Our Workshop Week Leaders

We have a team of Workshop Week Leaders who lead our various workshops throughout the year.

 Rebecca Kelly - Rebecca has been singing professionally since she was 16 years old. She has enjoyed considerable success as an international Cabaret artiste flying all over Europe and, among other things, entertaining top fashionistas in Milan. Since relocating to London she has intensified her presence on the London cabaret circuit, and has enjoyed exclusive residencies at several top London venues, such as The Pigalle Club in Piccadilly, and the Shadow Lounge in Soho. Rebecca is also a featured vocalist with the prestigious West End Gospel Choir. She has performed backing vocals for various top recording artistes, as well as various TV and radio appearances, including Skins for Channel 4, and BBC Radio London. Rebecca can be heard singing alongside West End legend Jenna Lee James on Stephen Tate's charity single "Put Down The Gun". 

  Liane-Rose Bunce - Liane gained a degree in English at the University of Hull and had a short lived career in publishing before training as an actress at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.  In 2006 she graduated with an MA in Performance.  Stage work includes Strangers at the Hackney Empire and NewsRevue at The Canal Café, the longest running comedy show in the world.  She writes sketches and performs regularly in sketch shows for The Funny Side… comedy clubs and more recently has formed Ill Repute Films.  Her first film Lose Some, Win Some is due for release in August 2010 and Liane plays Natasha, an unfulfilled civil servant whose life is changed by a homeless man.  Liane can also be seen on television in a very cheesy commercial for Hillary’s Blinds.  As a Workshop Leader for Workshop Week 2009 and the Drama Focus Workshop 2010, Liane is very excited to be a part of Workshop Week 2010.    

Lisa Thorner - Musical Director

Lisa trained at the Royal Academy of Music on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course under the direction of Mary Hammond. She then went onto understudy Dame Judi Dench in the premiere of 'Merry Wives of Windsor', the musical adaptation for the RSC in Stratford. Following this she played and understudied the role of Madame Thenardier in the West End production of Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre. She has worked alongside Simon Bowman on a European tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber music and most recently played Violet in Leonard Bernstein's 'A Wonderful Town', alongside Broadway's critically acclaimed Kim Criswell In Malta. She regularly appears in concerts across the UK and each year in the Royal Albert Hall at the 'Proms'. As well as being a West End performer she is also a professional vocal coach working with actors across the West End and is the Musical Director for London's 'West End Gospel Choir'. Lisa works alongside London's top vocal coaches at the Guildford Conservatoire and is also a workshop leader for the BBC where recently she has been working with choirs featured in BBC Choir of the Year.

Hannah Grand  - biography to follow