Featuring ...

Mike Mitchell has landed a lead in Luca Boni's latest feature film 'Zombie Massacre' starring Tara Cardinal and shooting in Italy.

Radio Drama

From Fact To Ficton is a topical new writing strand on Radio 4, a 15 minute stand-alone drama written from scratch in response to a selected new story on Monday and recorded and transmitted on Friday.  Listen to Hannah Waterman reading the latest, Adam Thorpe's Mongrel.

Nina

The fabulous Nina Kristofferson has joined the Drama Dept. Whilst well-known for her knockout performances in 'High Society' and as 'Medea' for Northern Broadsides, Nina is also touring her own sell-out show 'Bille Holiday's Story.'

Sundays with Debbie

‘Listen to Debbie McGee every Sunday morning 9.00 - 12.00 on BBC Radio Berkshire 104.1FM or 95.4FM or online at www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire’

Type Casting

Neil Fingleton is in pre-production, with Warwick Davis,  for the new comedy feature 'Shortfellas.'

Christmas Cheer

London, Brighton, Bradford, Lowestoft, Canterbury, Norfolk, Nottingham: as Christmas approaches our clients are performing in pantos and Christmas shows throughout the country. Tony Christie is getting to Amarillo via the Theatre Royal Windsor, Lloyd Hollet returns to the Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford due to popular demand and Bobby Crush in Lowestoft. It's not all panto however. Other seasonal shows include 'The Canterbury Tales' and Don Quixote. Marti Pellow will be taking a couple of nights out of Blood Brothers in order to appear with Graham Norton, Sarah Millican, Jimmy Carr and others in 'Rock With Laughter' at the Birmingham LG Arena.

Attend the Tale ...

Great news that Chichester's production of Sweeny Todd will be coming into the Adelphi, opening in March 2012. A fabulous cast including our own Robine Landi.

Jerusalem

We are delighted that our new client, Paul Joseph, is going straight into The Royal Court's award-winning production, 'Jerusalem'. Paul joins the company onstage from 28th Nov at the Apollo Theatre until mid January.

New Signing

Gabeen Khan has just joined the Drama Dept. after the tour and Barbican run of Jericho House's 'The Tempest.'

 

 

New client

Paul Joseph has joined us straight from the cast of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' at Leicester's Curve.

New Blood Brothers

Marti Pellow, one of Britain's great music icons, is to make his hugely anticipated return to the London stage, joining Willy Russell's smash hit musical, one of the longest running in theatre history. He joins the cast as The Narrator at the Phoenix Theatre from 1 November.

Burnistoun for a BAFTA

Great news that 'Burnistoun' has been nominated for Best Entertainment Programme in the Scottish BAFTAs 2011.

Congratulations to Iain Connell and Robert Florence and our own Kirsty Strain !

( 'Burnistoun' is directed and produced by Iain Davidson, The Comedy Unit for BBC Scotland.)

Oedipus at Edinburgh

Tickets are selling out for Berkoff's 'Oedipus' produced by James Seabright at the Pleasance. Our client Michael Fenner is relishing the opportunity to work with this extraordinary director and cast.

Lucinka Eisler at Edinburgh

Our new client Lucinka is in Edinburgh appearing in If That's All There Is produced by her own company Inspector Sands. Founded in 2005 company makes devised work with a focus on an integrated creative process, working with designers from an early stage.

The company’s first show, Hysteria was developed at BAC, opened in Edinburgh 2006 (Aurora Nova / Assembly Rooms), winning a Total Theatre Award before transferring to the Purcell Room for the London International Mime Festival.

If That’s All There Is was commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith and opened at the Traverse in 2009. It sold out its run and won the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award. The show is now being adapted into a short
film. http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh/events/if-thats-all-there-is

Petra Markham

Petra has just joined us. With a glittering stage and screen career comprising such classics as Equus, Z Cars, and Get Carter, Petra has been seen more recently in EastEnders, Doctors, etc and, as well as theatre appearances, is currently working on a script based around her relationship with the playwright David Halliwell.

Robine Landi

Since leaving Central, Robine has continued to  appear in musical theatre and opera, most recently as a murderous  burlesque star at the Charing Cross Theatre in Les Enfants Terribles' The Vaudevillians. She is currently appearing in both La Rondine and La Nozze di Figaro for the 2011 Summer Season at Holland Park Opera.  Next up is the much anticipated Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Chichester Festival Theatre with Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton.

Maia Salvador

Maia has moved to London following the RADA foundation course. Born in LA, brought up in Oxford and Madrid, Maia is already well known in Spain for her extensive TV work including Amar en Tiempos Revueltos (Diagonal TV / Spanish National TV) and 65 episodes of El Ritmo de la Calle (Videomedia for Antena 3 TV) and the leading role in the feature film The 4th Floor, Directed by Antonio Mercero.

Richard Koslowsky

Richard graduated from Central this Summer.  Shows there included leading roles Lovestruck, NW1, written and directed by Fiona Laird and Black Snow, directed by Alan Cox, which also went to the Moscow Art Theatre School. His first professional job has been 3 episodes of BBC's 'Doctors.'

 

Liberace At the Gates of Heaven

After his sell-out show at the Leicester Square Theatre Bobby Crush has packed the candelabra and the furry capes and taken off to Edinburgh.  Catch the show at the George Square Assembly Rooms.

'Irresistible' - The Sunday Times   'Brilliantly entertaining' - Whatsonstage

Neil Fingleton

Neil has just finished shooting a lead role in the samurai action feature 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves.  Officially the 'Tallest Man In Britain" Neil turned to performing after a successful basketball career in the US.  Along with many theatre productions, film and TV credits include Shortfellas, Superhumans and X-Men: 1st Class. This year he will be appearing in the Qdos production of Robin Hood at Bradford... playing Little John.

New Directions

Ben has directed over seventy professional productions.

He founded Magnificent Theatre Company and toured nationally for several years before commencing a ten year stint as Artistic Director of the Northcott Theatre, Exeter.

Since leaving the Northcott, he has continued directing with acclaimed productions of Richard III and Othello for Ludlow Festival – and on a lighter note, Legoland’s Pirates of Skeleton Bay, which will be seen by over one million people!

He has also made a particular speciality of pantomime writing – and this year his pantomimes will receive over fifty productions in five different countries.

 

Novelist on the Books

We are especially pleased to welcome crime writer Maggie Wilson into the expanding Creative Department.

Maggie’s brilliant new work ‘Fallen Angel’ draws heavily on real life medical crime cases such as ‘Angel of Death’ nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four children in her care. It questions how outwardly caring people who train to look after the sick can in very rare cases turn into killers.

The story, the first in a series of medical crime thriller novels by Wilson and published by HandE, is set at Westwood General Hospital and is a DS Hammond investigation/

Drama At Inish

Fidelis Morgan will be directing 'Drama At Inish' at the Finborough Theatre. Unseen in London for 60 years, the classic 1933 Irish comedy by Lennox Robinson ( the former manager of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and the first director of Mixed Marriage ) stars Olivier Award winner Celia Imrie.

Ben Cracknell

Ben is currently revisiting 'All The Fun Of The Fair' before working on the tours 'Numberjacks', for Richard Temple Ltd, and 'Hormonal Housewives' for Jamie Wilson Prods.