Guest Tutors

Adrian Metcalfe
Adrian has appeared as Sinbad Sailors in Under Milk Wood directed by Sir Anthony Hopkins. He has played Henry V, Claudio and Octavian for Wales Actors’ Co., Bottom, Macduff, Fluellen and Dogberry for Tour de Force Theatre Co., and Turner, Brother Wormwood and Baines for North Country Theatre. Television credits include The Dom Joly Show (The Comedy Channel), Mor-Ladron (S4C) and Pirates (Discovery). He has just played Stephen Carter in Hercule Poirot’s Yellow Iris for Bill Kenwright’s Agatha Christie Theatre Company.

Sonia Beck
Sonia trained at the Arts Educational School. She has just appeared as Shirley in The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham's Production of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine. Other recent theatre credits include the role of Hermia in Midsummer Night’s Dream and Phebe in As You like it (Vienna’s English Theatre) Monica Reed in Present Laughter (Ian Dickens Ltd), Mrs. Sparsit in Hard Times (Compass Theatre Company), Lady Macbeth for Fluellen Theatre Company, Maman in Gold Star for Elizabeth (Northampton Theatre Royal) and various roles in Murder on Air for Bill Kenwright’s Agatha Christie Theatre Company. Film roles include the lead role of Fran in Shelter (The Edge Picture Company) and the Nurse in The Ultimate Truth (Wysiwyg Productions).

Stephanie Benavente

Stephanie was born in Newport and studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Stephanie has worked in musical theatre, radio and television, recording studios and concerts as a soloist in many classical performances, including Handel Messiah, Haydn The Creation, Nelson Mass and St. Theresa Mass, Mozart Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Poulenc Gloria, Karl Jenkins Adiemus (premiere at the Royal Albert Hall) and also contemporary concert performances throughout Britain, Europe and America.

She was a featured performer at the opening night of the Wales Millennium Centre.

Stephanie has been guest soloist on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night and as a soloist on live TV and radio concert broadcasts in Denmark. She has played roles in the musicals Bitter Sweet, Cabaret and Half a Sixpence for BBC Radio 2 and was featured vocalist for The Happy Prince (Channel 4).

Her West End musical theatre work includes Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre, London, covering Fantine and Eponine which she played many times, and Grease at the Dominion Theatre.

Stephanie has recorded solo tracks on the albums World In Motion, The Festival, Sutter (a new musical) and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Songbook. As a session singer, she has worked on commercials, live TV and theatre work and numerous sessions for albums, TV and films, including Evita, Gladiator, Hannibal, Prince of Egypt, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Time Machine.

She is a highly respected singing teacher and vocal coach, and now runs a successful theatrical agency, Stephanie Evans Associates.