Siobhan Fogarty
Siobhan brings over twenty years of professional experience in the performing arts to her online teaching. She trained and worked as an actress for more than two decades, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Royal Court, and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her stage work included numerous productions with renowned director Katie Mitchell, and she’s best known on screen for her long-running role as Rotten Rose in the BAFTA-winning CBBC series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, as well as appearances in many major British television dramas and soaps.
After her acting career, Siobhan moved into writing, directing and producing, her first screenplay, Monica Ol’e, won the Women in Film & Television & Avalon Productions Screenwriting Award and became a feature film. She went on to write for popular children’s television, including the CBBC animation Boo! and the BAFTA-winning ChuckleVision.
Alongside her creative work, Siobhan has directed plays nationally and internationally for leading theatre schools and youth companies. She is currently Head of Creative Arts at Sackville School, Hildenborough, where she has designed and delivered highly successful Drama, Film Studies and LAMDA programmes. Her teaching materials and original plays are regularly published by leading educational publishers.
Siobhan’s online tuition combines her industry background with years of classroom experience. Her sessions are practical, creative and confidence-building, designed to help each student find their voice, whether they’re preparing for GCSE or A Level Drama or Film Studies, polishing coursework, developing performance skills, or working toward LAMDA exams.
Her students describe her as encouraging, insightful, and inspiring, someone who makes learning engaging, personal and fun, while ensuring every student achieves their best possible results.
Lucie Fitchett
Lucie trained as an Actress at Arts Educational Drama School. She has worked in all areas of the industry as an Actress, Director, Writer and Producer. She co-founded Magnificent Theatre Company, an Arts Council funded company, whose first production at The Young Vic was invited to The Royal Shakespeare Company Visitors season at The Swan, Stratford Upon Avon. She has worked on film with Ken Loach and recorded numerous radio dramas and factual programmes for BBC Radio 4.
She is also a writer and, amongst other projects, is currently involved with Mercury Films in a film adaptation of a play she wrote and produced at The Edinburgh Festival that received 5 star reviews.
Lucie has worked with many young people on audition speeches including for drama school entrance.
She was a Drama Lecturer for 4 years at The Chichester University Conservatoire and was solely responsibility for the first year acting course which involved devising and developing the content, directing productions and assessing students. Due to the covid restrictions that were in place for a significant amount of time during term time she is very experienced in online teaching.
Richard Attlee
Richard studied Drama and Russian at Birmingham University.
His theatre credits include: Sleuth, Moonlight and Magnolias (Watermill, Newbury) The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible), Arthur & George (Birmingham Rep), Calendar Girls (Noel Coward Theatre), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe).
He has toured extensively with many companies including Shared Experience, Method and Madness (Mike Alfred’s), Bath Theatre Royal and the English Shakespeare Company and has worked in rep at York, Chester and Exeter.
TV and film includes: My Mad Fat Diary, Count Arthur Strong, Silent Witness, Party Animals, Filth-The Mary Whitehouse Story, Longford, Dunkirk, Midsomer Murders, the Bill, Ultimate Force, My Week with Marilyn, Topsy-Turvy, Burnt and Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie. On radio, Richard plays Kenton in The Archers.
Rachel Kerry
Rachel trained in Musical Theatre at The B.R.I.T School, and completed her ISTD Dance training in Tap, Ballet and Jazz. She has worked with Frantic Assembly ‘Terminus’ and numerous Theatre in Education companies.
Rachel is currently working with secondary school age children doing LAMDA acting and Musical theatre exams; she has a 100% pass rate. Having recently completed a Psychology degree, Rachel has also taken her passion for the performing arts to Sri Lanka, working with children and adults to help them using Drama Therapy.
Rachel’s experience includes roles from Roxie in Chicago, Ado Annie in Oklahoma, Nora in A Dolls House, Cecily in The Importance of being Earnest.