A rising star from Widnes is well on her way down the road to success after graduating from performing arts academy LIPA last week.
Former dancer Amy Dolan has landed a dream job as a production assistant on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s smash hit Matilda the musical in the West End.
During her three-year BA (Hons) music, theatre and entertainment management degree at the ‘fame’ school set up by Sir Paul McCartney, the 22 year-old, of Glebe Lane, gained valuable work experience with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
But Amy had to rethink her career after injury put paid to her dancing ambitions.
She said: “If that hadn’t happened I may never have gone down this route and found something that I absolutely love doing.
“I knew I wanted to stay in the industry – I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
“What I loved about the LIPA course is that it was so varied and I was company manager for more or less every show while I was there.”
Sir Paul, 70, led the graduation celebrations last Wednesday, but Amy’s dance prodigy brother Daniel was forced to miss the ceremony because he was performing with the exclusive Bolshoi Ballet Academy in New York.
Around 260 students from the UK and 15 other countries attended the ceremony alongside the music legend to collect their degree and postgraduate certificates.
Sir Paul was accompanied at the graduations for the first time by wife Nancy Shevell, 52, who he married in October last year.
Source: Daniel Mckenzie, Iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk, Thursday 26th July 2012
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