Nick trained at Laine Theatre Arts, whilst in training he completed a contract performing cabaret in Algiers. After completing three years training, he joined the London company of West Side Story and continued the run at the Opera House in Manchester as Jet Swing and understudy to ‘Krupke’ and ‘Glad Hand.’ West End credits include 42nd Street Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Me & My Girl Adelphi Theatre, Thin a Thon Piccadilly Theatre, Cavalcade of Coward Piccadilly Theatre, Mack & Mabel In Concert Theatre Royal Drury Lane, La Cage aux Folles In Concert London Palladium as well as performing in two Royal Variety performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Nick has also performed in numerous Pantomimes throughout the country. As a teacher, Nick has worked at several of the leading vocational colleges.
Nick has also choreographed musicals such as 42nd Street, Crazy for You, West Side Story, The Hot Mikado, Cabaret, Damn Yankees, Parade and Hello Dolly for the 3rd Year Bird College Students as well as musical numbers for the College annual showcase and Agents showcase. Nick also creates, directs and choreographs 1st and 2nd year Musical Theatre Workshops/Projects at the College.
Nick also lectures and examines both in the UK and internationally for the ISTD Tap and Modern Theatre Faculties. He was fortunate to have been included on the creative team responsible for choreographing the new Tap grades.

Luis trained at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, under the direction of Doreen Bird, and then went on to train in Drama at the Poor School where his tutors included Paul Caister, Bardy Thomas, George Hall and John James. Other training has included a Script and Story Structure Course with Robert McKee, Approaches to Physical Theatre at Middlesex University a Mask Workshop with the Pleiades Company and Kasm Mask, and Commedia dell’Arte with Antonio Fava. He has also completed an MA in Physical Theatre at the University of Surrey and Royal Holloway University of London, and a PGCE at Canterbury Christ Church University College. Performing roles include Heinz in Today, Albert Parker in When We Are Married, Toby in Ways and Means, Mr Burnum in Hands Across the Sea, Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Ensemble in Sweet Charity and South Pacific, God Spell, Chitterlow in Half a Sixpence and Lucio in Measure for Measure. Luis was also one of the original Bird Theatre Company members.

He joined the College as a Drama Tutor in 1996 and was later promoted to Head of Drama and Performance Studies. He was also Agency Manager for Bird Personnel Management from 1998 – 2005. He was appointed Deputy Principal & Artistic Director of Bird College in 2005, Executive Director and Trustee of Bird College in October 2008 and was most recently appointed Joint Principal and Artistic Director in 2019. As a director, he has worked on Hands Across the Sea, Bouncers, Barnum, The Wiz, The Owl And The Pussycat, Line, Teechers, Infidelities!, Road, Habeas Corpus, Private Wars, Commedia dell’Arte, Children of Eden, The Life, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Fascinating Rhythms, Who Could Ask for Anything More?, Bat Boy, Kiss Me Kate, Songs for a New World, Legends, Icons and Idols, 42nd Street, Sweet Charity, Elegies, Noitamina, Crazy for You, Fame The Musical, Burlesque and Other Distractions, Hello Dolly, Footloose, Broadway Then and Now, West Side Story, Curtains, Hooray for Hollywood, Cabaret, Hot Mikado and Joie de Vivre. Other productions include choreography and direction for Dentro Da Minha Cabeça and choreography for Metamorphosis (Dance Theatre). Publications include A Career into Dance for CDET. Luis was part of an AHRB Innovation Research Project, 19th Century theatre rehearsal process, which was headed by Dr. G. Bush-Bailey & Dr. J. Bratton at Royal Holloway University of London. He wrote and designed the Foundation Degree in Creative Industries: Acting for Bird College which was successfully validated by University of Greenwich for five years as well as the Pre-Vocational Foundation programme in Dance and Musical Theatre. He was External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Physical Theatre programme at St Mary’s College, Surrey University from 2005 -2009.

Anthony is an international award winning choreographer, movement director and educator. Prior to this he was a successful performer, appearing in West End shows such as Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), The Wizard of Oz (Palladium) and White Christmas (Dominion) and touring globally with Cats, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Anthony is currently studying to enhance his pedagogy via PGCert and MA in Dance Education with London Studio Centre and the University of the Creative Arts (UCA).

Choreographic includes:, ‘Overture 21’ –  ArtsDepot, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ – Arcola/ UK Tour, ‘Fiddler on The Roof’ – Connaught, ‘Fame’ – DAPA Online Production, ‘Dorian’ – Stream Theatre, ‘Digital Dance Overture’ – Stream Production, ‘Rapunzel’ – UK Tour ‘Tribute To Fosse’ – New Wimbledon, ‘#Fas!on’ – Bird,  ‘MUSIK- The Billie Trix Story’ – Edinburgh, ‘Kids of The West End at Christmas’ – Underbelly, London, ‘The Osmonds Musical’ – Workshop, ‘Wars’ – Dartford Orchard, ‘Cinderella’ – Civic Theatre, ‘Camelot’ – London Palladium, ‘Bring It On’ – Beck Theatre, ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’- Ambassadors, ‘Mack and Mabel’ – Hackney Empire, ‘The Rat Pack Live’ – EdFringe, ‘Fiddler On The Roof – Istanbul (Jasnet Bozdag BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Award 2018), ‘Dance Overture’ – New Wimbledon, ‘Retro’ – Orchard Theatre, Cameron Macintosh’s ‘Oliver!’ – Junior Edition Workshop, ‘Southern Baptist Sissies’ – Above The Stag, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – European Tour, ‘Legally Blonde’ – Alexandra, ‘Cinderella’ – Beck, ‘That Man’ – Hippodrome Casino, ‘Debut’ – Electric Theatre, ‘ICA 175th Gala’ – St Georges Hall,  ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice’ – Union, ‘Danny Hero’ – Workshop, ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ – Bridewell, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – European Tour, ‘Legally Blonde’ – Gatehouse (NOM Best Choreographer Off West End Awards), ‘Something Old, Something New’ – Bernie Grants (Review), The White Feather’ – Union, ‘Side By Side By Sondheim’ – Jack Studio Theatre, ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ – Rose and Crown (NOM Best Choreographer Off West End Awards & Best Choreography Broadway World Awards),  ‘In The Dead of Night’ – Landor (NOM Best Choreographer Off West End Awards), ‘Spring Awakening’ and ‘Dracula’ at the Studio Theatre Ealing.

Directon credits: Kids of the West End – Underbelly Leicester Square, Fash!on – Bird, The Rat Pack – Ed Fringe, The Blues Brothers Live – Ed Fringe

Anthony has worked at institutions such as; London Studio Centre, Bird College, Trinity Laban, Guildford School of Acting and The Musical Theatre Academy.

Anthony has also freelanced as a tap and movement coach for Billy Elliot the Musical and was the choreographic mentor on a new musical project for Perfect Pitch. He is also an adjudicator of several dance competitions both in the UK and internationally.

Theatre credits as Director include: Ushers: The Front of House Musical (The Arts Theatre, London); Can’t Stop It – Another New Musical (The Other Palace); Miracle on 34^th Street (UK Tour); My Cousin Rachel, September Tide and Noel Coward’s Relative Values (all for Paul Taylor-Mills and Bill Kenwright at The Theatre Royal, Windsor); Through the Mill (London Theatre Workshop); All Shook Up (The Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London); Aladdin (Stratford Arts House, Stratford-upon-Avon); A Family Affair (Vienna’s English Theatre, Austrian Tour); Spring is Forever (RADA); Our House (QDOS Entertainment at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford); When Midnight Strikes (The premiere musical at the Marlowe Studio, UK); The Witches of Eastwick and Zombie Prom (both for The Quarterhouse Theatre, UK); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Tower Theatre, UK).

Theatre credits as Associate Director: The Pirate Queen (The London Coliseum); Spamilton (The Menier Chocolate Factory); Ruthless! (The Arts Theatre, London); Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK Tour); Disaster! (UK Premiere of the Broadway production at Charing Cross Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (UK Tour); Avenue Q (UK Tour and Hong Kong).

Theatre credits as Resident Director: Hair (The 50^th Anniversary London Production at The Vaults and UK Tour).
Theatre credits as Assistant Director include: Children of Eden (Prince of Wales, West End); Vampirette (The world premiere of a new musical at the Manchester Opera House); Seussical (The Arts Theatre, London); Search for a Twitter Star (Lyric Theatre, West End); The Boy Friend (Her Majesty’s Theatre, West End); J.M.Barrie’s Mary Rose (Riverside Studios, London) and Sleeping Beauty (Richmond Theatre, London).

Richard is a freelance teacher, choreographer, musical artist, and dancer who grew up dancing in Trinidad, before going on to study at the Merseyside Dance and Drama Centre, Liverpool after short scholarships at the Alvin Ailey Dance Centre and the Taller de Danza de Caracas. He has also participated in numerous workshops including at the Centre Martiniquais d’Action Culturelle and the Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance Program.

For the past two decades, Richard has lived in Oslo, Norway where his main roles were as the Head of the Musical Dance Department at Baardar Academy (where he taught jazz, modern, tap, musical theatre alongside his administrative duties); taught and choreographed at the Norwegian Opera Ballet School (taught modern/ contemporary); and was Head of the Dance Department at the Norwegian College of Musical Theatre (where he taught jazz, audition technique and musical theatre alongside his administrative duties).

Richard has taught, conducted workshops, and choreographed for primary and secondary schools, tertiary education institutions, youth organisations, dance schools, dance companies, choirs, amateur/ semi-professional organisations, and corporations in Trinidad, England, and Norway. As a freelance choreographer, he has choreographed for school shows, musicals, concerts, competitions, revues, cabarets, and fashion shows.

His performing credits are extensive and include The Book of Mormon [dance captain, ensemble] (Oslo, Norway); La Cage Aux Folles [Phaedra] (Aarhus, Denmark); Disney’s The Lion King [dancer/ swing] (Hamburg, Germany); Black Burlesque Revisited (US tour); The Dancing Man [assistant choreographer, dance captain, ensemble] (Oslo and European tour); and performing member of Tabanka Dance Ensemble (Oslo, Norway); the Metamorphosis Dance Company (Trinidad); and the Noble Douglas Dance Company Inc. (Trinidad). He has worked with various choreographers including Chet Walker, Molly Molloy, David Byer, Peter London, Geraldine Armstrong, Reggie Wilson, Andreas Bjorneboe, Siv Gaustad and Solvi Edvardsen.

Richard is an associate (Ballet and Modern) of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing; an associate (Acting) of the London Academy of Music and Drama; and a licentiate (Acting) of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He holds a Master of Arts in Education (Dance Teaching) from the University of Bath/ Royal Academy of Dance (2017) and a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from the University of Roehampton (2021).

RAINING: Mountview Academy Of Theatre Arts

THEATRE INCLUDES: Matilda the Musical (The Cambridge Theatre), Matilda the Musical (UK Tour), Natella/Ludovica in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Greenwich Theatre), LV in The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (The Union Theatre), Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Adelphi Theatre), Leisl/First Cover Maria in The Sound Of Music (UK and International Tour), Lucy in Ushers (The Charing Cross Theatre)

SHORT FILM: Amber, Flush, Open Your Eyes

With over two decades in the industry, Mike has performed in Musicals in the West End and Number one UK Tours, TV, Film & straight plays.

A selection of theatre credits include: Henry Ribelow in Syncopation (Vienna English Theatre)Trevor in Bedroom Farce (Gordon Craig Theatre) Pawnee Bill in Annie Get Your Gun (Crucible Theatre Sheffield), Don Lockwood in Singing In The Rain (Gordon Craig Theatre Stevenage) The Stalker in The Bodyguard (Original cast UK Tour), Henchman/understudy Mr Wormwood in Matilda RSC (Cambridge Theatre London), Jack Frost in Santa Claus (Grand Theatre Singapore), Understudy Polegrave in Nation (National Theatre London), The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium), Understudy Jose in Never Forget (Savoy Theatre London), Understudy Billy Flynn in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre and Cambridge Theatre London), Gremio/understudy Bill Calhoun in Kiss me Kate (Original Cast UK Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre London), Louis in On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall) Understudy Double J and Guss in Saturday NightFever (Musical Dome Cologne Germany).
Film and television include: William Hill online bingo commercial, Nation (NT Live Worldwide Broadcast), Paddington 2 and Beyond The Sea. Several award winning short films including -The Boy With A Camera For A Face, Saving Cain and Bluebird. Strictly Dance Fever (ITV) All Time Greatest Love Songs (BBC) and a few Royal Variety Performances.

Theatre credits include: “42nd STREET” (Théâtre du Châtelet); “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN” (princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); “UP NEXT” (National Theatre); Dance Captain in “WHITE CHRISTMAS” (Uk Tour); Stage, Ensemble, “BEST OF THE WEST END”, (Royal Albert Hall); Stage, Ensemble, “GUYS AND DOLLS”, (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Stage, Ensemble, “GUYS & DOLLS”, (Theatre Marigny, Paris); Ensemble in “42ND STREET” (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Spirit of Fosse in “CHICAGO” (UK/ European Tour); Stage, Ensemble, MACK & MABEL (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour); “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN” (UK Tour & Japan); CINDERELLA (Mayflower, Southampton); “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN”(Palace Theatre, London); Jack Frost in THE SNOWMAN (Peacock Theatre, London); DISCO INFERNO (UK Tour); The King & I (UK Tour) & Royal Caribbean, “BALLROOM FEVER”. He was also chosen to be a part of A Celebration of Youth, performing excerpts from ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at Buckingham Palace.

Tv Credits Include: 2022, SNOW WHITE, Village Dancer, (DISNEY); 2022, Mary Poppins, Dancer, (Saturday Night Takeaway ITV) 2021, MASTERS OF THE AIR, Lindy Hop Dancer (APPLE TV); NHS VACCINE, Dancer (Advert), ANYTHING GOES, Tap Dancer (This Morning); 42nd Street – The Musical; The Royal Variety Performance (ITV); The Olivier Awards (ITV); The One Show (BBC) and Sunday Night at The Palladium (ITV).

Dom Haslam has a BA degree in Contemporary Music from Bretton Hall (Leeds university) and a PGCE from Greenwich University.

He has worked at Bird College for a number of years, musically directing and arranging music for shows as well as teaching on the Musical Theatre and Singing courses. Recent Musical Directing credits within the college include Wars, Made in Dagenham, Anything Goes, Destinations and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Outside of the college, Dom has worked on a number of productions across the country, both as a musical director and as a composer. Musical Direction credits include Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Peter Pan (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Little Voice (Watermill), Mirandolina (Royal Exchange), Dick Whittington, Jack and the Beanstalk (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Property (National Theatre Studio workshop).

Composition credits include, for the corporate sector: NARS ‘O’ Live Event (Brick lane, 2019), Cisco Live (keynote films, 2013-16). For theatre: Therese Raquin (Theatre Royal, Bath and tour) The Real Thing (ETT/WYP), Tis Pity She’s A Whore (WYP), The Prince of Homburg and Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse), Serious Money (Birmingham Rep), The White Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory), Henry V (Royal Exchange).

With librettist/lyricist Jenifer Toksvig, Dom has written 2 musicals: Coppelia (adapted from the Hoffman Tales) and Mort (adapted from Terry Pratchett’s novel, for YMTUK.) With Lyricist Liz Hetherington, Dom has written and arranged a number of stand-alone songs for independent artists.

Steve studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, taking a Diploma in Professional Music Studies. Soon after college he collaborated on writing his first musical, ‘Georgie’, which went on to receive two subsequent productions. As a recording musician he has played on albums and co-produced for pop and musical theatre artists, including the Olivier nominated lead in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Gus MacGregor. Orchestration and arrangement work followed, which alongside writing continues to be a favoured area of his work. He has served as Musical Director on many productions, more recently including Legally Blonde, Parade, Sister Act, Hairspray, A Chorus Line, The Wizard of Oz, Seussical the Musical, Our House and Rent at theatres across the region, and is regularly hired as a pit musician for local productions.
Steve is currently the resident Musical Director for the Orchard Theatre’s summer youth productions. He has worked on productions at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, on cruise lines, and theatrical tours including Beyond The Barricade, one of the UK’s longest running musical theatre concert tours.

Simon Gray is a musical director, pianist and composer with over twenty years of experience. Simon’s musicals include Daisy In Disguise (Vital Theatre, New York) and The Scarlet Letter (Edinburgh Fringe and Theatre Harrisburg, PA). He has written music for TADA! Youth Theatre and Theatre 167 both in New York City and his songs have been heard at 54 Below, The Zipper Factory and Birdland. With Raymond Bokhour he wrote The Glorious Death of Comrade What’s-His-Name. He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York where he won the 2007 Harrington Award for musical theatre songwriting.

Before moving into teaching, Simon was a freelance music director and pianist. He was assistant MD on the original West End production of Pageant (Vaudeville Theatre) and on Bless The Bride (King’s Head). Other music direction includes the Asian premiere of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Kuala Lumpur), Mapp and Lucia (Greenwich Theatre), Newsrevue (Canal Café Theatre), George’s Marvellous Medicine (Birmingham Stage), Lucky Nurse (Finborough). Simon played keyboards on the UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and was rehearsal pianist for Wonderful Town (Grange Park Opera), Hello Again (Bridewell), Killing Rasputin (Bridewell) and Candide (National Theatre). He has accompanied Cassidy Janson, Poppy Tierney and Samantha Mercer in cabaret. He has played on Silversea Cruises and was once an audition pianist for Cats in London. Simon read music at Cambridge University. He is a former student of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama junior department and an alumnus of the National Youth Music Theatre. He studied conducting with George Hurst at Canford and the Estill Model with Anne-Marie Speed in London. He has held teaching positions at Italia Conti and Havering College. Simon joined Bird College in 2016.

Brian was born in the State of Michigan in the United States and studied at Michigan State University and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he obtained a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Business/Management in 1997. He has been working at Bird College since 2004 as a singing teacher and music director for course work and musical productions.

He has worked in musical theatre as a music director and assistant music director in the United States and Europe. In 2003 Brian was the Assistant Music Director for the European tour of Footloose. Prior to relocating to London in 2002, Brian was living in New York City where he worked on various workshops of musicals such as Robin Hood, The Musical by Martin Charnin and Uncle Broadway by Bruce Coyle.

He also worked extensively as an Assistant Music Director and keyboard player for The Goodspeed Opera House in the state of Connecticut, and his credits include George M., Redhead, The Pajama Game, Summer of ’42, Lizzie Borden, Heart Land, Fanny Hill, Mirette and Just So.

Brian has also worked as a synthesiser programmer and music copyist on many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and U.S. National tours. His credits include Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, Jekyll and Hyde, Bat Boy, The Big Time, Glimmerglass, Red, Hot and Cole, Marie Christine, Saturday Night, The Broadway Tenors and work for City Center Encores! Brian has also been a music copyist for the feature films The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Die Another Day, 25th Hour, Big Fish and Troy.