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Nell reprises her role as Queen Victoria’s dresser, Skerrett, in the third series of Victoria.  Nell has been in the drama since it started in 2016. 

Following his extraordinary screenwriting debut, Set Fire to the Stars, Celyn’s second feature has just been released in the UK. 

Laurence joins Grace Molony, Timothy Walker and Suzan Sylvester and prize-winning concert pianist Elizabeth Rossiter in Alix Sobler’s new play set in 19th century Bavaria. 

Cassie has joined the cast of Corrie as waitress from Nick’s restaurant in Nottingham, who helped with a con by withdrawing someone’s money from various

Gemma has just been nominated for her performance in A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios 2.  In a hat-trick the director, Lucy Jane Atkinson and writer, Tatty Hennessy have also been nominated.

Nyet!: A Brexit UK Border Farce, co-written by Gabriella, Alex Helfrecht and Jorg Tittel is available on Sky Arts Channel. The timely short film is produced by Oiffy and mines a seam of black humour in which post-Brexit British border ports are clogged and there is an illicit trade in food from the European mainland. The short also stars Olivia Williams (An Education), Beatie Edney (Poldark) and Garry Mountaine (The Lobster).

· Maimuna was interviewed and sang on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Today, on the morning of Wednesday 20th March in a package about Standing at the Sky’s Edge, a new musical at Sheffield Crucible Theatre with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley and book by Chris Bush.

The shortlist for the 2018 Sunday Times/National Theatre Ian Charleson Awards has just been announced and includes OSD graduate, Daniel Burke. The awards were created to acknowledge the work of actors under 30 in a classical role (defined as written before 1918), in memory of the National’s great 1989 Hamlet, who died of complications caused by Aids two months after his final performance in the role.

Ella’s debut play has been nominated in the category ‘Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre’.  It premiered in the Downstairs theatre at Hampstead last year and has transferred to the main house there and will open on 19th March.

The Secret of Nightingale Wood, Lucy’s debut novel received rapturous reviews when it was first published in 2016. 

Victoria is playing Malcolm in the latest Shakespeare to be produced at the Watermill as part of its resident Shakespeare company initiative.

Charity reprises her role as William Shakespeare in the transfer of Morgan Lloyd Malcom’s hit play Emilia. 

Faye Castelow will play Queen Elizabeth II in Morgan’s hit play, which explores the relationship between the monarch and her Prime Ministers over the course of more than sixty years.

The Terence Rattigan Society, following a generous gift from Dr Holly Hill, have set up the French Memorial Fund.

Maimuna opens in Standing at the Sky’s Edge on 15th March.  This is the epic new musical that takes the audience into the hearts and homes of the people of Park Hill,

OSD graduate company, Wildcard, is taking its award-winning gig theatre production, Electrolyte on a national tour this Spring after a sell-out run at last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Ella Road’s debut play was performed in Hampstead Theatre’s studio space last year.  It received such an ecstatic response that it returns to the theatre on 19th March, this time to the main house.

Imogen stars in Simon Godwin’s production of Timon of Athens at the RSC in Statford upon Avon until 22 February. The production of Shakespeare’s dark satire, in which Kathryn Hunter takes the title role, has received good reviews:

2018 One Year Course graduate, Hiftu makes her professional stage debut as Julie in Miss Julie which tours Scotland this Spring.  Strindberg’s classic play moves to Scotland

Following a hugely successful run in Stratford-upon-Avon, Tom and Paul reprise their roles in the RSC’s production of Romeo and Juliet which is touring nationwide.

Charity reprises her role as William Shakespeare in the transfer of Morgan Lloyd Malcom’s hit play Emilia. 

Tom Ratcliffe’s play Velvet has been published by Playdead Press, an independent UK publishing house that specialises in the publication of new and emerging drama and poetry writers.

Molly played mother of two, Jeannie, in this week’s episode of the hit BBC series.

Victoria will play Malcolm in the latest Shakespeare to be produced at the Watermill as part of its resident Shakespeare company initiative.

Chanelle opens in Ivo van Hove’s production of All About Eve alongside Gillian Anderson and Lily James on 2 February. The play is a new adaptation of the film which is described as “a razor-sharp, unsettling exposé of the eternal obsession at the heart of show-business.” It plays at the Noel Coward Theatre until 11 May.

The 2019 New Diorama and Underbelly ‘Untapped’ Award finalists include Kopfkino’s Grand Scheme of Things and Wildcard’s 17.  Kopfkino Theatre is led by OSD One Year Course graduate Nic McQuillan and Flora Marston.  The Grand Scheme of Things was part of a scratch night at The Yard in December 2017, and was subsequently developed as part of Litmus Festival at Pleasance in September 2018.

Writer and actor Ella Road has been nominated for the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The nomination is for her play The Phlebotomist which received excellent reviews when it had its debut at the studio in Hampstead Theatre last year and is transferring to Hampstead’s main house from 19 March – 20 April this year.

As well as being in BBC1’s Silent Witness this week, Kiran (far right above) plays one of the leads in the new Channel 4 comedy drama, Pure, which starts on Wednesday 30 January.

Olivia has been appearing as troubled single mum, Dawn, in Emmerdale for many months, but in the last few weeks ITV has announced that her character will become a regular in the award-winning soap. 

Emily Lloyd-Saini (here with Mark Bonnar) is playing regular character Tanya in the new series of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s hit Catastrophe.