Maimuna can currently be seen playing Mary in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical which has won high critical acclaim and five star reviews.
Kiran has won a second award for her performance in the BBC’s Murdered by My Father.
This year’s Fringe Festival has just finished, and it’s worth looking back at some of the triumphs:
Richard is to make his major TV debut, starring in a BBC Two docu-drama about one of the most famous homosexuality cases in British legal history.
Bancroft is a dark and compelling four-part thriller in which Lee stars alongside Sarah Parish, Faye Marsay, Linus Roache, Adrian Edmonson and Art Malik. It
Jude, who is currently on tour in Unicorn Theatre’s Jermee, Hartleby and Oooglemore will start rehearsals shortly for Tim Sheader’s production of A Tale of Two Cities. Matthew Dunster wrote the play, an adaptation from Charles Dickens’ novel. The production opens in July.
Babou has been nominated for his role in Sky Atlantic’s Guerrilla and Claire for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown.
Victoria is currently undertaking a UK and international tour of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, which visits:
Three graduates are involved in productions nominated for this year’s Offies:
Winner of a 2016 Fringe First Award, Adura Onashile’s Expensive Shit comes to Soho Theatre. Adura both wrote and directs the production.
National Geographic’s first scripted series is about the life of Einstein and features Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Emily Watson and Robert Lindsay. Graduate Samantha Colley plays Einstein’s first wife. The series also stars Charity Wakefield with appearances by Brendan Douglas and Foundation Course graduate Luke Dale.
The Oxford School of Drama graduates Claire Foy and Babou Ceesay have been nominated in the categories of Leading Actress and Leading Actor respectively in the 2017 BAFTAs.
Claire has been nominated for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s THE CROWN. This is her second consecutive nomination. In 2016 she was nominated for her role as Anne Boleyn in BBC Two’s adaptation of WOLF HALL.
Charlotte is currently touring in Theatre Royal Bath’s production of Abigail’s Party. The tour will take her from Bath to Cheltenham, Eastbourne, Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Malvern and Richmond. The cast includes Abigail Abbington (Sherlock), Ben Caplan (Sunny Afternoon) Rose Keegan (Bedroom Farce) and Ciaran Owens (Titus Andronicus).
Emma is starring in the new play Nivelli’s War at the Belfast Lyric. Produced by Cahoots NI in association with the Lyric, and written by acclaimed playwright Charles Way, Nivelli’s War is a spellbinding family drama which blends theatre, magic, illusion with original music.
Seán reprises his role one of the three Connolly brothers on which An Klondike centres and is joined by Tim who plays Micí Bán Connolly. The Irish TV series has been critically acclaimed and was nominated for 10 awards at last year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, winning five, including the prestigious award for Best Drama Series. Season 2 picks up a few weeks after the climactic events that brought the first season to a close and continues the story of the Connolly brothers as they struggle to forge an empire for themselves during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s.
Brendan and Henry will be in Phil Willmott’s production Incident at Vichy from 28 March until 22 April. It will be the first professional production of Arthur Miller’s play in over 50 years.
Play Theatre Company’s The Subterranean Season stars Eleanor Hafner and Emily Stott from 25 Jan – 5 March
Denholm has just finished The HIV Monologues at Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, for which he received critical acclaim:
The first production in the Liverpool Everyman’s Repertory Season, Fiddler on the Roof, opened on 18 February.
The revival of Claire McIntyre’s Low Level Panic starring Samantha Pearl opens to acclaim at The Orange Tree Theatre.
Catherine returns to the stage in April De Angelis’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel, My Brilliant Friend. The production, directed by Melly Still, opens at The Rose Theatre in Kingston on 25 February and plays until 2 April
Clique is a new six-part drama set in an Edinburgh university written by Jess Brittain (Skins), which will be broadcast later this year.
Christina stars as Mrs Sheenan in SS-GB the new BBC series adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 thriller.
Claire has won a second award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown. The prestigious Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Sunday 29 January in Los Angeles.
Lee has won the ‘Best Debut Performance’ in the BBC Audio Drama awards which celebrate the best of radio. Lee won the award for his performance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner directed by Carl Prekopp. The production was made by Goldhawk Essential for Radio 4.
Frazer will make his professional stage debut in The Girls on 28 January when it opens at The Phoenix Theatre.
Rhiann stars in Ignace Cornelissen’s The Hunting Lodge from 31 January – 6 March. The play is a modern love story (gone wrong) translated and directed by the Unicorn’s Artistic Director, Purni Morell.
Charlotte will play Angela in the 40th Anniversary production of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party. The production opens in Bath on 1 March before touring nationally to:
With a growing number of courses to choose from, it is as important as ever that potential students know the right questions to ask to find the best course for them.
Theatre503 presents a festival of plays, creative responses and debate around the inauguration of Donald Trump. The plays will include:
