About

About
We Teach Drama

Whether you are an early career drama teacher or have years of experience, you never stop developing your subject knowledge and pedagogy. So how can we best support you in your day-to-day teaching, so you can engage and inspire your students?

We create:

Beautifully designed FREE resources, including worksheets, templates, glossaries & lesson plans.
Inspiring CPD in the form of webinars, focused on GCSE & A-Level Examinations, Set Texts, Theatre Design and Practitioners.
Interactive Student Workbooks and videos for teaching set, lighting, costume & sound, developed by professional theatre-makers.

Meet The Team

Founder & Director

Lucy Bellingham

Lucy Bellingham is a teacher and freelance drama consultant, based in Warwickshire. Since studying Drama at Manchester University and pursuing a PGCE in Secondary Drama, she has worked within the field of drama education for over twenty years, from the rural midlands to inner city London academies. She founded We Teach Drama in 2021 and now creates resources & CPD for drama teachers internationally.

Course Trainer- Berkoff & Artaud

Natasha Higdon

Natasha is a drama freelancer, director, and writer, based in Brighton. Natasha has led Drama Faculties, participated in challenge partner reviews and trained both beginner teachers and NQTS to achieve outstanding success. She specialises in devised theatre, stage production, physical theatre and creating innovative resources to support students with the theoretical aspect of Drama in education.

Course Trainer- Eduqas GCSE

Lauren Anderson

Previously a professional actor and now a Secondary Drama specialist for over 12 years, Lauren has delivered high quality training programmes for teachers at various stages in their careers. Most recently, she led the Drama Department for one of the UK’s top Grammar Schools, achieving outstanding results

Course Trainer- Edexcel GCSE & A-Level

Bindya Chauhan

Bindya Chauhan FCCT, is an experienced, international Drama practitioner who has worked in education for over 15 years. With a fierce passion for DEI she has worked and led Drama departments within the UK and internationally. Her experience had led to outstanding results, these include the highest mark in the world A Level 2018 & 19 and GCSE 2022 with Pearson.

Course Trainer- AQA GCSE & A-Level

Jemma Stillwell

Jemma has been teaching for 14 years and has been a Head of Drama for 9 of them. She has gained high outcomes for students in a variety of different school contexts, internationally and in the UK. Jemma has successfully taught the AQA specification gaining 100% A*/A grades.

Course Trainer- Drama & English Specialist

Faye Baldwin

Over the past 15 years, Faye has been a teacher, a co-ordinator or a Subject Leader of either Drama or English… or both! She has worked in the UK and internationally in Bangkok, Milan and Dubai. Her passion lies in sharing her combined love of theatre, performance and the written word with new generations of theatre-makers and bookworms.

Course Trainer- AQA A-Level

Sharon Leftwich-Lloyd

Sharon Leftwich-Lloyd BA (hons) (Lanc), PGCE (Warw), QTS, MEd (Exon), FCCT is a highly experienced teacher with over 22 years of experience. Since studying Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, she completed her PGCE at The University of Warwick then held a broad range of roles in school. She is currently Lead Practitioner and Drama Lead at The Polesworth School, Warwickshire and also leader of the Community Academies Trust Expert Group for Secondary Literacy, Reading and Numeracy.

Course Trainer- OCR GCSE & A-Level

Rob Otton

Rob Otton has been a Drama teacher for 16 years and Head of Department for 11. He is extremely passionate about the role Drama can play in young peoples lives and has achieved a Masters degree in Drama and Education. He trains Drama Teachers on the University of Chester’s PGCE course.

News on our Collaboration with Broken Puppet Theatre Company

Broken Puppet Theatre Company

Broken Puppet Theatre Company, based in Devon, was founded in 2012 by a small team of creative practitioners, who wanted to redefine their professional and community-based Theatre, Puppetry Arts and Film Production practices to become more inclusive and accessible to other artists and audiences who share their lived experiences of chronic illness and/or invisible disabilities. Founder and Creative Director/Producer Clare McCarthy says:: " I had been a successful freelance Creative Director/Producer for over 12 years already, but when I later acquired a disability, I soon realised that the sector was nowhere near as inclusive or accessible as it should be for people like me, and it didn't take long for me to find others who had experienced similar career disruptions due purely to a change in their health. Our sector's outdated perceptions of what 'disability' meant in practice led to a lot of 'accidental exclusion' and one of the projects we set up in order to help address this was 'Broken:Live' - A programme for house and bed bound artists and makers, who were largely unable to access more traditional training or follow financially viable career paths within the creative sector, because their unpredictable health or mobility needs posed too big of a challenge. We're now about to launch the 7th season of our Broken live programme, and were researching for a new season of Broken Live workshops when we first learned of We Teach Drama and their brilliant online learning resources. I immediately reached out to WTD's founder, Lucy Bellingham, to discuss the potential for a collaboration - initially just to trial their 'Think Like A Designer' resource packs; to explore if these provisions would be a good fit for our Broken Live programme. The packs were an instant hit and in return for the use of these we were able to provide some feedback on digital accessibility to help WTD develop the resources too. Lucy and I quickly began discussing the potential to develop a puppetry specific addition to the WTD learning pack offer, and are currently working together to run a series of R and D sessions in our respective sectors to explore what these might look like, and how a fuller programme of integrated activities may emerge from this connection - It's a very exciting collaboration for us and we can't wait to see what we can achieve by joining forces on this creative adventure!'