Staff and Tutors
GUEST TUTORS
KATE PRINGLE
Kate studied acting and contemporary dance. She is a qualified teacher and has an MA in Voice Studies from The Central School of
Speech and Drama. Kate has directed and devised many successful productions including Mishlinge, Taming of the Shrew,
Azazel, Marat/Sade, murmur. She continues to integrate her disciplines as a director and practitioner, most recently
collaborating with Estonian Choreographer Teet Kask focussing on the role of voice and text in dance. Their work amor
vincit omnia and Sad Pleasure has been performed in London and internationally. Kate worked at the LSDA as a key member
of the voice team as well as an administrator and student mentor. Kate has now relocated to Glasgow but still returns to LSDA
as a guest tutor.
HELEN DALLIMORE
Helen was an original member of the LSDA teaching staff before leaving to make her West End debut as Glinda in WICKED. Helen trained as
an actress at The National Institute of Dramatic Art and first made her name playing 'Miss Adelaide' in Guys and Dolls when still at NIDA,
and was immediately cast by the prestigious Sydney Theatre Company in David Edgar's Pentecost. She has subsequently appeared in many
productions for STC, including The Unlikely Prospect of Happiness; The Hanging Man by Andrew Upton and Gale Edward's production of Up For
Grabs, in which she created the central role of 'Simone', later played in the West End by Madonna. She was part of the ensemble that opened
the company's Sydney Theatre, with the musical The Republic of Myopia and the play Harbour. Helen has simultaneously enjoyed a career in
film and television, playing leading roles in the movies The Extra and Mr Accident; the TV movies Secret Bridesmaid's Business and Day of
the Roses and guest roles on All Saints; Water Rats; Home and Away; Flipper and GP. She has also appeared in several US productions
including the TV movies South Pacific (starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick, Jr.) and The Three Stooges; as well as the US feature
film Kangaroo Jack.
ABBY FORD
Abby is currently playing Antigone in Burial at Thebes with the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company. Recent work includes Man of
Mode and the original production of Coram Boy for the National Theatre, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with the RSC and Closer
at the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton. Her TV and Film credits include Holby City, I Want You, Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban, Shackleton, Wonderland, Life Begins, My Family, Casualty, Close and True and Dangerfield. Abby trained at Drama Centre London.
SAMANTHA ROBINSON
Samantha trained at Rose Bruford College where she won the Laurence Olivier Bursary award. She played Miranda in the Royal Exchange
Theatreçs production of The Tempest alongside Pete Postlethwaite Additional theatre credits include: The Laramie Project
(Sound Theatre, Leicester Square); The Lemon Princess (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Owl Service (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Untouchable
(The Bush Theatre) and Song of the Western Man (Chichester Festival Theatre). Her Television credits include: Laura in The Girls Who
Came to Stay (Granada); Anna in Shameless (Channel Four); June Mahy in Island at War (Granada) and Lucy in Final Demand (BBC).
Film includes: Sixty Six (Working Title) and Debbie in Jamaica Me Crazy (VBM Productions LTD).
WENDY DYNAN-GLEESON
Originally from Ireland Wendy studied acting at the Drama Studio, London and got her Licentiate in Speech and Drama from Trinity Guildhall.
Her theatre credits include Maria in The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, Frieda in Ourselves Alone, Chrissie in Dancing at Lughnasa, Oberon
in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julia in Uncle Vanya and Mrs Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer.
CHRISTOPHER HOLT
Christopher Holt is an actor, theatre director, theatre skills lecturer, voice teacher and corporate training facilitator.
As an actor he has appeared in numerous high - profile West End productions including Les Miserables, Cats and The Lion King and
worked with directors such as Trevor Nunn and Sam Mendes. Christopher's theatre directing career has taken him to Italy and Germany,
directing the German PremiÒre of the AIDS musical elegies for angels, punks and raging queens and reinventing classic texts for tours
of Italy. In the UK Christopher has devised and directed productions for Jackson's Lane and Oval House and was one of the directors
of Shakespeare in the Square - a site-specific festival created by the National Youth Theatre with young people in Hackney. As a
lecturer, voice coach and workshop leader, Christopher has worked for institutions such as London Metropolitan University, the National
Youth Theatre, Shared Experience and GRAEAE Theatre Company.
DARREN ORMANDY
Darren Ormandy worked in business for six years before training as an actor at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has performed
with a variety of companies, from the London and Edinburgh fringes to national large-scale tours including, The Hobbit (UK and Ireland
tour), The Tempest and Measure for Measure (RSC), The Taming of the Shrew (English Touring Theatre), Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night
(ESC) and Victor's Life (Arcola Theatre). His TV and film work includes the CBBC series Patrick's Planet, together with roles in Casualty,
Smack the Pony, Soldier Soldier, Cider With Rosie and Following. As a writer, he has developed scripts for The Big Telly Theatre Company
and Cahoots NI, both based in Northern Ireland, including The Little Mermaid, Finn McCool and The Travelling Teller. His play The Tale
of Robin Hood is being produced by Creation Theatre Company for performance in Oxford this summer. His directing work includes The
Signalman, Hamburg and The End of the Party (The Union Theatre), and The Piano Tuner and Extra Time (The Landor Theatre).
STEPHEN MARCUS
Stephen trained at Art Educational London School of Acting. He has worked in Films, TV, Adverts, and Theatre for the last 21 years.
Some of the Films he has performed in have included Quillsç opposite Kate Winslet and Geoffrey Rush, Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking
Barrelsç directed by Guy Ritchie and most recently The Greatest Game Ever Playedç directed by Bill Paxton for Disney Pictures.
The following have all taught at LSDA:
Ben Nealon, Jennifer Glogan, Bonnie Engstrom, Michael Colgan, Imogen Church, Valdis Arnardottir, Ildiko Solti, Antoinette Walsh, Jane
Lehrer, Paul Robinson, Peter Ansorge, Laurens Postma, Marianne Micallef, Shane Collins, Teresa Churcher, Janis Jaffa, Jessica Gerger,
Aoife Smyth, Thomas McGairl, Marilyn Scott, Edna-Mairi Holywell.