Maria Holley – Guest Jazz Teacher

Maria trained at the Bird College of Performing Arts, her theatre credits include - Original touring company of Me and My Girl; Hollywood and Broadway II - UK Tour; Singin' in the Rain - UK Tour; They're Playing Our Song - Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke; Oklahoma ! & Crazy for you - Theatr y werin Aberystwyth; Sunday in the Theatre with Sondheim - Birmingham Hippodrome; Magnificent Golden Years of Musicals - London Palladium; Tess of the D'urbervilles understudying and playing the role of Young Tess - Savoy Theatre; Jill in Jack and The Beanstalk - Horsham Arts Centre and Ronnie Boylen in Annie - Theatre Royal Lincoln.

More Recently Maria has appeared at The Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne playing the lead role of Sally Smith in Me and My Girl , at Sevenoaks Playhouse in The Railway Children playing Gert and in the Original Cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang where she understudied and played the role of Truly Scrumptious.

Film and Television credits include ; La Passione, A Christmas Carol , Victoria and Albert and A Tribute to Margaret Williams for S4C.

Maria has also taught and choreographed at Mountview Academy of Performing Arts, Italia Conti, Sylvia Young Theatre School , Colins Performing Arts, Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama, Hertfordshire Theatre School , Stagecoach, Redroofs, Stella Mann, Arts Educational and Reynolds Performing Arts. She is also a regular teacher at Guildford School of Acting.