DARREN BRANSFORD
DIRECTOR & HEAD OF SCREEN-ACTING
SCREEN-ACTING TUTOR

Darren has over sixteen years’ experience as an actor in Film, Television and Theatre.

His Television credits include: Hollyoaks (C4, 3 years as series regular Nick O’Connor), Pie in the Sky (BBC), The Mag (Five);

Film credits include: Esther (starring Academy Award Winner F. Murray Abraham), Monk Dawson (De Warrenne Pictures), Doubting Thomas (Tavern Films), and leading roles in And The Colours Are Like Summer, My Dark and Heim; Theatre credits include Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Rudy in Bent, Brimir in Blue Planet (Cochrane Theatre), Amadeus, the title role in The Winslow Boy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Cold Comfort Farm, Laertes in Hamlet, and Phillip in The Lion in Winter (S.W. Tour).

He has also appeared in numerous Shorts screened at festivals worldwide, and Commercials including campaigns for NSPCC, Vodafone and MTV. Directing credits include: Deep Cuts (The Bridewell Theatre), Innosense (The Broadway Theatre), Closetland (One Act Festival), Have You Ever…? (Anti-Bullying Promo), promotional films for BAMZ, short films including And the World Is My Garden, Orton Avenue, and 9 Conversations About One Thing, and rehearsed readings for Bournemouth Film School at RADA, The Purbeck Film Festival and The Writers’ Guild.

Darren has also worked as a freelance Acting Coach in theatre schools and performing arts colleges throughout the UK and the Channel Islands. He is the founder and director of BSA Actor Training.

DANNIE CARR
HEAD OF ACTING FOR STAGE
MEISNER & CONTEMPORARY TEXT TUTOR

Dannie obtained a BA Hons degree in Performing Arts from Sheffield University and also trained at The Bridge Theatre Training Company as a post-graduate in Acting before completing two years intensive training with Scott Williams in The Meisner Technique.

Her acting credits include The Heidi Chronicles, David Hare’s The Blue Room, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fiona Lemming in the underground sci-fi film Reversing the Polarity, and Morli in Big Finish's Dalek Empire audio series (Series II and III).

Her voiceovers include work for BBC3 and Classic FM and her directing credits include Top Girls, Marat/Sade, Closer, Look Back in Anger and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Dannie also regularly works as a director/acting tutor at a range of various establishments including Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, WAC, The Bridge Theatre Training Company and The Impulse Company.

ADRIAN FEAR
CLASSICAL ACTING TUTOR

Adrian trained at Durham University and the Birmingham School of Acting.

His theatre credits include Shadowlands (No.1 Tour and West End), See How They Run (No.1 Tour and West End), Bill Kenwright’s Dangerous to Know (No.1 Tour), Closer, Fool for Love, The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry (Kings Head), and According to Hoyle (ICA).

Classical Acting includes Titus Andronicus (BAC), Macbeth, Hedda Gabler (Crescent Theatre), Twelfth Night (CBSO Centre), The Merchant of Venice (Redditch Palace Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Moseley Festival), Edward II (Cockpit Theatre), and Henry V (Pentameters); Film and Television credits include Day’s That Shook the World: Marconi’s Miracle, Days That Shook the World: The Christmas Truce, and Doctors (all for BBC), Popcorn (Sky One), Terry Jones’ Barbarians, Alkemade, The Merchant of Venice, and The Fencing Master.

Directing credits include Black Soap and Cumquats (both for Roland Egan Productions), Departure (Hen & Chickens Theatre), Don’t Dress for Dinner (Landor Theatre), and as Assistant Director on The Merchant of Venice, and Edward II (Revival Theatre Company).

Adrian also works as a Workshop Leader for numerous Drama Training Companies including the Shakespeare Schools Festival, the London Shakespeare Workout Schools and Prisons Project, and the Actors Temple.

SIMON TRINDER
CLASSICAL ACTING TUTOR

Simon trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Following his graduation, he went on to win the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award and spent 6 months on The BBC Radio Repertory Company – appearing in over 50 plays for Radio 4 and the World Service.

Simon appeared in 12 productions during 3 years with The Royal Shakespeare Company, including Biondello in The Taming of the Shrew (winner, Clarence Derwent Award - Best Supporting Actor; nominated, The Helen Hayes Award USA), Castano in House of Desires (shortlisted - The Evening Standard Award), plus roles in the award winning Spanish Golden Age Season and Merry Wives The Musical with Dame Judi Dench.

Further Theatre credits include: Caliban to Pete Postlethwaite’s Prospero in The Tempest (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Giant by Anthony Sher, numerous productions at The Hampstead Theatre, The Royal Court, Barbican and New Vic, and Puck in Mike Alfred’s critically acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Television credits include: Holby City, Dalziel & Pascoe, Electric Chair, In Search of Shakespeare and he is currently filming The Children, a new series for ITV.

Simon has coached actors in Drama Schools worldwide, including The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, The Central School of Speech & Drama, Shakespeare’s Globe, and The Actor’s Centre (Sydney), National Theatre Drama School (Melbourne) and other establishments throughout Australia.

DOUG ROLLINS
ACTING FOR COMMERCIALS TUTOR

Doug trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

He has over twenty years’ experience as an actor in Film, Television and Theatre.

Television credits include: Torchwood, Love Hurts, The Bill, Casualty, Holby City, Eastenders, Panorama, Doctors, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and The Knock.

His film credits include, most recently, Lance Bokovic in American Dreamz for Universal Pictures. Doug has had the great privilege of working with Mai Zetterling and Michael Winterbottom in his early career.

His Theatre credits include ten years in Rep, Fringe, and most recently a No.1 Tour playing Jack in Bad Blood.

Doug has appeared in over 40 Television and Cinema commercials worldwide during the last nine years, including campaigns for Audi, Specsavers, Rennies, Virgin Trains, Daz, BT, Opel, Macdonalds, Lotto, Orange, Vision Express, Cilit Bang, One Tel and Sunday Mirror. Doug also coaches at The Court Theatre Training Company.