Corporate Role Play - Role players mean Business
Role players Actors Facilitators and Trainers
Jeremy Todd - Actor Role player Trainer
As a corporate role player Jeremy has worked across a variety of industries and with various levels of management.
With a Civil Service background, 8 years with the Department of Health and Social security, Jeremy has been attracted to role play work in many Government departments, including HMRC, UKBA, MoD, DEFRA and Home Office.
More recently Jeremy has focused on role play within the NHS. He worked across a huge range of employees and departments, focusing on developing better communication between clinical staff and patients and internally amongst the management team.
Private sector role play includes developing senior management of Carillion, Hasbro. KPMG, Homebase and British Aerospace.
Jeremy is familiar with a range of role play processes including bespoke, forum theatre as well as one to one role play.
David Bliss - Actor Role player Trainer
David has over fifteen years of corporate role play experience in a diverse cross section of business and has recently begun training actors new to the role play industry.
David firmly believes that at the heart of great role playing lies the ability for the actor to create an experience for the participant or group which challenges and opens doors to new possibilities of communication.
He has collaborated with legal teams working on important trials, law enforcement officers preparing to break serious crime rings, and senior clinicians in dealing with patient and doctor conflict.
Recent corporate role play clients have included: Royal Mail, SOCA, Hays, Marks & Clerk Attorneys, Reed, Birmingham Council, DEFRA, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Capita, The General Medical Council, The Royal College of Anesthetists, UCL, UCH, Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Elision Health Ltd.
Sara Jordan - Actor Role player Trainer
Sara started her career in acting after graduating from university with a BA Hons degree in Creative Arts.
This led to success in films, TV (yes, The Bill!) the theatre and also appearing in lots of adverts. When people think they know her it's usually because she was the Head and Shoulders girl for sometime, but she'd just like it known that she doesn't have dandruff!
For three years Sara ran her own drama school for younger children and has an association with the National Youth Theatre, running specialist drama workshops.
Sara has worked with The Ministry of Defence, Merrill Lynch, Johnson Controls, Brit Insurance, CRBT, Communities and Local Government and BT to name a few.
Everything she does is also done with a wonderful warmth and sense of fun; learning to her is so much harder if it is dry and dull.
Kate Arneil - Actor Role player Trainer
Kate's cast roles include Sondheim and Lloyd Webber shows, a wonderful sideline singing Gershwin with the late Larry Adler and trips round the world as a solo artist on the QE2.A native Glaswegian Kate studied acting at Rose Bruford college and left with a BA Hons, able to play a great range of parts, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Moll Flanders... then the front end of a pantomime horse. The devil in a new play by Alan Ayckbourn... and a policewoman hunting Gary Linneker on one of 'those' adverts.
Kate had great roles in the original London casts of Sondheim and Lloyd Webber shows, and a wonderful sideline singing Gershwin with the late Larry Adler, which led to trips round the world as a solo artist on the QE2.
At Impact Factory Kate has worked with a wide range of clients including HMPS, Somerfield and Lucky Voice.
Dannie Carr - Actor Role player Trainer
Actor, theatre director, college lecturer, voice-over artist, writer, events coordinator. The list of Dannie's skills is extensive and a natural fit for Impact Factory's eclectic array of Associates.
Dannie began her acting career while still in her teens, working with local theatre and TV companies. This led to a degree in Performing Arts from Sheffield University and a Post Grad Diploma at Drama School in London.
Her work as an actor has included theatre roles from Shakespeare to Brecht and her TV and Radio work has often ended up in the sci-fi world, including the featured role of Morli in two audio series of the Doctor Who spin off, Dalek Wars. Her distinctive voice (and accent!) can be heard on TV and radio adverts and trailers. She works as a visiting director and acting coach at a range of professional acting institutions. Dannies role play work has been extensive over the years, having worked for an array of companies on a diverse range of issues.
Dannie has also worked as a college lecturer and outreach worker using theatre and performance to aid both confidence and communication for young people. She has worked in business roles in copy editing, marketing and events co-ordinating. Some of her freelance events have involved writing a theatrical piece from scratch for HMS Belfast, recruiting, rehearsing, directing and performing it and organising everything from Health and Safety to managing the whole team involved!
Clients she has worked with at Impact Factory Somerfields, Warburtons, ED & F Man, ACCA, NHS, Burger King and a ground-breaking Leadership programme for Muslim Women.
Christopher Heimann - Actor Role player Trainer
Christopher moved to England many years ago, having convinced his family in Germany to support his acting training in England. Unfortunately, the training wasnt very good.
These days, Chris teaches improvisation at RADA where he is also a member of the audition panel. What he likes about role playing is the challenge to develop credible characters instantaneously, and keeping it real.
Recent work includes role playing with an international group of senior executives at BASF in Germany. The feedback was that he was quite wonderful at playing slightly depressed characters worn down by the daily grind, in both English and German.
Besides his work as a trainer and facilitator at Impact Factory, Chris has directed a number of award-winning plays that he devised with his theatre company The Imaginary Body.
Roleplayers Actors Facilitators and Trainers
