Top Tips for helping your child learn their lines!
We are in the third week of rehearsals for my modern day adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and it’s all kicked off already! Parents angry, kids crying (or doing a cracking job of pretending to) because ‘they can’t learn their…
16 September 2016
Top Tips for ‘stage mums’ that can’t afford the drama!
The lengths parents go to in a bid for their child’s dreams of TV stardom never cease to amaze me. I have lost count of the number of parents (and wanna be actors) that have come to me after paying…
4 July 2016
Want to see if your child really has what it takes to be an actor?
This summer we are offering a week long intensive acting school for kids that are serious about acting. It takes a lot more than talent to work as a professional actor – and that goes for the kids too. The…
A summer school with a difference
I love teaching drama and acting and I love the summer schools we have offered over the last 10 years at Mel@drama, but this year I wanted to offer something a bit different as well. I am proud that we…
31 March 2016
Got a casting? Read this first!
I will never forget my first audition at Coronation Street. And the first time I ‘nearly’ made it. It was with Judi Hayfield and it was 1996, and I was living as an unemployed hippie in Urmston with uni pals.…
25 January 2016
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Top Tips for ‘stage mums’ that can’t afford the drama!
The lengths parents go to in a bid for their child’s dreams of TV stardom never cease to amaze me. I have lost count of the number of parents (and wanna be actors) that have come to me after paying…
4 July 2016
Want to see if your child really has what it takes to be an actor?
This summer we are offering a week long intensive acting school for kids that are serious about acting. It takes a lot more than talent to work as a professional actor – and that goes for the kids too. The…
A summer school with a difference
I love teaching drama and acting and I love the summer schools we have offered over the last 10 years at Mel@drama, but this year I wanted to offer something a bit different as well. I am proud that we…
31 March 2016
Got a casting? Read this first!
I will never forget my first audition at Coronation Street. And the first time I ‘nearly’ made it. It was with Judi Hayfield and it was 1996, and I was living as an unemployed hippie in Urmston with uni pals.…
25 January 2016
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Want to see if your child really has what it takes to be an actor?
This summer we are offering a week long intensive acting school for kids that are serious about acting. It takes a lot more than talent to work as a professional actor – and that goes for the kids too. The…
A summer school with a difference
I love teaching drama and acting and I love the summer schools we have offered over the last 10 years at Mel@drama, but this year I wanted to offer something a bit different as well. I am proud that we…
31 March 2016
Got a casting? Read this first!
I will never forget my first audition at Coronation Street. And the first time I ‘nearly’ made it. It was with Judi Hayfield and it was 1996, and I was living as an unemployed hippie in Urmston with uni pals.…
25 January 2016
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
A summer school with a difference
I love teaching drama and acting and I love the summer schools we have offered over the last 10 years at Mel@drama, but this year I wanted to offer something a bit different as well. I am proud that we…
31 March 2016
Got a casting? Read this first!
I will never forget my first audition at Coronation Street. And the first time I ‘nearly’ made it. It was with Judi Hayfield and it was 1996, and I was living as an unemployed hippie in Urmston with uni pals.…
25 January 2016
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Got a casting? Read this first!
I will never forget my first audition at Coronation Street. And the first time I ‘nearly’ made it. It was with Judi Hayfield and it was 1996, and I was living as an unemployed hippie in Urmston with uni pals.…
25 January 2016
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Do you dream of being a film star?
Meladrama Acting School and Agency are branching out into film production and have teamed up with multi-award winning international screen-writer and director, Simon Powell. Simon worked as a professional actor and TV presenter before moving behind the camera to…
11 September 2015
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
My first week as a Meladrama apprentice
University, the next stage  after college to ‘do well in life’. All of my friends are heading off too uni now, packing for the next chapter in their life. I’m not doing any packing, not because I’m unorganised or lazy……
3 September 2015
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
It’s not just drama. It’s bigger than that!
So yesterday I had a lovely meeting at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester to talk about how I might be able to work as an  early years performing arts practitioner within the spaces.  To be honest I was probably under…
13 May 2015
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Wondering when to give up acting and get a proper job?
If I hear the words ‘well there will be a really good reason why you didn’t get that acting job. There will be something else just round the corner’ once more I am going to commit murder. On myself.
11 May 2015
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…
Guilty or not guilty….. that is the question.
My friend from ‘Mums In The Know’ asked me to write a blog explaining how I juggle a career and being a mum. It’s taken me a good 4 weeks to pluck up the courage to do it. Â Not because…