GAPA Principal and Ballet Teacher

Suzanne Gielgud trained at the Bush Davies School and the Royal Ballet Upper School after which she enjoyed a career as a professional ballet dancer with the Wiener Ballet Theatre, the Vienna Festival and Ballet Sopiane – National Ballet of Pecs in Hungary.

In 1997, along with choreographer Piers Gielgud, she founded Re.Animator Management – which soon became the leading agency for professional dancers in the UK. The agency specialised in providing professional dancers and musical theatre artists for West End musicals and tours as well as Film and TV. The agency closed in 2013.

In 2003 Suzanne established Gielgud Films (films.gielgud.com) which specialises in films which focus on dance and the arts. Suzanne is an award-winning Film Director, Editor and Producer of feature documentary films and has several feature biopics and dramas in development. Suzanne holds an MA in a film through Staffordshire University and Raindance, London.

In 2011 Suzanne created the Gielgud Academy of Performing Arts, and the school was officially launched by its patrons, the ballet and musical theatre legends Dame Beryl Grey, Dame Gillian Lynne, David Wall OBE and Alfreda Thorogood in July 2011. Suzanne is a qualified ballet teacher and holds the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) Diploma for Dance Education (DDE).

2011 Photograph of Suzanne with Dames Beryl Grey and Gillian Lynne, at the GAPA launch © Mike Champion