We welcome to Cork our Speech and Drama Adjudicator Mr. Jean-Marc Perret:
Jean-Marc trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre credits include notable roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre, Derby Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Numerous TV & Film appearances:- notably playing Prince Caspian in the successful BBC BAFTA nominated and award winning series The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and in Revelation (Romulus Films) with Terence Stamp and Ron Moody. In 2016 Jean-Marc secured a Personal Manager in Los Angeles and made appearances in This Is Us (Season 2) for NBC as well as the US series American Woman (Warner Bros), attending the 2017 Oscars ceremony at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Jean-Marc teaches pupils on a peripatetic basis and is an online public speaking tutor for leading international schools in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2020, Jean-Marc facilitated a pupil / teacher online training programme set up through Master Minds Studio in Shanghai, China with the aim of providing quality training in Drama and Communication subjects. Jean-Marc now leads all advanced level Public Speaking exam preparation training for Dreamaker Drama Academy in Beijing and Shanghai.
He previously examined for London College of Music for 5yrs, LAMDA for 10yrs and Trinity College, London for 2yrs.
Alongside these commitments, Jean-Marc trained as a certified British Academy of Dramatic Combat fight instructor both choreographing and performing in sword fights. Fight credits include Disney’s blockbuster film Cinderella (2015); playing D’Artagnan for the London red carpet film premiere event for The Three Musketeers (2011) which starred Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz. Also, just before the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, Jean-Marc was part of a world-class exhibition event involving Great Britain and Hungarian Olympic fencers who were in the midst of their training for the Tokyo Olympics.