Administration Staff

             Principal                 -           Craig Liebman

             Administrator         -           Simone Liebman

             School Assistant     -          Cheryl Perl

Teachers

                 Drama               -      Pat Ledwith

                 Singing              -      Abigail Smith

                 Jazz Dance        -      Craig Liebman

                 Stage                -      Charleen Addo

                 Tap                    -     Karina Brooks MBTDA

                 Guest Teacher     -    Vineta Mitchell

                 Guest Teacher     -    Rebecca Ostman

                 Guest Teacher     -    Chantelle Carey - Director of Arc Promotions currently in the London

                             cast of 'Chicago'

Pat Ledwith

Pat has a wide experience as both an Actor and Director. Her involvements have included productions at the King Head Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, The Kenneth Moore, and Queens Theatre.

Pat holds a Licentiate from the Guildhall School of Speech and Drama and is a Graduate  of the Stanislavsky Acting studio and London University.

She is currently teaching BTEC Performing Arts at Havering College.    

Abigail Smith

Abigail is currently a student of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music.

She was awarded the highest marks in the Associated board prizes for the highest examination results across the UK, the 'Sherrards and Observer' Excellence Awards and Herts Young Musician of the Year

In 1999 Abigail won the Novgorod Cometitition which enabled her to travel to Russia and Perform at the Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky Schools of Music.

Performances have included La Traviata, La Boheme and Idomenio with the St Alban Chamber Opera. Productions with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain in Paris, Barcelona , Prague and Tuscany.

Her Solo work includes :

Lauretta      -      'Doctor Miracle' by Bizet

Bastienna    -      'Bastien and Bastienna' by Mozart

Armor        -       'Orpheus' by Gluck

Abigail is also a competent Oboist, Pianist and Saxophonist and has performed with the University of London Symphony Orchestra and the Herts County Youth Orchestra.

Abligail is delighted to be teaching at Step Above and we are delighted to have her!!..

Craig Liebman

Craig has appeared as a choreographer across the world, Gus Giordano’s Jazz world congress in Chicago, Eurodance in Germany, Dance World in the UK and British Theatre Dance Association Gala Weekend.

Trained at Urdang Academy in Covent Garden, Craig worked initially with Jose Montes in Portugal returning to London to work in Pop Videos and Trade shows with choreographer Venol John.

Moving into Choreography with Latin performances at Wembley Arena and conference centres his other theatrical credits have included: Grease, West side Story, The Dracula Spectacular, The Ghost of Sarah Haunting, and Underworld, which he also produced. Other work has included:

Choreographer for Red Bus Records in London – Pop Videos and Promo events

The British Junior Ice Dance partnership for the Olympic and World championship

‘Architechs’ UK Club Tour

‘Fantasy’ UK Club Tour

  ‘Born to Perform’ – Hackney Empire

Craig returned to dance more recently performing Argentinian Tango with Conundrum Dance Company.  

Throughout his career Craig has taught at Schools and Colleges all over Europe. 

In recent years Craig produced the ‘Into the Limelight’ performances with SA Productions, giving young performers the opportunity to perform on a West End Stage.   

Craig is currently a Director of Arc Promotions Ltd

Karina Brooks MBTDA

 

Karina Trained at both the Starshine and Emery Stage School’s

Her Stage and Performance credits have included :

‘Underworld’ – The story of Orpheus (1996)

English National Opera – Mephistopheles – (1998)

English National Opera – Mary Stewart – (1997)

English National Opera – Parsifal –(1998)

Amigos Cabaret –Spain – (2000)

BBC Jonathan Creek Xmas Special

 

Karina is a fully qualified and registered teacher of British Theatre Dance Association (accredited by the Council for Dance Education and Training)

She currently teaches at:

·        Stageworks Performing Arts College

·        Emery Stage School

·        Brooks Academy of Theatre

·        Deborah Day Stage School