Tuesday, November 20, 2018
How did you start in theatre? Dance classes with Jayne Burnett and at Kimberley Performing Arts Centre before joining Wilton Productions and
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I’ve had a busy year with a variety of enjoyable and challenging work. Unfortunately, most of it has been low paid, which
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How did you start off in theatre? At 16, I wrote to the Starlight Express wardrobe team and begged to work for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first job was in 2000. It was a TV film for the BBC called Care, filmed in Cardiff. It was a
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I trained as an actor but over the past few years I have found my career moving into writing and directing, initially
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I trained with Miskin Theatre company, which was a fantastic training ground for me. My first paid job was being the Wind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMHow did you start in theatre? After leaving Bretton Hall College, I worked with theatre companies in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and Newcastle
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As a self-producing theatremaker, I was delighted to win an award earlier this year. Not only was it a very nice evening,
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My first job was in 2006, before I went to drama school. It was a TV film called That Summer Day about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMHow did you start in theatre? I attended Langley Theatre Workshop in Middleton, Manchester, where I’m from, for weekly classes in acting
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For a long time, I struggled with a personal issue from which acting was one of my escapes. From that starting point,
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It’s almost 10 years since I moved from acting to directing. My first acting job was in a Spanish classical play called
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMWhich organisations have you worked for? I was an education associate practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company last season and have been
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I took a literature and drama degree at university. Both elements have helped get my twin careers off the ground: freelance proofreader
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I hadn’t really grown up around acting or theatre. I grew up glued to the TV, watching everything that was on. Everything.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMHow did you start off in theatre? When I was 17, I was taken against my will to a production of Macbeth.
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I became interested in acting while building my main career as a chef. For 10 years I worked my way up through
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My first TV job was Dutch Girls with Colin Firth and my first professional theatre job was Othello at Chester Gateway. But
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Over the past two summers, a few actor friends and I have connected through doing walkabout parts at historic sites, scare acting
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My first job was in 2013 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play was A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMHow did you start off teaching improv? As a play reader and director at London’s Royal Court in the 1960s, we found
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I have done a couple of auditions for a well-known casting director, including some for big series roles. Even though I haven’t
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I shared the first 10 pages of my play Eris with my friend Laura in 2016. We had both been chosen to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start in theatre? During my master’s degree in Theatre Studies, I watched a performance of Henry IV (Enrico IV)
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I met my partner at drama school and, while he is very talented, in the last two years I seem to be
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How did you start off in theatre? I realised in my undergraduate years that I didn’t quite have the skills to become
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI studied drama at Birmingham School of Acting and was fortunate enough to be approached by several agents following our final London
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Supported by funders including Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke, the Open Door scheme is making world-class training accessible for all. John Byrne
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? My first role was the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz at primary school. We
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI had my first audition when I was 19. It was during pilot season in Los Angeles for the TV version of
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