Training and Awards:
Mannheim/Heidleberg Akademie des Tanzes, Germany (Guest Scholar); Doreen Bird College, London; Royal Academy of Dancing, London; Queensland Ballet School, Australia; Finalist Cosmopolitan Ballet Award at Sadlers Wells, London.

Qualifications include:
Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance (ARAD),  Genesis Young Vic Director Scheme, an Equity member and holds a First Aid Certificate.

Royal Academy of Dancing: Advanced Ballet (Qualified teacher), Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance: Advanced Ballet (Honours), Advanced Modern (Honours), Intermediate Tap (Honours),Character dance (Honours)

Background:
Born and brought up in London and Australia, Judy is an experienced theatre director, performer, choreographer and teacher and has worked in England and abroad.

Judy is currently a lead dance artist for East London Dance’s pan-London project for older people, ‘Dancing stAGE’ to be performed 9th July 2010 at the Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall commissioned for the Capital Age Festival.

Her work as a soloist classical ballerina in Germany includes: Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Bielefeld); Koblenz Ballet;Die Puppenfee (German tour/Swansea Grand). Plays, musicals and pantomimes include Aladdin (Coventry), The King and I (Aberystwyth) , Cinderella with Des O’ Connor (Birmingham Hippodrome/Plymouth Theatre Royal), Godspell (Jackson’s Lane), The Marriage (director: Lucy Pitman-Wallace), BBC television (Monster Café, Grange Hill, Maid Marion). She created roles with Josette Bushell-Mingo in site-specific works including ‘the young girl’ in The Tango Room (Loughborough Inn, Brixton)and ‘Goatess’ in Love, Lust, Desire and Longing (Camden Roundhouse), Rose Talbot in Quiet (BAC/London tour).

Freelance directing/choreography work includes as dramaturg for Mem Morrison’s  productions ‘Ringside’ and ‘Leftovers’,which toured both nationally and internationall and choreography for Talawa Young People Theatre’s “Happy Returns” at the Lilian Bayliss, Sadler’s Wells in London. She directed the play-reading of Schneider and Shuster by Joshua Sobol (Diorama); assisting director Josette Bushell-Mingo’s, (5 shows Royal Shakespeare Company’s Fringe Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon); assisting director Vicky Featherstone’s Wild Lunch (Paines Plough, Young Vic); choreographer on 2 Christmas shows for Brockley Jack Theatre (Jane Eyre ‘08 and Scrooge ‘09); assistant director for Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell – world premiere); Space Over Time (choreographer – motion animated video, Cochrane); directed Nora (Spitz); choreographed Sancta Susannah (world premiere by Christopher Hampton); directed Baal (Brecht) and Vinegar Tom (Churchill).

Judy’s freelance teaching work includes national theatre-in-education projects, local schools, the RSC’s Education Department(Stratford), musical theatre at National Theatre’s Summer Arts College (Albany, Deptford), digital arts residencies and an annual lecture at University of Greenwich (Digital Performance), lectures for University of Brighton, for Stour Valley Arts with Kent Institute of Art and Design, and Penn State University, USA. As an arts consultant her work includes Quality in Youth Culture Youth Led Action Research Project for Lewisham and Children and Young People’s Strategic Plan.

She founded Montage Theatre in 1998 and her work as artistic director and saw the company became a charity in 2004. Her work includes the planning and directing of every show and event the 300 students partake in throughout the year.  Performing, directing and devising multi-media works with the  company include Figments (CD Rom), Forest Flicks (Canterbury), Bess (Greenwich Theatre), dance piece ‘Sorry, which me did you mean?‘ (opened The Place’s Resolution! 2000), Lightlines (Leicester, BAC, Brighton, Chisenhale, Oval House), Greenwich 2000 International Symposium on Digital Creativity, Struggle for Utopia (performed on a car!) and Breakdown (both London).