Meet the Team

Hello from Little Voices Brentford, Ealing & Wembley

Jemma Bird (Principal)

Hello! My name is Jemma and I am the Principal of Little Voices in Brentford, Ealing and Wembley. I have been teaching for 15 years after receiving a BA Hons in Music and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. I am a trained classical and musical theatre singer, pianist, producer and songwriter.

Over the past 14 years I have been Head of Year, Head of Music and Head of Vocational Subjects- at one point all at the same time!I am a Specialist Leader of Education which involves training trainee teachers and coaching teachers about how to help pupils develop important life skills through the curriculum.

I believe so much in the importance of teaching the Arts in education to help develop transferable skills. I have produced and choreographed many shows including Hairspray and Into the Woods. One of the biggest projects I have accomplished is organising an Arts Week for 15 different schools across England! Performing Arts was such a big part of my childhood. I performed in musicals, sang in choirs and went on tour with a Concert Band around the South of France.

All of the memories and the experience I had growing up has given me the passion to provide other children with the same opportunities.

Carys Gaylor (Performing Arts Tutor and Theatre Week Manager)

Carys graduated from Performance Preparation Academy in Guildford in 2018 on the Acting for Stage and Screen course after gaining the Steven Hartley Scholarship.

At drama school, Carys played a variety of contrasting roles in plays, films and musical theatre including Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon, Vernon’s Mom in Vernon God Little and the “Not-You” Chorus Girl/Shirley Markowitz/Judge Maxwell in The Producers.

Since graduating, Carys has been fortunate enough to work as an actor/singer, having toured Ireland with Pentabus Theatre Company and worked with the UK’s leading children’s theatre, Polka Theatre. She also has just wrapped another project and made her professional screen debut, keep eyes peeled for more information!

Megan Humphreys (Assistant and Social Media Manager)

Originally from South Wales, Megan graduated from London College of Music in 2021 with a First Class Hons in Musical Theatre.

During drama school Megan played a variety of roles including Janet in “ The Drowsy Chaperone”. Since graduating Megan has been lucky enough to have toured with TAG Live on their Uk summer Tour of “Once Upon a Panto” casted by Pearson Castings. She has also performed in concerts around London. Touring with a pantomime and seeing so many children falling in love with theatre only made Megan’s passion bigger and brought her onto teaching children. Megan has also been lucky enough to be a part of The Shakespeare Festivals from 2014-2016 playing various roles including Hermia “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Katherine “ The Taming of the Shrew”.

Megan also has experience teaching children with SEN and understands the importance of feeling valued, understood and accepted. Megan is thrilled to be joining the Little Voices Team and cannot wait to share her passion with the children at Little Voices.

Ella Beddow (Lead Tutor)

Ella Trained at the London college of music graduating with a BA HONS in musical theatre. Ella has lots of experience in teaching Musical Theatre and has taught at many different performing arts schools in London and beyond! Alongside Ella’s teaching work in London she has set up her own theatre summer school in Plymouth, where she is originally from.

Ella teaches LAMDA and Private 1 to 1 singing lessons. Ella loves sharing her passion of theatre and spreading the LV ethos all around!

Georgia Garton (Assistant and Performing Arts Tutor)

Georgia just recently graduated from London College of Music in Musical Theatre, where she has just recently played the role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde. Georgia has grown up performing from the age of 4 where she attended performing arts lessons for 11 years. She has also performed in the professional touring version of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat, in the children’s choir.

Georgia has undertaken Grades 1-8 in LAMDA Musical Theatre along side achieving her Level 6 Diploma in Music Performance LLCM in Performance from London College of Music Examinations. Georgia cannot wait to share her same passion with everyone at Little Voices!

Harriet Munday (Performing Arts Tutor)

Harriet trained in musical theatre and graduated from The MTA in 2020. She has spent the past couple of years working professionally for Birmingham Stage Company is multiple Horrible Histories shows in both London and on tour. With 10 years teaching experience with a wide range of ages in Drama, singing and dance, she loves meeting and working with all the children on their current projects. Harriet loves Little Voices and has worked as a cover teacher at all centres frequently over the past two years.

Alexandra George (Performing Arts Tutor)

Alex trained at the London School of Musical Theatre after being awarded a scholarship from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and prior to that achieved a Bachelor of Music at City University while receiving vocal training from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Originally from South Wales, Alex has always been passionate about singing, performing and teaching. Since graduation Alex has travelled the world being a lead singer for AIDA Cruises and 2Entertain Norway, performing at Page 2 Stage Concerts for the development of new musicals, becoming a children’s presenter online during Covid for Hartbeeps Middlesex and was recently the glamorous villain for Imagine Panto in Jack and the Beanstalk for Leamington Spa.

Alex has taught singing for young children, to adults, to seasoned professionals with a focus on vocal health and developing acting through song so she cannot wait to meet you all!

Mary Moore (Performing Arts Tutor)

Mary trained in Musical Theatre Performance at the University of Chichester Conservatoire followed by a year at the London School of Musical Theatre.

Since graduating in 2019, her professional theatre credits include: Debbie in Greatest Days (UK Tour), Jan in Grease (West End, Dominion), Amy March in Little Women (Park Theatre), Eva Gottel in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Southwark Playhouse) and more.

She has also worked on various other projects including Doctors (BBC), Prom Fever! (workshop for Debbie Isitt) and Who You Are (music video for Craig David x MNEK). She was also involved in the live recordings for The Sorcerers Apprentice and Little Women, both of which are streamed on BroadwayHD.

Alongside performing, Mary enjoys teaching the next generation of young performers. She started out assisting as a teenager at the performing arts club she attended, and carried on assisting in various schools throughout her training. Since 2020, she has taught at many different schools, stepping up

from assisting to running her own classes for children ages 4-18, across singing, drama and dance as well as running West End Workshops!

Lisa Pugh (Lead Tutor)

Lisa Michelle Pugh is a trained actress who found a passion for acting aged 11 and since then she has been following her dreams of becoming a professional actress.

Her training in Newport Film School taught her lessons on Stanislavski, Stella Adler and Sandford Meisner and this training alongside two years in musical theatre has given her the experience and knowledge to work on various different and challenging projects.

Lisa has worked on the stage and taken on such roles as Nancy in Oliver Twist and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to being cast as Lou in a ITV Wales production called In the Name of the Children. Lisa studied at Act Up North in Manchester for two years and was picked for a series of short films.

Lisa started teaching in 2015 with TV talent; she was able to apply her skills and knowledge in her classes and teach children confidence and acting skills that they could take on with them in the future. Lisa has been working with Little Voices as lead singing and drama tutor since 2019 and has since that time worked with 100s of children, supporting them with their LAMDA exams, performances and shows. As Lisa started her classes at 11 she is very keen to help the youth of today to follow their dreams and bring out their creative side when teaching at Little Voices.

Kathleen Anne Greene (1-1)

Kathleen Anne Greene graduated at the London College of Music with a BMus (First Class Honours) in 2015 under the tutelage of Sandra Ford. During her studies at the LCM, she was awarded the prestigious Dr William Barry Trust Fund scholarship.

Kathleen made her public stage debut in 2009 as Johanna in the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation’s production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. She has appeared as Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck) and Fire/Nightingale (L’enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel) at the LCM, and Nancy (Oliver!, Bart) with RCHK.

Operatic roles include 1st Boy (The Magic Flute, Mozart) with Hampstead Garden Opera, and 2nd Witch (Dido and Aeneas, Gluck) with Helios Collective and Chorus for Collision, a new opera by Lewis Coenen-Rowe.

In 2017, Kathleen had the privilege to sing at Wembley Stadium prior to the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup Final in front of nearly 70,000 fans. She has also placed 1st in both the Lieder and French Song classes at the Ealing Music Festival (2016), and was also a finalist in the AESS’ Courtney Kenny Award (2016). In previous years, she has won the Michael James Singers’ Prize for Oratorio, was awarded Highly Commended in the John Ireland Competition, and placed both 1st and 2nd in the Hong Kong Music and Speech Festival’s competition for Vocal Solo.

During the summer of 2016, she participated in the National Opera Studios’ Intro to Opera Short Course. In 2015, she has participated in workshops by Sally Burgess as well as the British Youth Opera.

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