The Actors Centre Showcase » 2009 December

Chrys Salt – Director

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Chrys is an award winning writer and theatre director. She began her career as a performer in Rep, touring, West End, TV and radio with regular stints in various soaps and series. She now directs in theatre and sound and writes books, theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries including seven popular books for actors. She is Artistic Director of Bare Boards…and a passion Theatre Company and The Bakehouse, a flourishing arts venue in S.W Scotland. Chrys teaches regularly at The Actors Centre, London.

Katherine Bower

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Katherine trained at Mountview Academy and with The National Youth Theatre.

Credits include: Rosalind in As you like it (National Tour), Abigail’s Party and Shakers: Re-Stirred (FalconGrange Productions), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Tour), Anthony Eden’s wife in Opportunism, Duplicity, Paranoia (Remitrom Theatre), Twelfth Night (Pentameters) The School for Scandal (Red Handed at The Bridewell), Wild Oats (Upstairs at The Gatehouse), Closer (The Seagull Theatre), Dead Lock (NYT at the Soho Theatre) and various roles in short films.

Julia Effertz

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German-born Julia Effertz trained as a dancer and singer in Cologne and Berlin, and studied acting at the Ecole Supérieure du Spectacle, Paris, and at City lit London. Julia continues to hone her skills at the Actors Centre London.

Theatrical credits include: ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ (Maria Josefa); ‘The Bald Primadonna’ (Mary); ‘Two’ (Woman), ‘A Mouthful of Birds’ (Yvonne). Julia has played German terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in the one-woman piece ‘No Memorial for Gudrun Ensslin’ and was recently involved in the development of a New Writing project based on the life of Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera. Since childhood, she has worked extensively as a voice-over artist in TV, film and radio.

Julia enjoys singing and playing the piano. She is also a trained journalist and proficient linguist, speaking English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Julia is currently seeking representation.

Jaleelah Galbraith

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Jaleelah was a member of the NYT and gained her BA (Hons) in drama and English at the university of the west of England before training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY. She has recently worked in rep across London and Berkshire, performing in 18 productions during the year, favourite roles include Sarah in The Norman Conquests, Julie in Miss Julie and Stella in Eden End. Jaleelah has just started stand up and already performs her own comedy sketches.

Jaleelah is seeking representation

Jack Lewis

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Jack trained at the Drama Studio London where he played roles including Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Silvius in As You Like It and Dorimant in The Man of Mode.

Since graduating he has played Banquo in Macbeth, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and will soon be appearing as Sebastian in Twelfth Night and Tuzenbakh in the Three Sisters. His other theatre credits include The Revenger’s Tragedy (BAC), Out of Office (Bridewell Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Union Theatre) and Laughter in the Afternoon (Landor Theatre).

Jack has starred in several films and recently appeared as the lead character (a brummie dreamer) in the award-winning feature Homemade Vigilante (please see http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1461912089/ to view the trailer).

He is also a founder member of Pinchouch! Productions who have just finished a sell out run of their debut show May Contain Nuts.

Originally from Birmingham, he now lives with his wife in London.

Lucy McGuinness

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Lucy’s from southern Ireland and is a graduate from Birmingham School of Speech & Drama. Her stage credits include Tales From Ovid (The Old Rep, B’ham), Dance Hall Days (Riverside Studios), Gianni Schicchi (The Gaiety, Dublin) The Lonesome West (Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone) and Sive (The Belltable, Ireland and UK tour). Her television credits include work for 02 and Sky Home & Travel. Lucy works closely with an Irish Rep Group and is currently seeking representation.

Clea Myers

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Clea Myers studied at Brown University (USA) and trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Favourite parts include Sexy Sheila with Mackenzie Crook on Gas (Ch 4), Gypsy in Camino Real and Winnie in new play, Saving Winnie where she was ‘wholly convincing’ as a sex-obsessed, born-again Christian (Time Out). She is also an Internet Agony Aunt and has written a memoir about her experiences with crystal meth in Los Angeles. She actively raises awareness in the British media (This Morning, LK Today, Sky & ITV News, BBC Radio) about this devastating street drug.

Clea’s book ‘Tweaking the Dream: A Crystal Meth True Story’ was published in May 2009 and she is currently devising a one-woman play with this vibrant and challenging material (www.cleamyers.com)

Clea is seeking representation.

Jennifer Oliver

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Jennifer Oliver is a graduate of Drama Centre London. She is currently in rehearsal playing Bet (Nancy understudy) for Ray Shell’s Oliver Twist, which runs from Nov 1st – Jan 10th at The Lion and Unicorn. Credits include Ellen in Outlying Islands at the Soho Theatre, Kate in Gut Girls, an all-female Hamlet at The White Bear, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Antigone in Anouilh’s Antigone. Jennifer is a strong Soprano and has Advanced ISTD exams in Tap, Modern, National and Jazz. She is also a trained journalist with a MA in Broadcast Journalism.

Shani Perez

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Shani was born in Israel with Jewish/Moroccan origin and other than English she speaks Hebrew and Arabic.

She trained at the Sharon Alexander Acting School for Stage and Screen in Tel Aviv, Post graduate at the London Academy of Performing Art, Skills Development through Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Theatre credits include: Munia in Return from Guantanamo bay Etcetera theatre, Electra in The Flies Camden’s People Theatre, Nandini in Red Oleander Camden’s People Theatre. Recent film credits include: Secret Agent in Discrete by Rotem Koppelmann, Voice over include: Munich by Steven Spielberg.

Currently Shani is Anne Frank in the award winning multi-media play And then they came for me (London Tour includes The Richmond Theatre) and working on her documentary dealing with Israeli politics (post-production).

Carina Reeves

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Was born in London and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She furthered her career at Italia Conti Drama School and graduated in 2007. Theatre credits include: Young Cossette in Les Miserables (Palace), Oliver (London Palladium), Into the Woods (Landor), Its Behind You (Union) and a performance of new writings (Soho).
TV credits include Casualty (BBC), Sofia’s Diary (Channel 5).
Most recently Carina has been involved in Voice Over work for BBC Radio 1, Nintendo Wii, Play Station, GAME and is currently playing the lead in a New TV Animation series ‘Sofi on Safari’.

Sam Webster

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Sam graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2008 and spent summer 2009 training in London, Paris and Berlin on the European ACT programme delivered by The Actors Centre, RADA and the Institute of Performing Arts, Paris.

Theatre roles whilst training include: Iago (Othello), Spurio (The Revenger’s Tragedy), Poins, Sit Walter Blunt, Sir Richard Vernon, Justice Shallow (Henry IV), Stanley (The Birthday Party), Jim O’Connor (The Glass Menagerie)

Professional theatre roles include: Paul (Geordie Man) in ‘Aftercare’, Camden People’s Theatre; Tom (Geordie Settler) in ‘Skin Tight’, The Pleasance Islington; Maddocks (Geordie Army Officer) in ‘Kikia te Poa’, Pacific Playhouse; Geordie lad in ’Precious Things’, Pacific Playhouse; Tyablt / Balthazar in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Wimbledon Studio; Captain Datchikvilli in ‘Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All’, The Finborough; the title role in ‘Richard III’, Catford Broadway.

Sam has also worked with the following directors: Harry Burton, Jovan Arsenic, Patricia Bardon, Patrick Toomey, Scott Williams, Niki Flacks, Martin Wilde, and Stella Duffy.

Film: Rage (2nd Lead Villain) in ‘I of the Lost’ (Feature, 2009/ 10); Hunter 2 (Viral, 2008) in ‘Secret Squirrel’, Wanted Films Ltd.

Sam is fiercely proud of his Geordie roots and prays that Newcastle United are promoted to the Premier League this season.