About Us...
Peter Hunt (BA MA ACTING) (Principal Leeds/ Additional Tutor Liverpool)
Peter has acted professionally from an early age and completed his Actor training at top London Drama School 'Arts Ed'. His TV & Film credits include 'Coronation Street', 'Hollyoaks', 'City Halls', 'Videopolis', 'Be Aware', 'A&E' & 'Wilmot'. Peter has recently filmed the role of Gary in BBC 3 sitcom 'The Gemma Factor'. His Theatre Credits include the UK premier of Ciaran McConville's 'Lay your Sleeping Head', 'Eight', 'As You Like It', 'Romeo & Juliet', 'A Duty of Care', 'Friendly Fire', and 'Company'. He has worked at some of the finest regional Theatres including 'Stephen Joseph Theatre - Scarborough', 'The Lawrence Batley Theatre - Huddersfield' & 'The Nottingham Playhouse'.
Having graduated with a degree in Film & TV production Peter has also worked behind the camera. He has worked on productions including 'Where the Heart is' (ITV), 'Shameless' (C4), and 'The Innocence Project' (BBC) to name a few. In 2006 Peter spent a year working for ITV Drama Manchester organising and co-ordinating top dramas including 'Mobile', 'Cold Blood' and the popular 'Blue Murder' starring Caroline Quentin.
Experiencing both sides of the camera has also led Peter to work in Casting, both as and agent and a casting assistant. During his time as an assistant he helped out on castings for 'Where The Heart Is', 'Coronation Street', 'Casualty', 'Doctors', 'Eastenders', 'Holby City', 'Judge John Deed' and 'Waking the Dead'. He has also worked with agents in London's West End and has helped manage the careers of various leading artists. Having returned to the North, Peter continued working as an agent and in the past year has helped provide artists of different ages to productions such as 'Emmerdale', 'Heartbeat', 'Shameless', 'Casualty 1909', 'Britain's Fattest Man', 'Coronation Street' and 'The Street'. He has also provided artists to commercials including 'Pataks', 'Cadburys', 'Nike', 'Clear Shampoo' and 'Flora'.
Peter was chosen as one of the assistants to help cast additional roles in the Manchester filming of Guy Ritchie's 2010 Warner Brother's movie 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Lucy Lowe (MA Acting) (Additional Tutor Leeds)
Lucy has been acting for many years and completed her MA in Acting at The Arts Educational Schools London. She was recently seen playing the role of Amber Jones in 'Emmerdale' and can be seen this Autumn in new ITV Drama 'Married, Single, Other'. Lucy has also recently finished new Brit feature film 'Hard Shoulder' due for release late 2010. Her other film credits include 'Debbie' for Crow's Nest Films and brit film 'Clubbed'.
Her theatre credits include 'Blood Wedding', 'Ghosts Alive', 'Disorderly Women', 'Death & The Ploughman' and 'Mad Forrest'. Lucy has just finished playing Astrid in Ella Hickson's 'Eight' which will be transferring in the new year to The Lowry Theatre Manchester.
Lucy is currently filming BBC film 'Worried about the boy' based on the life story of Boy George.
GUEST TUTORS
In addition to our usual tutors, every few weeks classes are taken by guest and industry professionals. These include specialists in each field as well as various Casting Directors, Producers, Directors and Agents. The past few weeks, for example has seen us work with Directors from programmes such a'Brookside', 'Courtroom', 'Grange Hill', 'Coronation Street', 'Emmerdale', 'The Royal' and 'Hollyoaks's . We have worked with Casting Directors that have cast programmes covering ITV, BBC, CBBC and Channel 4 with credits such as 'The Bill', 'Red Riding', 'Waterloo Road', 'The Gemma Factor', 'Lunch Monkey's'. With more guest tutors lined up for the coming year, it looks like being an exciting few months for our students.
