Directors

Ali Tompkins

Founder, Teacher in Drama & Music

• Surrey University BA (Hons) Theatre
• Guildford School of Acting 3 year Dip.
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama AGSM (Teaching Diploma),

Alison co-founded Centre Stage School of the Arts in 1999. She is an actor, director, teacher as well as taking care of her two very lively boys, Alfie and Billy. Theatre credits include “Jack and the Beanstalk”, Shirley in the spoof musical “Top of the Town” (Croydon Warehouse), Viola, Puck, Lady Anne, Cleopatra and Nicholas Tooley in “A Cry of Players” (UK -Tour), both Mum and Jo in “Too much Punch for Judy” (UK Tour), Ethel Monticue in “Young Visitors” (Mayfly Theatre Company, Oxford), Cecily “Importance of Being Earnest”, Katharina “Taming of the Shrew”, Georgina “Drunkards Dilemma” all with Wigan Pier Actors Company. More recently she played Sally in “Tissue” at the Black Box at Fort Canning. The Queen in “A Twist in the Tale”, Woman in “Night” by Harold Pinter, Jenny in “Answers from the Centre of the Universe”. And most recently Gail in “Teechers” by John Godber.

 

Peter Hodgson

Founder and Teacher in Drama

• Surrey University BA (Hons) Theatre
• Guildford School of Acting 3 year Dip.
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama AGSM (Teaching Diploma),

Peter co-founded Centre Stage with his wife Alison in 1999. He is a director, writer, actor and teacher.  Originally from the UK, he worked for a number of years as an actor in the before re-locating to Singapore in 1995. Since being here Peter has continued acting appearing in Six of the Best with Theatre Works, Bit by Bit for Bit by Bit Productions, and Triple 9 for Media Corp. His most recent roles include A Christmas Carrot, A Right Rubbish Christmas and The Lost Star for Centre Stage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for SRT, Harold Pinter’s Night and Ebeneeza Freeza in Centre Stage’s Christmas show, Snow Worries.