Our Staff-

Our Director

Hettie Beetham BA(Hons) Ed Dunelm, established the company in 2005 after working for eight years as a teacher & youth theatre director in the UK and USA. Hettie set up the company with a vision to maximise students’ experience of the arts both inside and outside the classroom. She is an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher, ever mindful of the importance of classroom management, who always ensures pupils remain fully engaged and motivated. Hettie delivers highly successful inset training enabling teachers to build their confidence to extend and enrich their own students’ creative learning experiences.

Our Drama Academy / Workshop Staff

Wenna Stockdale has worked as a Drama practitioner for several years for Theatre Train, Northampton Theatres, Erewash Borough Council and ‘Learning Through Drama’ Ltd. She has a degree in Performance Studies and an MA in Developing the Arts in Applied Contexts. She has worked as an Outreach and Education Manager in Northamptonshire, and currently as Arts in Education Co-ordinator for Derby City Council. As well as Arts Award Advisor, she is also the lead Arts Award Advisor Trainer for Derby city.

David Powell is a qualified teacher who works on a casual basis at our Derbyshire after school academies & school holiday workshops.    He has worked for Learning Through Drama Ltd since it was founded in September 2005 and has planned and directed drama activities at Splitz, The Fleet Arts Centre, Derby Playhouse and Derby School of Acting.  David is particularly keen on aspects of physical theatre and helping students to devise dance and movement to accompany their drama.

Nicky Maslin has worked with children in nurseries, schools & out of school clubs for over fifteen years & currently works as a special educational needs assistant which she finds very rewarding.  She also assists in local school holiday arts projects encompassing everything from drama & puppetry to mosaics and photography.  Nicky is currently studying for a three year foundation degree in Education.

Fliss Hilton trained as an actress at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Prior to this she was a principal dancer, actress and founding member of FunBus Production which toured schools with its productions and put all profits to a local Children’s Charity. Fliss likes to encourage freedom in acting, using her physical theatre training to allow others to understand their acting in their space. Fliss also writes scripts in the genre of realism and hopes to workshop these ideas in the near future.

Laura Hughes is currently attending the University of Derby where she is training to be a primary school teacher.  She has previously worked as a student teacher & director at Stagecraft performing arts school where her understanding of behaviour management was shaped and she developed a firm grasp on dramatic arts throughout the primary curriculum.  She has achieved Grade 5 in Guildhall Drama, Bronze medal in her LAMDA acting & is currently working toward her Gold Medal in LAMDA.

Our LAMDA Tutors

Jac Wilkinson has a BA (Hons) in Film, Theatre and French & an MA in European Arts and Cultural Policy with French (Warwick). She studied Mime and Comedy at The Commedia School, Copenhagen and worked as a performer and director for ten years in touring and devised physical theatre in UK, Poland and Scandinavia. She then went on to be a Mime Animateur, Head of Education at Warwick Arts Centre and an Arts Council Officer (East Midlands Arts Board), before focusing solely on freelance work.

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