A busy and creative Christmas for LIPA grads

Christmas and new year is always a busy period for our graduates and this year is no different.  

Over the festive season you’ll find our designers, managers, musicians, performers and technicians busy across screen and stage. Here’s a selection of what they’re up to. And if we’ve missed anyone off, let us know!   

• Alanah Bloor (Acting) Man vs Baby, Netflix
• Frankie Bradshaw (Theatre & Performance Design, TPD) set design, Ballet Shoes, The National Theatre
• Brittany Feeney (Dance), Wizard of Oz, Heywards Sports Village
• Adrian Gee (TPD) set and costume design, Cinderella, Theatr Clwyd
• Alex Howley, Tom Gillard, Niamh Mailer, (all Music), Exaucè Yagi (Dance) and Helena Harvey (Theatre & Production Technology, TPT) Sleeping Beauty, The Atkinson, Southport 
• Richard Kent (TPD), set and costume design, Singing in the Rain, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
• Princess Khumalo (Acting), Stocking Fillers, Liverpool’s Royal Court
• Ellie Light (TPD) set and costume design, James Breckon, Greg Joy, Chris Nicholls (all Music), Adam McCoy (Acting), Scouse Christmas Carol, Liverpool Royal Court 
• Kudzai Mangombe (Acting), The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (UK tour), The Lowry, Salford
• Alex McGonagle (Acting), Alice in Wonderland, The Grange Theatre, Hartford
• Miriam O'Brien (Acting), Pranav Viswanathan (Acting), Beauty and the Beast, Storyhouse Chester
• Connor Pearson (Dance), Cinderella, Venue Cymru, Llandudno
• Dr Frank Peschier (TPD), dramaturg, A Midsummer Nights Dream, the Globe's Sam Wanamaker

Image: Cast, creatives and crew for Sleeping Beauty, The Atkinson

• Katie Scott (TPD) set & costume design, Charly Dunford (TPT) lighting designer (Charly is also lighting designer for The Nutcracker at Brewhouse, Taunton), Joe Greenwood (TPT) technical stage crew, Amber Buttery (Acting) understudy director, The Rock 'n' Roll Panto 2025: Jack & the Beanstalk, Liverpool Everyman
• Ella Sheree (Acting (Screen & Digital), Sleeping Beauty, The Worcester Repertory Company
• Grace Smart (TPD) set and costume design, Pinocchio, The Globe 
• Jasmine Swan (TPD) set and costume design, Mother Goose, Mercury Theatre
• Jaden Wilkinson (Dance), Macy Page (Dance), Robin Hood at the Opera House Manchester. (Director/choreographer LIPA Dance Companion Gary Lloyd) 
• Patrick Wilden (Dance), Chris Vasileiadi (Dance), The Nutcracker Noir, Shoreditch, London, (Co-director/choreographer by LIPA Dance Companion Gary Lloyd) 
• Grace Venus (Acting), Mama Goose, Theatre Royal Stratford East 
• Chloe Wyn (TPD), set and costume design, Cinderella, Shakespeare North Playhouse 

Top image: The Rock 'n' Roll Panto 2025: Jack & the Beanstalk, Liverpool Everyman. Photography Ellie Kurttz