Wednesday, January 15, 2020
I launched my acting career via night courses and one-off workshops rather than formal drama training. Some of the things I missed
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How did you start off in the performing arts? Having studied media and performing arts, I actually began in television working at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI am originally from Hungary but now live in London, where I studied acting. It is ironic that I got my first
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Up until a few years ago, I could hold my head high at family gatherings. My acting career was reasonably successful, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? At a family-run youth theatre, which led to directing and writing. I spent many years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first job was forming the Acts drama group in 1984 with my sisters and a close friend. Growing up in a
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How did you start off in theatre? Born in Uganda and raised in Liverpool, Southport and Staines, I started out as a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI first performed A Christmas Carol in December 2017, in a production that toured castles and cathedrals all over the country. The
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I’m halfway through my first overseas contract, performing at a big theme park on the other side of the world. I was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMy first job was playing Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing at Baron’s Court Theatre in 2006, but I also had a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMHow did you start in theatre? I started training as an actor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, then at
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My first job in theatre was as a trainee resident director at the King’s Head in London. It was advertised openly on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start in theatre? Playing Charlie Bates in Oliver!, aged 13 at the Sunderland Empire. I studied at Edinburgh University,
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I’m about to start my first ever pantomime. I have already done a few children’s plays, but I have seen enough panto
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMy first set design job, which came straight after graduating from Wimbledon School of Art, was assisting Peter J Davison on Whistle Down the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMHow did you get into theatre? My love of the performing arts stems from my involvement in school plays and youth theatre.
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A year ago, I entered my one-act play for a competition. It didn’t win, but the sample scene I performed with two
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My first job was a singing residency at the St James Club, Mayfair in 1983, when I was 21. My father was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMHow did you start in theatre? I have a background in performance art, specifically in musical theatre. I have been fortunate enough
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The two subjects I most enjoyed throughout college were performing arts and science, so I struggled to choose a degree to study.
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In 2013, I directed Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down by Richard Cameron for York Theatre Royal, where I had been working
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start off in costume? Not via the traditional routes. My background is in fashion, pattern cutting and garment construction,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
I started performing as a child during the Blitz, singing in an air-raid shelter. When I left school, I joined City Lit
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMHow did you start in theatre? I was born to a Polish and Romanian family and raised in one of Rio de
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I haven’t had a holiday in two years, so the winter months closing in helped me make my mind up that now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMIt took a while after leaving drama school to land my first role despite serious hustle. I was ecstatic to say the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMHow did you start off in theatre? I had a brief taste of drama at school. Then, following a five-year stint working
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I have always toyed with the idea of trying my luck in the US, so when a friend of mine asked me
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My first paid job was in a play called Who Knows? with the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1979. The part came
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start in theatre? I began acting and singing as a teenager in the US, doing high school musicals. I
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I have pretty much been self-employed throughout my career, so in that sense, I have created my own jobs. However, the one
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