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21st April 2014

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Alec Drake

Course

BA Acting - Acting


Personal details

Height: 6'2"

Eyes: Dark Brown

Hair: Dark Brown

Voice: Bass

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All academic staff embody the teaching and learning excellence that Central is known for, giving students and unparalleled opportunity to learn and train with the very best the drama, theatre and media industries and higher education can offer.

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Staff

All academic staff embody the teaching and learning excellence that Central is known for, giving students and unparalleled opportunity to learn and train with the very best the drama, theatre and media industries and higher education can offer.

View all acting and performance staff

Staff

All academic staff embody the teaching and learning excellence that Central is known for, giving students and unparalleled opportunity to learn and train with the very best the drama, theatre and media industries and higher education can offer.

View all acting and performance staff

Staff

All academic staff embody the teaching and learning excellence that Central is known for, giving students and unparalleled opportunity to learn and train with the very best the drama, theatre and media industries and higher education can offer.

View all acting and performance staff

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Training

2011-2014 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BA (Hons) Acting
2006-2007 Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, One Year Overseas Course
2007-2009 Studio 5, One Year Conservatory in Michael Checkhov and Balinese Mask

Productions at Central

2013 John of Gaunt, Richard II, (Bill Buckhurst)
2013 Agamemnon, Orestia, (Claudette Williams)
2013 Young Clerimont, The Beau Defeated, (Patrick Toomey)
2013 Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, (Nick Moseley)
2012 Telegraph Boy/Various, The Skin of our Teeth, (Tim Hardy)
2012 Mitch, A Streetcar Named Desire, (Nick Moseley)
2012 Dr. Prentice, What the Butler Saw, (Nick Moseley)
2011 Antonio, The Merchant of Venice, (Peter McAllister)
2011 Gaev, The Cherry Orchard, (Peter McAllister)
2011 David, Handbag, (Peter McAllister)

Experience

Short film

2012 Peter/Desperado, Dream Squad, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, (Eric Sopko)

Film

2012 Nathan, House of the Wrong Side of the Tracks, Ragnbone Productions, (Arthur Collins)

Acting in theatre

2009 Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent, Studio 5, Studio 5, (Per Brahe)

2008 Bardolph, Merry Wives of Windsor, American Theatre of Actors, American Theatre of Actors, (James Jennings)

Additional training

2007 Valentine, You Never Can Tell, Bristol Old Vic, New Vic Theatre, (Elwyn Johnson)

2007 Richard, Hay Fever, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, New Vic Theatre, (Elwyn Johnson)

2007 Chaucer/Chanticleer, The Canterbury Tales, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, (Elwyn Johnson)

Accents

RP, General American (Native), Southern American

Skills

BASSC Stage Combat Level 1, Fitness, Running, Singing Range: Bass, Driving (Car), Mask

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About the event

As the second decade of the 21st century dawns, the Greenham Common generation is in crisis. Now fifty-something, they’re dealing with panic attacks, the onset of old age, weight-gain, sexual decline and the incomprehensibility of their teenage children.

As the mid-life crises gather pace, the roles reverse, and it’s the teenagers who are taking control of their lives, while their parents are left literally and metaphorically groping in the dark.

This darkly funny play about parenting and growing older is a tour de force of wit and incisive observation.

Devised

DIRECTOR: Ed Goggin
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Paul Barker

Performed by MA Music Theatre Students

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions

Box Office opens 13 January
Monday-Friday, 10.00am-4.30pm
Saturday, 12.00pm-2.30pm
Additional opening on performance nights, 6.00pm-7.30pm

Booking

Book online

Telephone: 020 7722 8183
Email: boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk

Tickets should be collected 15 minutes prior to the start of the performance.
Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.
Please note seating is limited in the Webber Douglas Studio

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Year 1

Freeing and discovering: students work from the uniqueness of self within the group context and the rigour of the training studio, and learn to work with truth and integrity, opening up and releasing the body, voice and imagination, and developing a personal process and craft through which to build character and live truthfully within a fictional world. By learning to live and breathe in the moment, students start to discover the creative potential of the acting space.

Year 2

Stretching and growing: building on this experience, students expand their physical and emotional range, developing the art of transformation and working imaginatively from within worlds and characters which are substantially removed from their own. Students also learn to transfer skills to television and radio. Towards the end of the year, students start to think about applying their training within industry contexts.

Year 3

Applying the craft: through a series of contrasting public productions and recorded media projects, students apply and develop their craft within simulated professional contexts, while at the same time engaging in the process of interfacing with the industry and learning how to survive as a working actor.

Course specification

BA (Hons) Acting Course Specification

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Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Senior Lecturer, Acting

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