PQA Buckingham.

Ryan Van Champion - Principal PQA Buckingham

Passionate about performing arts training for children and young people.

Ryan is a classically trained Actor with a BA(Hons) from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he was taught by notable industry practitioners including: Patsy Rodenburg, Declan Donnellan, Mike Alfreds, Paul Miller, Richard Wilson, and Bill Deamer.

Since graduating, Ryan has worked across both live and recorded media, in plays such as Journey’s End, Aunt Mame, and the Great Middlemarch Mystery, and TV shows like Doctors, Casualty, and Chewing Gum, as well as various commercials and voiceover work. As an educator in drama and performance over the last decade and a half (predominantly in the preparation of students for LAMDA exams as well as in his position as Head of Drama for the Bucks School of Dance), Ryan is incredibly proud to have been Principal of PQA since 2018, creatively leading the academy through productions of Seussical Jr., Peter Pan Jr., High School Musical Jr., and two performances in London’s West End at The Shaftesbury Theatre and His Majesty’s Theatre. Principal Ryan cannot wait to see how the students of PQA continue to grow and develop under the guidance of his incredible team of industry professionals!