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This is the website of writer, director and teacher, Phil Tong and focuses particularly on work with students at the City of London Freemen's School and on the progress of the many professional actors he has taught throughout his career.Drama is at the very heart of the cultural life at CLFS and this website is published, in part, to give expression to that work and to celebrate the creativity of the students who study at the school.The Department aims to achieve the very highest standards in theatre making and consequently in the examination results the students achieve. A professional approach to theatre craft and to 'integrity and truthfullness' in performance is something that is encouraged from the beginning of all Drama courses, and the outcome is that students from this school have achieved some of the best examination results in Drama in the UK over the last few years.We achieved a Good Schools' Guide Award for the Best 'A' Level Results for Girls in the UK in 2005 and have created some of the very best theatre seen in UK schools in the last ten years. We have produced an extraordinary number of theatre professionals in the last ten years; some of whom have achieved extraordinary heights.We are regular contributors to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in 2008, we took 'The Withering' to the Festival, a play based on a Thomas Hardy short story; a show which gained 'Sold Out' status with the Fringe Society, and which The British Theatre Guide described as '... a superb adaptation... and whilst this well directed, studied performance stands alone as a first rate youth theatre show, it will be exciting to see the future of such stage potential.In 2010, we took 'The Typhoid Mary's' to Edinburgh; a physical theatre piece about the incarceration for life of innocent women in the psychiatric hospitals of Epsom in Surrey; a show which again achieved critical acclaim. Now the Department has further developed it's reputation internationally, being invited to create an original piece of theatre on 'Young People as Consumers in the Internet Age' for 'The Global Summit of the Consumer Goods' Forum' at the QEII Centre in Westminster in June 2010, and performing two pieces of theatre opening up issues of 'Food and Biotechnology' and 'Food and a Sustainable Future' for the 'International Forum on Food and Nutrition' organised by Barilla in Milan in November 2010.The City of London Freemen's School Drama Department has earned a reputation in this country and beyond for work of the highest quality; 100% pass rate at grades A*/A/B at A2 Level over the past three years, with our 2010 cohort gaining 4 A*s, 4 As and 2 Bs. We have a track record of gaining students places at some of the top Drama Schools in this country and have had 15 members of the National Youth Theatre in the last ten years. Added to that, I have had the opportunity to teach some of the best and 'award winning' new young actors in my career...If you're interested in Drama, why would you go anywhere else?
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