Rebecca Little

Rebecca trained at the Arts Educational School Tring (now known as Tring Park School for the Performing Arts) where she became Head Girl. In her final year she won the Stage Cup and achieved major levels in Ballet, Jazz and Tap, Piano, Clarinet and Drama exams including an AISTD in Modern dance. She concluded her training on the Musical Theatre course at Arts Educational London gaining a Diploma.

Her none performing credits include teaching and devising drama and dance workshops at Key Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 levels and writing and directing (Pocket Panto Company and Relative Pitch Opera). Creative, writing, directing and choreography credits also include Granny's Big Top Tale, Turned Out Nice Again! and What Became of the Red Shoes? (Little Pixie Productions).

Rebecca still regularly performs in theatre throughout the country and some of her theatre credits include: Granny Flo in Granny's Big Top Tale (Little Pixie Productions); Bless 'em All (Pocket Panto); Granny Flo in Turned Out Nice Again! (Little Pixie Productions); Miss Little in the UK premiere of Erik Gedeon’s Forever Young 2010 and the 2011 and 2012 revivals (Nottingham Playhouse and Wolsey Theatre Ipswich); Granny Flo and Ruby in What Became of the Red Shoes? (Little Pixie Productions); Victorian Old Time Music Hall (Pocket Panto and Little Pixie Productions); Poppy, Lydia and Gertie in The Bunsen Towers Mystery (tour for Kinetic Theatre); cover for the tour of Tracy Beaker Gets Real, during which Rebecca played the parts of both Tracy and Cam (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company); Hannah in Silence (Momentum Festival, Lakeside Arts Centre); Lulu in Sing-a-long-a-Eurovision (Dublin & UK); Macduff in a mostly Female production of Macbeth (Chester Gateway); Goldilocks (national tour for Tutti Frutti Productions); Storyteller for The Princess and the Pea and Little Red Riding Hood and Pippin Reed in Johnny Thunder (SGA Productions); Philippa in The Fly, Lois in Straight and Narrow, Judy in Simply the Best, Molly, May, Alison and other parts in Canterbury Tales and Soph in Loadsamoney! (Oldham Coliseum); Side by Side by Sondheim (Hampton Hill Playhouse); Leona Samish in Do I Hear a Waltz? (Landor Theatre); the title role in the melodrama The Pleasures of Fanny (Brick Lane Music Hall); Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense (Riverside Theatre Belfast and Jermyn Street Theatre London) and many Music Hall bills (Players’ Theatre London, Brick Lane Music Hall and across the country).

Rebecca has also performed extensively in Pantomime which include: Tilly Tuck the Tomboy in Robin Hood, Dandini in Cinderella, The Golden Fairy in Mother Goose, Widow Wang and The Slave of the Ring in Aladdin, Fairy Bowbells in Dick Whittington, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Annie in Jack and the Beanstalk, Florence and Veronique in Beauty and the Beast and Dick in Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse); Rosemary in Mother Goose (Nottingham Playhouse & Oldham Coliseum); The title roles of Cinderella and Aladdin, Alice and Fairy Bowbells in Dick Whittington, Cinderella in Panto Bingo, Virtue and Annie in Mother Goose and Jill, Fairy & the Giant’s Wife in Jack and the Beanstalk (Pocket Panto); Alice Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington (Brick Lane Music Hall & Wakefield Theatre Royal); and Lady Alice in Robin Hood, Fairy Rosebud in Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Rosawednesda in Cinderella (Players’ Theatre London). 

Victoria Sklar

Victoria trained at the Elliott Clarke School studying many different forms of Dance, Drama and Music and at the Urdang Academy where she gained a Diploma in Performing Arts. This was followed by further training achieving a Diploma in Community Dance and Movement from the Laban Centre. Victoria covered both practical and theoretical issues including teaching studies, creative and therapeutic dance, arts administration, choreography, community studies, choreological studies and the opportunity to study many dance techniques such as Merce Cunningham  and Lamone.

Some of her teaching credits and experience includes: Carmen Workshop (Relative Pitch Opera); Creative Production Workshops for MOMI; Lecturer at The College of North East London teaching GSCE Dance, A Level Performing Arts and A Level Dance; Dance at Rhodes Farm for Dr Dee Dawson working with children and young adults with eating disorders; Creative Dance with Key Stage 2 pupils for emotionally disordered children; Theatre in Integrated Education Project and Dance, Drama and Singing Projects with Chicken Shed Theatre Company; Assisting visually impaired children at the Royal Academy of Dancing; Creative and Therapeutic Dance Workshops for Kith and Kids Summer Project; Creative and Therapeutic work during Stanley Hamilton's workshops at the Richard Cloudesley School - an outstanding all age special school. Victoria has also gained her stage one sign language qualification.

Creative, Directing and Choreography credits include Granny's Big Top Tale, Turned Out Nice Again! and What Became of the Red Shoes? (Little Pixie Productions).

Victoria's performing credits include: Member of the Mystery Lace Ballet Company (Portugal); Abigail Williams in the Crucible (Westminster Youth Group); Choir in both Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Paddington Bear's Magical Musical (Liverpool Empire and Southport Theatre); Dancer in Cinderella (Neptune Theatre Liverpool); Dancer at the International Garden Festival (Liverpool); Dancer for the opening of the Albert Dock (Liverpool)

Photo by Drew Baumohl