Dare to Dream

Dani Parr is Director of Participation and Work for Young People at the Almeida Theatre.

Tarquin Shaw-Young is the Managing Director and Head of Casting at Stage Coach talent agency.

Tarquin began working for The Stagecoach Talent Agency in 2000 running their drama audition workshops. Since then he has probably auditioned well over 30,000 students. He has now been running the Stagecoach Agency for 13 years.

Born into a theatrical family he began working professionally as an actor at the age of two and a half, touring in Old Time Music Hall and as part of a Magic Act. Tarquin’s early work in theatre allowed him to play a wide range of roles, with several weekly rep seasons at Sidmouth, four years for Jill Freud at Southwold Rep and pantos at Chipping Norton. He has toured throughout Britain, Europe and even New Zealand.

Margot Waddell is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and has spent most of her adult life as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the then Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic. She has been editor and now co-editor of the Tavistock Book Series since its inception. Her own book, On Adolescence: inside stories is the 50 volume in the Series (Routledge, 2018) and she has also written Understanding 12-14 year-olds, published by Jessica Kingsley in 2005.

Theatre includes: Amadeus (National Theatre); Linda (Royal Court); Powder Monkey (Royal Exchange); Breathing Country (Y Touring)

Television includes: Carnival Row; The Level; You Me and the Apocalypse; Under the Dome 2; Prisoners’ Wives II; Lightfields; Misfits; Murder; Monroe; Hit and Miss; The Fades; Doctors; Casualty

Film includes: Vita & Virginia