Notable Alumni

Director

Credits Include: Days of Significance and 
As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company), 
Hotel (National Theatre) and Little Shop of Horrors (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre)

Director

Emily is a Trinidadian theatre director.

She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2022, and 2021.

She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award.

Recent credits include Tender and Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre), Rock DJ and Three Other Songs That Saved the World (New Diorama Theatre), Haemosporidian (Lyric Hammersmith), Flip! (Regional tour/Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout, Bush Theatre), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse, also writer), and BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer).

Emily’s work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address and theatricality.

Actor

Credits Include: Death in Paradise, Hustle and Holby City (BBC).

Actor

Credits Include: Fiddler On The Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ghost The Musical (UK Tour), and Show Boat (New London Theatre)

Actor

Credits include:

Zoe Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen - 2019 & 2021)

2020 Olivier Awards Nomination - Best Supporting Actress in a Musical - for Dear Evan Hansen.

2020 The Stage Debut Awards Nomination - Best Performer in a Musical - for Dear Evan Hansen.

Lighting Designer

Credits Include: A Taste of Honey, The Amen Corner (National Theatre), The Producers (national tour), The Master and Margarita (Complicite – Olivier Award nomination).

Actor

Credits Include: Happy Valley, The Thin Blue Line (BBC), Shameless (Channel 4) and Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre)

Actor

Credits Include: The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre), Sister Act The Musical (London Palladium) and the original West End production of Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick… BOOM! (Menier Chocolate Factory)

Actor and Puppeteer

Credits Include: Muppets Most Wanted (Disney), Zingzillas (BBC), Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Amblin)

Actor

Credits Include: Hairspray (Kuala Lumpur/Singapore Tour), Shrek the Musical (UK Tour), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour).

Actor

Credits Include: Dempsey and Makepeace, Emmerdale (ITV), Blake’s 7 and Eastenders (BBC).

Actor

Credits Include: Dead Like Me, The Tudors (Showtime) and Smallville (WB).

Writer

Credits Include: London Road (National Theatre), Cruising (Bush Theatre), Little Revolution (Almeida Theatre).

Actor

Credits Include: Les Miserables (The Palace Theatre), Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre), Original Cast of Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)

Actor

Credits include: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward, London), The King and I (UK tour) and The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)

Director and Choreographer

Credits Include: Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre), Company, Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse) Fiddler on the Roof, The Light in the Piazza (Broadway)

Actor

Credits Include: Monsieur Thénardier in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre) The Merry Widow (ENO), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), The Jungle (Playhouse Theatre), A Christmas Carol (RSC), Half A Sixpence (Chichester and Noël Coward Theatre), Shrek the Musical (UK Tour), Dickens Abridged (Arts), Soho Cinders & Ex (Soho Theatre), Master Class (Vaudeville), Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), Noises Off, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), His Dark Materials (UK Tour), Spamalot (Palace), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, High Society, Leonardo’s Last Supper, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Mary Poppins (Cameron Mackintosh/Disney).

Actor

Credits Include: Captain Mack (CITV), Interview with a Hitman, The Backseat.

Actor

Credits Include: Holby City, Trust Me (BBC), National Theatre Live: Peter Pan, Wonder.land (National Theatre)

Actor

Credits Include: Equus (Gielgud Theatre), Once (Broadway), Narcos (Netflix), Misfits (E4), Holby City (BBC).

Actor

Oscar Conlon-Morrey is an award-winning Actor, Singer, Compère, Comedian and Cabaret Artist.

His performance credits include: Mr Bumble in Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Oliver (Gielgud Theatre), Mother Goose opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Duke of York Theatre and UK Tour), Only Fools and Horses the Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Nativity the Musical (Hammersmith Apollo/UK tour), Rehab the Musical (Neon 194, Piccadilly), Treason (London Palladium/UK tour), The Toxic Avenger The Musical (The Arts Theatre, Leicester Square).

Oscar was the winner of the Julia McKenzie prize at the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award 2017, the same year he received the Gyearbour Asante Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Valedictorian Award for achieving the highest scoring degree in his graduating year.

Splitting his time between England and France, Oscar is writing a one man show which will tour internationally in English and French in 2027. 

Actor

Credits Include: EastEnders, The Street (BBC) and Bulletproof (Sky 1).

Actor

Credits Include: Starlings (Sky), Lark Rise to Candleford, Requiem (BBC), Downton Abbey (ITV)

Actor

Will is an actor who grew up in a single-parent family on a council estate in Worcestershire.

He attended the University of Manchester to study Literature & Drama, before enrolling at Mountview to undertake the postgraduate in Acting.

Soon after graduating, he moved into the live comedy world with a group of fellow Mountview grads, performing at festivals including Edinburgh and Adelaide. He then joined the theatre company 1927 to make Golem for the Young Vic and its subsequent world tour.

Most recent credits include Man Mountain (Soho Theatre), Dear England (National Theatre/Prince Edward Theare), for which he won the Olivier for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Porn Play (Royal Court). He was also nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award as Best Supporting Performer in a Play, a Stage Debut Award for Best West End Debut Performer and won the Broadway World Award for Best Supporting Actor. 

His plays for BBC Radio 4 include Mediocre White Male and Slease.

Actor

Credits Include: Zootopia (Disney), Thor (Paramount Pictures) and Once Upon A Time (ABC).

Actor

Credits include: Eponine in Les Misérables (West End). Nominated to The Stage 25 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh (January 2022)

Actor

Credits include: Here We Are (National Theatre), Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1813 (Donmar), Evita 
(Curve, Leicester – nomination for Best Supporting Performance, UK Theatre Awards)

Actor

Credits Include: The Royal Bodyguard (BBC), This Is Jinsy (Sky Atlantic), Paddington (Heyday Films) and The King’s Speech (See Saw Films).

Actor

Credits Include: Genius, Death in Paradise, Midsummer Murders, Bonkers, The Bourne Identity, Ally McBeal, In the Name of Love, Darkness Falls.

Actor

Credits Include: The Duchess (Paramount), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (Radio 4), The Death of Stalin (Gaumont), The Ferryman (Gielgud Theatre)

Actor

Credits Include: Disney's Aladdin (Lyric Theatre Brisbane) and Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre).

Actor

Credits Include: Mark Colvin's Kidney (Upstairs Theatre), Showboat (New London Theatre), Tina the Musical (Aldwych).

Director

Credits Include: Amelie The Musical (West End and Tour. Nominated for three Olivier Awards including Best New Musical), The Windsors: Endgame (West End), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (UK Tour)

Actor

Credits Include: The Sound of Music (Palladium and UK tour), They’re Playing Our Song (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Wonderful Town (UK tour).

Actor

Credits Include: Eastenders and Casualty (BBC).

Actor and Campaigner

Peggy-Ann Fraser trained in Acting at Mountview. She has campaigned with Equity and BECTU to improve training for hair and make-up artists in afro hair and Black skin tones.

Actor

Credits Include: Babyfather, Eastenders and 55 Degrees North (BBC).

Director

Credits Include: Associate Director for Les Miserables, Oliver!, Wicked and Lend Me A Tenor.

Musical Director

Sean has a classical music degree from Birmingham University and a postgraduate degree in Musical Direction from Mountview.

He is currently Musical Director on MJ the Musical (Prince Edward Theatre), and recently composed the original music for the play This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre), directed by Billy Porter. Musical Supervisor and Arranger credits include The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre), Aladdin (Corn Exchange Newbury), Turn Up, a streamed concert from Cadogan Hall in aid of BLM affiliated charities, and the 54 the Musical Workshop.

Musical Director Credits include Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Kiln Theatre), Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place), Sylvia (Old Vic) Get Up! Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour), Leave to Remain (Lyric Hammersmith), Jack and the Beanstalk (White Rock Theatre), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Liver Birds: Flying Home (Liverpool Royal Court), The Wedding Singer (UK tour), One Love (Birmingham Rep), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre), Into The Woods (Manchester Royal Exchange), Soul Sister (Hackney Empire, Savoy Theatre and UK tour), Britain's Got Bhangra (UK tour) , and Little Red Riding Hood, Five Guys Named Moe and Aladdin (Stratford East Theatre Royal).

Assistant MD credits include the European tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with BB Promotions, and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky, a joint production between Stratford East and the Barbican.

Keyboard credits include Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Wicked (UK and International tour), Stephen Ward the Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Cabaret (UK tour), Evita (UK and European tour), The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour), Whistle Down the Wind (UK tour) and Peter Pan with Michael Rose Productions (Dublin and Southampton).

As well as concerts and one night events in various venues across London, Sean provided music for West End Bares: Stripped (Troxy) and was Musical Director for West End Bares: Top Off The Pops at the Shaftesbury Theatre which is the first time that a Bares event featured a live band. Other charity events include two Eyebrow 48 Hour Showtime Challenges – Crazy For You and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Workshop Credits include Samson, Zelda - a Postmodern Musical, Hot Fuzz the Musical, This Is A Love Story, Sylvia with the Old Vic, Studio 54, The Sorcerers Apprentice with Seabright Productions, Miss Littlewood with the RSC, Leave Hitler To Me Lad with Duck Egg Theatre Company (UK Tour), Laila with Rifco Arts, The Diary of Me with Perfect Pitch, and Fanny Hill at the Jermyn Street theatre.

Sean previously held the position of Deputy Head of Music Theatre at the MTA and has taught at Mountview, Guildford School of Acting, Arts Educational London, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Urdang, Tring Park School and the Performance Preparation Academy. Sean also composed the original music for the feature film Softlad released by Pecadillo Pictures and has produced and mixed the album High Time with his long-time collaborator Portia Emare. 

Director

Blithe Spirit (StudioCanal), Gentleman Jack (BBC), The Durrells (ITV). Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre.

Actor

Credits include: The Boys in the Band (Park Theatre, Nominated for the Whatsonstage Award for Best Actor in a Play 2017), The Crown (Netflix), The Vote (Donmar) and Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features).

Actor

Credits include: Lost in London (Waypoint Entertainment) and Derry Girls (Channel 4)

Actor

Credits Include: Primeval (ITV), Shetland (BBC), 
Network (National Theatre) and Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre).

Actor

Winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Award for Musical Theatre. Other credits include Dick Whittington (National Theatre) and Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre Company).

Actor

Credits Include: Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre), Heathcliff (Hammersmith & UK Tour), Cats (UK Tour) and Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales Theatre).

Actor

Credits include: Sunset Boulevard (West End and Broadway), Hadestown (West End), winner of the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Professional Debut and an Olivier Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Sunset Boulevard

Actor and TV Presenter

An award-winning actress, talent show judge, presenter, singer, fashion designer and author; Amanda Holden truly defines the term 'household name', soon to celebrate 30 years in the entertainment business.

Credits Include: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre), Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Wild at Heart and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1).

With a career spanning three decades she firmly sits on the judging panel of Britain's Got Talent, hosts the biggest commercial radio show Heart Breakfast alongside Jamie Theakston, has her own clothing collection with Fenn Wright Manson, her own homeware collection Bundleberry on QVC and released her debut studio album Songs from My Heart in 2020.

Actor

Credits Include: Threepenny Opera, Everyman, London Road, Sweeney Todd (National Theatre), Peaky Blinders (Tiger Aspect), Parade’s End (HBO/BBC)

Actor

Credits Include: Action Team (ITV2), The Wrong Mans, Horrible Histories (BBC), Peep Show (Channel 4), Yonderland (Sky One).

Actor

Credits Include: Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Winner of the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award 2016) and The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre).

Actor

Credits Include: Dreamgirls, Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre), The Bodyguard (Dominion Theatre), Vera (ITV)

Actor

Credits Include: Disney's Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre), The King and I (London Palladium)

Actor

Credits Include: Hairspray (Olivier Award Winner for Best Actress in a Musical 2008), Tick, Tick... BOOM! (Union Theatre)

Actor

Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (West End), Marty McFly in Back To The Future (West End)

Director

Credits Include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The Killing of Sister George, Othello, East is East (Birmingham Repertory Theatre).

Writer and Actor

Credits Include: East Is East, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Rafta Rafta.

Actor

Credits Include: 21 Chump Street (Tristan Bates Theatre), In the Heights (Southwark Playhouse/King's Cross Theatre), Grease (UK tour), Evita (International tour).

Actor

Credits Include: Ivanov and Platonov (Chichester Festival Theatre), Mr Selfridge (ITV), Call the Midwife (BBC1) and original cast of Les Miserables London.

Actor

Credits Include: EastEnders (BBC), The Level (ITV) and Doctors (BBC).

Actor, director and writer

Credits Include: Being Julia (Sony Pictures), Brother Sun, Sister Moon (EIA) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC).

Musical Director

Credits Include: Musical Director (Houston Grand Opera), Production Manager (English National Opera) and Technical Director (Welsh National Opera).

Director

Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. Credits include: Amadeus (National Theatre), Constellations (Royal Court and Duke of York’s Theatre) and If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Roundabout Theatre, New York).

Visual Effects Artist

Credits include: Avatar (20th Century Fox), the Harry Potter Series (Warner Bros) and Spectre (Columbia).

Producer

Simon is an accomplished live entertainment and events executive with an extensive international career spanning theatre, touring productions, immersive experiences and large-scale cultural venues.

A graduate of Mountview, where he specialised in Technical Theatre, Design and Stage Management, Simon went on to build a distinguished career in some of the world’s most innovative performance environments.

He began his professional journey at the Royal Albert Hall, progressing from Event Manager to Head of the Event Department, then joined Cirque du Soleil, serving first as Tour Services Director and later as Company Manager across Europe, Macau and Las Vegas.

Simon went on to manage international touring work with Le Crazy (Crazy Horse Paris) before joining Moment Factory in Montreal, where he advanced to Executive Producer and helped establish the company’s London office. His expertise later took him to MSC Cruises as Line Producer, overseeing large-scale collaborations and new productions for the cruise line’s entertainment programme.

In 2021, Simon returned to London to join ABBA Voyage, initially as General Manager and, from 2025, as Director of International Development. Alongside his career experience, he holds an Executive MBA from McGill University and a Diploma in Arts Management from City, University of London.

Actor

Credits Include: Vera Drake (Winner of British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 2004), The World’s End (StudioCanal), War Horse (DreamWorks), Happy-Go-Lucky (Winner of the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 2008).

Actor

Credits include: Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Oliver! (London Palladium), Stepping Out (Arts Depot), Valley of Song (Finborough Theatre), Finding Your Feet (Eclipse Films & Power Keg Pictures), It's A Sin (Channel 4).

Actor

Credits include: Artemis Fowl (Disney), The Ugly One (Park Theatre) and The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East)

Actor

Credits Include: Bloodlands (Larry Cissé), Emmerdale (ITV), Murder on the Orient Express (20th Century Fox), Ready Player One (Amblin), Mount Pleasant (Sky1).

Actor, playwright

Anne Odeke is an actor, playwright and drama teacher.  

Anne trained at Mountview and graduated from the establishment with an MA in Acting.   

Over the course of her career, she has performed for the likes of Shakespeare’s Globe, the RSC, and at theatres such as The Birmingham Rep, Storyhouse, The Watermill, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, and many more, as well as having been on national and international tours.

As a writer, Anne has written for the likes of The Almeida, Storyhouse Theatre, Hightide, The Mercury Theatre Colchester, Audible and BBC Radio 4.

Her play, Princess Essex (in which Anne also played the lead) was performed in 2024 on the main stage of Shakespeare's Globe, making her the first woman of colour to ever have her play on its main stage and to be in it.

The play went on to be nominated for Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards, and Anne was also nominated for Best Performer in a Play alongside the likes of David Tennant and Tom Holland. It then received five nominations at the Black British Theatre Awards, again including for Best Playwright, which it won, and Best Female Lead in a Play.

Actor

Credits Include: Eurobeat (Turbine Theatre and Online), Fanny in Cinderella: The Socially Distanced Ball (Turbine Theatre), Mr Poppy in Nativity! (UK Tour), George in The Wedding Singer (South Korea), Horton the Elephant in Seussical the Musical (Southwark Playhouse), Theo in Eugenius! (The Other Palace), Emperor Nero Ancestor and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (UK tour / Asia), Goran in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour/West Yorkshire Playhouse) Harry in Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre)

Actor

Credits Include: Misfits (E4), Whitechapel (ITV), Line of Duty (BBC), Four Lions (Film4).

Actor

Credits include: Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - Nominated: Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical) and Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Actor

Credits include: Jerusalem (Royal Court), The Dark Earth and the Light Sky (Almeida), King Lear, Henry V, Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Director

Credits include: Les Miserables (25th Anniversary), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre) and Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & UK Tour).

Actor

Credits include One Man Two Guv'nors (UK Tour), Company (Sheffield Crucible), A Little Night Music and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Actor

Credits include Evita (Adelphi Theatre), Zorro (Garrick Theatre) and Cabaret (UK Tour).

Musical Director

Credits Include: Jersey Boys (West End), SIX (West End), Rent (Hope Mill Theatre, Hair (Turbine Theatre)

Actor

Credits Include: Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), King George in Hamilton (Victoria Palace), Galahad in Spamalot (Harold Pinter & Playhouse Theatres), Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer (UK Tour), Eddie Souther in Sister Act (UK Tour), Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Galahad in Spamalot (UK Tour), Enjolras in Les Misérables (25th Anniversary International Tour), Mark Cohen in Rent (English Theatre Frankfurt), Alternate Chris in Miss Saigon (UK tour)

Actor, Writer and Teacher

Credits include The Danish Girl (Universal), Boy Meets Girl (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).

Drag Queen

Kitty Scott-Claus was a finalist on Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2021.

Actor

Credits Include: An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre), A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Actor

Credits Include: Big Fish (The Other Palace), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre), Les Miserables (Film and Musical), Sweeney Todd (ENO).

Actor

Credits Include: Bonnie and Clyde (Arts Theatre), In The Heights (Southwark Playhouse/King's Cross Theatre), Hamilton (Olivier Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical 2018).

Actor

Credits Include: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Trust Me (BBC), Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), Still Alice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Actor

Credits include: Desmond's (Channel 4), The Smoke (Sky One) and Our Town (Almeida Theatre).

Actor

Credits Include: The Hobbit Trilogy (New Line Cinema), Café Society (FilmNation) and Rebus (ITV).

Mountview Live Host, Season 1

Giles Terera trained at Mountview. His career has included Candide, Hamlet and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre). He was in the original casts of Avenue Q and Book of Mormon. Most recently he originated the role of Aaron Burr in the London production of Hamilton, for which he won the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and appeared in Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre. In his 2013 documentary Muse of Fire Giles interviewed many of the world’s leading actors about acting Shakespeare.

Actor

Credits include Jamie in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.

Actor

Credits include: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre), Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre) and The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour).

Actor

Credits include: The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Wicked (UK Tour) and All The Fun Of The Fair (Garrick).

Actor

Credits Include: Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse), Show Boat (Olivier Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical 2017)