Adjudicators for 2025
The Peterborough Drama Festival Committee are pleased to announce that our adjudicators for the 2025 festival are Samantha Tucker and Priscilla Morris.
Samantha Tucker
Samantha is adjudicating at The Peterborough Drama Festival on both Friday 7th March and Saturday 8th March 2025.
Samantha’s love of performing started at the age of four, taking part in both amateur and professional productions and she went on to study Acting, Directing and Textual Analysis as part of her Drama degree, graduating from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Samantha is a passionate supporter of the festival movement and set up and ran The Haverhill Performing Arts Festival for over 10 years. Samantha is proud to be part of a movement that gives entrants the chance to showcase their work in a supportive and nurturing environment and enabling them to take their work to the next level!
Samantha has taught Speech & Drama for more than 20 years and was principal of her own Drama Studio in Haverhill, Suffolk for over 12 years and directed numerous productions.
Samantha has been teaching Speech and Drama at St Faiths School, Cambridge for over 15 years, taking pupils through exams in a diverse range of subjects that include Acting, Public Speaking and Shakespeare. Samantha is an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals and is a member for the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama.
When not working, Samantha loves to curl up with a good psychological thriller, walk her Shih Tzu Ellie, travel and go to the gym!
Samantha is looking forward to her visit to Peterborough festival and would like to wish all the entrants an enjoyable and successful experience.
Priscilla Morris
Priscilla is adjudicating at The Peterborough Drama Festival on Saturday 8th March 2025.
Priscilla was a member of the National Youth Theatre before training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. In 1972 she founded her own drama school in the midlands, which she handed over to her daughter in 2013, although she continues to teach youngsters and adults at her home studio.
She was a LAMDA examiner for 34 years and examined throughout the UK, Europe, Singapore, USA, Sri Lanka the UAE, China and Vietnam.
Her association with BIFF began in 1973 when she started entering her students for local festivals, before becoming a Speech & Drama adjudicator in 1991 and she has been privileged to work for the Bermuda, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong festivals. Since 2021 she has been a committee member at the Nuneaton Festival of Arts, where she is the Vocal secretary.
In 1997 her book ‘Introducing Shakespeare to Young People’ was published by Oberon Books.
Priscilla devised and delivered specialist voice protection courses for the coaches of Swim England for 25 years until she handed the work on to a colleague in 2023 and she has worked with teachers in Shanghai on ‘Bringing English to Life’ in the classroom.
She has directed and acted in over 40 plays, musicals and pantomimes during her performing life. Now, she spends some of her time in the business sector with her company, Loud & Clear voice coaching and as a professional speaker she enjoys entertaining audiences on P&O cruise ships with talks about performers in Literature and Theatre.
In 2021 she was delighted to join the Board of Trustees of BIFF and in October 2023 she was elected to the post of Vice Chair. She looks forward to steering this wonderful organisation into its second century.
Priscilla is delighted to return to the Peterborough Drama Festival this year to see the talent showcased by all entrants.