PQA Stoke-on-Trent.

Carrick Stimson-Machers

Carrick started his training at PQA at the age of 11. Now, having achieved his first-class honours degree, whist working as academy manager at PQA Stockport. He now works at various academies across the South West of England. At college, Carrick gained a Cambridge Technical Diploma in Performing Arts (Distinction*Distinction*) and an A-Level in Film Studies. During this time, Carrick remained a PQA student, achieving Trinity (Devised) grade 8. All this work helped him earn a place at The Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. Whilst studying for his B.A, Carrick was lucky enough to work with a range of professional companies, from immersive character-based work with ‘The Lantern Company’, to collaborating with the contemporary and highly anarchic ‘In Bed with My Brother’. He created two solo street theatre performances that toured around Manchester and Liverpool, a site-specific performance at the historic Salford Lads Club and he’s been part of a show that was taken to Bilbao, working with Basque drama school BAI Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia. Carrick’s most recent solo production, ‘Time to Panic’, debuted at The Lowry in Manchester as part of ‘UnTaPed 23’. He enjoys creating work that utilises comedy, anarchy and presentational elements or order to tackle otherwise challenging issues.

Mollie Angus

Thomas Millington

Tom is an award winning photographer and videographer, and has travelled the country filming fiction and non fiction films and content in some of the UK's most beautiful cities and event venues. As he nears the end of his University studies he is always looking for a new challenge, working on jobs within the film industry will prove as a useful resource for his teaching at PQA, as speaking on relevant and current topics within the industry will allow the students to receive front line knowledge on Film and TV that they won't get anywhere else. Tom's teaching style is a hybrid between interactive theory based learning with practical activities, as ‘The best way to learn Film and TV is by doing it!"