At our School you will find a total focus on your creative development
Nationality: British
Course: Drama Foundation
Where is she now? Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London
Meet our staff
Head of CSVPA: Christopher Maughan
ART & DESIGN
Head of Art & Design:
Christopher Maughan, MSIAD Art & Design
Professional designer-maker.
Chris has worked as a 3D illustrator for magazines and advertising, and created puppets and special effects make-up for advertising, TV and film.
Kevin Hart, BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Contextual Studies
Practising fine artist, previously taught the MA in Communication Design at Central St Martin's.
Jane Herzog, MSIAD Fashion
Fashion
Designer with 10 years' industrial experience working for major high street labels.
Issam Kourbaj, BA Fine Art, MA Architecture, MA Theatre Design
Fine Art
Having studied under the well known Syrian artist Fateh Moudarres (d.1999) Issam completed his training in St Peterberg and London. He is an acclaimed visual artist with work exhibited in the British Museum and internationally. He is a Bye-Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge University and Artist in Residence there.
Richard Owers, MA (Hons) Architecture
Architecture
A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and visiting tutor, critic and internal examiner at the University of Wales in Cardiff, Richard now combines teaching at CSVPA and the University with professional practice within his own company.
Graphics
Freelance illustrator/designer with clients in UK and North America.
Matthew Lane Sanderson, BA (Hons) 3D Design, MA Silver Smithing
Applied Crafts
Well known artist, specialising in tied-wire sculpture and kinetic water features for international clients.
Rachel Wood, Diploma Foundation, City & Guilds
3D Product, 3D Architecture
Commissioned and exhibiting sculptor in many different media including bronze, creating bird and animal pieces.
Richard Bray, BA (Hons)
Photography, Sculpture, Contextual Studies
Widely exhibited and commissioned sculptor. Co-operated with scientists to produce work for the Wellcome Trust Genome campus.
Derek Batty, MA (Hons) Fine Art
Art, Painting
Combines his own art practice with teaching.
Mandy Doyle, BA (Hons) Illustration
Theatre Arts, Illustration, Life Drawing
Professional illustrator / designer. 25 years' commercial experience with leading publishers.
Renata Grant, BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Photography
Landscape photographer exhibiting in mixed media with environmental themes.
3D Product
Experienced designer-maker of handmade contemporary furniture.
Clare Richards, BA (Hons) Textile Design
Textiles
Practising textile/mixed media artist who exhibits internationally.
DRAMA
Head of Drama & Performing Arts:
Jean Stewart, BA (Hons) Drama RSAMD
Jean manages and teaches on the Drama Foundation bringing with her more than 20 years of professional experience. Jean trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Glasgow University. She has worked in theatre in education both here and in Europe (Spain and Germany) and has experience working in community theatre with adults. She has helped develop new writing for young people through the National Theatre Connexions programme, working on plays such as Friendly Fire by Peter Gill. More recently Jean acted with Menagerie Theatre Company during their 2006 season of New Writing.
Rebecca Cuthbertson, MA Voice Studies
Voice Lecturer
Voice coaching includes: John & Jen (Finborough Theatre), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise (The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon and Beckett’s Shorts (Central School of Speech and Drama), Comedy of Errors (Creation Theatre, Oxford), Full Frontal Diva (Finborough Theatre). Lecturing: Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts and East 15 school of acting. Private coaching includes: developmental voice, text for audition and dialect/dialect-reduction.
Bruce Knight
Singing Lecturer
Bruce studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. Since leaving he has worked as singer, keyboard player and musical director throughout the world, with many well-known artists including Liza Minnelli, David Hasselhoff, Jose Carreras, and Sir Cliff Richard. Having just returned from Cyprus with a production of “West Side Story” for the larnaca International Festival, Bruce is currently working on “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Adelphi Theatre.
Christopher Lane, MA Directing
Movement Lecturer
Theatre directing includes: John & Jen (UK premiere. Finborough Theatre, London), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer by Eve Ensler (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise: Conjuring Marlowe at the Rose (Into The Breach Theatre and The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon (a site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens), Beckett’s Shorts (an anthology of Samuel Beckett: play, not i, rough for theatre i). Lecturing UK: movement studies for CSVPA and Central School of Speech and Drama. Lecturing Canada: Brock University, Theatre Aquarius, the Hamilton Wentworth board of education.
Bernadette Wilfred
Dance Lecturer
Bernie trained at the London Studio Centre in dance, drama and musical theatre. She has worked professionally in theatre, TV and as a choreographer for the past fifteen years. Her latest credits include Lady Capulet the British Shakespeare Company’s “Romeo and Juliet”, woman 1 in “The Vagina Monologues”, and “Learners” for BBC films with David Tennant and Jessica Hynes.