Sammy Foster in Billy Elliott

BURGESS HILL THEATRE CLUB PANTOMIME 2012

Our Students will be appearing in the local Burgess Hill Theatre Club pantomime in January, Robinson Crusoe 13th - 28th January 2012. Performances on Fridays evening, Saturdays afternoons and evenings
and a matinee on the middle Sunday.

PAST PUPILS

Many of our pupils have gone on to further training in professional colleges including The Royal Ballet School, The Central School of Ballet, Elmhurst, Bird College, Performers, Arts Educational, Guildford School of Acting, Laine Theatre Arts and many more. Past pupils have gone on to appear with many Ballet Companies, Musical Theatre productions and productions all over the world on cruise ships.

To name but a few professional careers that have emerged from the Drusilla Duffill Theatre School:

Katy Harris                  Currently a Show Director for Disneyland Paris for productions in the both parks including the  parades, ‘High School Musical 1 and 2 ’, ‘The Legend of the Lion King’, ‘Stitch Interactive Show’. Katy was invited to go to ‘Tokyo Disneyland’ in 2008 to produce Disney’s live television broadcast for the Opening of the Beijing Olympics.

Lucy Harris                  Theatrical Costumier. Currently Head of Running WardrobeGlyndebourne Festival Opera.

Wardrobe Mistress for various West End Productions ‘We Will Rock You’, Dominion Theatre, ‘Never Forget’, Savoy Theatre/UK Tour  ‘Death in Venice’, English National Opera, ‘Madam Butterfly’, Royal Albert Hall, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, Apollo Theatre Victoria/UK tour

Phil Gardner-               Graduated from ‘The Central School of Ballet’ 2009 and his first professional contract in Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ International Tour. Currently he is in Mstthew Bourne's Nutcracker.

Djalenga Scott             Understudy to Velma in ‘Chicago’ in the West End, currently on tour with ‘Footloose’

Jenny Owens               Currently in The Rat Pack,. ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ Tour

Joanna Loxton             Ls Miserables in West End and on the DVD. Understudy to Christine in ‘Phantom of the Opera’ in the West End

Natalie Langston         Tommy, the Musical in Germany.  Rizzo in ‘Grease’ in the West End, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers

Dominic Watson         ‘Guys and Dolls’ in the West End

Rebecca Bristow          Choreographer of own dance company

Steven Bristow             ‘Riverdance’

A large number of students have gone on to dance professionally around the world including:

Robyn Baker, Charis Holdsworth, Nicola Hancocks, Claire Allen, Ingrid Course, and Jocelyn Collier.