Alumni news: August edition

31 July 2019

You can catch plenty of LAMDA students and alumni at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 2 – 26 August. Take a look at who is taking part here.
The John Thaw Initiative Graduate Season will feature Do Not Alight Here, a new play written by 2019 graduate Gilbert Kyem Jnr, running from 15 – 17 August at The Actors Centre.

2013 graduates The Wet Mariners will perform Romeo & Juliet at Willow Globe, Wales on 3 August.
Esh Alladi will star in The Argument from 7 – 24 August at Theatre Royal Bath.
Jaimi Barbakoff joins the cast of Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse. It opens on 16 August and runs through until October.
2019 graduate William Robinson can be seen in Target Man at The King’s Head Theatre from 20 – 24 August.
You can catch Sam Jenkins-Shaw (2014) in The Night Watch as it embarks on a national tour from 22 August through to November.

Arty Froushan (2017) plays series regular Jonah Breakspeare in new fantasy series Carnival Row which will premiere on Amazon Prime on 30 August.

Natasha Chivers is the Lighting Designer for The Doctor, running at the Almeida Theatre from 10 August – 28 September.
MA Directing alumna Elizabeth Benbow (2018) directs How We Begin at The King’s Head Theatre, running on 11 & 12 August.
2018 Directing graduate Laura Jayne Bateman directs new play Target Man at The King’s Head Theatre from 20 – 24 August. Jenny Wall (2018) is also Assistant Producer on the project.

Hugh Coles (2017) has been cast as George in the World Premiere of Back To The Future: The Musical, opening in Manchester next year.
Sarah Goldberg has been nominated for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at this year’s Emmy Awards. The awards take place on 22 September.
Angus Yellowlees (2017) will join the company for the West End transfer of Tom Morris’ production Touching The Void which will play at Duke of York’s Theatre from 9 November for a strictly limited season.
BBC1 has just announced the cast for their adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse which includes Claire Skinner. The two-part series is expected to air Christmas 2020.
Tom Riley is joining the cast of Joss Whedon’s new HBO Sci-Fi drama The Nevers as series regular Augustus "Augie" Bidlow.

Che Francis (2017) in The Colours, a new play created from interviews with patients at Ty Olwen Hospice in Swansea & Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, now running at Soho Theatre until 17 August.
Last chance to see Leah Harvey (2016) in Small Island at the National Theatre, closing on 10 August.
Last chance to see Rosalind Eleazar (2015) playing Angela in Starry Messenger alongside Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern at the Wyndham’s Theatre, closing on 10 August.

Calling all LAMDA alumni