We asked some of the team….What was your career before?

I knew I wanted to be a dramatherapist when I first heard about it from the age of 14. From then on I gathered all the experience I could with relevant ‘client groups’, enabling me to get on the MA training as soon as I was old enough to be on the course.

I studied Drama and English at University and had fallen into Arts Admin, I became the Group person at the Royal National Theatre- packaging events and education programmes for various visiting groups.

Actor

Writer/Journalist

I worked full time in arts administration at the Royal Festival Hall. When I started my training course I left there and worked part time at a school, teaching private speech and drama lessons, which I continued until starting work as a qualified therapist.

I was an actress, working in radio, TV, film and predominantly theatre.

Actor and Teaching Assistant

Before training as a Dramatherapist I was doing team leader work with young people in Wiltshire and theatre work with young homelessness in London. Previous to that I worked in TV and Advertising Production: as a production assistant and researcher.

Make-up artist for theatre and film.

I was an actress, working in radio, TV, film and predominantly theatre.

I spent ten years acting and directing, mostly for a theatre company that performed in schools and small theatres. I loved the work. We created really interactive shows that had elements of forum theatre. But I continuously struggled to make the company work financially and in the end felt ready to move on.

I was working for a TV production company.

Actor, teacher

I was fortunate to train not long after I completed my first degree in Drama and English.