Liverpool Performing Arts Festival 2011

DRAMA

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Adjudicators

• Margaret Tomlinson

  Area  -  Speech & Drama

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  Margaret trained at the RSAMD and Jordanhall College of Education and after teaching in primary and secondary schools lectured at Moray House College of Education and at Jordanhill College (now part of Strathclyde University). There she was very involved with in-service work organising courses in Scotland, Zurich and Hamburg.

  She worked for the British Council in Malawi and Zambia before being awarded the prestigious Page Scholarship by the Educational Institute of Scotland and The English Speaking Union to study educational practice in the USA – A most valuable experience which extended her awareness and knowledge of English for Speakers of other languages.

  She is very much involved in theatre as a director, actor and adjudicator and for many years she served on the Board of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. Her work as an examiner in oral language for the English Speaking Board took her round Britain and to Spain, Italy, Singapore and Kuwait.

  She has wide and varied experience as an adjudicator having adjudicated in the UK, Zimbabwe and many times in Hong Kong.

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• Philip John Thrupp

  Area  -  Speech & Drama

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  Philip Thrupp trained at Exeter College of Art and the Hartly Hodder Studio and has taught speech and drama to pupils of all ages and public speaking to adults. He has been Tutor of Voice and Speech at Wesley College, Bristol and regularly adjudicates at festivals in the British Isles, Ireland, the Channel Islands, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.

  In 1995 he was appointed International Examinations Co-ordinator for the London Academy of Dramatic Art and worked extensively on the development of overseas centres. In the last five years his work has taken him to Sri Lanka, Los Angeles, Zimbabwe, Spain, Kenya, Singapore, Cape Town, New York, The Netherlands and Australia where he has examined and presented workshops.

  In Bristol, he was an adjudicator for the Regional competitions of the English Speaking Union and a judge for the Rose Bowl Awards for Amateur Drama, a competition involving the whole of the West Country.

  Philip was one of the team of adjudicators chosen for the British and International Federation’s Festival of Festivals at Warwick and two years ago was invited to become the patron of IEMS, the largest speech and drama institute in Asia. Philip is pleased to be examining for Trinity Guildhall and in the last four years has examined in Sydney, Melbourne, Baltimore, Johannesburg, India and Canada. He has recently been awarded a Fellowship of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama.

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• Mia Ball

  Area  -  Speech & Drama

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  MIA BALL has been involved with drama and the Festival movement since she the played the Cheshire Cat at the age of eight. She studied for her LGSM while reading for an Honours degree in English, and then moved on to BBC Radio, working mainly in the drama department. Having a family encouraged her to go into teaching and she has taught all ages from 8 to 80.

  Until July ‘09 she taught in a girls’ independent school, taking “A” Level Drama and Theatre Studies courses and directing plays, as well as preparing students for grade examinations, and of course, Festivals. She is now focusing on an increasing range of of free-lance work, including examining, running workshops, teaching presentation skills and helping to organise her local Festival.

  She examines and runs teachers’ workshops for LAMDA both in this country and abroad and regularly adjudicates at Festivals in England and Hong Kong. She is looking forward to her first visit to Liverpool Performing Arts Festival.

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