Laura Mellor

Position ⁄ Classes Taught:

LAMDA Examinations

Qualifications:

BA Degree in English Literature and Drama from Royal Holloway University of London. LAMDA Acting Exams Grade 1 to Gold Medal. LAMDA Verse and Prose Exam Bronze Medal.

Career ⁄ Performance Highlights:

 Acting

• April 2011 Sally Bowles in Cabaret at Thistley Hough Hall with North Staffs Operatic Society. Director Caroline Keen.
• March 2011 Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Stoke-on-Trent Repertory Theatre with The Stoke Rep. Director David Bryan.
• August 2010 Yitzhak in Hedwig and The Angry Inch at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with SJC Productions. Director Brian Fairbairn.
• October 2009 Mimi in RENT at The Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent with Stage Productions. Director Tim Churchill.
• March 2009 Helen McCormick in The Cripple of Inishmaan at Holloway Hall with Royal Holloway Drama Society. Director Laurence Brasted.
• March 2008 Nurse Flinn in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at Holloway Hall with Royal Holloway Drama Society. Director Poppy Corbett.
• September 2007 Scaramouche in We Will Rock You at The Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent with MTC Productions. Director Tim Churchill.
• March 2007 LV in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Holloway Hall with Royal Holloway Drama Society. Director Chris Lee.
• December 2006 Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Royal Holloway Theatre with Royal Holloway Musical Theatre Society. Director Claire Stainer.
• September 2006 Emma in Jekyll and Hyde The Musical at The Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent with MTC Productions. Director Tim Churchill
• October 2005 Helen Burns in The UK Premiere of Jane Eyre The Musical at The Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent with MTC Productions. Director Tim Churchill.

Directing:

• May 2008 MTS Summer Cabaret at Royal Holloway Theatre with Royal Holloway Musical Theatre Society.
• December 2007 Bat Boy The Musical at Royal Holloway Theatre with Royal Holloway Musical Theatre Society.

Training:

• 1 Year Course in The Body as A Medium of Expression with Dick McCaw
• 1 Year Course in Radio Playmaking with Christine Dymkowski and Piers Plowright

Laura has also organised and taught a number of performance workshops for children based on We Will Rock You, Little Shop of Horrors and The Who’s Tommy.

She would thoroughly encourage anyone interested in performing arts to participate in the LAMDA classes where you’re given the opportunity to work on fantastic characters created by the greatest playwrights both past and present.