Director & Founder

Acting Coach | Surrey | Monday

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Lily Driver-Thurston, founder and core coach at The Young Pro School of Acting trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Acting. Following drama school, Lily created her own theatre company, where she wrote, directed, and cast plays across London theatres. Lily worked professionally for several years. Credits include, roles at the Kings Head Theatre and feature film ‘Through a Dark Mirror.’

 

Lily went on to production manage plays with Peracals Productions and then worked as Head of Marketing within the same company. Alongside, the years of working in the film and theatre industry, she was teaching acting consistently to children and teens of all ages.

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Above all, Lily is passionate about empowering young people to develop their self-confidence and achieve their goals, whatever they may be. Lily believes in the power of acting training and its positive impact on transferrable life skills, confident that any child can learn to act with excellent training and guidance.

Assistant Director & Student Support

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Mollie is a professional actor, singer, acting coach & LAMDA exam coach who trained in Musical Theatre at renowned performing arts school Italia Conti. She has worked with various theatre companies such as the National Youth Theatre, The Orange Tree Theatre, and The Director's Cut Theatre Company to name a few. Working mostly on developing and performing new material with up and coming writers, she has performed at numerous notable venues including The Southwark playhouse, The Park Theatre, and The Pleasance theatre. Mollie started her teaching journey in 2020, teaching drama classes with The Orange Tree Theatre for young people. 

 

Mollie is a specialist in the Meisner Technique, having trained with The Impulse Theatre Company led by Scott Williams. She is hugely passionate about having a positive impact on young actors and helping them to grow, whether that’s helping them to build their confidence, guiding them through acting exams or being a support for them in their classes.

Acting Coach | Monday | Surrey

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Marina Tapakoudes is a professionally-trained actor with extensive experience across theatre, television and audio. 

 

She studied acting at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Additionally, Marina has trained extensively in physical theatre with Jaque Lecoq. She has since worked on various professional film sets for Peracals Productions, Pi Productions and Pinewood studios.

 

Marina's background is in theatre and toured theatres as a rep with companies such as Instinct Theatre, performing in spaces such as 'Leicester Square Theatre', 'Southwark Playhouse' and 'The Kings Head Theatre'.

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Marina has been teaching acting for four years to all age groups and has directed several full scale productions. 

Acting Coach | Finsbury Park

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Zoe is a North London based actor, actor trainer and coach. Zoe completed her actor training at Court Theatre Training Company, graduating with a BA First Class Honours in Acting. Following this, she gained experience in Theatre, Theatre in Education, student films, music videos and TV. Zoe began teaching drama in 2021, and has long-term employment at two Performing Arts schools as a core drama and LAMDA teacher.

 

Recently, Zoe completed her Masters in Actor Training and Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama graduating with Distinction. While undertaking this MA, she undertook placements teaching and assistant directing both BA and MA level drama and acting students. Zoe is currently teaching a short Introduction to Acting course for adults at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is an Assistant Director on Shakespeare’s Pericles, working with the graduating year students at Court Theatre Training Company.

Acting Coach | Central London 

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Pete’s a professional working actor and experienced drama teacher. He trained at LAMDA and on graduating, won the Spotlight Prize. He’s since worked at some of the UK’s top theatres: Leeds Playhouse, Theatre Royal Bath and the West End’s Arts Theatre to name a few. Pete’s screen work includes roles in BBC TV shows, short films and commercials. 

 

Pete’s love of acting began at his local drama club which he attended from the age of 6. He began assisting at the club as a teenager. He’s gone on to create bespoke workshops for secondary schools, run an after school drama club at a top London secondary school and he’s put dozens of learners through LAMDA exams with a very high distinction rate. His years of training and work as an actor and teacher have instilled in Pete a deep held belief in drama’s incredible capacity to enrich lives. Pete loves nothing more than passing on the bug!

Acting Coach | Surrey | Thursday

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Lucy has Over 20 years experience within the arts industry as an actor, writer, director,
manager, teacher and facilitator, having worked in a range of settings, creating theatre and arts
experiences that encourage social change working collaboratively with participants and artists
alike. Lucy Gained a First class degree in Inclusive Performance, and has trained at Chickenshed Theatre, Guildford School of Acting, and The Academy of live and Recorded
Arts. Lucy was a Teacher and Director at the BRIT School for 9 years on the Applied Theatre Course as well as Theatre teacher at BRIT Kids. During this time she wrote & directed many public performances for casts up to 75.
Lucy wrote, directed and produced an original theatre piece called ‘Just Relax’ which was performed at the Bridge house theatre and The Hope Theatre. Freelance credits include; 1:1
Acting coach, Director at Primary Shakespeare Company, Drama Facilitator At Southwark Playhouse,Teacher at The BRIT School. As well as Teaching and directing, Lucy also works as a freelance writer, writing bespoke scripts for large casts. Lucy is extremely passionate about the arts, particularly the positive impact it has on young people and opportunities it can bring.