New Performing Arts Summer School to Open in Marlborough this August
•Four day course – no auditions necessary
•75 places available for aspiring actors, dancers and singers from any age from 10 to 100!
Wiltshire, 5th August 2008. Professional actor, dancer and Italia Conti Academy trained teacher Peter Ferris today announced that Ferris Entertainment Agency and Actors Studio will be holding a 4-day performing arts summer school at the Castle & Bull Hotel, Marlborough from 18th to 21st August 2008.
With a family heritage in the entertainment industry and over 20 years experience in the business (both performing and teaching), Peter has been lucky to be in the right place at the right time to be able to spot and nurture talent. Former pupils he has taught include the likes of Martine McCutcheon, Louise Redknapp, Claire Sweeny, Claire Goose, Emmerdale's Sheree Murphey and Gabi Anwar (Scent of a Woman with Al Pacino).
Peter regularly teaches one-day professional screen acting classes and singing and dance lessons through the performing arts arm of the Ferris Entertainment Agency, and has just completed a successful week-long summer school summer in Belfast and has another planned for Cardiff later in the month.
“There is a wealth of natural talent in this country and our weekly classes can often be over-subscribed with pupils travelling from as far away as Hay-on-Wye to attend. The opportunity to open a summer school in Marlborough, where students can spend four days immersed in learning stage craft, audition techniques, screen and film acting, as well as song and dance, has long been a dream of mine.”
Peter continues “There will be no audition process instead students simply need to call Ferris Entertainment and be prepared to answer a short interview as to why they would like a place at the summer school. If successful they will be informed straight away and given details as to how to secure their place. Unfortunately there are only a limited number of places available so students are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.”
Firmly believing that in order to succeed in the entertainment industry you have to learn from experts, current stars and people working at the highest levels of the industry, lessons at the summer school will include coaching in dance (MTV Style and musical theatre), screen acting for film and TV and the full remit of singing expertise from some of the finest teachers in the industry.
Douglas Yolland (teaching dance and MTV movement for singers and bands) trained at Italia Conti and is a dancer choreographer who has danced with the likes of J-Lo, filmed in Times Square, New York, toured as a dancer with Take That and worked closely with Justin Timberlake’s Choreographer Martie Kadelco.
Anthony Cable (teaching singing) has taught for over 10 years as well as being an experienced performer. His West End career includes appearing in The Sound of Music, Whistle Down the Wind, Phantom of the Opera and Anything Goes for the National Theatre with Torchwood's John Barrowman.
Peter Ferris (teaching screen acting for film and television) has been teaching for over 20 years after training at the Italia Conti Academy. His acting career has included roles in Heartbeat, London’s Burning, The Bill and Grange Hill as well as stage performances of Over The Bridge, Rough Beginnings and Too Late To Talk To Billy. He specialises in teaching camera technique, screen acting and audition technique.
At the end of the summer school for those who reach the required standard there may be an opportunity to join the Ferris Entertainment Agency and Actors Studio in order to be submitted for Film, Television and Stage auditions.
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Notes to Editors
•The Ferris Entertainment Performing Arts Summer School will run from Monday 18th August to Thursday 21st August from 10.30 to 4.30 at the Castle & Bull Hotel, Marlborough
•Cost for the 4-day tuition will be £125. A non-refundable £50 deposit will be required to secure a place
For further information please visit www.ferrisentertainment.com or call
07801 493 133
Biographies
Peter Ferris, ALAM (Associate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts)
•Teacher of Screen Acting for Film and Television
Trained at Italia Conti London 1985 -88
Taught at Italia Conti London 1988-1995
•Former pupils include Martine McCutcheon, Claire Sweeny, Claire Goose, Louise Redknapp, Sheree Murphey, Russell Brand
•TV: Heartbeat, London's Burning, The Bill, Grange Hill, Nobody Here Knows (Lead) Sorry Sarah (Lead)
•Film: Skullduggery, Shoot to Kill, You, Me and Marley
•Commercials: Harp Lager (Lead), Vodafone (Lead) (With Kyle MacLachlan, Desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks)
•Theatre: Too Late to Talk to Billy (lead), Imagine, Sgt. Peppers Magical Mystery Trip, Over the Bridge, Rough Beginnings
•Performed as George Harrison, playing live with The Beatles Band and headlining at an open air festival in Lubbock Texas to 110,000 people
Douglas Yolland AISTD and FISTD (Associate and Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance)
•Teacher of Dance and MTV movement for singers and bands
Trained at Italia Conti London 1985-1988
•Dancer/ Choreographer who has danced with the likes of J-Lo on MTV, filmed in Times Square, New York, toured as a dancer with Take That, works closely with Justin Timberlake’s Choreographer Martie Kadelco and worked with bands such as The Sugababes and Girls Aloud
•Judge for the Choreographers Ball, London and LA 2008
•Choreographer for the Los Angeles Carnival 2008
Anthony Cable ARCM (Associate of the Royal College of Music)
•Teacher of Singing
•West End Musical Theatre: The Sound of Music, Whistle Down the Wind, Phantom of the Opera and Anything Goes for the National Theatre (with Torchwood's John Barrowman.)
•Tony has written and performs his One Man Show "Jacques Brel, The Rage to Live"
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