A highly successful make-up and hair artist for over 25 years, James’ work most recently has been in the world of fashion. His work has featured in some of the top European magazines such as GUS, Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, Pulp and Cosmopolitan. James has provided the make-up for the Paris fashion shows of Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. He’s also designed the make-up for numerous international commercials such as Wella, Whirlpool 2000 and Powerade. By his own calculation, he’s worked with over 500 photographers!

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish and French

Bernhard trained as an airbrush make-up artist in Los Angeles and has used the technique on all his work – film, TV, music and video. He has worked across pretty much every part of the fashion business: major shows in Milan and Paris for Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier, Bogner and Yamamoto to brand work with Estee Lauder (Vienna and USA) and Prescriptive (Austria, Germany and Switzerland). Bernhard has also helped launch Shu Uemura in Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne. His magazine and brochure photoshoots include Cosmopolitan, Elle and Mercedes Benz as well as commercials for Telekom, Lexus and BMW. Bernhard has also worked in musicals and opera in Berlin and at the Bregenz Festivals in Austria.

Languages Spoken: English and German

Trained in make-up at Central TV, Toni is also a qualified hairdresser. She specialises in TV drama (period and contemporary) such as Call the Midwife (series 4 to 6), Crimson fields, The Bill, Bad Education, Lewis, Inspector Wexford and Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Her film work includes Pirates of the Caribbean, War Horse and Rush.

Winner: 2007 Royal TV Society (RTS) Craft and Design Award for Best Make-up Design for Marc of Cain

Winner: 2008 RTS Craft and Design Award for Best Make-up Design for House of Saddam

Nomination: 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or Movie for House of Saddam and shared with our tutor Juliette Tomes

Nomination: 2009 BAFTA for Best Make-up and Hair Design for House of Saddam

Nomination: 2006 RTS Craft and Design Award for Best Make-up Design for Riot at the Rite

Marella Shearer is an award winning make-up designer who started her career in fashion working for Mary Quant and IPC magazines. She then became a make-up trainee at London Weekend TV (LWT), rising to designer, and working on a wide variety of comedy, variety and drama programmes. As a freelance make-up and hair designer, Marella has been responsible for Mr Selfridge, Top Boy, Silk, Whitechapel, Marc of Cain, House of Saddam, Criminal Justice, Wuthering Heights Drop the Dead Donkey, Vicar of Dibley, French and Saunders and Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie. Her work in films includes: The Wedding Video, Blackwood and The Christmas Candle. She’s worked with many different actors including Ed Stoppard, Tom Hardy and Greg Wise.

Catrin Thomas started her career in 1989, following in the footsteps of her mother, BBC make-up designer, Marion Richards. A qualified hairdresser, she designs and teaches and has considerable experience of working on ‘continuous drama’. For example 15 months designing a series set in southern Spain; teaching a team of local people for their own soap opera in Almata, Kazakhstan; Channel 5’s Family Affairs (3 years); assisting and designing the medical drama Always and Everyone (4 years); head of department on ITV’s The Bill.

Nomination: 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or Movie for House of Saddam and shared with our tutor Marella Shearer.

Juliette has been a make-up and hair artist for over 18 years, working on many British period and contemporary dramas with actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Maxwell Martin and Tom Hardy. She also ‘specialises’ in TV sitcoms and comedy specials such as Alan Partridge, The Royal Family, Spaced and sketch shows including Mitchell and Webb, The Mighty Boosh and Drunk History.

Rachel  works out of renowned hair salon, Taylor Taylor, in Shoreditch. She is Toni & Guy trained (as an art director and educator at the Academy) and a finalist in the 2016 Avant Garde category of the British Hairdressing Awards. Rachel is also a regular at London Fashion Week working for designers such as Henry Holland, Giles Deacon, Paul Costello and Jasper Conran.

Richard trained as a hairdresser and barber at Barnfield College (Luton) and holds both teaching and assessor qualifications. He has worked in several salons as well as forging a career as a lecturer and presenter. As he says, “I have been involved in the hairdressing industry for 30 years, from business, management and training, to motivation and constant learning.”

Michela is a regular hairstylist for the London, Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks and styles hair on photoshoots, music videos and catwalk shows. As a colour specialist, Michela works closely with top brands, L’Oreal and Wella.

Languages Spoken: English and Italian

As a more senior make-up artist, Jana’s film work includes Casanova, Apocalypto, The Last Legion, Agora, Centurion, Prometheus, Romeo & Juliet, Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Martian and The Great Wall. She has worked with film stars like Sienna Miller, Kate Mara, Mackenzie Davis, Michael Fassbender, Christiane Bale and, most recently, Matt Damon. A complete make-up artist with a strong knowledge of beauty make-up, aging and prosthetics effects, Jana shares her secrets and skills of creating the perfect technique. For example, ‘laying on of hair’, a technique she used for Matt Damon’s character in The Martian.

Languages Spoken: English and Italian

Andrew his career started with commercials and videos, the first of which was the Hamlet cigar ad, where he produced the make-up for the monster, Frankenstein. While working at Coast to Coast, he took over many aspects of the prosthetics on Max Headroom, making the foams, mould and fibreglass jackets. (He also developed a female version.) Moving to the BBC Visual Effects Department Andrew developed Kryton, a comical robot character in Red Dwarf. Using life casts, Andrew manufactured all the prosthetic foams and various related props for the series.

Nomination: 2016 Primetime Emmy Award (for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or a Special) for Penny Dreadful

After a barber’s apprentice, Dennis completed his training as a make-up artist at the Theater des Westens in 1994. Since then, he has been a freelance special effects make-up artist. Theatre work in Berlin, Schwerin and at the Salzburg Festival followed then 6 years at the Babelsberg film studio. His TV and film credits include: Otto (the disaster film), Little Vampire, The Tunnel, OP calls Dr. Bruckner, Mr Nobody and Penny Dreadful. In 2003, he founded Skinart Make-up FX Academy, where he runs workshops and coaches in SFX make-up.

Languages Spoken: English and German

Apparently Adrian knew from a very early age that he wanted to be a make-up artist. His specific interest in SFX was prompted by his fascination for ‘monster movies’. Even in his early teens, Adrian was creating casualty simulations for 1st Aid training exercises with the St John’s Ambulance. Sheer dogged determination to have a career in make-up led to an invitation from Nick Dudman (legendary SFX make-up artist) to attend a course and then work on a Harry Potter film. More films followed: Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Thor: The Dark World, The Legend of Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. TV includes: Law & Order UK, Whitechapel, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Eastenders.