Nick Sorensen

education consultant - writer - musician

Nick Sorensen is a highly qualified educator with a background in the performing arts. Following a season in the National Youth Theatre, Nick studied Drama and English at the University of Exeter graduating with upper second class honours in 1977. He spent a year working working as an actor / musician with Medium fair Theatre Company touring arts centres and schools in the South West before completing his PGCE at Goldsmith’s College, London.

In 1989 he was awarded an MA in Education from the University of Sussex. His dissertation “The value of improvisation for arts educators” laid the foundations for his subsequent interest in improvisation and creativity.

He has worked in four successful comprehensive schools:

• Boundstone Community College, Lancing, West Sussex        teacher of music and drama
• Westergate Community College, West Sussex                     community tutor and head of Related Arts
• Thomas Bennett Community College, Crawley, West Sussex  deputy headteacher
• St. Laurence School, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire             headteacher

He founded the improvising school in April 2003 in order to explore the ways in which a greater understanding of improvisation can be used to develop our skills and understanding of learning, creativity and leadership.

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