The highly respected and much sought after Genesis LAMDA bursary, awarded each year by LAMDA to exceptional drama students from its annual student intake, continues to produce fantastic results:  Nick Julian (class of 2009) lands his first professional acting job; Samuel Barnett (class of 2001) performs at the Bush Theatre later this month; Ben Aldridge (class of 2008) is currently appearing on BBC1 in Larkrise to Candleford

Former Genesis LAMDA Scholar, Samuel Barnett, stars alongside legendary stage and screen actor Simon Callow in a ground-breaking new online drama about a little known period in the life of the 19th Century writer, wit and raconteur, Oscar Wilde.

Natalie Carter, the 16 year-old British ballet dancer currently studying at Moscow's legendary Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is recording her time at the Academy in a blog.  Thanks to the grant awarded to her by the Genesis Foundation, Natalie is the second British dancer ever to get a place in the Bolshoi's 230-year history.

Chennai-based playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar, an alumnus of the Genesis Foundation supported International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court, returns to London with her latest play, Disconnect, which will have its world premiere at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from 17 February until 20 March.

Samuel Barnett, who in 2001 was awarded the first-ever Genesis LAMDA scholarship, portrays painter John Everett Millais in a new BBC-originated series, Desperate Romantics

Natalie Carter, a 16 year-old British ballet dancer will pursue her dream of studying at Moscow's legendary Bolshoi Ballet Academy thanks to a grant from the Genesis Foundation.  Natalie is the second British dancer to be offered a place in the Bolshoi's 230-year history.

Sam Barnett (LAMDA Genesis Scholar of 2001) will be appearing in a new television series as painter John Everett Millais in Desperate Romantics. This six-part drama series (Tuesdays, 9:00 pm, BBC2 and BBC HD from 21 July 2009) is set in 19th-century industrial London and follows the careers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English artists. Portraying the tumultuous and sometimes scandalous lives of the painters who were intellectually, at least, to English art something similar to what the Impressionists were to the French, the series addresses their iconoclasm and anti-establishment attitudes.