Productions) and the short film, Only the Lonely, which won the prestigious Groucho Club Best Short Film Award in 2019.

Elaine was Head of Drama at Hewitt Performing Arts for fourteen years during which time she produced and directed twelve musicals and plays, eight Festival of Plays and coached more than eleven hundred successful LAMDA exam candidates.  She ran a very successful series of workshops for drama teachers in Antigua for the Ministry of Education.  She now offers one-to-one sessions with students preparing them for LAMDA exams, auditions, self-tapes, working to camera, public-speaking or giving presentations

Charlee Borthwick

Charlee Borthwick

LAMDA Coach & Choreographer

Charlee’s career began at the age of 3 months old when she appeared in an NSPCC Commercial.

Charlee has been in full time training since the age of 11 and has attended Sylvia Young Stage School. She has worked on various professional engagements since then. Her latest role was playing Ed Westwick’s daughter, Natalie Swan in seasons 1 and 2 of White Gold.

Charlee is passionate about delivering all genres of performing arts classes to her students.