RAD United Kingdom | Musical Theatre Introductory Training (CPD)

Event Date:

Sunday 14 February 2027 – Tuesday 16 February 2027

Event Time:

10am – 5pm each day

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Birmingham

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Who’s it for?

This course is open to all dance teachers.

Fee:

Members £350 | €404 | $470
Non-members £420 | €484 | $564

Contact:

cpd@rad.org.uk

Explore the RAD’s brand‑new Musical Theatre syllabus in a dedicated three‑day CPD course designed to equip teachers with the skills, insight, and confidence to deliver this exciting new genre.

Across three days, the course covers how to deliver singing, acting and dancing in your classes, with a view to preparing your students for exams. You don’t necessarily need to have had previous experience in all three areas: you will take away the skills and confidence to incorporate this exciting new genre into your studio.

RAD Registered Teachers must attend and complete the full course in order to enter students for RAD Musical Theatre exams, making this an essential step for anyone planning to embrace this new business opportunity.

The CPD course includes your own copy of the new RAD Musical Theatre syllabus book.

Aims

 The aims of this course are to:

Explore the concepts of physical efforts in relation to singing,
Confidently introduce healthy vocal technique,
Understand and support young developing voices and have awareness of the best working environment to help encourage confidence and improvement,
Develop core acting and improvisation techniques to help students build characters, interpret songs, and perform expressively, and
Learn to use dance as a primary storytelling device, with emphasis on characterisation, choreographic intention, and integration with text and song.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, participants will:

Have gained practical strategies and a strong foundational understanding of vocal technique suitable for young voices when working in musical theatre triple threat training,
Be able to apply simple acting techniques to song and movement,
Be able to use improvisation as a tool for building performance confidence,
Be able to coach emotional and vocal expression authentically,
Have developed effective approaches to delivering acting skills tasks within the RAD Musical Theatre Graded Syllabus,
Be able to confidently choreograph for storytelling,
Be able to use movement to express emotion, motivation, and narrative arcs,
Be able to teach students how to perform beyond technique with intention and character, and
Have developed effective approaches to delivering dance / movement skills tasks within the RAD Musical Theatre Graded Syllabus.

Venue

Elmhurst Ballet School, 249 Bristol Road, Birmingham B5 7UH

Tutors

Nikki Laurence (Singing)

Lewis Starr (Acting)

Lewis graduated from Bird College London in 2018 with a first-class BA Hons in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre.

His professional credits whilst training include, Max Bialiystock in The Producers, George in The Wedding Singer, Porph in Airswimming and performing as a featured singer across London. He has also performed at the Dance Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and, in 2020, made his professional debut as ‘John’ in the Italian Tour of Peter Pan.

Lewis then went on to perform as a lead vocalist onboard the AIDA Perla and AIDA Prima, cruising around the Caribbean, Norway, and the Middle East. After that he played Roger in the European tour of Grease the Musical and has recently finished being a lead vocalist at Thursford Christmas Spectacular.

As well as working professionally, Lewis has found a passion for teaching singing and musical theatre. In 2023 he gained his Level 4 diploma in Theatre Arts: Teaching pathway and is currently teaching the new RAD Musical Theatre syllabus.

Lewis loves integrating the current demand from the industry into his teaching, preparing students for the world of theatre.

Gavin Eden (Dance)

Gavin trained at London Studio Centre, touring the UK with the Jazz Dance Company in his final year.

His theatre credits include: Cats – Asia, and European tours as Skimbleshanks, Addams Family The Musical (UK Tour and London Palladium) as dance captain and onstage swing, 42nd Street – Paris, Pet Shop Boys Inner Sanctum at the Royal Opera House, Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting at The Tate Britain, Hairspray as dance captain and swing, We Will Rock You, Cats, European tour as Mungojerrie, One Man’s Dream II – Tokyo Disneyland, Nixon in China, The Mikado and Carmen for English National Opera. Theatre Rites’ ‘Mischief’, and Shall We Dance at Sadler’s Wells.

As part of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, his roles include the original cast of Edward Scissorhands – World Tour as Kevin Boggs and Gerald Monroe. Gobstopper, Cupid and cover Fritz in Nutcracker – UK Tour, and Cygnet in Swan Lake – World Tour.

Gavin can be seen in the films Snow White (2024), Beyond the Sea and Swan Lake (2012). He has also appeared on The Paul O’Grady Show and So Graham Norton for Channel 4 and the ‘Naked Commercial’ for Sanex.

He has also worked as an assistant to the director, staging Cats for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and associate choreographer for the Addams Family The Musical tour in 2022.

Gavin teaches for numerous arts institutions and delivers a range of educational workshops on behalf of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

CPD Hours

20 hours Time-Valued CPD

Fees

Members of the Royal Academy of Dance receive discounts on all CPD activities.

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Contact

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