Anna Wheatley joins In Bed with My Brother’s We Are Ian in Hong Kong

With just four days rehearsal, Anna stepped into the breach to join the cast of We Are Ian and is currently performing in Hong Kong with the production. We are Ian is set in 1989 Manchester and explores the club scene of the era.

03/10/2019

Laura McGrady and Sarah Cullum star in Baby Box at York Theatre Royal

Baby Box

Baby Box is Laura’s debut play. First performed in 2018 it received four star reviews and now returns to York Theatre Royal as part of its TakeOver festival on 28th and 29th October.

02/10/2019

Jude Owusu, currently at Shakespeare’s Globe, narrates RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships

Jude Owusu

Jude’s narration of The Bone Ships has just been released. The Bone Ships is the epic saga of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker.

01/10/2019

Faye Castelow nominated for Best Performance in 2019 UK Theatre Awards

Faye has been nominated in the Best Performance category of this year’s UK Theatre Awards for her portrayal of the Queen in the first ever regional production of Peter Morgan’s The Audience. The production was at Nuffield Southampton Theatres earlier this year. The production was cast by fellow OSD graduate, Annelie Powell CDG.

30/09/2019

Catherine McCormack currently starring in Sky One’s Temple

Catherine plays Beth, Mark Strong’s terminally ill wife in the Sky One television series which is an adaptation of the Norwegian television Valkyrien. In the series Daniel (Mark Strong),

29/09/2019

Kiran Sonia Sawar starts filming ITV’s upcoming crime drama, Invisible

Kiran will star alongside Jason Watkins, Joanna Scanlan, Hugh Dennis, Robert Lindsay and Freddie Fox in ITV’s new drama set in Bath. Kiran will play

28/09/2019

Victoria Bavister’s feature film, County Lines, has its world premiere at the BFI as part of the London Film Festival on 8 October.

Produced by OSD graduate Victoria, County Lines is a hard hitting drama which follows 14 year old Tyler who is excluded from school and becomes a narcotics courier for a local criminal.

27/09/2019

Daniel Hallissey’s play The Shadow of the Black Dog announces its London premiere

Following an enthusiastic welcome at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, Daniel’s play produced by All the Pigs Theatre Company will transfer to London in February

26/09/2019

Jemma Powell is playing Grace Craven in the feature film of the novel The Secret Garden.

From the producers of Harry Potter and Paddington, The Secret Garden is an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 children’s classic novel.

25/09/2019

Frazer Hadfield has a leading role in the new comedy series Frayed

Frazer plays Lenny the teenage son dragged to Australia by his mother in this new Sky series which starts on Thursday 26 September at 10pm.

23/09/2019

Lewis MacKinnon in UK tour of The Night Watch

Lewis is currently touring in Original Theatre and York Theatre Royal’s stage adaptation of The Night Watch by Sarah Walters.

16/09/2019

Molly Chesworth embarks on national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth with Newbury Watermill Ensemble

The productions tour from 11 September to 9 October to Newcastle, Oxford, Poole, Cheltenham, Cardiff and Norwich.

15/09/2019

Louise Marwood stars in What’s in a Name?

Louise makes a return to the stage in What’s in a Name at Glasgow Theatre Royal 1st-5th Oct and York Grand Opera House 8th-12th Oct.

14/09/2019

Conor Gormally is touring in Angela’s Ashes – The Musical

Conor is playing Malachy Jnr in a tour of the musical which takes in the Grand Opera House in Belfast, Bord Gaia Energy Theatre in Dublin, Cork Opera House and Fairfield Halls in Croydon later this month.

13/09/2019

Dipo Ola joins Babou Ceesay in Alibi TV’s new crime drama We Hunt Together

Recent Three Year Course graduate, Dipo joins fellow graduate Babou in a new crime drama We Hunt Together to be released next year.

12/09/2019

Kopfkino’s The Grand Scheme of Things transfers to Theatre503

Kopfkino Theatre Company (OSD graduate Nic McQuillan and Flora Marston) have announced that The Grand Scheme of Things, which was at the Edinburgh Fringe last month, will have three shows at Theatre503 from 19 – 21 September

11/09/2019

To the Elephant’s The Merchant of Venice stars OSD graduates

From 17 – 28 September To The Elephant’s production of The Merchant of Venice will run at CLF Art Cafe.

10/09/2019

Celyn Jones is nominated for Best Actor at the 2019 BAFTA Cymru Awards

Celyn has been nominated for his role as killer Levi Bellfield in ITV’s Manhunt. The other three actors in this category are Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Rhys and Michael Sheen.

09/09/2019

Alexandra Dowling and Daniella Issacs star in VASSA at the Almeida

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Alexandra and Daniella make their Almeida debuts in Maxim Gorky’s VASSA. The play has been adapted by Mike Bartlett and is directed by Tinuke Craig. It runs from 5 October to 23 November and also stars Samantha Bond.

02/09/2019

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