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David Hanson
Head of School, London School of Film, Media &
Performance
LSFMP is led by David Hanson, who has had a
successful career in the creative industries as an award-winning
scriptwriter, with projects that he has worked on having won BAFTA,
Ace and Golden Rose of Montreux awards.
Working in London, New York and Hollywood, his
wide experience includes working with acclaimed performers
including Lenny Henry, Jasper Carrot and David Walliams, writing
for ground-breaking television comedy series such as the BBC’s ‘Not
the Nine O’Clock News’, scripting US television and film projects
at ABC, HBO and Universal Pictures, and co-creating and writing the
television character Max Headroom.
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Tristan Tull
Programme Director, Media Practice and Communications
Tristan has a background in production that
includes television, film, community and corporate work. He has
taught degree courses in Television, Scriptwriting and Producing
and Directing.
For three years Tristan held the role of
Skillset Screen Academy Associate, devising and project managing
training in filmmaking. For the past three years he has been
closely involved in the running of a European Union film skills
programme which mentors teams of scriptwriters, producers and
directors in developing first features.
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Dr Valerie Kaneko-Lucas
Programme Director, Theatre & Performance Studies
Dr. Valerie Kaneko-Lucas trained at the
Sherman Theatre Cardiff and at Theater Die Raben (Germany). She
works as a director, scenographer, writer and theatre scholar. Her
work has been produced both nationally and internationally, and
ranges from site-based performance, new writing for the stage,
theatre for specific constituencies, and mask performance.
She led a 5-year British Council project,
Shakespeare Comes to Palestine, in collaboration with the National
Theatre of Palestine and universities on the West Bank. Her
research focuses upon representations of hybridity and the
intercultural in performance. Dr. Kaneko-Lucas is Joint Honorary
Secretary of the Society for Theatre Research London, and
co-convener of the Scenography Working Group of the International
Federation for Theatre Research.
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Anna Sullivan
Senior Lecturer, Theatre & Performance Studies
Anna has taught for several London drama
schools, Royal Holloway College, University of Wisconsin, Bucknell
University, and a residency as visiting director at Colby College
in Maine. She also ran the Colby London Theatre Programme for 8
years.
Her professional work as an actor has included
‘Macbeth’ (tour, India, China and Nottingham), ‘Master and
Margarita’ (Almeida Theatre) and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (UK tour).
TV credits include ‘The Bill’, ‘EastEnders’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Silent
Witness’, ‘The Harry Enfield Show’ and ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’.
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Peter Verdon
Lecturer
Peter teaches computer applications and current research methods
at Regent's American College London. Peter is also a professional
member of the British Academy of Fencing and specialises in
combat/fight choreography for film and stage. He has worked as a
freelance fight choreographer for West End stage productions, RADA
and the University of London.
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Phil Hughes
Visiting Lecturer
Phil Hughes began working in film in the area of development,
working as Head of Fiction for an EU funded development programme
funding projects across 14 countries.
For the past ten years he has been a freelance writer for film
and television with two feature films and a number of TV credits to
his name. He has worked with producers in the UK and in Hollywood,
and has experience developing scripts for Fox and Paramount. He has
also sold spec scripts to Hollywood, developed films for the
internet and worked in animation.
Over the past five years he has worked with the Script Factory,
the ScriptEast programme and the Four Corners script development
workshop.
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Professor Mark Allinson
Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social
Sciences
Professor Allinson’s research interests are in
European and especially Spanish cinema. He has published two books
on film: ‘A Spanish Labyrinth: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar’, and
‘Spanish Cinema: A Student Guide’, (co-author Barry Jordan). Other
recent publications include chapters on Almodóvar’s ‘All About My
Mother’, and on tragedy and melodrama in film.
As well as his module 'Film and the Producer'
on the BA (Hons) Screenwriting & Producing, his current
teaching includes modules on British Cinema and Spanish Cinema.
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Brian Woolland
Visiting Consultant
Brian was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Theatre
& Television at Reading University, before resigning his post
to work freelance as a writer and theatre director.
He is widely published as an author of educational and academic
books. He has also had considerable success as a playwright – with
eight stage plays commissioned and produced by professional
companies, and two published in book form. ‘Double Tongue’ for
Border Crossings won an Arts Council New Writing Award; ‘Stand or
Fall’ a Koestler Award. His first novel, ‘Dead in the Water’, was
published in 2010.
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Andy Greenhalgh
Visiting Lecturer
Andy read English at Gonville & Caius College, University of
Cambridge, and works as an actor, teacher and corporate trainer. On
stage, he has performed in Shakespeare everywhere from California
to Calcutta. On television he has featured in two series of ’Hello
Girls’ and two series of ‘The Belfry Witches.’ He has played a
recurring character in ‘EastEnders’ and has made guest appearances
in about 60 other television shows. Films include ‘Julius Caeser’
(with Richard Harris) and a leading role in the American cult
comedy, ‘A Man Called Sarge’. In the 1980s Andy worked as a
stand-up comic. In the corporate field Andy is widely experienced
both as actor and facilitator.
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Dr Mark James Hamilton
Senior Lecturer, World Stages
Dr. Mark James Hamilton trained at the University of Birmingham
(UK) and with classical Indian dancer Priya Srikumar in Edinburgh.
His doctorate was awarded by the University of Canterbury (NZ).
Mark has worked as a director-choreographer, scriptwriter and
creative producer for stage and television and researches the
integration of voice and movement training. His research seeks to
elaborate an intercultural methodology for performance training.
His teaching is a synthesis of the European practices of Rudolf
Laban, Jerzy Grotowski and Roy Hart; with the hereditary and
contemporary arts of the Māori people and the region of Kerala.
Over the past decade, Mark’s career in the Asia Pacific region
has ranged from performance of his own solo dance works, to
co-creation of a Māori pop opera with a symphony orchestra. He has
convened and continues to arrange international gatherings through
which scholars and practitioners explore the interface of the
martial arts and dance drama. Dr Hamilton is an affiliate of a
number of academic and artistic professional bodies. Amongst these
are: Asian Performing Arts Network, Dance Base (Scottish National
Centre for Dance), The Voice Studio International (UK); New Zealand
Studies Network, New Zealand South Asia Centre and Mika Haka
Foundation (NZ); CVN Kalari East Fort Thiruvananthapuram &
Samudra Performing Arts (Kerala, India).
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Kwong Loke
Visiting Lecturer
Kwong trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, studied Balinese mask movements in Bali after obtaining a
Master degree in classical Asian and Greek theatre forms at Royal
Holloway, University of London.
He is joint artistic director of StoneCrabs, and a founder
member of Yellow Earth: both companies are devoted to
international theatre works as well as training for young people in
theatre practice. Kwong’s directing work includes plays by Mishima,
Caryl Churchill, and Brazil’s foremost playwright, Nelson Rodrigues
(Our Lady of the Drowned: TimeOut Critic’s Choice). He regularly
works on the development of new writing, at the Birmingham Rep and
StoneCrabs, and run workshops on acting and directing at drama
schools and theatre companies in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Kuala
Lumpur.
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