About
Red Players Academy
RPA - The Academy
As an elite-level provider of advanced and professional young performer training, RPA is unique and unrivalled as the only Academy of its kind informed by a combination of professional industry insight as well as the latest academic research and scholarly foundations.
Alongside preparing students for industry, our principle aim at RPA is to help enable young people to express themselves artistically and socially through our highly dynamic and innovative approach to workshops, courses, and performances. Uniquely, in addition to more conventional actor-training techniques, RPA has a specialist focus on creative movement and contemporary practice, providing an holistic experience to produce the most well-rounded outstanding performers and emerging creatives.
Our weekly workshop classes provide Academy members with a comprehensive ongoing training programme. As an elite training provider, our workshops are designed to be highly intensive and professionally rigorous; we consider our classes to be suitable for all young people interested in the art and craft of performance, but we do recognise our expectations are demanding – our approach has been found to be warm but disciplined, taxing yet highly rewarding.
Our intensive short courses and holiday programmes are designed to offer participants an insight into RPA’s approach to professional performer training and creative practice. Combining drama, acting, movement, and contemporary performance practice, our intensive courses are highly energised and rigorous, providing the opportunity to train with us in a highly focused professional environment.
Lee Battle - Founder & Director
Biography: Academy principal Lee Battle began his career as a child actor, playing the role of Simon Green in Coronation Street. Further television work followed, with roles in Casualty and Doctors (BBC), The Royal (ITV), Wire in the Blood (Coastal), the BAFTA winning BBC drama The Street, and ITV's Vincent alongside Ray Winstone. Film roles include starring alongside Stephen Graham in the adaptation of the novel Awaydays, and acting alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (Universal).
Lee holds a Lectureship at the University of Salford, where he teaches and supervises on the Performance department's suite of degree programmes. As an academic, his scholarly practice and research activities are situated within the broad areas of childhood and embodiment in European contemporary performance.
Lee has a first class degree in English & Drama, and a Masters degree in Creative Practice awarded in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre. Lee is a fully qualified teacher with a PGCE in Academic Practice, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lee has both performed in and directed many theatre productions at venues across the UK. As a filmmaker, he has produced, written, and directed award-winning films screened at national and international festivals.
Well respected in the field for his career-long expertise, Lee is now based between the UK and abroad, working internationally as a creative consultant and educator.
To enquire about working with Lee on a workshop or project, please contact directly: lee@redplayers.co.uk
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