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During 2008/09 students experienced a varied range of professional training that centered on practice-based exercises, budgets and presentations.
Student work included;
* sessions with senior members of TRSE staff (Barry Burke, Karen Fisher, Murray Melvin, Kerry Michael, Jan Sharkey-Dodds and Vanessa Stone);
* over forty hours of extended and detailed tuition on commercial production from Julius Green (Producer, Bill Kenwright Ltd);
* sessions from commercial producers Neil Laidlaw, Jeremy Meadow, Derek Nicholls, Nick Salmon; investment consultant Philippe Carden; and a range of independent producers including Chloe Dear, Bill Gee, Angela McSherry and Sita Ramamurthy;
* conversations and discussions with Lyn Gardner, Neil Murray (National Theatre of Scotland), Gene David Kirk (Theatre 503), Chenine Bhathena (ACE London), Leyla Jones (Roundhouse ACE Fellow), Jackie Elliman (ITC), Manick Govinda (Artsadmin), Jonathan Kennedy (TARA) and casting director Sophie Marshall.
Students' final Personal Projects include work with Artichoke, Cardboard Citizens, Emergency Exit Arts and Forest Forge as well as the development of projects with Maverick Theatre and Manilla Street Productions.
As a group the students saw and analysed Wicked and Blood Brothers in the West End; Come Dancing, Hansel & Gretel, Mad Blud, Bad Blood Blues and Foreplay at Stratford East; Pied Piper at the Barbican; Warm at Theatre 503; and The Trapeze Artist at TARA. They also formed part of the onstage audience at the first dress rehearsal of Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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