Red Players Academy offers professional drama & acting classes for young people aged 7-16.
Red Players have worked with leading actors from Coronation Street, CBBC, Waterloo Road, Hollyoaks – national touring theatre shows – and numerous acclaimed film productions.
The Academy is committed to developing actors for both stage and screen, and our fun and educational classes are open to anyone with an interest in the performing arts. Our aim is to help enable children and young people to express themselves artistically and socially, building confidence through workshops in movement and physicality, voice and text, characterisation, improvisation, concentration and much more. We also offer specialist classes from invited guest tutors from stage and screen, and provide opportunities for our members to perform in showcases and other public performances.
Principal tutor Lee Battle began his career as an actor playing the role of Simon Green in Coronation Street. Other television performances followed, with credits including Doctors, The Royal, Casualty, and Wire in the Blood. Lee played Connor in the BAFTA winning BBC drama The Street, and Darryl in ITV’s Vincent alongside Ray Winstone. Film roles include Billy Powell in the adaptation of Kevin Sampson’s novel Awaydays, and acting with Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. Lee has a first class degree in Drama and an MA in Creative Writing with the Royal Exchange and Bolton Octagon Theatres. He also lectures in Media and Performance at The University of Salford.
Staff have enhanced CRB/DBS checks, and are trained in Safeguarding Children.