“The Bridge was and is everything I wanted from a Drama School. Their teaching is second to none and at a low cost. I’ve gained great training and great friends from my time there. You cannot find a better place to train!”

John McGettrick, Graduate 2009

People of all classes, races, nationalities and backgrounds come to The Bridge to change their lives and become professional actors. If that’s your dream we’re here to help you make it happen. We’re a non-profit making company which brings you training of the highest quality from actors, directors, performers, musicians and choreographers at the top of the industry. Because we are an educational charity many services are donated to The Bridge, so you pay less than cost price for your training.

Once you graduate from the course, we’ll continue to work with you, providing everything from advice on contracts to help preparing you for auditions, from contacts in the industry to opportunities to work with us in a professional context.

Staff

The tutors of The Bridge are professional actors, directors, performers, musicians and choreographers who believe in making a high level of training accessible to a wide range of people. This is why only the basic cost of the training is charged to students.

Graduates

Bridge graduates now work successfully in major film television, theatre and radio productions. Credits include:

Television

Skins
Little Britain
Coronation Street
Casualty
Love, Virtually
The Borgias
Fast and Loose
Mongrels
The Indian Doctor
The Wrong Door
Holby City
Doctors
The Bill
Ultimate Force
Neighbours
River City
and many others including
a wide range of commercials

Film

Bigga Than Ben
Sweeney Todd (dir. Tim Burton)
Seven Crosses
Bright Young Things (dir. Stephen Fry)
Cold Mountain with Jude Law
Love Actually with Hugh Grant
The Human Centipede II
Paramount’s Keen Eddie
Rules of Engagement
Restoration
Quills with Michael Caine
Shelf Life
Last Flight to Kuwait

Theatre

National Theatre
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Globe
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Royal Court at the Duke of York’s
Bristol Old Vic
Holland Park Opera
English Shakespeare Company
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Manchester Royal Exchange
Riverside Studios
English National Opera
London Palladium

Presenting

CBBC
BBC3
Sky (UK and Italy)

Radio

Dalek War II: Dalek Empire, In Parenthesis, Sarah Millican’s Support Group

Many National and International Tours including:

Lucy Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrome, Victoria Wood’s Dinnerladies, Hot Flush, Cooking with Elvis, Brief Encounter, Dick Whittington, Vampyre and Doctor Doolittle