ASHLEY STILLBURN

Main School Singing Teacher

Ashley graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2014 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) degree in Musical Theatre and the GSA award for ‘Best Performance in a Musical’.

In addition to his training at GSA, he completed a DipLCM in Music Teaching with the London College of Music and completed a PGCE in Secondary Music with Royal Northern College of Music/MMU.

Ashley left vocational training early at GSA to join the West End cast of Les Miserables where he played the role of Feuilly and understudied and played Enjolras.

He then went on to appear as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd (Opera de Toulon); Corrado Montelli in Death Takes a Holiday, Armand Dufau in The Braille Legacy, and Walter Hartright in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first revival of The Woman in White, all at the Charing Cross Theatre in London’s West End. Ashley also appeared as Charles Clarke in the UK & International tour of Titanic – the Musical and subsequently returned to the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera post-COVID where he covered and played both The Phantom and Raoul at certain performances. Ashley also returned to play The Phantom in April 2023 for a brief period to cover for some unforeseen absence within the cast.

In addition to his appearances in shows, Ashley has worked extensively in the development of new and developing work and has participated in workshops that include She Loves You, All About My Mother, Coastliners, Dance with a Stranger, Murder at the Gates, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Strangers, Annie Get Your Gun, and Production 54.

Ashley’s varied concert work includes West End Men: Unplugged Live from Park Theatre; West End Men in Concert (Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Thailand); Enjolras in Les Miserables in Concert (Beau Sejour, Guernsey); Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera in Concert (MFCC Arena, Malta) and Carols by Candlelight at St. Martin in the Fields, London. He also appeared as one of the ‘3 Phantoms’ singing Music of the Night at West End Live in Trafalgar Square in 2022.

Throughout the course of Ashley’s career, he has appeared multiple times on Elaine Paige on Sunday on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Kent and BBC Radio York.

Ashley has had the good fortune to work with some of the leading creatives and practitioners in the theatre industry including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Claude Michel-Schoenberg, Hal Prince, Dame Gillian Lynne, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Dame Maureen Lipman, Maria Friedman, Brian Conley, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Maury Yeston and David Zippel. He has also worked as a guest entertainer on some of the world’s most luxury ocean liners and is a member of a-capella group ’Shantify’ which has now enjoyed two successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a brief stint at the Ambassador’s Theatre in the West End.

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