Harry Hill's TV Burp written by David Quantick won the BAFTA for Best Entertainment.

War Horse at the National Theatre featuring Gareth Kennerley, Tim Lewis, Thusitha Jayasundera and Stephen Harper with video design by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions was nominated for 6 Olivier Awards and won for Best Design.  It was also nominated for two Evening Standard Awards. 

 

Saint Joan at the National Theatre featuring Gareth Kennerley, Ross Waiton and David Ricardo-Pearce has won the South Bank Theatre Award and an Olivier for Best Revival.  

 

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.  


Cliff Parisi plays Minty Peterson in EastEnders.


Andrew Collins is Word Magazine's television reviewer.


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


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

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.

 

Julian Crouch is also designing Dr Atomic for The Met.  Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions are designing the video.


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.

 

Their new website:  www.fiftynineproductions.co.uk 


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.


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


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..


AHA are delighted to announce that we now represent

Katharine Williams, Steven O'Donnell, Hector Harkness, Tyronne Lewis and Teresa Churcher.

 

 


 

Last updated: 06 May 2008

 

 

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