About Our Teachers
Hampstead Factory Managers and teachers receive advice every term in The Hampstead Factory teaching methods and their classes are consistently monitored.
We receive written feedback from youngsters at the end of every autumn term, helping us to improve our teaching methods and fit the classes around the requirements of each individual group.
Miss Laura Whittard
A.I.S.T.D Schools Director Manager, Gloucester and Cheltenham Schools
Miss Whittard is a qualified member of The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance, a speech and drama examiner with Trinity College London and a full Equity member with over ten years professional experience in theatre and television. She enjoys teaching at The Cheltenham Ladies’ College on a regular basis. Past teaching includes: Stagecoach Theatre Arts, Guildford School of Acting, The Antonia Dugdale Ballet School, and Theatre Studio-Cheltenham. She trained in dance and drama at The Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts and in classical acting at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has worked with leading British directors including: Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Trevor Nunn, Sir Bill Kenwright and Mike Ochrent. National Tour and West End credits include: Heddy Lamar in Sunset Boulevard with Elaine Paige, May Miles in Me and My Girl with Gary Wilmot, Lady Plymdale and understudy to the lead in Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde for The Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Company. She has played seasons in repertory and recorded for BBC Radio. Television includes: Casualty, The Proms, The South Bank Show, Encore with Elaine Paige, The Queen’s Fortieth Anniversary show.
Besides her performing career, her agency skills were developed over three years at the oldest co-operative theatrical agency in central London ‘Actorum’. Past members include Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Tiller (producer of The Vagina Monologues) and many others who have gone on to become well known casters, producers and directors.
Miss Charlotte Nolan
Dance Teacher, Swindon School
Charlotte Nolan trained in dance at the Northern Academy of Dance and in Musical Theatre at Studio La Pointe. She has many qualification for Musical Theatre and Advanced Ballet, Tap and Modern including completing a modern I.S.T.D foundation in dance teaching (F.D.I) in Ballet, Tap and Modern and has also taught at the Northern Dance Centre, Headingley Dance Centre, ElliTe Studios and for Performanze Arts. Charlotte has also performed as a dancer and singer in many shows around the country and abroad including London, Bradford and Paris!
Miss Jenelle Price
Manager, Tewkesbury School
Singing Teacher, Tewkesbury School
Drama Teacher, Swindon School
Dance Teacher, Cheltenham School
Jenelle Price is studying for a degree in Performing Arts with Mrs Sheila Mander and Mrs Sue Passmore (Ex Head of Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in London) with the University of Gloucestershire. Current mentors are Jackie Crago (RSC Voice Coach) and Mrs Julie Henderson (West-End Performer and Choreographer). Jenelle has also completed a modern I.S.T.D foundation in dance teaching (F.D.I), and passed all previous modules for tap teaching and is currently awaiting her final result for the final module which will give her two complete F.D.I qualifications. To obtain these qualifications she observed and assisted many classes, working with children aged 4-15 years of varying levels and ages at Janet Marshall’s Dance School. Jenelle also has given workshops at many primary schools as well as working with the National Star Centre with professional group Stop-Gap.
Chloe Balster
I started my dance training at the age of 4 years old at The Janet Marshalls School of Dance based in Cheltenham. I competed in a variety of competitions in the surrounding areas and also performing at the prestigious London Ballet Awards. By the time I was 15 years old, I decided I wanted to further my training and started to audition for Dance Colleges, and I was lucky enough to get a place at Laine Theatre Arts School Epsom. After 3 years of intense training and gaining my Professional Diploma in Dance I moved onto London to perform and carry on some free lance work. I then decided to move back to my roots to further my teacher training. I have huge passion for the Arts, and I have always loved passing on my knowledge to other youngsters.
