ANNA FIORENTINI - Key Persons
Aaron Wingrove-Littman is a London based dancer and choreographer that spent 3 years in Disneyland Paris performing for their various shows and parades. Upon his return he has been involved in multiple music videos both in front and behind the camera. He has also performed on multiple cruise ships around the Baltic sea and on stage at some of London's big events such as London Pride and Move It dance exhibition. He has also spent time touring Egypt teaching his own brand of of Hip Hop in studios around Cairo.
Born and raised in the Lake District, Adrian gained his BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts at the University of Warwick. He went on to perform with Transitions Dance Company as part of his MA in Dance Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Transitions worked with internationally renowned choreographers (Didy Veldman, Dog Kennel Hill Project and Rahel Vonmoos) to create three new works which were toured across UK theatres in summer 2021.
Adrian has trained extensively in ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and commercial dance. He has won awards as both a performer and a choreographer at national competitions, and has been teaching dance to young people for over 6 years. His classes are energetic, challenging and extremely welcoming.
Christina studied In 2012, a BA (hons) in Drama and Performance Studies, at London South Bank University. Followed by a MA in Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame) at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Christina also done her PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning and is now a Visiting Lecturer at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London and a Consultant Therapist at Frank Belford, looking at ways to explore challenges within the corporate industry, creating a unique approach using dramatherapy. The programme helps organisations reduce the amount of employee turnover and feel more secure about change. Christina Anderson also joined the organisation Khulisa as a freelance facilitator in October 2018, delivering programmes in PRUs, Schools and Prisons across London and Manchester. Christina is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Arts Therapist as well as the British Association of Dramatherapist (BADth). Christina has also written a chapter in the book "Talk Yourself Better: A Confused Person's Guide to Therapy, Counselling and Self-Help".
Claire, one of our drama teachers, trained at RADA and Bretton Hall. She has worked extensively on stage and screen, and brings this knowledge to her workshops.
On screen Claire has played main supporting roles in numerous feature films including Mabel Smith in Borley Rectory (alongside Reece Shearsmith), Ms. Conrad in Telling Lies (alongside Jason Flemyng and Melanie Brown), the Young Nurse in Provoked (which starred Miranda Richardson and Robbie Coltrane), and Beattie in The Magic Hour. Stage roles have included Mags in Handbagged and Sheila in Relatively Speaking at Windsor Theatre Royal and on tour, and Maggie in Hobson's Choice and Liz Essendine in Present Laughter at Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre all for Paul Taylor-Mills. Also she has performed in several No 1 Tours - Funny Peculiar for Bill Kenwright and Handbagged for Eleanor Lloyd Prods.
Claire has taught Acting for Screen at stage schools and as a private acting coach. She has worked one-on-one with young actors starting out on their first professional feature film or TV role, and with groups of children who are wanting to learn a new skill for fun. She has led acting workshops for the Ambassador Theatre Group on numerous workshops attached to West End Shows, and she has also led acting workshops for the Donmar Warehouse along-side the Phylida Lloyd all-female production of Julius Caesar which starred Harriet Walter and Frances Barber.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Administrator, Head Office
After graduating from University College Dublin with a degree in English and History, Conor returned to UCD to complete a Masters degree in Gender, Sexuality and Culture. While working in a Dublin hospital, Conor made the decision to follow his passion and change his career focus by moving into the performing arts industry. He relocated to London and began working at the Anna Fiorentini Performing Arts School in 2021. He is passionate about working to provide young people with the opportunity to enter the world of performing arts. Since he moved to London, he vowed to see every show on the West End and is currently working zealously to achieve this goal.
Job Titles:
- Stage & the City Manager, Head Office
Davinia Powell graduated from Roehampton University with a degree in Drama Theatre and Performance Studies. Since then she has had various admin roles and does regular voice over work. She is passionate about the arts and the importance of it in children's lives. She is also a member of Stage and the City's Musical Theatre Troupe.
Troy Titus-Adams is an Actor, Producer and Drama Teacher. As an actor she is probably best known for her role as Nina Harris in EastEnders and Kim Davies in Family Affairs.
She and her childhood friend, Director Dee Allen have a production company called Heavy Soul and have produced 4 short films. Troy's debuted as a co-producer on the award winning short Simple! written and Directed by Michael Buffong. Heavy Soul are in Pre production for their first feature.
Emma trained at LAMDA and the Stella Adler Studio (NY) Recent theatre credits include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre - International Tour), Abigail's Party (40th Anniversary Production, UK No.1 Tour) The End of the Line and A Bunch of Amateurs (both Southwold Summer Repertory), Yen (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre), April in Paris (UK No.1 tour), September in the Rain (UK No.1 Tour), Phaedra's Love (Arcola Theatre), Torn Out Pages (Gilded Balloon for the Edinburgh Festival) TV and film credits include: Emmerdale (ITV), Silent Witness (BBC), Coronation Street (ITV), Downton Abbey (ITV), Doctors (BBC), New Tricks (BBC), Downhill (Feature), 22. Anna Matthews (Short), Jo (Short) - for which Emma won the Bazza Film Festival Best Actress `Award in 2018. Emma also founded and runs Reduced Circumstances, a theatre company committed to nurturing talent and developing new work.
Upon graduating, Ericka have experience in teaching - covering a variety of subjects in performing across different age groups. She is passionate about passing's on her passion for the industry and the importance in development of creativity for her students.
Harrison first studied Contemporary Performance at the University of Wales (graduating with a first) before going on to the Royal Central School of Speech of Drama's MA acting program in 2015 (graduating with a distinction). Since then Harrison has performed on UK Tours, on the West End and Internationally, most recently completing a season of Shakespeare - performing as Hamlet - ‘Step forward Harrison Rose, a young powerhouse of an actor who astounded as the eponymous anti-hero…' - Petersfield Post. Harrison is also a Playwright who has written for multiple scratch nights before his debut full-length play Fox was programmed at The Old Red Lion Theatre in London in 2017 - ‘Rose's script plants all the seeds.' - WhatsOnStage. Harrison is also a passionate acting coach and workshop facilitator who has developed a teaching process which draws on skills he has learnt using both Katie Mitchell and Stanislavski's approach to acting.
Harveen trained at The Royal Academy of Music, London. She graduated with distinction and DipRAM for excellence.
Since graduating Harveen has played lead roles in a number of productions including Bend it like Beckham (West End), Privates On Parade (Theatre Royal, Brighton), The Thing About Tom directed by Stuart Wood, Election Idol, Ringside (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Poise The Musical, The Witches (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Cynthia's Girls (Cambridge Corn Exchange), Peter Pan (The Park Theatre) and The Cereal Café (The Other Palace). She has recently returned from Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock International and UK Tour.
Jack Holliday is our Musical Director and one of our singing teachers. Since graduating he has been involved in the production of over 60 theatrical productions, either on stage or off. He started his career in musical theatre, performing in shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon and Into the Woods; taking him all across the country until an injury to his shoulder made this difficult. He attained his educational degree, and has now been a professional Musical Director for a number of years, directing big-name performances such as Singing in the Rain, Legally Blonde, Grease, and Fame! He was Musical Director for NYT for 3 years while running a children's musical theatre company.
Jen started dancing, performing, teaching and choreographing from a very early age in styles such as jazz, street, tap and musical theatre. As an adult, Jen then went on to consolidate her training in contemporary, ballet and contemporary jazz at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She has trained and worked with artists such as Rachel Lopez de Nieta, Rosemary Brandt, Hagit Yakira, Rosangela Silvestre and Tim Casson. Credits include T Mobile, BBC 2, Sadlers Wells, Richmix Festival, The Natural History Museum, plus many other dance festivals, theatre performances and private events across London. With over 8 years teaching experience, her classes are filled with passion, precision and warm energy which creates a fun and engaging atmosphere for students of all levels.
Jessica, one of our drama teachers, has worked extensively in Film, TV and Theatre.
She comes from an Opera/Theatre family and is a third generation performer. Since the age of twelve she has worked professionally in Australia, Austria and the UK.
Jessica has also produced three critically acclaimed shows on the London Fringe, including her solo show, which in 2008 she took to comedy festivals around the globe. Since 2005 she has also performed in, and helped to produce the West End smash hit The Vegemite Tales.
She has lots of experience working with children and finds it inspiring and a lot of fun!
Kieran started dancing at the Royal Ballet School at the age of 8 years and went on into full time vocational ballet training. At 15 years old Kieran joined the Urdang Academy on a 4 year professional training programme which he will finish this year. With a varied performance portfolio Kieran has performed in six different productions at the Royal Opera House with the Royal Ballet Company, Robin in the Secret Garden at The Peacock Theatre, Rose Prince in the Nutcracker at the Bloomsbury Theatre and more recently at the Shaw theatre, Hackney Empire, Can You Dance and in STRIKE at Move IT for Urdang Academy. Kieran's dance passions are varied and as well as being a development gymnast he has won medals at UDO Streetdance finals in Glasgow and other Street Dance competitions. Enjoying a wide variety of styles he aims to have a varied but fulfilled teaching and performing career to add to his existing credits.
Kristy Philipps is an Actress, Writer and Director. Since graduating from the BA(hons) Acting course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Kristy has worked for ITV, Channel 4, BBC and TNT. Most notably she played Sheridan Smith's daughter Alice in the ITV series Cleaning Up. She has directed several short films and is currently writing and directing a short film for BBC Wales.
Maddy Anholt is a comedian, actress and writer. She has just finished filming a sitcom, Jerk for BBC Three, has appeared in Sunny D, BBC One, on ITV and Channel 5. She's had four sell-out solo comedies at Underbelly, Gilded Balloon, Latitude Festival Main Stage and the Soho Theatre. She had her own comedy on BBC Radio 4, writes for Sketchtopia, BBC Radio 4, has amassed over 7 million views online for her sketches and has worked with Warner Bros, guests on ITV's This Morning and is a regular on TalkRADIO co-hosting with Eamonn Holmes.
Mark is one of our dance teachers/ choreographers. Mark has choreographed for many industry professionals including Liberty X, Tina Turner, Peter Andre and Ant and Dec.
Matt Osborn is an Anglo Australian actor originally from London, he has studied, trained, performed and taught in the UK, Czech Republic, Poland & Australia. Matt has been teaching at the Anna Fiorentini school since 2018.
Michael regularly directs for EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty and Coronation Street as well as for Regional Theatres such as The Royal Exchange Manchester. Michael has much experience teaching children and young adults the techniques needed for acting on camera / film-making.
Nick is a professional Musical Theatre Performer and Photographer, who works both on stage performing and off-stage advertising for productions and Actors. Nick has performed onboard Celebrity Cruises in Asia as well as Australia, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Hong Kong. Nick has performed in London in the award nominated production ‘The Hired Man', multiple pantomimes (including being made dance captain for ‘Aladdin' with Ann Widdicombe) as well as the play ‘The Crumple Zone'. Nick has just completed a successful run of ‘Me and My Girl' in the Frinton Summer Season and works regularly with a Jersey Boys guest entertainer show on board cruise ships.
Job Titles:
- Agent & Company Manager, Head Office
After attending drama school as a child and performing professionally throughout this time, Rhiannon went on to study Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University gaining a 2:1. After continuing her career as a performer she went on to work for a talent agency in the West End starting to build working relationships with Casting Directors and industry professionals, most of whom she still works with today.
Rhiannon started at the Anna Fiorentini drama school in 2008 and since then has worked with hundreds of young people from across the Capital, both at the schools and through nurturing their careers in the industry. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the People's Choice Award at the ArtKickers Awards, celebrating the unsung heroes of East London's art scene . In 2019 Rhiannon was a BAFTA juror at the Children's BAFTAs.
Rhiannon feels very passionate about giving these young people opportunities in the industry whilst maintaining a caring relationship with them and their families. She is so proud of every single student she has crossed paths with and is constantly inspired by their character, talent and sense of humour!
Roxanne trained at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and has also been part of the Identity School of Acting in London.
She has performed in various plays and worked in London, Madrid, Paris and Rome with Maestro John Strasberg, where she discovered the Organic Creative Process and the Natural Laws of Creativity.
She has also taken part in theatre productions off-stage, where she enjoyed the production and coaching aspects. She has a strong interest in teaching students using different creative tools and coaching artists to reach their full potential.
Aside from her passion working with children and young adults using the arts and theatre, Roxanne loves learning about different cultures and languages and speaks fluent English, French and Italian.'