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DETAILS AND BACKGROUND OF THE PRINCIPAL
AND TUTOR
David Jones BA (Hons) Theatre
Principal and community drama tutor is a very experienced theatre
practitioner.
His
original theatre and performance skills school in Totnes is now
in its 14th year with 40+ students, in three age groups
ranging from 8 to 18. He runs two other theatre schools at Galmpton
Nr Brixham & Dartington. David has been featured on
both BBC and ITV He was lecturer in drama at Plymouth's
university college of St. Mark & St. John, for over four years
and was from 1997 to 2001 writer & tutor for the Torbay youth
theatre at South Devon College.
David
has worked in drama for many years with both Devon County Council
and South Hams District Council and also with Torbay District
Council. For over two years David taught drama at three nationwide
performing arts schools in Devon. He has now run over 5000 drama
workshops with both children and adults. He has worked with young
offenders, the blind, care in the community clients, play leaders,
youth club leaders and clients from the private, business, and
media.
He
is a publicly performed playwright, having written plays to date on,
loneliness, disability, drug and child abuse, bullying, the plight
of the elderly and social injustice. In the Spring of 2000 David was
commissioned to write three new plays to celebrate the Millennium.
In
the last ten years he has set up ten youth theatres in Devon.
His work concentrates on reducing inhibitions and increasing
confidence and natural creativity and covers such areas as
relaxation and imagery, theatrical status and character development,
narrative and voice development, improvisation and devising and
creative writing techniques.
David
is a police cleared child tutor, a first
aider and holds £1,000,000 public liability insurance.
He has been
a regular guest on BBC and local radio and in the last eight years
his students have appeared on both BBC1 and BBC2, as well as in
independent films and television adverts. In 2002 one of his students landed the
lead role in a new international documentary and others have
been filmed and have appeared
in popular BBC Drama series on prime time national
television. During March and again in August 2004, students
were again invited to audition for parts on national
television, with in 2005, one 16 year old being successful in
securing a character part in a popular BBC series. In April
2007 two 10 year old students chosen and appear in a new Television
advert. August 2007 two teenage students chosen for an educational
film. July 2008 three students chosen for a new ecology film. Oct
2008 16 year old Stephen from Galmpton chosen for a new ecology
information commercial
CREATIVE THEATRE " FORGET ME
NOT"
6 MEMORY CROSS, LANDSCOVE, ASHBURTON, NEWTON ABBOT, SOUTH DEVON TQ13
7NB
TEL-
01803 762659 MOBlLE- 07792776668
E-MAIL-theatreschools@aol.com
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