06 May KSF Artists of Choice 2016: UK Theatre Selection Panel
Today we were interviewing shortlisted applicants for KSF Artists of Choice: UK Theatre Category. Below you can read about the high level industry professionals who worked with us on the selection panel to uncover some of the best new talent working in the UK Theatre industry today.
Anna Maxwell Martin is an actress whose career spans film, TV and theatre. Her notable roles include: Lyra in His Dark Materials at the NT (Olivier nomination); Esther Summerson in Bleak House for the BBC (BAFTA for Best Actress); and ‘N’ in Channel 4’s Poppy Shakespeare (BAFTA for Best Actress). She also starred in the mini-series The Bletchley Circle and as Elizabeth Darcy in Death Comes to Pemberley. Recently, she played Mary Shelly in ITV’s The Frankenstein Chronicles and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Young Vic.
Anne McNulty was the casting director at Donmar Warehouse alongside artistic directors Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage and Josie Rourke. Recent credits include: Photograph 51, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V (Michael Grandage Company), Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre), Macbeth (MIF and New York Armory) and the UK casting for Betrayal (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NY). She is currenly working on No Man’s Land (Dir. Sean Mathias) with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
Lyndsey Turner is a Laurence Olivier award winning theatre director who has worked at West End, the NT, the RSC and Broadway. Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Barbican); Tipping the Velvet (Lyric); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); Fathers and Sons, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Donmar Warehouse); Our Private Life (Royal Court) and There is a War (NT). She writes on theatre for The Guardian, directs and teaches with the RSC and lectures at University of London.
Roy Williams, OBE is an award-winning playwright whose accolades include the George Devine Award for Lift Off, the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for Clubland, the 2002 BAFTA for Best Schools Drama for Offside and the 2004 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. Sucker Punch was nominated for Best New Play at both the Evening Standard Awards and the Olivier Awards.
KSF Artists of Choice is a pioneering funding and mentoring initiative for UK, US and Canada based emerging artists working in theatre, musical theatre, dance or film. Epitomizing KSF’s aim of ‘sending the elevator back down’ it will provide funding, year-round support and mentoring by industry heavyweights.