Jax Lovelock

Jax is a creative professional with extensive experience in drama education and examining, scriptwriting, acting and singing, creative individual and business support, and community work. She began her professional training with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Acting: Devised Performance from Bretton Hall University College, University of Leeds. After qualifying as a secondary drama teacher and becoming Head of subject, Jax embarked upon the MPhil in Playwriting at the University of Birmingham under the tuition of Sarah Woods and Chris O’Connell.

As a teacher, Jax has an excellent record for inspiring students across all curriculum areas, working with staff in various schools to nurture self esteem and achievement. To this end, she is currently developing Social and Emotional (SEAL) creative workshops for secondary schools. Workshops exploring Sexual Relationships (SRE) are already underway with the Crossway Centre and are receiving high praise from students and teachers in several Birmingham schools and youth groups.

Following three successful years as an Examiner for the Edexcel GCSE Drama performance paper, Jax is now assessing the coursework component for the Edexcel and OCR GCSE Drama syllabi. Jax also works as a consultant for teachers of drama using these syllabi, specialising in support for those training to teach drama, newly qualified drama teachers and those who find themselves teaching drama as a second subject.

Jax is constantly seeking to extend her creative knowledge and experience to enhance and inform her day to day work. Voluntary work with Script (West Midlands Agency for Dramatic Writers), Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Literary Dept), Yorkshire Television / Granada Kids (with producer David Collier) and BBC Radio Drama (with producer Peter Leslie-Wild) has been invaluable. Working on the acclaimed musical “Carnival Messiah” at Harewood House and the Royal Albert Hall gave particular insight into working with incredibly diverse ethnic, social and global communities. Jax is currently training as a voluntary counsellor with the Crossway Centre.

As co-founder and Director of Artsphere Jax continues to work on building up an important and free resource at the Artsphere Creative Arts Network. The vision is to help those working in the creative arts develop relationships, form connections and find resources. Artsphere aims to promote and support creativity across the United Kingdom, and to provide a platform through which our members and the arts sector as a whole can promote their work.