David Lawson Lean
Performing Arts Services for Children

 

 

FREE 'ACTING FOR CHILDREN' WORKSHOP. 12th JULY 2009. SEE DETAILS BELOW

David Lawson Lean works extensively with children in the Performing Arts industry as an Acting Coach and Chaperone. He also provides drama workshops for schools. His workshops in schools for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Early Years are popular with both children and teachers. David also works in Secondary and Further Education as a Drama Specialist. 

 

David is also the writer of a number of plays, and has written the scripts for 8 children's musicals. You can hire a range of this material via this site. These are ideal for schools and Youth Theatres and other children's drama groups.

 

• FREE ACTING FOR CHILDREN WORKSHOP -SUNDAY 12th JULY 2009:  David is running 2 free 'Acting for Children' workshops in KIngston, as part of the International Youth Arts Festival. Both workshops take place in the ACT Studio, in KIngston College, on July 12th. Workshop 1, for 6 - 8 year olds, is from 3.00pm - 4.00pm. Workshop 2, for 9 - 12 year olds is from 4.00pm - 6.00pm. To book call 0208 547 5205 (this is an answerphone service and you will be called back within 48 hours).

• 2009 Holiday Workshops now available. See Workshop page for details.

• Kingston Junior Drama Company's next production will be a new adaptation of Eve Garnett's 'The Family from One End Street'. Performances are on 2nd & 3rd July at The Cornerhouse Theatre, Surbiton. tickets are £4.00 (concessions available). To reserve tickets email Aine.Lark@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

• Kingston Junior Drama Company performed 'The Fairyland Trials' at The Rose Theatre on November 22nd as part of the Hillcroft Gala. David also directed Kirsten and Libby in a scene from Jacqueline Wilson's 'Vicky Angel.'

• Holiday Workshop season was a great success. Two new musicals were produced this year, 'Spectrecal,' which had it's first performance in Weybridge over Easter, and 'Mission 39' which hit Cranleigh, Amersham and Weybridge this summer!

• Kingston Junior Drama Company performed 'Departures', a one act play about evacuees during an imagined Third World War, at the Cornerhouse Theatre in Surbiton on 2nd July. David runs the Kingston Junior Drama Company, for Kingston Music & Arts Service. Rehearsals run on Wednesday evenings from 5.00pm - 7.00pm at the theatre, and places are available to dedicated young actors aged 10 to 13 years. Places are limited. Call Kingston Music & Arts Service on 0208 3919248 to enrol.

• Two members of The Kingston Junior Drama Company recently made their professional debuts at The Rose Theatre in Kingston. Abbie and Adriana appeared in The Birmingham Stage Company's production of 'George's Marvelous Medicine' A third member, Lily, appeared in the musical 'The Ragged Child' produced by Kingston University for The Rose Theatre.

• Kingston Junior Drama Company performed 'Rediscovering Alice', a physical theatre version of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,  on Wednesday 19th March, at The Cornerhouse Theatre in Surbiton. The company were proud to have actress Janina Faye record a voiceover for the production. Janina, a former member of Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company, and star of films such as 'Day of the Triffids' and 'Dracula', attended the performance, and participated in a photoshoot with young actors from the company. An extract from 'Rediscovering Alice' was also be performed at The Kingston Gala, at The Rose Theatre, on Sunday 16th March.

• The Royal Borough of Kingston's annual Primary Schools' Reading & Performing Arts Festival took place on 10th November, and David was once again an adjudicator. There were some fantastic young performers, and the day was a great success.