Our Team
Anna Reeve Cook | Founder and Principal
Anna is a fully qualified teacher with ISTD, as well as a trained performer and a qualified personal trainer and nutritionist. Anna trained with Mountview Academy as well as The MTA, and also spent a year in New York, training with Broadway vocal coach to Idina Menzel, Tania Travers. Having worked extensively in the industry, she has run a successful Performing Arts business for over ten years, providing one to one tuition for those wishing to train for the performing arts. She’s accumulated many successes to date, including a 100% pass rate in all exams from students aged 5+, as well as many students gaining entry to prestigious performing arts colleges and obtaining professional contracts as young as 7.
Anna has also performed for many years. Some of her favourite credits include playing the Royal Nanny in The King’s Speech (2010), dancing on stage at Wembley in the Take That Progress Live Tour, stunt acting in the Robin Hood revival with Russell Crowe (2010) and singing in Graham Norton’s Charity Gala at the London Palladium. Anna is now a mum to Oliver, who has special needs and he is a constant and wonderful reminder that one size does not fit all and it’s important to help children learn as individuals.
Hayley Faulkner | Teacher
Hayley is a performer & singer songwriter. She trained at Bodywork Company, Cambridge, and at 18, she went on to get her Professional Diploma in Song Writing at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London. Alongside writing, recording and releasing her own music, she’s also performed extensively. Her favourite job to date, is touring a musical around the UK, Washington DC, Sicily and Holland with the UK’s No.1 Jive & Swing band, The Jive Aces. Performing is her passion and now she has two children, she loves helping others find their passion too.
Beverly Cook | Head of Well-being
Beverly has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology as well as a Diploma in Child Development. She is also a qualified dance teacher with ISTD. Beverly began her career in Child Psychology but after qualifying as a dance teacher, specialising in ballet, she realised the great need for psychological support in performing arts.
Training for an industry that’s so emotionally demanding, we feel it’s important to have an in house well-being professional. Beverly will be on hand as a point of initial contact for our Diploma students to chat with them, offer professional mental health support and to point them in the right direction of further help, if needed.
Carol Cooper | Teacher
Carol trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London receiving a BA (Hons) in Performance and The Voice college London receiving a diploma in teaching contemporary singing. Carol teaches dance, drama and singing for various schools around London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Her pupils have won numerous awards including: ‘Pitch Perfect Team’ and ‘Overall Musical Theatre Winners’ at Pineapple’s Edmonton Glee competition. She also runs Twirling Tots, a toddler dance group in Essex and Hertfordshire. Her theatre credits include Belle in Sleeping Beauty (Ferneham Hall), Candi in Zanna Don’t (Landor Theatre), Ensemble/Cover Dinah Lord in High Society (U.K and Ireland tour), Lead Singer in Feet of Fire (Silver Dollar City, USA), Ensemble in The Mikado (NCH), Bet in Oliver! (NCH), Lead Club Singer in Bugsy Malone (Olympia Theatre) and Head Elf in Mouseio’s Magical Christmas (Tivoli Theatre).
Joseph Winer | Teacher
Joseph is a drama teacher and theatre director with over 10 years’ experience in arts education. He holds a First-Class degree in English and Drama from Queen Mary University of London and is an alumnus of the National Youth
Theatre.
Joseph has worked with a wide range of theatre organisations
including Shakespeare’s Globe, Watford Palace, Wizard Theatre, The Old Vic, and the Primary Shakespeare Company. He has directed over 30 productions, from plays and musicals to pantomimes, with favourites including The Little Mermaid and The Taming of the Shrew. In recent years, he has worked as Director in Residence at a secondary school in South London, directing school productions and supporting GCSE and A-Level Drama students, alongside preparing students for LAMDA exams.
Emma O’Rourke | Teacher
Emma trained at the Northern Ballet School, graduating in 2020. Since then Emma has gone on to teach acting at various schools in the Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire area whilst working professionally as an actor.
Her theatre credits include: Ariel (Happily Ever After, Blackpool), Belle (Once Upon A Fairytale, Neverland Theatre), Cinderella (Cinderella, Charming Entertainment), Belle (Beauty and the Beast, Charming Entertainment) and Swing in the Lego Friends live shows at Legoland Windsor Resort.
Emma then went on to do LAMDA training and is passionate about helping students develop their skills, confidence and creativity and looks forward to working with the brilliant students at attitude
performing arts.
