Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques for TV and Film

Alicya studied at the Court Theatre Training Company and has been working professionally for 20 years. Television credits include Clink, Casualty, Band of Gold, Doctors, The Bill, Holby City, Spooks, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Paradox, Bad Girls (in which she spent 5 years as a regular) and she was a series regular in Emmerdale in which she played the part of Ruby. Film credits include The Low Down, Tube Tales and Stalin My Neighbour. Alicya has also performed at various theatres including the Royal Court and the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. She also performed in the critically acclaimed play Any Which Way.

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques, Scene Study Director

David trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College.

He is best known for his portrayal of Gregory ‘Gloria’ Finch in Russell T Davies’ multi-award winning Channel 4/HBO mini-series ‘It’s a Sin’.  He received a Best Supporting BAFTA nomination in 2022 for his work on the series and was also nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Audience Award in 2021. The series broke the All4 steaming record, including biggest ever drama launch and most binged series ever, and notably won an NTA award for Best New Drama.

He was also the Proud Scotland Award’s Entertainer/Artist of the Year 2021.

His work as an actor includes theatre productions of The Tell-Tale Heart (National Theatre); You Stupid Darkness! (Paines Plough/TRP), The Outside (L’Etranger) (The Print Room at The Coronet); Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/UK Tour/The Barbican); Three Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); Carpe Diem (National Theatre); Victoria (Dundee Rep); Somersaults (Finborough); Yellow Moon, The Monster in the Hall (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland); Hansel and Gretel (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); You Once Said Yes (Look Left Look Right, E4 Udderbelly); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman).

Television includes: It’s a Sin, Casualty, Bodyguard, Lip Service II (BBC).

Radio includes: End of Transmission; ANGST! The Teachings of Smart Town; Kitchen Confidential; Behind Her Eyes; The Stroma Sessions; Chernobyl (BBC Radio 3 & 4).

He created the Virgin Radio Documentary ‘Getting Out’ and guest presents across their channels

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques

Holly is most famously known as Newt’s Mother in Aliens and Lady Farrow in Blackadder. Her acting experience is extensive starring in the National Theatre and throughout the West End.

Holly’s television and film work includes: The Duchess of Duke Street, Lytton’s Diary, Van der Valk, Poirot, The Detectives, The Assassination Run, The Chief, Doctors, Daniel Deronda, Electric Dreams, The Hiding Place, Casualty, Eastenders and Soaked. Most recently she has worked at the Sheffield Crucible theatre in Arthur Millers Playing for Time, at the Ustinov studio Bath in Half Life directed by Nancy Meckler, at the Southwark Playhouse in Roundelay and recently received two Best Actress nominations for the short film Development of June and this year won a Best Actress for the film Forbidden Love on the Shores of Greece. She has also written two short films which are currently in post production. 

This year, Holly can be seen in three feature films: Urchin, a winner at Cannes Film Festival and directed by Harris Dickinson, Notes on the Disappearance of a Young Girl, directed by Sean Hogan, and Banquet, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques for TV and Film

Stephen is a professional actor with a wide breadth of experience playing leading roles in feature films, television dramas and on stage. Best known for playing Lysander Hawkley in ITVs The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and Greg Kelly in Coronation Street (for which he won a British Soap Award).  He has worked with many leading film directors including Peter Greenaway, Franco Zeffirelli and Mel Gibson.

He continues to work in independent movies and in theatre, enjoying classical roles as well as those in challenging new writing. Stephen has been teaching acting and screen acting to students and professionals for over seventeen years and has taught at The Method Studio, The Actor’s Centre and Drama Centre London.

Stephen trained as an actor at the Drama Centre London.

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques

Paul trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) where he won the Brian Cox scholarship. Since graduating Paul has worked as an actor on both stage and screen, and as a fight choreographer and director. He appeared in the feature film Broken Promise and played King Phillip II of Spain in Juana of Castile – Edinburgh and National and European tour.

Paul’s theatre credits include: Acts of Cod (RNT & the Old Vic), The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic), Robin Hood, Macbeth, Richard II (The Tobacco Factory), Theatre Loyalties, Italian American Reconciliation (The Finborough) European Tours of Gone, Macbeth (Paines Plough). Paul’s TV credits incluse: Heartbeat, a BBC Film, The Date, I’m Frank Morgan (BAFTA nominated), the lead in Lucky Man directed by Jim Sturgess, and The Shipwreck Trilogy (RSC).

Paul directed Treading the Boards for the London-Edinburgh and UK tour. He co-wrote and directed the BAFTA long-listed short film Gerry starring Joan Collins and Oliver Ford Davies. The film won Joan Collins the best actress award at the LA International Film Festival and won best short at the Manchester International Film Festival.

Subject taught at LSDA: Life Coach

Helen completed an MA in English Literature and a BA in Psychology at Copenhagen University. After performing English theatre in Copenhagen for 8 years Helen moved to London to train at Drama Studio.

She co-founded Yardbird Shuffle Productions at DSL and played Patricia in Brimstone and Treacle and Carol in Oleanna at Krudttoennen. She also performed for several seasons with The Project Makers playing Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost co directed by Annetta Laufer. Other credits include Livia, Women Beware Women directed by Matthew Wilde and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bedlam Theatre where she also worked with Jamie Reid in The Dead Monkey. In 2010 Helen worked with Edward Bond on the world premiere of his modern bloody classic There Will Be More where she played (Me)Dea directed by Adam Spreadbury Maher. Other recent credits include Countess Gouvarinha in The Maias (Galleon Productions) and Candida in Candida (CandyKing Productions). Helen also performed in a 2019 production of Great Expectations, a new edition written from the viewpoint of Miss Haversham, whom she played.

Helen Trained as a Life Coach with The Coaching Academy in 2009-11 and greatly enjoys empowering her students to make the best of their lives. She teaches them problem solving skills and helps them set powerful challenging personal and career goals with focus on taking full responsibility for their development and future success.

Helen has worked extensively with film maker Lucy Beech including the art film Credible passion.  Helen has been working with the international theatre company TheatreLab since 2012. She has performed in The Oresteia and Medea at Riverside Studios and had played Queen Herodias in Salome in London, Avignon, Athens and Thessaloniki. Helen received excellent reviews when she reprised her role as DEA in 2016, directed by Edward Bond. Helen played Aunt Patience in TheatreLab’s acclaimed performance of Jamaica Inn in November 2017.  In 2019 Helen performed in several shows at The Suffolk INK festival.

Helen has since 2017 co-written, produced and performed in new comedy webseries The Self Tapers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE5QmYnKKh0&t=36s.  She is currently filming Canonbie Production’s new Feature film Gentrification – shot in 5 minute episodes, penned by her husband Peter Rae – a cautionary tale about the encroaching dangers of middle-class xenophobia. Helen Produces, directs, acts and provides all the first class vegetarian catering.

Subject taught at LSDA: Audition Techniques

Biography to follow.

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting – Meisner Technique

Logan is an actor, director, writer and producer who trained at LSDA and Rose Bruford College respectively. He is the artistic director of GO FOR BROKE theatre company, producing new writing, workshops and live events with the mission of engaging both working class talent and audiences. In 2024 he also founded No brains needed comedy club, working with top talent from the London circuit.

He recently starred as the lead role of Ben in Paramount’s TV drama ‘A KNOCK AT THE DOOR’ produced by Vertigo films, as part of the rebooted Play for Today series.

Acting credits (stage): Walking with Molly (Riverside studios), LUNGS (USS Stratford East), Bromance! (The Barn theatre), To Sir, with Love (Greenwich theatre), The sweet science of bruising (Rose Bruford college), Women Beware Women (Rose Bruford College).

TV Credits include: A Knock at the Door (Vertigo films, Paramount/ Channel 5), Gravy Train (Double vision media), The Taming of the Shrew (Cambridge University press), Slick Gorilla (National Commercial).

Directing credits: A Wild Flower (The Rose theatre), Not by blood (The Kings head theatre, Etcetera theatre), Clouds and Concrete (New Wimbledon theatre), Love and Information (The Chelsea theatre – Assistant director), Image of an unknown young women (Union theatre, Assistant director), Falling apples (The Barn theatre – Writer and director). 

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting Techniques, Text Analysis

Biography to follow.

Subject taught at LSDA: Acting

Kazeem trained as an actor at London School of Dramatic Art and Bird College, and then as a director at Rose Bruford.

Kazeem’s theatre acting credits include: The Jungle Book (National Theatre), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Old Vic), Life of Pi (West End/Mirvish, Toronto); Magic Goes Wrong (West End); The Play That Goes Wrong (West End/UK tour); A Streetcar Named Desire, Running Wild (UK tour); Macbeth (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Hamlet (Brixton Market); Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew (Above the Arts).

Kazeem’s film credits include: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Batman, and Love in a Time of Death. His television credits include The Dumping Ground and Africa’s Great Civilisations. Voice acting works include: Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later.