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After graduating, Jesse formed the Bear Trap Theatre Company with a group of fellow East 15 students. He took his play Bound to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it went on to win a Fringe First, a Heritage Angle Award, the National Student Drama Festival Award and The Holden Street Award, which included a place in the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia in 2011.
Anyone going through the audition process will know that with such a wide plethora of institutions offering actor training,
Jesse Briton, BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre ’10, Wells, Somerset
finding a course that delivers on what it promises can be a rare thing. Many never find, or secure, the places they desire. It is for this reason that I consider myself privileged to have trained on BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre at East 15 Acting School.
Having formed powerful links across the industry, the course benefits from the expertise and dedication of a constant influx of visiting professional artists. Your peers will also define this experience and
Graduate profile
Scholarships and
bursaries East 15 has scholarships to distribute to outstanding students whose work and potential is of a high calibre but are having problems in meeting their study costs.
Each year, East 15 is allowed to nominate its students and graduates for major competitive scholarships that are only open to UK drama schools with NCDT accreditation. For an unprecedented eight times in nine years, an East 15 student has won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Bursary of £7,500, which is open to second-year drama students attending an accredited drama programme.
The John Gielgud Bursary is worth between £2,500 and £4,500. East 15 students who have won this award
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include: Candice Fraser (2010); Stephanie Appleton (2009); Daniel Jenkins (2008); Marsha Henry (2007); Andrew Lindfield (2006); Conrad Sharp (2005); Ben Wigzell (2004); and Christopher Rees (2003).
The Lilian Baylis Award is worth £1,500 and has been won by East 15 students: Poppy Meadows (2009), Liam Lavery (2008); Maria Gray (2007); Steven Helliwell (2006); Lucy Thackeray (2005); and Rose Romain (2004).
The Spotlight Bursary, worth £1,250 was won in 2009 by John Mc Keever, in 2007 by Edward Mitchell and in 2004 by Tania Pilcher. East 15 student BA Acting graduate, Leah Brotherhead, has been awarded the 2010 Carleton Hobbs Bursary. The Bursary earns her a contract for six months work with the BBC’s radio drama department.
What our students go
on to do Over the last few years our recent graduates have performed at the RSC, Royal National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Old Vic (working directly with Kevin Spacey), Birmingham Rep, New End Theatre and Vienna’s English Theatre and innumerable touring productions, television programmes and feature films.
Alumni of East 15 include actresses Alison Steadman and Annette Badland, former Coronation Street star Jenny Platt, playwright April de Angelis, former artistic director of The Bush Theatre Mike Bradwell and director Stephen Daldry, who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his feature films The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliott.
I formed many creative partnerships. If you let it, the course will develop you as an artist in ways you might never have imagined.
The aim of the course is surprisingly simple – to develop and nurture the creative actor. I am not aware of another course that achieves this aim so remarkably. It is truly unique. As well as flexible and articulate actors, the course has an enviable record of producing new work professionally.
Be under no illusions, the contemporary course is hard work, but the rewards are vast and the experience exhilarating. Few courses can claim to have achieved the same success in such a short life span and its reputation is appropriately formidable. Your training will mark you out but also provide you with the ability to determine your own career. I regard my decision to accept a place as the best I have ever made.
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