• Milla Kauhanen MIfL: CUNNINGHAM CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE; METHOD PUTKISTO; PILATES
A former pupil of the directors, Milla went on to train at The Cunningham Studios, New York on the Lisa Ullmann and Robin Howard scholarship. She also joined the Merce Cunningham company's London residency. Early performing credits include; Fantasy and Hair in Finland. Since then she has worked for such choreographers as Darshan Sing Bhuller, Maggie Morris, Gaynor Coward, David Massingham, Yolande Snaith, Ian Spink, Lea Anderson, David Waring, and Anna Williams. She is a freelance teacher with Certificate in Education in Performing Arts (post Compulsory) and choreographer creating full evenings of performances of contemporary ballet and physical theatre. Milla has founded her own company MILITATEDANCEco. She is also a Method Putkisto and Pilates instructor.

• Mary King: HEAD OF SINGING
Mary went to the Guildhall School of Music after a career which began in teaching. She then went on to Glyndebourne Opera, where she has sung the roles of Baba the Turk (The Rakes Progress) Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro), and Mama/ Tzippie (Where the Wild Things Are). She made her debut at the Royal Opera House in The Cunning Little Vixen. Her stage experience ranges from roles in Caryl Churchill’s play The Skriker at the Royal National Theatre, through to Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd with the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs. She has made many recordings of song repertoire for BBC Radio 3 working with pianist Andrew Ball. Her concert work has taken her all over the world, working with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Schönberg Ensemble, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the St Paul Chamber Orchestra to name but a few, and in the UK she has performed with all the major orchestras and ensembles, and particularly with the London Sinfonietta, in work as far ranging as Weill, Henze, Ligeti and Berio.
Involved in Education for many years, Mary worked at English National Opera as an Artistic Associate, and as Artistic Director of the course for aspiring singers, The Knack, which ran for eleven years. She taught on the musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music for several years, before becoming head of singing at Millennium Performing Arts.She has been voice coach for several West End productions including Guys & Dolls, Chicago, Wicked, Black Rider, Glorious! and Sweeney Todd. She continues to be in demand in the world of broadcasting after her success in the two Channel 4 series Opportunity and Musicality, where she was panellist and voice coach – since then she broadcasts frequently for BBC on both Radio and TV, on a range of different programmes, and across all genres of music. Her publications include The Singer’s Handbook for Faber, and a series of voice coaching books for Boosey and Hawkes.
Since late 2006, Mary has been the Director of Voicelab at Southbank Centre, a new initiative supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which aims to engage with singing across a very broad spectrum of musical style and vocal experience. In 2007 she cast the SC production of Carmen Jones and was voice coach for both that and this year’s Wizard of Oz. She is currently working on casting and coaching singers for a SC production of Bernstein’s Mass.

• Annette McLaughlin: HEAD OF ACTING; TAP DANCE
Theatre credits include: The Bakers Wife in Into the Woods (Derby Playhouse); Queen Anne in 5/11 and Hedy La Rue in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Chichester Festival Theatre ), nominated for Best Performance in a Musical T.M.A Awards; Jacquenetta in Loves Labours Lost and Erma in Anything Goes (National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Velma Kelly in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Tracey in High Society and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Miss Dinsmore and Dora Bailey in Singin’ In The Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse and the National theatre); Mema in Peter Hall’s production of Lenny (Queens Theatre); Babette in Beauty and The Beast (Dominion Theatre); Betty in Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (Adelphi Theatre); Tess in Crazy For You (Prince Edward Theatre and UK Tour); Louisette in The Feydeau Farce and Horse and Carriage and Andy in Stepping Out (West Yorshire Playhouse); Amanda in Alan Ayckbourn’s Dreams From A Summerhouse (Watermill, Newbury); Handmaiden’s of Death and The Old Lady (Soutwark Playhouse); Pam in Immaculate Deception (Wimbledon Studio); Poppy in Godspell (Basingstoke);
T.V and Film: The Legionnaire, Heartbeat, and The Frank Skinner Show.
Radio and Recordings: Friday Night is Music Night (Radio 2); More of Loesser (Radio 3); The National Theatre recording of Anything Goes.
Annette has performed at the opening of the The Millennium Centre in Cardiff and has appeared in many concerts including tributes to Trevor Nunn and Cy Coleman, both at the Royal Albert Hall. Also The Glory of Gerswin at The Prince Edward Theatre and The Women at The Old Vic.
Annette is also a writer for a female comedy duo called Fair Do’s.

• Mandi Martin: SINGING
Mandi trained at the Bush Davies School and began her career as a dancer in productions such as Camelot at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the film The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. She then went on to study singing with the soprano Gwen Catley.
West End credits include: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Royalty Theatre; Sharpe at 8.30, Royalty Theatre; Oliver! Albery Theatre; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Phoenix Theatre. She played Ronnie Boylan in Annie, Victoria Palace Theatre, where she subsequently appeared in Call Me Madam and Winnie, as Standby to Virginia McKenna. She appeared as Malla in A Little Night Music, Piccadilly Theatre, also understudying and playing Countess Charlotte Malcolm and Lady Brighton in Me and My Girl, Adelphi Theatre.
Provincial work includes Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music, Theatre Royal – Plymouth and subsequent National tour, and Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves in Hi de Hi! Mandi has played Principal Boy in pantomime many times, notably four years opposite Stanley Baxter and later Rikki Fulton at the Kings Theatre – Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Repertory includes Phyllis Patterson in Mr Cinders, Wolsey Theatre – Ipswich; Mrs Eynsford Hill in My Fair Lady, Queen’s Theatre – Hornchurch and Crucible Theatre – Sheffield. Divorce me Darling, Chichester Festival, u/s and played Madame Dubonnet.
Television included All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm, Thames, Sweethearts, Anglia and Second Childhood BBC2.
Mandi was vocal coach on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes and Euro Stars in Their Eyes for Granada Television. She taught at the London Studio Centre for five years before joining Millennium Performing Arts and also teaches at Bodywork in Cambridge.

• Zak Nemorin: JAZZ DANCE
Zak trained at Millennium Performing Arts. Prior to this he attended the BRIT school and the London Studio Centre.
Theatre credits include: World premiere cast of We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Aaron in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Double J & alternate Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (UK Tour); Understudy Robertson Ay in the world premiere cast of Mary Poppins (Bristol Hippodrome & Prince Edward Theatres); Understudy Aladdin in Aladdin (Old Vic); Mungojerrie / Skimbleshanks and understudy The Rum Tum Tugger in Cats (UK, Portugal & Italy, National Tour); Carousel (UK Tour and Savoy Theatre).
Other credit include: Parkinson; Party at the Palace; Children In Need; Blue Peter; All Time Greatest Love Songs (All BBC); So Graham Norton; Party in the Park; Emma Bunton’s Maybe video also performing on Top of the Pops and Des and Mel; London Rocks (Adelphi Theatre); Backed Michael Bublé; Sunday Night at the Manchester Palace and Showtime at the Stadium (Millennium Stadium Cardiff).
Zak also teaches and has choreographed for Millennium Performing Arts. Workshops include: Boney M musical Daddy Cool. Cast recordings include: We Will Rock You and Mary Poppins.

• Lucie Pankhurst: GRAHAM BASED CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Lucie graduated from London School of Contemporary Dance having already choreographed her first pop video and been invited to show her graduation piece at the South Bank. Lucie continued to work in the contemporary dance field with choreographers such as Aletta Collins, Darshan Sing-Buller and David Massinsham Dance Company. Lucie then went soloist with the Souls in Motion Company, doing European tours and the Astoria, London. Lucie has worked with choreographers such as Stewart Arnold, Paul Henry and Anthony Van Laast. She continued working with Anthony Van Laast in much of his work including trade shows, film and television. Other choreographers in that field include Bruno Tonlioni, Arlene Phillips, Les Childs and Kevan Allen. Lucie has also appeared in West Side Story, Godspell, Fame and High Society. She is a Co-Director and choreographer of the Running Ones Dance and Theatre Company, performing at the Lilian Baylis Theatre and the Place Theatre. Lucie is also associate choreographer for MCA Records and Capital Radio Road Show. Choreographic credits include, assistant to Arlene Phillips for We Will Rock You, Dominion Theatre. Troilus and Cressida at the National Theatre with Trevor Nunn. TV credits includes, Get Your Act Together and Mark Lamars’ Leaving the 20th Century for BBC, Spirit of Winter film for Vanessa Mae that previewed with Disney’s Mulan. Lucie has choreographed regularly for open mic television programmes such as That Peter Kaye Thing and Jack Dee Show. Lucie is on the faculty at Millennium Dance 2000 and Theresa Kerrs’ Bodyworks studio in Cambridge and has taught professional classes for the cast of the Dome Show and Notre Dame de Paris. She has also taught contemporary dance at the Royal Ballet School.

• Louisa Potter: PILATES
Louisa trained with the New Zealand School of Dance from 1994 – 1996, majoring in contemporary dance. She spent the next three years working in New Zealand including working with two of New Zealands best choreographers, Michael Parmenter and Douglas Wright. She then moved to England and continued to work on contemporary dance projects and dance theatre pieces. In 2002 she trained at the Alan Herdman Pilates Studios in Marylebone and Islington. And finds it very rewarding to work with up and coming performers helping them to get the most from their bodies.

•Amy Ellen Richardson: TAP DANCE
Amy started performing from the age of four, winning a number of singing and dancing competitions including the accolade of the All England Tap Champion. At the age of ten, she played the role of Young Jenny in the West End production Aspects Of Love directed by Trevor Nunn, and was also lucky enough to be a part of the National Youth Theatre between the years of 1993-95 in their original production of Whistle Down The Wind (Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Lilian Baylis Theatre, London), which Andrew Lloyd Webber was so bowled over by; he bought the rights!
Following her training at Laine Theatre Arts, Amy went straight into the original national tour of Chicago, playing the role of ‘Go To Hell Kitty’ and understudying the lead role of ‘Velma Kelly’. Afterwards, she went on to work consistently in many regional and London productions including:
Cats (National Tour); Singin In The Rain (Sadler’s Wells/ Leicester Haymarket); On The Town (ENO/London Coliseum) and even performed in Japan with Adam Cooper in On Your Toes.
She has played the roles of Liane De Exelmans in Gigi (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Mimsey in Funny Girl and Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Eugenie Loyer in the award winning Nicholas Hytner play Vincent in Brixton (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford); and has understudied and played the roles of: Cosette in Les Misérables (Queens Theatre, West End) and The Lady of the Lake in the original production of Monty Python’s Spamalot (Palace Theatre, West End), all of which she thoroughly enjoyed.
Most recently she performed in Cardiff at the prestigious Sherman Cymru Theatre in A Christmas Carol, playing the roles of Scrooge’s Mother, Belle and Mrs Cratchit, directed by Amy Hodge (Assistant Director at the Orange Tree Theatre/ Royal Court Theatre, London).
This summer Amy is delighted to be back at Regents Park again, performing in the highly anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods, playing the role of Florinda.
Her teaching experience includes working with students at Laine Theatre Arts, Dance Academy, Hurtwood House and Kew Academy of Performing Arts. She worked on the Birmingham Arts Council project ‘Leaps and Bounds’ for under privileged young people, which resulted in an original musical production involving other West End artists being performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Now of course, Amy is thrilled to be a part of the team at Millennium Performing Arts.

• John Rigby: MUSICAL DIRECTOR, MUSICAL THEATRE HISTORY & PERFORMANCE SKILLS A graduate in orchestral and choral conducting from the University of Huddersfield and the Royal Northern College of Music, John has worked with many of the country’s leading orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle, CBSO, London Concert Orchestra, Manchester Concert Orchestra, The Orchestra Of Welsh National Opera, Scottish Concert Orchestra and The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra across a diverse repertoire and can regularly be seen at many of the country’s top venues.
He is a much respected conductor and musical director in the world of musical theatre and his West End credits include Maguerite (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Carmen Jones (Royal Festival Hall); The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello); The Producers (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Sinatra At The Palladium (Palladium); The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s); Beautiful And Damned (Lyric); The Pirates Of Penzance (Savoy); Peter Pan (Savoy); The King And I (Palladium); Les Misérables (Palace); Napoleon (Shaftesbury); The Last Empress (Apollo, Hammersmith); By Jeeves (Lyric); Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Apollo, Hammersmith); The King And I (UK Tour); as well as the German productions of Starlight Express (Bochum) and Miss Saigon (Stuttgart).
As musical supervisor his credits include Terry Pratchett’s Only You Can Save Mankind (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and the UK tours of The King And I, The Producers and Wuthering Heights.
Other conducting work has included the 1999 Gala Re-Opening Of Potsdammer Platz, Berlin (which was televised throughout Europe and released on CD) and the Judith Weir opera The Black Spider for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. His commercial recordings include the Original London Cast Album of Marguerite, featuring Ruthie Henshall and Julian Ovenden with music by Michel Legrand, the DVD of Beautiful And Damned and the compilation album Millennium Musical Highlights.
As a composer/arranger/orchestrator he has produced music for the Centenary Celebrations For The City Of Bradford (performed in the presence of Her Majesty, The Queen) and The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Theatre Royal, Bury-St-Edmonds and Northcott Theatre, Exeter); Peter Pan (Savoy); The Pirates Of Penzance (Savoy); The King And I (UK Tour and Denmark) Dick Whittington (Palace Theatre, Watford) and Dick Whittington (Palace Theatre, Watford) as well as for a variety of soloists and orchestras.
Recently John has just returned from India where he has been supervising and co-orchestrating a new Bollywood version of Wuthering Heights which will tour the UK later in 2010.

• Annika Sillander: CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Annika was trained by the Directors and was amongst the first students to graduate from Millennium. She has worked as a freelance performer, teacher and choreographer both in the UK and in the Nordic countries.
She has taught extensively in London, Finland and Norway and worked with youth and community groups as well as with professionals and adult learners.
Her teaching experiences include Rambert evening classes, RAD staff classes, Chisenhale Dance Space, East-Side Educational Trust, The Place evening classes to mention but a few.
As a performer Annika has worked with Sally Marie on Sweet Shop Revolution, Stephen Koplowitz, and most extensively with Tharan Revfem and her company Plire Multi Dance. Annika worked as assistant choreographer with Plire Multi performing in Poetics Around Zero; BULK; InTransit and DOT which was amongst the inaugural Place Prize semi-finalists and The Nordic Choreographers Grand Prix at the Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland.
Her choreographic work, in addition to numeral choreographies for students, includes Salidas/Sortides/Exits Barcelona 2004, Polku, Finland 2005; May I have the Pleasure, Finland 2006; Places Where I am, London and Finland 2008. July 2010 has seen her choreography & performance of if pains must come, let them extend to few as part of the Cloud Dance Festival, London. Annika holds an MA in Dance Anthropology, and has recently been working on practise based research projects in conjunction with the Nordic Summer University.

• Darshan Singh Bhuller: CONTEMPORARY DANCE CONSULTANT
As lead dancer, rehearsal director, choreographer and teacher, his career with London Contemporary Dance Theatre spanned from 1979 to 1994. He became Assistant Director to Richard Alston Dance Company from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. He has created and directed over 20 works for London Contemporary Dance Theatre; Phoenix Dance Company; Millennium Dome Opening Ceremony; Shaolin Wheel of Life; CandoCo and Nordic Dance Theatre in Bergen, Norway. Work for schools includes Northern School of Contemporary Dance, London School of Contemporary Dance, Danshogskolan (Sweden) and English National Ballet School. Collaborations with other artists, choreographers, musicians and film-makers include Graham Dean, Robert Cohan, Micha Bergese, Barry Guy, Barrington Pheloung, John Martyn and Jocelyn Pook. Darshan was artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre between 2002 and 2006 and has also directed numerous films through his own company Singh Productions since 1985. He works continuously as a freelance teacher and choreographer for film and theatre.

• Michael Small: GRAHAM BASED CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Michael’s career has spanned across contemporary dance and musical theatre. Initially, he danced in the works of Robert Cohan, Robert North and Siobhan Davies whilst performing with London Contemporary Dance Theatre (LCDT). Subsequent to his LCDT years he performed in West End musicals such as Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Song and Dance, Jesus Christ Superstar and Chicago. He also performed in a number of European musical tours choreographed/ directed by Anthony Van Laast including Carmen Jones and Shall We Dance. His teaching experience commenced during LCDT’s company residencies at various schools and colleges. Within musicals he often took on the additional position of dance captain; helping to maintain the quality of the dance numbers in the shows as well as giving warm ups. With regards to dance and drama colleges, such as The London School of Contemporary Dance, Arts Educational, Mountview, London Studio Centre and Millennium Performing Arts, Michael has been engaged in teaching Graham based technique classes as well as workshops based upon West End shows and LCDT repertory. Currently, besides teaching at Millennium and London Studio Centre, Michael creates portfolio websites for all types of performers.

• Mark Smith: TAP DANCE
Mark is a freelance dancer, teacher, actor and choreographer. He trained at the Royal Ballet School and Bridget Espinosa’s London Studio Centre (taught by Jackie Mitchell and Donald McLennan). He had performed in dance companies - Firefly, LaRibot & Arron Williamson Dance Company.
He had performed and choreographed his own signature work called Signdance (a combination of sign-language and movements together) at the Royal Festival Hall, Jackson’s Lane, ICA, Albany Theatre and The Place. He presented his first signdance work with a group of dancers called The Lift at Stratford Circus in 2005. Since then, he has created Brand New Day, Introducing Warhol’s Superstar…. and Elvis!. As an actor, he played Tony in Channel 4’s Rush, Horst & Rudy in Graeae Theatre Company’s Bent and Rob in BBC/HBO’s Stuart: a Life Backward, directed by David Attwood.
As a teacher, he taught Colin’s Performing Arts College, London Studio Centre, London School of Musical Theatre, Stella Mann College, Sadler’s Wells/Green Candle’s Deaf Dance Summer School, Big Dance/BBC’s Blast!, Urdang Academy, Bodywork Dance Studio, Billy Elliot School and Millennium Performing Arts.

Giles Taylor: ACTING, TEXT & ASSISTSNT TO HEAD OF ACTING
Giles is an actor and singer with a wide range of experience spanning the last twenty years. He has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company and extensively for the New Shakespeare Company at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, as well as at numerous repertory theatres around the country, including the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse, the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and with Sir Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough. His most recent theatre credits include the world premiere of a new musical of The Secret Garden at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Blithe Spirit at Nottingham Playhouse; Sam West’s acclaimed revival of Waste at the Almeida Theatre; The Music Man at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Macbeth and Lady Be Good at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park; and The Wizard of Oz at both Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. On television he has been seen most recently in the latest series of Foyle’s War on ITV; the acclaimed Stuart: a Life Backwards and Stephen Poliakoff’s Friends and Crocodiles, both for the BBC. He also works in film, radio and opera. As a teacher Giles works as a Shakespeare Consultant both for drama schools and individual productions – most recently for Shakespeare’s Globe on their 2008 tour of Romeo and Juliet, and for the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park’s recent productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. He also teaches regularly at The Actors’ Centre, is an Associate Artiste of the National Youth Theatre, and is regularly involved as an actor, director, writer and dramaturge with Scene and Heard, a mentoring project for inner-city kids.

• Richard Teverson: ACTING, TEXT & ASSISTSNT TO HEAD OF ACTING
Richard trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and now works in film, theatre, television and voice overs. On film he can be seen as Cousin Jasper in the new Miramax production of Brideshead Revisited. West End Theatre includes: Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, Scar in The Lion King, A Woman of No Importance, When Harry Met Sally and The Mousetrap. Regional theatre includes: Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (Newcastle under Lyme), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Creation, Oxford) and The Singing Group (Chelsea Theatre). Television work includes; Poirot for LWT and The Roman Mysteries, Dogtown, The Project, Diversity and Balderdash And Piffle for the BBC.

• Nikki Woollaston: ASSISTANT TO HEAD OF JAZZ & ARTISTIC COORDINATOR OF SHOWS
Nikki is Assistant to the Head of Jazz at Millennium Performing Arts.
Choreographic and Musical Staging credits include Madam Butterfly and Tosca (Grange Park Opera) Backbeat (Citizens Theatre Glasgow) Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre) Wuthering Heights for Tamasha Theatre Company (Lyric Hammersmith) Marguerite (Haymarket Theatre, London and Japan), Kismet (English National Opera) The King And I (UK Tour), Nymph Errant (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), The Vivien Ellis Awards (Her Majesty’s Theatre London), and Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Alladin and Jack and The Beanstalk (Watford Palace).
As Associate and Resident Choreographer her credits include Oliver! (London Palladium), Cats (New London Theatre). Anything Goes (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Royal National Theatre) On The Town (English National Opera and Chatelet Paris) Sinatra (London Palladium and UK Tour). Nikki also worked as part of the choreographic team on the Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002 for both the opening and closing ceremonies.
Current projects of 2010 include Shoes (Sadler’s Wells).

• Greg Arrowsmith: SINGING

• Sally Bishop: VOICE TECHNIQUE

• Judith Colman: SINGING

• Sarah Hanson: BALLET, COACHING & EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR OF MPA

 

• GUEST & WORKSHOP TEACHERS •

• Betsy Allen: VOICE WORK
Betsy Allen was certified as an Associate Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher in 2003. She holds an MA in Voice Pedagogy and Voice Performance from New York University, where she studied individually with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Jonathan Hart Makwaia of The Roy Hart Theatre. She has taught voice and speech for five years, including such places as Arts Ed MA Acting, Kingston College, The Actors Centre and London Metropolitan University and has performed as an actor, singer and voice over artist for over 15 years in Los Angeles, New York City and London. She is also a certified Pilates Mat instructor.

• Rafael Bonachela: CONTEMPORARY
Rafael Bonachela founded Bonachela Dance Company in 2006 and is enjoying much success as the project’s Artistic Director and choreographer. He has recently finished his term as Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre in London and has been delighted to accept the appointment of Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company in Australia, which has just returned from a highly successful tour to the Venice Biennale Festival, Italy and Shanghai, China.
From being an outstanding dancer with Rambert Dance Company to being one of the world’s most intriguing and inventive young choreographers, Rafael’s career has seen him successfully bridge the divide between high and popular culture.
His career has included being Associate Choreographer of Rambert Dance Company to being sought after by artists such as Kylie Minogue and Tina Turner.
Rafael’s work has achieved critical acclaim worldwide and he is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the inaugural Place Prize in London. Rafael’s commitment to innovation has seen his work stretch to include film, musicals, television, live concerts, installation and theatre.

• Danny Crossley: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE
Theatre credits include: Hello Dolly, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Mary Poppins, UK tour; A Chorus Line, Sheffield Crucible; Twelfth Night, West Yorkshire Playhouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ripley Castle; I Really Must Be Getting Off, White Bear Theatre; Modern Dance For Beginners, Etcetera Theatre; Roast Chicken, Hen and Chickens; Abigail’s Party, Northcott Theatre, Exeter; Anything Goes, Love’s Labours Lost, Royal National Theatre; Trust, RNT Studio; As You Like It, Romeo And Juliet, Oh What A Lovely War, Desires Of Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labours Lost, Where’s Charlie, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Irek Mukhamedov And Co, Sadler’s Wells Theatre; Dorothy Fields Forever, Jermyn Street; Cats, New London Theatre; Fame, Cambridge Theatre; Song And Dance, European tour; Boyband, Derby Playhouse and Gielgud Theatre; Chicago, (original West End cast) Adelphi Theatre; Fosse (original West End cast), Prince Of Wales Theatre.
Television includes: Doctors, BBC; The Last Enemy, BBC; Coronation Street, ITV; Heartbeat, ITV.
Concerts include: Ruthie Henshall At The Royal Festival Hall, Chicago 10TH Anniversary, Cambridge Theatre; Anything Goes for BBC radio, Manchester Opera House.
Recordings include: Original cast recordings of: Chicago, Boyband, Anything Goes; The Best Of Ute Lemper.

• Carlton Edwards: MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Theatre: Wolves in the Walls (National Theatre of Scotland/Improbable Theatre Co), Mamma Mia International Tour. Full Monty (Prince of Wales Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Mamma Mia (Prince Edward Theatre) and Oliver! (National Tour and Toronto). Animal Farm (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester), Cinderella (Buxton Opera House), Dream Nights and Twelfth Night Fever! (Key Theatre, Peterborough), Chicago (Swedish Tour) and The Good Person of Sichuan (Regional Tour). Composition: The scores for Patrick Sandford’s productions of Hamlet, Mary Stuart, 101 Dalmatians and Oedipus. (Which toured to Cyprus for the Greek Tragedy Festival) Composed the music for theatre production of Maisie Mouse, Peter Pan (Polka Theatre), The Mandrake and The Snow Queen (Oxford Touring Theatre Company).

• Bernadette Iglich: THEATRE REPERTOIRE
Bernadette’s career as a dancer and performer includes working for Tanztheater Wuppertal, ARC Dance Company, Siobhan Davies, Aletta Collins, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and many leading choreographers and directors in dance, opera and theatre.
She now works as both Director of Opera and choreographer for theatre and opera.
Opera and Theatre: The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO, OTC, Choreographer), Hansel and Gretel (Stowe Opera, Director), Sweeney Todd (RAM Choreographer), Who Killed Mr Drum (Treatment Theatre, Choreographer), Jenufa (ETO, Director), Orfeo (ETO Assistant Director), Jeptha (ETO, Director) Eugene Onegin (ETO, assistant Director and Choreographer), Marriage of Figaro (RCM assistant director and choreographer), Casanova (Told by an Idiot, Choreographer) Marriage of Figaro (Iford Arts, Director);
Dance: Void and Encounters (Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Riley Theatre, Leeds), Fluminis (Northern Ballet School, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester), Three Short Dance Pieces (London Studio Centre, Shaw Theatre, London).

• Junior Laniyan: TAP DANCE
Junior is an accomplished actor/dancer having appeared on stage as Master Juba in Master Juba, Pete Spivy in Blues for Mr Charlie for the Tricycle Theatre, Kamel in D’you Know What I Mean and Him in Fifteen Minutes Before, both at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre. As a Dancer he has appeared in New York on Tap and Cross Currents Turned on Tap at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Robbie Williams Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Feet Fusion Tap Concert in Finland’s Gloria Theatre, Finding Synaesthesia at the Purcell Room, as well as Riverdance in Germany as well as the UK.
On screen he played The Photographer in Kill Kill Faster Faster & Private Bell in 28 Days Later. He has also worked extensively in numerous television productions including A Respectable Trade, Doctors, Rough Diamonds, If You See God Tell Him, Prime Suspect 2 and Holby City for the BBC. Stealing Lives for Channel Four. Family Affairs for Channel Five as well as Twenty-Four Seven, Wavelength and Coronation Street for Granada Television.
In his efforts to share his love of the dance with others, he has taught numerous workshops in Greece, France, Finland, Italy and Estonia as well as the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Collin’s Performing Arts School, Danceworks, Mountview, the North London Performing Arts Centre, London Studio Centre, and Sylvia Young Theatre School. He is also a faculty member of Pineapple Studios London. Junior is also the co-founder & host of the London Tap Jam, which is held at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s club.

• Jarkko Lehmus: CONTEMPORARY
Jarkko was born in Finland and trained at the Finnish National Ballet School, Helsinki and Millennium Performing Arts in London. He has worked with the National Youth Dance Company, Fabulous Beast Dance Company in Dublin, Arc Dance Company, David Hughes Dance Company, Errol White Dance and performed in various operas at The Royal Opera House, The Colisseum, Opera Comique in Paris and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. He has also worked on commercial projects in Finland and in the UK including appearances at The Record of the Year Awards and The Brit Awards. Jarkko danced with Scottish Ballet from 2003 to 2009 creating roles in Page’s The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer), Cinderella (Father), Acrid Avid Jam, Night Swimming Into Day, Refurbished Behaviour, The Pump Room, The Sleeping Beauty (The King), Pennies From Heaven, Alston's Carmen (Zuniga, Captain of the garrison), Pastor's Romeo and Juliet (Capulet). He has also danced in Page's 32 Cryptograms, Room Of Cooks and Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Pastor’s In Light and Shadow, Loosmore’s Sirocco and Lull, Davies’ White Man Sleeps, Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Ashton’s Façade. Jarkko received a Herald Angel Award for excellence in his performance of Ashley Page works during Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005.

• Stephen Mear: MUSICAL THEATRE DANCE ADVISOR/CO-ORDINATOR
An early pupil of Jacki Mitchell and Donald McLennan. One of the best performers, choreographers and teachers of today, Stephen has appeared in Cats, Evita, 42nd Street, Some Like It Hot, and Crazy For You, of which he became Resident Choreographer. His TV credits are numerous and he has performed in several Royal Command Performances. Recently he has choreographed his first original musical Grapevine, the musical Snoopy, and his own original version of the musical Grease for Greece. Stephen was the Associate Choreographer for Sweet Charity in the West End and is Associate Choreographer for the musical Oklahoma at the National Theatre. Recently he has choreographed for Julia McKenzie’s production of A Little Night Music and Babes In The Woods in Nottingham. Soul Train at Victoria Palace, and Of Thee I Sing, West End and Singing In The Rain at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and National Theatre. These are just some of Stephen’s credits as a choreographer. In 1999 Stephen was nominated for an Olivier award for his choreography for Soul Train and again in 2000 for Singing In The Rain. He was appointed choreographer with Bill Avian for Cameron Mackintosh’s production The Witches of Eastwick. Stephen’s exhilarating choreography for Trevor Nunn’s production of Anything Goes has become Legendary. The production goes to the USA in 2005. Stephen has recently choreographed the Rod Stewart musical Tonight’s The Night and Mary Poppins. Millennium Dance is very proud that Stephen devotes all of his available teaching time to the school.

• Carl Morgan: JAZZ DANCE
Carl trained at Birds College in the early nineties. His theatre credits include: Billy Elliot, Cats, Song and Dance, Guys and Dolls, (RNT), Godspell, Oh What a Lovely War (RNT), Two Gentlemen of Verona (RNT), Skellig (RNT), Coriolanus (RSC), Merry Wives of Winsor (RSC), Bolero (Sylvie Guillem).
Film and TV: Captain Mac, CITV; Mersey Beat, BBC; Auf Wiedersehen Pet, BBC; City Central, BBC; Peak Practice, ITV; Cats The Movie.
Choreography: Honk (Trinity College), Back To The 80s (Reynorlds Performing Arts), and Hollywood Party (Trinity College).

• Rachael Nicholson: ACTING
Rachel studied for the MA in Voice Studies at The Central School of Speech and Drama under David Carey. Since graduating Rachel has been teaching regularly at several drama schools in London including; ALRA, LAMDA, RADA, Mountview Accademy, Central School of Speech and Drama, Webber Douglas Academy and GSA Conservatoire.
Recent coaching, for professional productions, includes Peut Etre Theatre Company, The Revenger’s Tradgedy at the Southwark Playhouse and Crock of Gold for London Bubble Theatre. Before becoming a voice teacher Rachel worked as an actress for several years. Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Wimbledon Theatre), Alcina (Bath Theatre Royal), Knives in Hens (Wimbledon Theatre and tour), Trainspotting (tour), The Aspern Papers and Hamlet First Cut (Red Shift Theatre Company) and She Stoops to Conquer (Northcott Theatre, Exeter).
Rachel currently teaches voice at LAMDA, ALRA and at Millenium Performing Arts to BA and MA students. She is also course leader and acting tutor for ALRA’s Foundation acting course.

• Joseph Pitcher: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE
Joseph trained at Millennium Performing Artson the Gillian Lynne Scholarship. Upon graduating he received the award for Musical Theatre.
Credits include: Polixenes in The Winter's Tale (Tour); Peter in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep); Gordon in Dangerous Corner (New Vic, Stoke); Dick in Love's A Luxury (Mill at Sonning); First Fairy and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Young Siward in Macbeth; Flunkey in Lady Be Good, Marcel in The Boyfriend (all Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); Alice In Wonderland (Birmingham Rep); Demetrius and Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ipswich), Neal in Love and Understanding (The Rosemary Branch); Melvyn in Sisterly Feelings; The soldier in Peace In Our Time; Goshawk in The Roaring Girl (all Bristol Old Vic); Chicago (Adelphi and tour); Anything Goes (RNT, Drury Lane); Singin’ In The Rain (RNT, West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Boyfriend (National Tour); Sunset Boulevard (National Tour); Me and My Girl (National Tour); Charlie Brown in Snoopy - The Musical (Jermyn Street) and Of Thee I Sing (Bridewell).
Film and TV credits include: Body and Soul; Sight Test; The Sacrament; The Autograph; Children In Need; Millennium Stadium Musical Celebration.
Radio and Voice over work includes: Voicing the character of Skaggle in the animation, The Reality Machine, Gilbert Without Sullivan and On The Boulevard.

• Oliver Senton: ACTING IMPROVISATION
Trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), The Scarecrow and His Servant (Southwark Playhouse), The Lady’s Not For Burning (Chichester), Beyond The Front Line (Lowry Centre/Slung Low), Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Romeo & Juliet (BAC), The Mob (Orange Tree), A Christmas Carol (Taunton), The Invention of Love (Salisbury), Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby), Five Finger Exercise, Salad Days (Southwold) The Three Sisters (Harrogate). In London: Ripper/Sweetmeat (Terror 2007!, Union Theatre), The Warp (Deptford Albany, Millennium Dome), Sympathetic Magic, Natural Inclinations (Finborough Theatre), The Rose and The Ring (Hen & Chickens), Soap Opera (Caird Company), The Tell Tale Heart & Other Stories, New Work, The Starless Sky at Midnight (BAC, King’s Head, Pleasance Edinburgh), title roles in Macbeth (Greenwich Studio), The Jew of Malta (Rose Theatre) and The Wanderer (Drayton Court).
Oliver is a founder member of Showstopper – The Improvised Musical!, still playing regularly in theatres around London and beyond after a year and a half - see www.showstopperthemusical.com. He is a member of Ken Campbell's School of Night, with appearances including Décor Without Production (Royal Court), Shall We Shog? (Shakespeare’s Globe), In Pursuit of Cardenio (Underbelly Edinburgh) and Terror 2006 & 07 at The Union Theatre. He has also appeared in several marathon long-form impro shows, including the 2007 and 2008 50-hour London Improvathons and the mighty 53-hour Die Nasty Soapathon (2006) in Edmonton, Alberta.
TV: Hollyoaks, Bear Behaving Badly, The Friday Night Project, Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand, Cathedral, My Dad’s The Prime Minister (2 series), Casualty, Eastenders. Film: Wimbledon and short films Ex, Camera Attack, King of Toads. Radio includes: Bomber, The Casebook of Sherlock Homes, The Roads to Freedom, The Life of Galileo, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Duchess of Malfi and Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions.
Oliver has run workshops and courses for The National Student Drama Festival, The National Theatre of Scotland, The Actors Centre London and The Shakespeare Schools Festival, and is an Associate Artist of The National Youth Theatre.

• Spencer Soloman: VIRTUOSITY AND PAS DE DEUX
Spencer’s Theatre work includes Resident Director Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Resident Director/Choreographer Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre); Associate Choreographer A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (National Theatre); Choreographer The Old Vic Fund Raiser 2007 (Annabel's, Berkley Square); Assistant Choreographer Pardon My English (City Centre, New York); Resident Choreographer On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall).
As a performer, credits include Contact (Queens Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); TV and Film credits include Assistant Choreographer Beyond The Sea, directed by Kevin Spacey. The Royal Variety Performance; Comic Relief; Paul O'Grady Show; Blue Peter; Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Spencer trained at the Royal Ballet School and Sylvia Young's Theatre School. He has had a successful ballet career as a ballet dancer in companies such as The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Berlin Ballet, Dusseldorf Ballet, Duisburg Ballet, Bonn Ballet, Nice Ballet, and Basel Ballet.

• Dot Atkinson: ACTING

• Ciara Burrows: SINGING

• Esther Ruth Elliott: ACTING

• Peter Francis: ZOONATION -WORKSHOP

• Brandon O’Hea: ACTING

• Timothy Sheader: ACTING

• Harriet Thorpe: MUSICAL THEATRE REPERTOIRE -WORKSHOP

• Bryn Walters: HAIRSPRAY -WORKSHOP