Meet the team

Fiona Da Silva-Adams – Founder, CEO and Designated Safeguarding Lead

Fiona Da Silva-Adams, or Fi, Founder and Managing Director, started Revolution Performing Arts (RPA) in 2007 with just four young people and is delighted to facilitate delivery of classes to 400 young people every week.

Fi was responsible for initiating performing arts as an after-school club, within and attached to schools in Swindon and she loves that so many young people get to experience our unique approach to performing arts throughout Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Fi is also responsible for delivering the Discover, Explore, Bronze & Silver Arts Awards.

Empowerment, nurturing and encouraging young people to express themselves and celebrate their individuality has always been important to Fi and she extends this within her family with her husband, Paul and two children. Fi would have loved to experience an organisation like RPA when she was younger, and this drives her to reach and help as many young people as possible. She loves to read, holiday with her family and snuggle up with them for a family movie night. It’s often a noisy house having four creatives under the same roof!

Fi started her training at Swindon Dance (then Thamesdown Dance Studios), initially as a community dancer and then onto the now legendary Foundation Course with Pete Purdy and Marie McCluskey. After she graduated from Middlesex University with a BA (Hons) degree in performing arts, she joined Sixth Sense Theatre Company (now Prime Theatre) as their General Manager and Youth Theatre Worker and continued to develop her love for young people in the arts.

Fi has sung on the famous turning circle on the London Palladium stage; danced with Green Candle in Sadlers Wells and filmed in several TV dramas including Midsummer Murders; Casualty, Sky’s Dream Team and Ultimate Force.

Fi loves her life developing young people and will keep going until she can’t move anymore!

Fi’s inspirations are:

The wonderful Martha Graham – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqvWQZNKpY

DV8 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDxSGyO_TQ

Candoco – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LkktRbr_E

Matthew Bourne of Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvZO-UYsehs

and of course her truly inspirational family!

Paul Da Silva-Adams – Director and Guitar Teacher

Paul was born and raised in Fairford. As a young boy, Paul had a great childhood but never really had the opportunity to perform. Instead, Paul took to playing the guitar with a dream of one day being able to play in front of an audience.

At the age of 16 Paul was to be snapped up by a band in which he travelled the length and breath of the UK playing clubs and pubs as a professional musician.  Since then Paul has played with many musicians all over the UK. Paul met Fi in May 1996.  Paul has always supported Fi with RPA and in 2012 gave up his role as a Support manager in a software house to help Fi  with RPA.  Since 2012 we have seen RPA go from strength to strength and pride itself on being completely different from other performing arts institutions. Paul now regularly plays in a number of bands and is now a multi instrumentalist . Paul has also acted on TV in some well known shows!  Paul prides himself on his script writing and as a result is currently working on the next big venture for RPA which he hoping will open collaborations with other theatre groups and up and coming script writers  in the area that share  RPA’s ethos. When Paul is not working he likes to spend time with his family and travelling the world.

Pippa Eddolls – RPA Administration, Leader and Deputy DSL

Pippa wears many hats, each one adding a unique dimension to her life and career. Singing is her first love and a true passion with her duo, Pip and the Bad Seed. As a dance teacher, she has the privilege of sharing her love for movement and creativity with students of all ages. In addition to her creative pursuits, she is our administration assistant, bringing organisation and efficiency to the team.

Jim Stretton – RPA Leader

Jim is a trained actor of four years, specialising in film and television. He has been lucky enough to be featured in a variety of popular television shows, including Doctor Who, Casualty and This Country—his personal favourite. Jim loves playing sports in his downtime and catching up on the latest movies at the cinema.

Ieva Delininkaiyte – RPA Leader

Yeva Deli is a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she earned her BA in Screen Acting.

Isabelle Long – RPA Leader

Hello, my name is Isabelle, but my students call me Izzy. I am 23 years old and originally from Swindon. I have many years of dance experience across various styles, including ballet, contemporary, street and jazz.

Grace Clark – RPA Leader

Grace has always had a passion for performing arts from a young age and has trained in multiple different styles, from lyrical and contemporary to hip hop and street dance.

Grace has always had a passion for performing arts since a young age and has trained in multiple different styles from lyrical/contemporary to hip hop and street dance . Grace has gained a Extended diploma in performing arts through Wilkes academy and has also completed her Level 4 higher education in performing arts. She enjoys working with children of all age groups to watch them grow not just as performers but as people as well and see how their creativity grows with them. Growing up in Swindon, Grace was involved for many years in the Summer Youth Project at the wyvern theatre in which her love for performing and her confidence grew supported by her dance training.

Angel Da Silva-Adams – RPA Leader

Angel has been dancing since she was two years old, when she started with ballet. She has been in RPA since she was very little and started in Drama Babes with her mum, Fi.

Brodie Lee – RPA Leader

Brodie has been working for RPA for nearly a year. He attends Commonweal Sixth Form for performing arts and has trained for many years at Tanwood and Julie Scott’s Academy, where he has performed in multiple musicals and dance shows.

Brodie’s real passion is choreography. He has choreographed multiple shows and even the competition dance team at Commonweal School.

His passion started at the age of 15 by running his own all-years musicals club at Bradon Forest School, where he put on several concerts and shows as well as choreographing the main school musical.

He loves teaching and nurturing the younger generation and looks forward to continuing his work at RPA.