Mitch Jenkins - Singing Teacher
Mitch trained initially with Pennie Bardsley at West Sussex Theatre Studios, Worthing and subsequently at Redroofs Theatre School.

Mitch Directed and was the Vocal Coach for the musical 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' at the talent factory, Kansas City and was also resident Musical Director for The Realistic Theatre Company of Edinburgh for five years and also directed ‘The Railway Children’ for them. He was Assistant Director on 'Billy Liar' at Southill Park Arts Centre.

More recently Mitch has been Vocal Coach to the $1 million rock group 'Purplemelon' and to up and coming artists Dane Norris, Middlehill, Contrabanned and Locust Resin.

Writing credits include: Mitch has written and arranged the music to four musicals...'Children of the Clearances', 'The Railway Children', 'The Drummer Boy' and 'Barrie', all of which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 'Culture Vulture' for The Realistic T.I.E company. Theme and incidental music for 'Frankenstein' for Doug Rollins at the Greenwhich Theatre. He has also written two comedy pilots for television with his writing partner Alex Raven, 'Out of the Frying Pan' and 'The Ham Club'.

Theatre credits include: Jamie in 'Carnaby Street' at the Arts Theatre, West End and Nomis Studios, Olympia. The Soldier in 'A Game of Soldiers' with Kate Winslet at The Novello. Dream Man in 'Mrs. Vershinin' at The Riverside, Hammersmith. Mr. Jarvis and Sparrow in 'Stargazer' for Polka Theatre, which toured Wimbledon, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. 'Spencer' in 'Boogie Nights', on tour for QDOS. 'Walter' in 'Ketchups Kitchen' at The Wolsey, Ipswich. 'The Zookeeper' in 'Please Don't Feed the Animals', for 'Green Carpet'.

Other theatre includes: 'Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays', 'Into the Woods', 'The Secret Garden',' The Meg and Mog Show', 'Annie', 'Oliver'.

T V credits include: Jim in 'Birds of a Feather' (BBC), Rod in 'London's Burning' (ITV), David in 'Bad Boys' (BBC), plus 'Crimewatch' and 'Newsnight' for the BBC. He is also featured as the vocal coach in the 'Purplemelon' documentary.

Commercial credits include: Featured Soul Singer in the KFC commercials (ITV), IKEA commercial for Norway, Telephonist for Northern Telecom,

Singing credits include: Lead vocals for the 'Pirelli Calendar', 'Princess and the Goblins' cast recording for Robert Macintosh, Lead and Backing vocals on the 'Carnaby Street' original cast recording for Carl-Leighton Pope organisation. Lead vocals for 'Who Dares Sells', to accompany the best selling book of the same name. Perks in 'The Railway Children' original cast recording. He has been teaching at NMTS for a while now and was vocal coach for the school for the last Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.