Industry Professionals

Teachers

Industry Professionals.

We ensure our students are seen by and meet as many leading industry professionals as possible during their time with us. This ranges from College Heads, Casting Directors, Producers to Musical Directors and top agents, we’ve had many students find their own agents after being introduced during their time at West End MT, some have even gone on to appear in West End shows. We’ve also had students invited to castings from being seen at West End MT and again this has often led to professional contracts being offered.

Please read the list below to see the incredible industry professionals that our students have worked with and performed for:

Andrew Panton

Artistic Director - Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland

Jane Streeton

Head Of Singing - Rada

Adrian Jeckells

Principal of London School of Musical Theatre

Neil Rutherford

Casting Director

Casting Credits include: The King and I, South Pacific, 9-5 The Musical, Legally Blonde, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Rent, The Witches, Noises Off, The Rocky Horror Show.

Victoria Rowe

Casting Director for Selladoor Productions

Children’s casting director for Kinky Boots and assistant to Debbie O Brien Casting. West End Performance credits include: Sound of Music, Cosette in Les Miserables. Oliver! Mamma Mia playing the roles of both Ali and Lisa

Harry Blumenau

Debbie O’Brien Casting

Children's Casting Credits include: Caroline, Or Change, Kinky Boots, Annie, The Bodyguard.

Casting Credits include: The Rat Pack , Five Guys Named Moe, Let It Shine (BBC), Sinatra, Kinky Boots, Thriller Live, Dirty Dancing (UK tour/West End), Singing in the Rain, Legally Blonde, Grease,Dancing In The Streets, Starlight Express, The King and I, Kiss Me Kate, Top Hat. Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Our House.

Clare Cassidy

Casting Director

Children’s Casting Director for Kinky Boots and assistant to Debbie O Brien Casting. West End Performance credits include: Sound of Music, Cosette in Les Miserables. Oliver! Mamma Mia playing the roles of both Ali and Lisa.

Annelie Powell

Casting Director

Former Casting Director for The Royal Shakespeare Company and children’s casting director for Holby City. Currently Head of Casting at the Nuffield Theatre.

Suzy Catliff

Author, Director and Casting Director

Olivier Awards panel judge and Author of The Casting Handbook.

TV Casting Credits include: Silent Witness, Casualty, Primeval. Films include Sense and Sensibility , Hackers and The English Patient. Suzy is a member of the Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain and has twice been a judge on the Olivier Awards panel.

Ben Newsome

Casting Director

Casting Credits include:The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Carnival Cruise Lines, Pop Factor, Dessa Rossa, Superman, Damn Yankees, Romeo and Juliet, Footloose, Beauty and The Beast, The Clockmakers Daughter, Crazy For You, The Secret Garden, Passion, Ushers, Rent, Parade, Hot Mikado, Walk Like A Man, Meet Me In St Louis.

Stuart Piper

Cole Kitchen

Films include Times of their Lives with Joan Collins, Mrs Lowry & Son with Tim Spall & Vanessa Redgrave.

Katy Lipson

Aria Entertainment

Founder of theatre production company Aria Entertainment and The Hope Mill Theatre. Katy has produced countless shows including The Adams Family, Hair, Pippin and currently Aspects Of Love.