Alumni news: March edition

05 March 2020

2019 graduates Joshua Eldridge-Smith and Charlie MacVicar star in All Quiet on the Western Front at VAULTS Festival from 3 March.
Katherine Parkinson and Kayla Meikle will star in Shoe Lady at the Royal Court Theatre from 4 March.
Tom York (2014) is starring in Corpse! at Park Theatre from 4 March.
Patrick Knowles and Nicholas Burns star in Love, Love, Love at the Lyric Hammersmith, running from 5 March.
Tom Bateman begins his run as Coriolanus at the Sheffield Crucible on 6 March.
Sophie Wu and Patrick Robinson will be in The Seagull at The Playhouse Theatre from 11 March.
Harry Hadden Paton stars in Flying Over Sunset at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway from 12 March.
Alyssa May Gold stars in How I Learned to Drive, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Broadway from 17 March.
All of Us begins at the National Theatre on 18 March, starring Bryan Dick.
Company opens on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on 22 March with Matt Doyle and Greg Hildreth.
John MacCormick (2014) will star in Snowflakes at the Old Red Lion Theatre from 31 March.

2018 graduates Helena Antoniou and Lili Miller will star in Against the Christians at VAULT Festival from 7 March, co-written by Barney Fishwick.
Women’s Writes Festival returns to the Arcola on 8 March for International Women’s Day. Created and co-produced by Alex Critoph (2014) it involves many alumni.
Celeste Dodwell (2013) and Daniel Abbott (2013) will be performing in GIRL written by Alex Critoph (2013).
Amy Marchant (2013) will be directing play Law Makers, starring Connie Hyde.
Sophie McQuillan (2015) will be performing in 'And so The Rabbit Died', directed by Alex Critoph (2014)
Katharine Orchard (2014) and Isabella Verrico (2019) will star in Firewatcher.
Catherine Kolubayev’s (2016) play BIN JUICE opens at The Vaults on 10 March.
Sasha Wilson (2014) has co-written The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria: Part The First which will be performed as part of VAULTS festival on 11 March.
Helen Duff returns to the VAULTS with her show Helen Duff Is The Tits (Work in Progress) on 17 March.
Julie Hesmondhalgh and Rosa Hesmondhalgh (2017) will be in conversation at The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre on 29 March.

Holly Ellis (2016) is the lighting designer for Bin Juice at Vault Festival from 10 March.
Natasha Chivers is the lighting designer for the Royal Ballet’s International Draft Works 2020, running from 19 March.
Maria Colette Bukley (2017) will be the Assistant Stage Manager on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike which starts performances at the Charing Cross Theatre from 21 March.
Heather Knott (2014) is Sound No1 for Endgame at The Old Vic, running until 28 March.
Hamlet directed by Tinuke Craig (2010) opens at the Dorfman Theatre (NT) on 30 March.
Nick Aldrich is Head of Stage at the Hampstead Theatre.
Natalie Figaredo (2015) is the Assistant Stage Manager at Disneyland Resort.
Irma Kent (2015) is the Assistant Electrician for Shaftesbury Theatre.

Noughts + Crosses premieres on 5 March at 9pm on BBC One with Paterson Joseph and Jonathan Ajayi (2018).
Orion Lee can be seen in First Cow, released on 6 March.
Donald Sutherland is in The Burnt Orange Heresy, released on 6 March in the US.
Jason Flemyng stars in Military Wives, premiering in UK cinemas on 6 March.
Calm With Horses will star Anthony Welsh is released on 13 March in the UK.
James Harkness (2013), Alec Newman and Niamh Walsh (2012) star in The English Game, released on Netflix 20 March.
On 27 March Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway will be released in cinemas across the UK, starring David Oyelowo.
Dame Harriet Walter stars in Belgravia, coming soon to ITV.

Congratulations to Chiwetel Ejiofor for his ‘Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film)’ win at the NAACP Image Awards.
Bathsheba Piepe (2014) has been cast in the RSC’s Projekt Europa.
MA Directing alumni Polly Findlay and Tinuke Craig are both set to direct plays in Chichester Festival Theatre’s recently announced season.
Elliot Edusah (2018) and Jordan Peters (2017) will star in upcoming BBC film Pirates directed by Reggie Yates.
Branden Cook (2019) has been cast in upcoming CW series The Lost Boys.
Congratulations to Andrew Nolan who is runner up of Dublin’s Next Top Comic 2020.
Congratulations to Tinuke Craig (2010), director of The Color Purple, following it’s What’s On Stage Award win for ‘Best regional production’.

Sinners directed by Brian Cox at The Playhouse Theatre, running until 14 March.
Madame Ovary written and performed by Rosa Hesmondhalgh (2017), on tour until 28 March.
Simon Hepworth in La Cage aux Folles at Park Theatre until 21 March.

Calling all LAMDA alumni