Steven Hoggett has won Best Theatre Choreographer in this year's Olivier Awards for Black Watch at the Barbican.  

 

In addition, Black Watch, which featured Jack Fortune and video design by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions, won another 3 Oliviers.

 

The RSC Histories at the Roundhouse featuring Anthony Shuster won Best Company Performance.

Anna Chancellor stars in The Observer at the National Theatre, directed by Richard Eyre.

 

"Chancellor understands perfectly how her moral drive undermines her political drive. This is a subtle performance, almost a tragic one." 

The Times 

 

"Miss Chancellor is excellent." 

Daily Mail. 

 

"Chancellor’s progression from impartial observer to wrung-out shell is exhaustingly convincing.” 

The Express.

 

Pitmen Painters is designed by Gary McCann with lighting by Douglas Kuhrt

Colin Richmond has designed La Boheme at Holland Park Opera.
Orlando Wells can be seen in Doctors, Thursday 9th July, BBC1 at 1.45pm in the role of Chris Lenton.
Robin Weaver and Femi Tay Oguns can both be seen in the feature film Last Chance Harvey, directed by Joel Hopkins, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
Paul McGillion stars in Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams, currently on general release.
Gordon Kennedy stars in the new series of Robin Hood which begins on Saturday 28th March, BBC1 at 6.50pm. Gordon reprises his role of Little John.
Richie Campbell is appearing in Monster Under The Bed for the Polka Theatre, directed by Jonathan Lloyd.
Ian Emes has an exhibition called It Was A Thursday Night currently on at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury.  Check here for more details: www.stomper.org.uk/ianemes.html
David Hartley is currently appearing as Ferdinand in The Tempest for Sprite Productions/Theatre Royal York.
Belinda Stewart-Wilson can be seen in the second series of The Inbetweeners, which is being repeated on Channel 4, Tuesdays at 11.10pm.
John Stahl is appearing in Frontline at Shakespeare's Globe, directed by Matthew Dunster.
Jan Ravens is currently starring in her one woman show A Funny Look At Impressions, on tour.  For tour dates check: www.janravens.com
Alphabetical Order designed by Janet Bird is currently at Hampstead Theatre  before going on national tour.
Peep Show, co-written by Simon Blackwell has been nominated for the BAFTA Best Sitcom, and Harry Hill's TV Burp, co-written by David Quantick has been nominated for Best Entertainment. TV Burp has just won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment, beating Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor. Peep Show won the Writers Award. 
In The Loop, a new feature film written by Simon Blackwell, Jesse Armstrong, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche has had brilliant reviews at Sundance, and opens in the UK in the Spring. It stars James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi and Tom Hollander.
Patrick Burnier has designed Small Change at Sherman Cymru.  He has also just designed A Miracle at the Royal Court Upstairs.
Naomi Wilkinson's award winning designs for Peer Gynt are being revived by the National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican from 1 May, followed by a national tour.  She is also currently working on The Last Witch for the Edinburgh International Festival and The Fahrenheit Twins for Told by an Idiot.
Request Programme in Cologne which featured extensive video by Leo Warner for Fifty Nine Productions  has been nominated on to the ten most remarkable productions of the year by the Berlin Festspiele.
Jack Murphy has choreographed the new and iconic ads for the COI's Train to Gain campaign.  See it here.
South Bank Show Nominations 2008

 

The Minotaur at the ENO with video designed by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions  

 

I am Falling at The Gate and Sadler's Wells designed by Garance Marneur with lighting design by Katharine Williams

 

Entity at Sadler's Wells designed by Patrick Burnier

TMA Awards Winners 2008

 

Best Touring Production

 

National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch - starred Jack Fortune. Steven Hoggett is the Associate Director: Movement and Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions designed the video.

 

Best New Play

 

The Pitmen Painters at Live Theatre Newcastle was designed by Gary McCann with lighting by Douglas Kuhrt

Dan Potra is designing The Gathering at Edinburgh Castle.
Katharine Williams current lighting designs include Amgen Broken at Sherman Cardiff,  Nocturnal at the Gate and a series of three plays at Hackney Empire.

Angela Davies is currently working on La Cenerentola for Garsington Opera, a design for the Donmar Warehouse and Rigoletto for Grange Park Opera.
Andrew Collins's latest book, That's Me In The Corner has just been published in paperback by Ebury
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is currently being repeated on Radio 4 in tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, whose words were largely penned by Iain Pattinson.
Harry Hill's TV Burp written by David Quantick won the BAFTA for Best Entertainment.
Professor Justin Spear presides over The University Of The Strange on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone.

The Thick of It written by Simon Blackwell has also won the Best Comedy Programme in the Broadcast Awards 2008. 
Katharine Williams has been nominated for this year's Knight of Illumination Award for Dance Lighting for her lighting design for I Am Falling at The Gate.  

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.

Adam Smith, Andrew Collins and Stuart Maconie have weekly columns in the Radio Times. Andrew is its Film Editor.

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.  

Cliff Parisi plays Minty Peterson in EastEnders.

Andrew Collins is Word Magazine's television reviewer.

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..

Jonny Trunk has a weekly show on London's Resonance FM, every Saturday at 4pm.

Paul Copley stars as Clement McDonald in Torchwood: Children Of The Earth, which will be screened on five consecutive days, starting on Monday 6th July, BBC1 at 9pm.
Christine Walmesley-Cotham has won the BAFTA Craft Award for Hair and Make Up Design for Miss Austen Regrets.  She is currently working on the TV series, Wallander.
Guy Burnet can be seen in Moving On, Monday 6th July, BBC1 at 10.35pm.
Martin Jarvis stars as David Bradburn in a new comedy drama about a group of BBC journalists posted in Taking The Flak which starts on Wednesday 8th July, BBC2 at 9pm.
Darren Boyd is starring in Personal Affairs for BBC3, directed by Ashley Way.  Pauline Knowles can also be seen.
War Horse starring Colin Mace, Tim Lewis, Gareth Kennerley and Stephen Harper has now moved from the National Theatre to the New London Theatre in the West End. The production's video design is by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions.
Clive Francis is currently starring as Argan in The Hypochondraic, for ETT and Liverpool Everyman, directed by Gemma Bodinetz.

 

"Clive Francis' finely judged crusty hypochondriac" 
The Observer 
"It is hard to complain while enjoying the relish that Francis brings to the lines...An evening of sweet pleasure." The Times

Cora Bissett is currently on tour in Midsummer, directed by David Greig for the Traverse Theatre.
Liam Steel directs The Tempest opening at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. 
Jordan Long can be seen in Hotel Babylon on Friday 3rd July, BBC1 at 9pm.
Thusitha Jayasundera is appearing in Dreams of Violence at the Soho Theatre, directed by Max Stafford-Clark for Out of Joint.
Helena Lymbery is currently is Salzberg performing in Al Gran Sole Carico D'Amore, directed by Katie Mitchell with video by Leo Warner for Fifty Nine Productions for the Salzberg Festival.
Philip Brodie and Guy Porritt can be seen in Young Dracula which is currently being repeated on BBC2, Saturdays at 11.30am.
Susie Donkin writes and stars in Horrible Histories for CBBC on BBC2, Thursdays at 4.35pm.
At Garsington Opera, Gary McCann has designed Fidelio and Angela Davies has designed La Cenerentola.
Alexia Khadime has returned to play Elphaba in Wicked at the Apollo Theatre, West End.
Richard Katz and Christine Entwistle are currently appearing in the RSC production of As You Like It, directed by Michael Boyd with movement direction by Struan Leslie.

 

Nick Powell is composing The Drunks and providing the sound design for The Grain Store for the RSC.
Isabelle Joss is appearing in Pitlochry Summer Season 2009.
Duncan Anderson is appearing in the National Theatre of Scotland production of Peer Gynt, at the Barbican and on tour. It features Naomi Wilkinson's CAT award winning design.
Alison Forbes-Meyler has designed the costumes for the feature The Hide which opens on 4 June with a screening at the ICA.
Sophie Abelson stars as new regular Nurse Cherry Malone in Doctors, BBC1 at 1.45pm.
Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie is currently in the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestsellers list. Stuart is appearing in a host of literary festivals this spring and summer. 
Lizzie Powell is designing the lighting for Transform Orkney, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Our Teacher's a Troll for the National Theatre of Scotland.  She is also lighting Under Milk Wood at the Theatre Royal, Northampton.

Colin Richmond  has designed costumes for Entertaining Mr Sloane and set's for Touched...for the Very First Time at Trafalgar Studios and When We Are Married for West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Janet Bird has designed Alan Bennett's Enjoy directed by Christopher Luscombe now at the Gielgud Theatre.

 

"Janet Bird's remarkable set is the silver-gilded inner shell of the house, the inner walls of the upper floor visible, the whole reminiscent of a partially demolished building. The glossy grey suits and impenetrable poise of the council employees add to the mounting surrealism and the final de-construction of the house forms a deeply unsettling and emotional backdrop for a memorable final scene." 
British Theatre Review

Struan Leslie has been appointed Head of Movement at the RSC.  See the press release.

Jack Murphy has choreographed the feature film The Young Victoria on general release from 6 March.  His contribution is featured on the film's website and you can hear an interview with Jack about his work on the film here.
Stuart Maconie hosts BBC 4's Style On Trial, a new six part series, as part of their ongoing season of programmes about British Fashion.
The Pitmen Painters at the National Theatre has just won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.  It was designed by Gary McCann with lighting design by Douglas Kuhrt  
David Quantick hosts and writes his new series Broken Arts on Radio 4 at 6.30 on Tuesday nights.
ATC's The Brothers Size designed by Patrick Burnier has been awarded Best International Show by the Association of Critics of Barcelona.
Lyttelton's Britain, written by Iain Pattinson, who wrote all of Humph's stuff on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is now available published by Preface.

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day featuring movement and choreography by Jack Murphy is now on general release.  Jack has also choreographed the feature film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging also on general release.

Naomi Wilkinson has won the 2008 CATS (Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland) Award for Best Design for Peer Gynt (Dundee Rep / National Theatre of Scotland) which also won Best Production.  Naomi also won the 2007 award for Best Design.

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.
Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer of Fifty Nine Productions feature in the Rising Stars column in The Observer.  Read the article here.

The Met's 125th anniversary gala was directed by Phelim McDermott, Associate Direction and Set Design by Julian Crouch and video by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions.  

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.

 

Their new website:  www.fiftynineproductions.co.uk 

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 is now on national and international tour.

Ian Scott has designed the lighting for The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre.  

Designer Colin Richmond features as a Rising Star in The Observer.  Read the article here.

AHA are delighted to announce that we now represent Priyanga Burford, Calum Gittins, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Kristian Phillips, Stefano Braschi, Samantha Pearl and Sharon Young.

 

 

Last updated: 01 July 2009

 

 

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