RPA Faculty


Carly Dodds

Carly Dodds

Programme Manager for Performing Arts

Musical Theatre, Contextual Studies & Tap Tutor

Training – Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, BA Hons Musical Theatre.

Theatre Credits – We Only Have This (Cambridge Junction), Musical Starnights (European Tour), From Up Here (Tristan Bates Theatre), Women’s Revenge (The Lord Stanley, Camden), Hitler! (Edinburgh Festival), The Portable Emporium (The Roundhouse, Camden), The Cemetery Ball (The Prince of Wales Theatre) and Mother Goose (Greenwich Theatre).

Other Credits – Mirage/Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines and Carnival Cruise Lines.


Leyla Pellegrini

Leyla Pellegrini

Assistant Programme Manager for Performing Arts

Training – Laine Theatre Arts – 3 year diploma in Musical Theatre.

Theatre Credits – Our House (Birmingham Rep and UK Tour), Cats (UK Tour), Summer Holiday (UK Tour), West Side Story (Leicester Haymarket), Chicago (UK Tour), Paradise Moscow (Sadlers Wells, London) and Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria Theatre, London).

TV and Film – Genie in the House (Nickelodeon), Julie and the Cadillacs.

Choreography credits – Assistant Choreographer for Grease, (Ljubljana Festival), Le Cabaret de Monte Carlo (Casino de Monte Carlo), Fame (Grimaldi Forum) and Starlight Express (UK Tour). Director of Dracula (Fly on the Wall Productions).


Adam Leese

Adam Leese

Year 1 Tutor

Head of Acting

Training – Arts Educational

TV Credits – Nightmares, Guerrilla, Cradle to the Grave, Humans, Broadchurch 2, The Support Group, White Heat, DCI Banks, Eastenders, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margret 2, The Hour, The IT Crowd, The Bill, Dani’s House, Rock Rivals, New Tricks, Rose & Maloney, Holby City, Waking The Dead, Bad Girls and Dinnerladies.

Film Credits – Night in Hatton Gardens, Bridget Jones’s Baby, The White Room, Country of Hotels, Confine, Love Bite, Attack The Block, Intruders, The Blackening, Sisterhood, Journal of a Contact Killer, Until Death, Paper Drawer, Quality Indigo.


Kelsie-Rae Marshall

Kelsie-Rae Marshall

Ballet Tutor


Katrina Lopes

Katrina Lopes

Jazz/ Tap Tutor


Kate Threlfall

Kate Threlfall

Singing Tutor


Sophie Cosson

Sophie Cosson

Acting & LAMDA tutor

Training – Guildford School of Acting

Theatre – Four Score Years and Ten (Flintlock Theatre/Theatre Royal Winchester) One Man Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket/National Theatre) After the Party (Criterion Theatre) The Changeling (Southwark Playhouse) Much Ado About Nothing (International tour), Two Women, (Theatre Royal Stratford East) The Comedy Of Errors, (Sell A Door), Only Human (Theatre 503).

Television – Doctor Who (BBC), Call the Midwife (BBC), The Intern (CH4), Downton Abbey (ITV), Casualty (BBC).

Radio – The Wire (BBC 3), The Archers (BBC 4).

Film – Thor 2: The Dark World (Marvel).


Gracie Stiling

Gracie Stiling

Contemporary/Tricks/Tap Tutor


Dani Startup

Dani Startup

Commercial/Fusion Tutor