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Emma-Louise Tinniswood (Artistic Director)
Emma-Louise is a qualified and established Music and Drama teacher who has been teaching for 14 years. Emma has experience of teaching in both schools and privately, leading drama, musical theatre and music workshops for children aged 2 to 18 including GCSE and A Level Drama and Theatre Studies. She also prepares students for LAMDA & ABRSM examinations, Drama Scholarships and Drama School entry with past students gaining entry to Priorsfield School, Box Hill School and the Webber Douglas Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Previous students have also gained gap year placements at The Globe Theatre. Emma is a qualified LAMDA examiner and regularly examines over the country for LAMDA.
Emma studied Drama and Music at Royal Holloway University and Applied Theatre from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has continued her professional development at The Arts Educational, The Conservatoire for Acting and Musical Theatre, The National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and The Globe. Emma is currently a member of the Genesis Young Directors Project at the Young Vic and studied playwriting under the playwright Jane Bodie (A Single Act - Hampstead Theatre).
For Youth Theatre, Emma has also directed The Peach Child (Dome Theatre, Brighton), A Year and A Day (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) Teechers (John Godber), My Mother Said I Never Should (Charlotte Keatley), The Wizard of Oz, Dancing At Lughnasa (Brian Freil), Charlie And The Choclate Factory, Wind In The Willows, Dumble The Dinosaur and Ballooning Around The World. Other directing credits include Look Back In Anger (Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford ), Cagebirds, It Started With A Kiss and My Heart's A Suitcase (Electric Theatre, Guildford.)
Theatre credits include Carol - Black Comedy, Cecily - The Importance of Being Ernest, Helena - Look Back In Anger, Helena - Midsummer Night's Dream, Julia - Two Gentlemen of Verona, Mdme Touvel - Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Bunny - Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens, Helen - Masterpieces and After The Dance (Oxford Stage Company). TV credits include Eastenders (BBC), Kavangh QC (ITV), The Rory Bremner Show (ITV), Sporty Facts (Anglia TV), Sugar Rush (CH4) and the feature film Screaming Blue Murder (Chandelier Productions).
Andrew Holloway

Andrew trained at the Guildford School of Acting Conservatoire on the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course and graduated with a 1st class Honours and a special award for outstanding contribution. He has over 9 years teaching experience with chidlren and adults for youth theatre groups, performing arts schools, primary and secondary schools. Andrew is currently living in London and working professionally as an actor, whilst also continuing to attend workshops and classes, as he is a firm believer that 'the actors art is like the beggars bag. Regardless of whether you need it at the time or not, you should pick up everything as you come across it and take it away with you' (The Actors Analect's; Dust In the ears, Item XIX)
Theatre includes Mr Pod, The Glasshouse (CSSD); Mackie, Tin Gods (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Celia & Amiens, As You Like It (UK Tour); Tommy the Cat, Dick Whittington ( Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage); Baby John, West Side Story (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage); Joan the Mute & Marasmus, Enchanted (now Betwixt) (Courtyard Theatre, Covent Garden). Television credits include Degrees of Separation.