TUTORS AND COURSE DIRECTORS
Anthony Cornish
Aoife Smyth
Barb Jungr
Blanca Regina Perez-Bustamante Yabar
Brendan Murray
Cèzanne Tegelberg
Chris White
Christian Damsgaard
Claire Russ
Freddie Machin
Gareth Armstrong
George Ryan
Gian-Franco Bossari
Graeme Du Fresne
Graeme Du Fresne
Helen Ireland
Henning Silberg
Jack Gogarty
Janice Dunn
Jen Heyes
Jessica O'Hara-Baker
John Gillett
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Dawes
Julia McLeish
Kate Colgrave-Pope
Katy Stephens
Keith Myers
Kevin Kiernan-Molloy
Lawrence Evans
Linda Polan
Lolly Susi
Lyall Watson
Lyndi Smith
Maria Hansted Lohmann
Michael Howard
Michael Slebsager
Mike McCormack
Mitch Mitchelson
Natasha Rickman
Nini Pitt
Noël Greig
Peta Lily
Phil Clark
Philippa Strandberg-Long
Rhys Thomas
Ris Widdicombe
Sally Gritton
Sarah Case
Simon de Deney
Simon Naylor
Simone Coxall
Stephanie Hume
Steve Jarand
Sue Colgrave
Tom Noyes
Tony Casement
Will Evans
Graeme Du Fresne
Course Director Graeme was first invited to teach at Summer School in 1994 and has since returned to this wonderful event on a regular basis. His work includes writing, directing, musical directing, acting and teaching. He spent many years at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester as musical director for their Pantomimes.
Other theatre work at the Mercury includes The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui and Oh What a Lovely War for which he was the musical director. In addition, he played Sir John French in Oh What a Lovely War. He has also been musical director or composer for shows at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, the Liverpool Everyman, the Crucible Theatre Sheffield, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Salisbury Playhouse, Solent Peoples Theatre, Norwich Playhouse, Forest Forge Theatre Company and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, and at the London Palladium Graeme was in the cast of Showboat.
On film and television, he has been in Truly Madly Deeply, Inspector Morse, Holding On, Streets Apart, Henry Pratt, Casualty, The Blonde Bombshell, Family Affairs, Micawber, Chucklevision and Murder City. Graeme’s directing credits range from professional, student and amateur productions including several community plays : Open Arms by Rib Davis, his own adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream called Wycombe’s Dream, and two of his own plays Taking It’s Toll and It’s Hard To Resist, both community plays produced in High Wycombe. Professional directing credits include From Fetlock To Forecourt and Beast Feast for The Natural History Museum in London, which he also wrote. He co-founded and directed In Fieri Theatre with the previous summer school director, Mike McCormack.
Graeme regularly runs singing workshops and was Head of Music and Singing on the 3-year BA Acting course at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts from 2004 - 2021 His Musical Directing work there includes The Beggar’s Opera, Into The Woods, Happy End, Billy and Assassins. Many of the productions he has composed music for at Conti have transferred each summer to the Edinburgh Festival. Graeme was also singing teacher and ‘acting through song’ specialist at Drama Centre, London on the BA Acting course. Graeme currently (2026) teaches singing at Lamda in London. Graeme holds a master’s degree from London Metropolitan University.