Fiddler on the Roof featuring Frances
Thorburn and Gareth
Kennerley was nominated for Olivier Best Musical
Revival and the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.
The Brothers Size designed by Patrick
Burnier received an Olivier nomination for Outstanding
Achievement in the Affiliated Theatre.
Richard
Katz is currently appearing in How To Tell The Monsters
From The Misfits at Birmingham Rep, directed by Lorne
Campbell.
Eleanor
Matsuura can be seen in My Family on Friday 9 May,
BBC1 at 9.30pm.
Anthony
Shuster is currently appearing in Richard II, Henry
IV Parts I & II and Henry V for the
RSC at the Roundhouse as part of the Histories Cycle, directed by
Michael Boyd.
Martin Jarvis directs BBC Radio 4's premiere of Ian Fleming's
Dr No - transmitting on Saturday May 24, 2.30pm. The novel is dramatised by Hugh Whitemore with Toby Stephens as James Bond and David Suchet as Dr No.
Martin Jarvis also plays the voice of Ian Fleming. The all-star cast includes Samuel West, Peter Capaldi, Lisa Dillon and Janie Dee. The producer is Rosalind Ayres.
Jacqueline King
stars as Sylvia Noble, Catherine Tate's mother, in the new
series of Doctor Who which begins Saturday 5 April, BBC1
at 6.20pm.
David
Hartley is appearing in I Caught Crabs in Walberswick
and Eleanor Matsuura is appearing in Stovepipe which both
form part of this year's High Tide Festival.
Nick
Sampson is currently appearing in As You Like It for
Watford Palace Theatre, in the roles of the two Dukes.
Alison
Forbes-Meyler designed the costumes for Peter Taylor's 4
part series, Age of Terror, exploring four major
terrorist attacks from the past three decades
Nominees for this year's Broadcasting
Press Guild Award include Stuart
Maconie and Mark Radcliffe for Radio Broadcaster of the
Year.
Simon
Blackwell has been nominated in the Best Writer
category in this year's RTS awards for The Thick Of It,
which has been nominated also in the Best Situation Comedy
category, and Armstrong and Miller has been nominated
for Best Entertainment Programme.
The Thick of It has also won the Best Comedy Programme in the Broadcast
Awards 2008.
Armstrong and
Miller, whose Fighter Pilot Sketches and Divorced Dad were
created and written by Simon
Blackwell, has also been nominated for Best Comedy/Entertainment
Show in the Broadcasting
Press Guild Awards.
Stuart Maconie's book, Pies and Prejudice,
published by Ebury, has just been released in paperback
going straight into the Top 10 Bestsellers list in its first
week. Stuart also presents the Saturday
afternoon show on Radio 2 between 2-4.30pm and the Freak Zone
on BBC 6Music 5-8pm on Sundays.
Colin Richmond
has designed Hapgood directed by Rachel Kavanaugh in a Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse
co-production. Other recent shows include Bad Girls - The Musical at the
Garrick Theatre, Amadeus at
Sheffield Crucible, Salonika
directed by Nicolai Foster at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Ring Around the Moon, directed by Sean
Mathias in the West End.
Jason
Southgate is designing Sound of My Voice for Citizens' Theatre Glasgow. He recently opened Der Silbersee for
Wexford Festival Opera and Hamlet, Desire Under the Elms, Peter Pan
and Waiting for Godot for the Citz.
Joanna
McCallum is currently appearing in The Clean House,
on National tour directed by John Dove.
Tamzin Griffin
stars in Brief Encounter - Kneehigh Theatre's stage
adaptation of the David Lean film now in the West End.
Emma Rice directs.
"A delight: moving, funny, gripping....Tamzin Griffin
very funny as the 'refayed' Myrtle."
Benedict Nightingale, The Times
The
scripts of the multi-award winning series The Thick of It co-written
by Simon Blackwell
have now been released as a book. You can buy it on Amazon here.
Simon's work on The Thick of It has just been nominated
for a Writers' Guild Award for Best Comedy.
Andrew
Collins features heavily in new UK Gold series, When Were
We Funniest?, which runs from now until Christmas.
Leo
Warner and Mark
Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions have designed the video for
the Royal Opera House productions of Salome and The Minotaur.
They have also just finished designing the video for a
huge tour of Sinatra.
Angela
Davies recently designed Falstaff
for Grange Park Opera and Mahabharata at
Sadler's Wells and on national tour. She is currently
working on a design for the Donmar Warehouse and Rigoletto
for Grange Park Opera.
Trevor
Dann has written a biography, Darker
Than The Deepest Sea: In Search Of Nick
Drake which has just been published by Portrait Publishing.
Trevor hosts the Sunday afternoon show on the Classic Gold Network.
In this year's Royal Television Society Awards, Andrew
Collins won the Breakthrough Award -
Behind the Screen for writing Not Going Out for
Avalon.
Jonny
Trunk has a weekly show on London's Resonance FM, every
Saturday at 4pm.
Belinda
Stewart-Wilson stars in a new comedy series The
Inbetweeners which starts on Thursday 1 May, E4 at 10pm.
David
Ricardo-Pearce is appearing in De Montford at the
Orange Tree Theatre, directed by Imogen Bond.
Steven Hoggett choreographs
and co-directs Dalston Songs at the Royal Opera House,
Linbury Studio.
Mark Jax
is currently appearing in Fast Labour at the West
Yorkshire Playhouse, directed by Ian Brown before it
transfers to Hampstead Theatre.
Jessica
Regan and Pethrow
Gooden can be seen in the first episode in the new series of
Peep Show on Friday 2 May, Channel 4 at 10.30pm. Paul
Clayton also appears on Friday 9 May, Channel
4 at 10.35pm. The episode on Friday 23 May is written by Simon
Blackwell.
Tilly
Gaunt is currently on tour in A Doll's House for
Northern Stage, directed by Erica Whyman. (picture
attached).
'Tilly Gaunt is
mesmerising'
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Anna
Chancellor stars in the new Howard Brenton play Never
So Good at the National Theatre, directed by Howard
Davies.
"Anna Chancellor’s guilt-stricken Dorothy shines
brightly in a drama of rare ambition, intelligence and human
sympathy."
Charles Spencer, The Telegraph.
The History Boys featuring dance by Jack
Murphy is at now at Wyndhams Theatre.
Pitmen Painters which comes to the
National Theatre in May is designed by Gary
McCann with lighting by Douglas
Kuhrt after a run at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
Joseph
Thompson is appearing in Fram at the National
Theatre, directed by Tony Harrison and Bob Crowley.
The
Improbable/ENO production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha
is at The Met in New York. Directed by Phelim
McDermott, Associate Direction and Set Design by Julian
Crouch and video by Leo
Warner and Mark
Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions. The same team
are also directing and designing the Gala to celebrate The
Met's 125th anniversary in 2009.
The new series of My Family begins on Friday 11 April,
BBC1 at 9pm starring Siobhan
Hayes as Abi.
Louise
Ford stars in the Shared Experience adaptation of War
and Peace, directed by Polly Teale and Nancy Meckler and
designed by Angela Simpson,
currently at Hampstead Theatre.
"The central performances are
immaculate...Louise Ford outstanding as the vivacious and
enchanting Natasha...This is triumphant theatre."
Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times
Christopher Patrick Nolan is currently appearing in
Macbeth at BAM in New York, which is transferring the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway New
York.
Dan
Potra designed the Opening Ceremony for the
Liverpool European Capital of Culture '08. He is currenly
working on L'Incoronazione
for Garsington Opera and Samson for Buxton Festival.
Jim
Webster-Stuart is currently on tour in Scotland with Little
Voice, directed by Michael Harrison.
Following
their third successful production in the building Leo
Warner and Mark
Grimmer (Fifty Nine Productions) have been appointed Video
Design Associates of the National Theatre by artistic director
Nicholas Hytner.
Carrie
Quinlan writes and features in BBC 4's Late Edition,
Thursday nights at 10.30pm, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke.
Emma Wee
recent designs include Swan Breaks for Robert Hylton Urban Classicism,
How to Beat a Giant for Unicorn Theatre, Moonwalking
in Chinatown at Soho Theatre, Demon Juice for ROH /
East London Dance as well as a
short film, Fresh for Channel 4. Current work includes Beast
Market for Chol Theatre, How High Is Up? for
Theatre Centre, and Zameen for Kali Theatre.
Patrick Burnier
has designed Entity for Random Dance which opened at
Sadler's Wells and is now on international tour.
His production of The Brothers Size at the Young Vic
will be taken on national and international tour later in the
year.
Ian Scott
has designed the lighting for The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. His
other current productions include Static for Suspect
Culture,
People at Sea for Salisbury Playhouse, Stags and Hens
and On the Ledge for Royal Court Liverpool
Janet
Bird has just designed the No 1 tour of Single Spies
and is currently working on another No 1 tour of Alan Bennett's Enjoy
and The Merry Wives of
Windsor at The Globe Theatre. Other recent productions
include Holding Fire! at the Globe
Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream
at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Gabriel for RADA
and A Small Family Business
at Watford Palace Theatre.
Nick
Powell has recently composed and designed the sound for David Hare's new play,
The Vertical Hour at the Royal Court. He recently
composed for God in Ruins,
directed by Anthony Neilson for
the RSC, designed the sound for The Ugly One at
the Royal Court and composed the music for Marat-Sade for
Spain's National Theatre as well as Futurology for Suspect Culture and the National Theatre of
Scotland's The Wonderful World of Dissocia and The
Wolves in the Walls.
Designer Colin Richmond
features as a Rising Star in The Observer.
Read the article here.
A new series of The Now Show, written by Carrie Quinlan
can be heard on Radio 4 on Thursday 6.30, repeated Saturdays
at 12.30.
Joanna
van Kampen plays teenage wildchild, Fallon Rogers in The
Archers on BBC Radio 4. The programme is available on
demand over the internet and as a podcast..
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