Introducing the team for Monsieur Shakespeare 2026!
Peter Bramley (he/him) - Director and Course Leader
Peter is the director and course leader for Monsieur Shakespeare. He will provide movement based group workshops exploring skills aimed to enrich and inform the production. Peter will lead the rehearsal process through to finished public performances.
Peter is the founder and artistic director of Pants on Fire. He trained at L'Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and was in the final group of students to have trained with Lecoq himself. He held the Senior Lecturer post of Head of Movement at Rose Bruford College for 12 years. Other teaching and directing work includes: LAMDA, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Holloway University of London, Brunel University, Goldsmith's College and Greenwich University. He has led workshops and masterclasses for The Jerwood Young Artists Programme at Glyndebourne, The Actors Centre in London, Yale (USA), The Moscow Arts Theatre School (Russia), with Soulpepper Theatre Company and Equity showcase in Toronto (Canada), DAMU in Prague, (Czech Republic) and Institut Teatre Barcelona (Spain).
Peter has directed over 30 theatre productions, and has written several plays and adaptations.
Nick DiColla (he/him) - Voice Coach and Associate Director
Nick will oversee some rehearsals, lead group workshop sessions, provide vocal warm-ups, give one-to-one coaching, and play a role alongside you within the acting ensemble.
Nick specialises in helping actors develop their voice for the challenge of performance. His work will focus on engaging breath, resonance, and articulation to support the actor’s intention with clarity of speech and audibility. Through vocal exercise, individual tutorials, and guided warm-ups, he will help build a practical, dynamic experience and deeper understanding of the actor’s voice.
Nick is foremost a voice, dialect, and dialogue coach. He recently served as the language advisor and inventor of the Adamic language for the video game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Other credits of note include serving as deputy dialect coach for ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ in the West End and as VO director and coach for Amazon’s English language virtual assistant voices of Alexa. Nick received his MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2011. He has taught voice and dialect at RCSSD, Rose Bruford College, among others. Nick currently teaches Voice Production and Speech at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in LA as well as supports client independently.
Raymi Ortuste-Quiroga (they/them) - Acting Coach and Associate Director
Raymi will oversee some rehearsals, lead group workshop sessions and warm-ups, provide one-to-one coaching and play a role alongside you within the acting ensemble.
Raymi will focus on facilitating each actor’s individual process, by helping them move from a place of authenticity, empowerment and connection to self. Their work will then expand, or simultaneously prioritise, connection to other actors, atmosphere and outside stimuli. A central focus in Raymi’s work is Ownership - they will work towards giving each individual actor and the ensemble as a whole, a sense of belonging, personal desire to tell a story and grounded confidence in their abilities to do so.
Raymi is an acting teacher, actor, director and theatre practitioner. Head of 1st Year in the BA (Hons) Acting course at Rose Bruford College and Artistic Director of Chaskis Theatre Company. Raymi’s work expands across the sector with a bespoke approach to directing and acting training that marries 15 years of experience and training in the Meisner Technique with the latest research in human behaviour. Their work seeks to connect individuals with their unique offering and places equality, culture and belonging at the centre of their practice.
Elin Doyle (she/her) - Text and Performance Coach
Elin will provide one-to-one coaching, oversee some rehearsal sessions and play a role alongside you within the acting ensemble.
Elin specialises in guiding actors through their individual process and approach to text. Her work will focus on unlocking meaning in poetic and heightened language, ensuring clarity of thought and intention, and helping performers connect deeply with character and action. By exploring questions of intention, subtext, and character choice, she will support actors in understanding not only what they are saying but why they are saying it. Her practice dovetails with voice, movement, and acting training, complementing the work of her colleagues while offering a dedicated focus on textual interpretation and actor-centred process.
Elin graduated from Rose Bruford in 2013 and works professionally as an actor. Having come to acting as a mature student, she has a unique perspective on the challenges of undertaking creative training as a career change. Elin has also dabbled in stand-up comedy and writes and performs her own work. Her semi-autobiographical comedy/drama Guinea Pigs was performed in R&D at The Space theatre in 2022.