Jamie Read (CMT)

Jamie Read trained originally with the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, then under Craig Barbour RSAMD (principal singing teacher at RADA), and has worked extensively as a performer, choreographer, writer and producer.

Theatre credits include Entertaining Strangers (National Theatre), Marvin’s Room (Hampstead Theatre and West End), Spirit of the Dance (USA and European tours), Hard Times The Musical (Original workshop, Windsor Theatre Royal and West End), Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK National tour and West End), The Emperor & The Nightingale (MAC Birmingham), Femme Fatale (Warehouse Theatre Croydon), Salad Days (50th Anniversary UK tour), The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), The Great West Road (Watermill Theatre, Newbury). Film and TV includes Born and Bred (BBC), D-Day 6-6-44 (BBC/Dangerous Films) plus many commercials and several appearances on children’s TV for both the BBC and ITV. He has co-written two shows for the Edinburgh Festival – The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Miss Sign-On; The Untold Story of a Diva on the Dole, the cast recording of which is available from Dress Circle and also online to download. He also appears on several recordings including Hard Times The Musical; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and A Tribute to Cameron Mackintosh, and to date has choreographed dozens of shows including five seasons for the Warehouse Theatre Croydon.

Jamie has been teaching for over a decade and as a further education teacher in voice and singing he has worked all over the UK including at The Henley College, Thames Valley University and LTSC. He is currently Director of Theatre Faculty at Read Dance & Theatre College in Reading (which he co-founded), and also runs his private practice from the college buildings in Reading.

Jamie Read’s Contact Details

Read Dance & Theatre College
The Performing Arts Institute
Old Leisure Centre
Reading Lake Hotel Complex
Reading
RG30 3UN
United Kingdom

Email: jamie.read@rdtc.org.uk