Staff

Leslie Ians

This is Leslie, she's the receptionist and that but she sort of runs everything too.

She always says how busy she is. Sometimes she spends more time telling people how busy she is instead of actually being busy.

Leslie...is....very clear in her opinions about Got Skillz.

Maybe, it's like when a kid gets bitten by a dog - like, she might have been bitten by an English person when she was little and now she hates them.

Leslie is like a really busy bee - buzzing round stinging people and that!

Bunny Hunter

Bunny is the PUFTA Outreach man. He reaches out to all the old PUFTA kids and ones who would like to become PUFTA kids too.

He's got a degree in Marketing which means he knows a good thing when he sees it! He has been really kind to Got Skillz - he helped us find what makes us, us!

And he always brings donuts and sodas and coffes and sweets and nice things.

Leslie said he was an 'enabler' - we are pretty sure that is a huge compliment - especially coming from Leslie!

Polly - the Principal

This is Polly, she is well nice. She invented PUFTA and she looks after us all 'cos she is the Principal - that's what the Americans call a HeadMaster.

Anyway, she is lovely and she knows sign language too. She's like a wonderful Mum to all of us students and she's always smiling.

Polly siad the 'Universe makes no mistakes' and thats why we won her PUFTA prize!

Polly is the bestest!

PUFTA

Performing University For Theatre Arts

Charlene is the Body Tempo teacher at PUFTA. Her classes are really intense - you have be in your body to be a real actor apparently and a lot of what we do is about releasing our chakras, tensions and frustrations.

When we first came here we just thought it was a lot of wriggling around on the floor making noises but ever since Charlene made us go through 're-birth' we get it a bit more now!

Charlene Tsunami

Hadley Zeiberg

Hadley is the main acting teacher at PUFTA, he is really really really intense. He trained with all the greats Sandra Meisner, Uther Hagan Daz (We thought that was ice cream but apparently she was this amazing actor lady)

He shouts. A lot. At us. A lot

Apparently it's all part the training to have a thich skin and that and bein' shouted at helps build up your skin layers.

He often asks us to be yellow or the essence of a popsicle - we know what yellow is 'cos we have that in the UK too - but not sure what a popsicle is so we didnt do so well on that one.

Trey Baldor

Trey is the Vocal Engagement teacher - he tells us how to say things. We like Trey alot cos he thinks we are funny and laughs at our jokes. He also loves our British accents - sometimes he just gets us to talk for a couple of hours whilst everyone else sits and listens. Everyone loves it!

Trey is so funny; once he juts got up and said 'that's it - I'm going to the bar' and he got up and left - we'd only been in class for 10 minutes - so we got the time off and that was nice.

Sometimes he likes to read magazines in class for research while we all say words and that. He has a really great approach to teaching - so laid back!

Claudette Phillipes

Claudette is well important! She runs the Theatre at the school so she does all the bookings and she takes care of all the dark bits in theatre.

She knows where everything is and all of the rules and regulations! She's very strict sometimes - we were very disappointed that we couldn't have any PirateTechnicals in our show but she siad they were banned.

Claudette loves Kevin Bacon and will do almost anything for him - we were going to write to him and ask him for a list of things he needed doing so she could do 'em but Leslie wouldn't give us his address!