Meet our Course Tutors

Keith Allott [he/him]

Keith Allott is a professional filmmaker and educator. He runs his own production company Badshoes Film producing documentary and narrative fiction films that cover a wide spectrum of subject matter but with a speciality in contemporary social issues. As an educator he has lectured at the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and taught at Broadway and Phoenix Cinemas as well as the BFI Academy for young filmmakers. He has mentored a broad collection of new and emerging filmmakers helping them to have their creative voices heard appropriately across thw world. He is currently the network lead at Platform in Leicester and Reel People in Nottingham, helping to connect people and create new production opportunities for emerging talent.

Steve Best [he/him]

Steve has worked in the media industry for over 30 years, moving from games creation to TV and then film. He has been running Fake Up, a special effects make up company for the past 12 years, while combining this with teaching at various colleges across the East Midlands. Having recently won an award for best SFX in a film, he has followed that up this year with the Midlands award for most creative business. Steve has a passion for teaching, with many of his previous students now working in the media industry.

Daniel Cordle [he/him]

Daniel Cordle is a writer, tutor and researcher, with a passion for literature and film. With a background in academia, where he developed specialist expertise in the cultural history of the Nuclear Age, he now has a portfolio career, combining short-term academic roles, with freelance writing, researching and teaching, and his own creative projects. He is particularly interested in putting literature and film into conversation with one another, and this is often a feature of his courses at Broadway.

His most recent book, co-edited with Sarah Jackson, is Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024).

Katie Evans [she/her]

Katie is a Nottingham-based educator and lifelong lover of film, literature and all things gothic. She studied at Birmingham City University, where she gained a BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, specialising in screenwriting and Gothic literature, alongside further qualifications in Film Studies.

Katie runs the horror-focused bookstagram @ghoulnextdoor.reads, where she reviews books, explores spooky events and discusses all things ghoulish. She has a particular passion for Gothic stories and their adaptations, and is fascinated by the ways filmmakers reinterpret and reimagine familiar tales for the screen. 

Andrew Graves [he/him]

Andrew Graves is a freelance writer and cult horror film obsessive. His books include an Auteur Publishing analysis of Alice Lowe’s Prevenge, and Welcome to the Cheap Seats: Silver Screen Portrayal’s of the British Working Class. In addition to this he regularly runs film courses here at Broadway, where he also often presents Q&As and special screenings. He contributes to many magazines including Scream, The Dark Side and We Belong Dead, as well as providing commentaries and essays for Home Entertainment releases for 88 Films, Second Sight Films, BFI, Eureka Maters of Cinema, 101 Films and many more. He is also the host and creator or the Tea For Terror podcast.

Kenton Hall [he/him]

Kenton Hall is Canadian, which is why he sounds like that, and is reasonably gainfully employed as an author, actor, lecturer, filmmaker and musician, which is why he looks so pasty. His work includes albums with the bands ist & The Necessary Measures, fiction and non-fiction books across memoir, comedy, science fiction and drama, an independent film that can be seen on both Netflix and Disney Plus and which still brings him out in a cold sweat, plays, audio dramas and even the occasional haiku. Here at Broadway, his courses - often nestled at the junction between literature and film - are half lecture, half stand-up performance and half proof that he's rubbish at maths. 

Arron Hollins [he/him]

Arron is a film and television enthusiast with a degree in Media and Popular Culture from the University of Leeds. His interests span science fiction, fantasy, anime and queer and LGBTQ+ media, with a particular fascination for the stories and genres that have sometimes been dismissed as ‘lowbrow’ or overlooked by traditional film criticism. Arron's courses explore the ideas, themes and cultural contexts behind popular film and television, asking what our favourite stories can tell us about the worlds that created them. He is especially interested in challenging the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and asking why those distinctions exist in the first place.

Clelia McElroy [she/her]

Clelia is a film researcher and writer. She specialises in the representation of women in horror, with a particular focus on the manifestation of rage and violence in female, queer, trans and non-binary characters. Using intersectional gender studies and historical and socio-cultural lenses, Clelia’s work explores the ways in which marginalised characters reclaim agency through rage, resistance and transgression, while interrogating the social structures that shape their representation. Alongside her academic work, Clelia is the founder of Monstrous Flesh and the co-host of the Monstrous Flesh podcast. 

Adam Pepper [he/him]

Adam has been working alongside Broadway since 2011, using film to deliver educational workshops to primary school children across the Midlands.

But he loves talking to grown-ups too, and has recently delivered film courses about Scorsese, the World Wars on film, Yorgos Lanthimos, the history of Science Fiction cinema and the evolution of the country house drama.

Adam has a keen interest in observing how history impacts on the stories and films we see, seeking out the wider social, political and creative context for some of the most interesting movies of the last 60 years!

As excited to talk about the work of Jean Claude Van Damme as he is the work of Satyajit Ray, Adam, who worked for many years as an actor and director, is always on hand for a fascinating piece of movie trivia!

Emily Smith [she/her]

Emily Smith is an English Literature PhD student whose thesis work on adaptation has allowed her to wander into the academic fields of film and television. Interested in analysing gender, popular culture, and horror, Emily’s film courses seek to bring academic criticism to the representation of women on screen. A horror lover and reality TV connoisseur, her specialist interests include witches, feminism, the abject, adaptation and hauntology. Emily has had written work published with The Nottingham Horror Collective, Cine Excess, and the Monstrous Flesh journal as well as guested on the Monstrous Flesh podcast, and presented at conferences internationally. 

Dr Connor Winterton [he/they]

Dr Connor Winterton is a Subject Area Lead at Loughborough College, where they teach Media Studies and supervise Art, Film, and Photography. Connor completed their PhD at Birmingham City University (2016-2019), which focused on representations of sex and sexuality in contemporary French and North American queer cinema. Connor's interests in film and cinema mainly centre on identity, gender, and sexuality, but also film form and textual analysis, film theory, authorship, and spectatorship. Connor is the co-director of the Leicester Queer Film Club at Phoenix, which is bi-monthly social and cinematic event. Connor's Letterboxd top 4 (@Dr4eyes) is currently Mulholland Drive (2001), Persona (1966), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and All of Us Strangers (2023).