What I've done
- Lady in Bed, solo play written by self where I play all the characters in an autobiographical erotic odyssey. See Home Page for venues. Awards: Buxton Fringe Festival 2008 Nominee for Best Performer, Best New Writing, Best Play.
- As one half of The Weird Sisters Theatre Company (1996 - 2002) devised and performed in 3 shows, It's Uncanny!, Loveplay and The Weird Sisters Get Around. Toured in Australia, USA, Canada and Europe.
Awards: Best Female Performer: Orlando Fringe Festival 1999. Best Show: Adelaide Fringe Festival 2000, Vancouver Festival 1998 and 1999, and Victoria Festival 1998. Best Ensemble Nominee: The Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000.
- In the comedy troupe Spontaneous Combustion, performed in improvised and scripted shows, all over UK and regularly at the Edinburgh Festival from 1990-2000.
- London Theatre: played leading roles in plays such as Mornings After (writer: Lucinda Coxon), Nothing If Not Critical (at the Gielgud Theatre) and The Seduction of Ms Sarah Hart (director: Stella Duffy)
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What I've done
- Three shows for Vienna English Theatre : Look Back In Anger (2006), Pitch Black (2007), a modern update of Othello, and Sacrifice (2009), a new work about knife-crime.
- Several Studios for Youth Music Theatre, devising musicals in 7 days. Also: shorter projects, devising shows in 3 days or directing scenes from Shakespeare, and longer projects eg Dead Heat (writer Steven Keyworth), a full-scale comedy-thriller musical.
- Laura Lloyd's solo show, Patchwork (2008)
- Totally Over You (Mark Ravenhill) and Alfie for CPA college.
- Volpone by Ben Jonson (Hoxton Hall) for The Hub (with Jonathan Salisbury).
- Our Shadows. Short play devised and directed in 4 days with gifted and talented 14 year olds from Newham in East End of London. Performed at Stratford Circus June 2005.
- London Isn't Venice - Yet:comedy street theatre piece using masks with an eco-message performed at sites up and down the River Thames.
- Held auditions and directed pieces for the new intake of The National Youth Theatre 2006.
- Young People's video projects for The Video College
- Shows for The Rainbow Group (learning disabled actors) including Vampires Bite Back and Metal Man.
- Ran weekly drama course for Streetsoul for disabled children in Hackney School and directed final piece.
- Co-director of three comedy dramas for The Weird Sisters.
- Young women's theatre project, Birds of a Feather (Lewisham Theatre).
- Comedy sketches, workshop productions.
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What I can do
- My strengths are empathy and emotional understanding, great comic timing, a big range of accents and being able to interract fearlessly with the public in the theatre or on the street.
- In physical / visual theatre I can play a multitude of types, having played everything from crones to children to vamps.
- In straight theatre, I can play mothers or businesswomen, courtesans or goddesses!
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What I can do
- Work with professionals or amateurs, young people or adults.
- Devise a show from scratch.
- Direct any sort of script, classical or modern.
- Realise a total theatre experience including set, lighting, sound and costumes.
- Specialise in comedy.
- Direct mask-theatre.
- Work indoors or out, in any size space, with big or small budgets.
- Give strong leadership and work collaboratively.
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