What BBC Three writer and Sharon Horgan collaborator worked at the White Bear theatre?
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White Bear Theatre The White Bear Theatre is a fringe theatre founded in 1988 at the White Bear pub in Kennington, London, and run by Artistic Director and founder Michael Kingsbury. It is one of London's leading pub theatres, as well as one of the longest established, dedicated since inception to both new writing and to its "Lost Classics Project", which focuses on productions of obscure historical works. Notable theatre practitioners who have worked at The White Bear include Joe Penhall, Dennis Kelly, Mark Little, Emily Watson, Tamzin Outhwaite, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Vicky Featherstone, Torben Betts, Lucinda Coxon, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, and Brice Stratford.
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Dennis Kelly Dennis Kelly (born November 16, 1969) is a British writer for film, television and theatre. He is perhaps best known for co-writing BBC Three's sitcom "Pulling" with actress Sharon Horgan, for co-writing "Matilda the Musical" with comedian Tim Minchin, and for the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller "Utopia".
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David Copperfield (comedian) David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow in 1947 in Yorkshire) is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show "Three of a Kind", in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry.
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Ruth Spalding Ruth Spalding (30 November 1913 – 26 February 2009) was an actor, director and author. She had a successful career in theater as actor and director, turned to writing television programming and worked in education, where she found time to research and write the life of the 17th-century parliamentarian and lawyer Bulstrode Whitelocke, for which she won a Whitbread prize in 1975.
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Nicola Shindler Nicola Shindler (born 8 October 1968) is a British television producer and executive, and founder of the independent television drama production company RED Production Company.
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The Last Impresario The Last Impresario is a 2013 documentary film about prolific British theatre impresario and film producer Michael White. The film was directed by Gracie Otto, and made its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2013, where it was positively received by critics.
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Whatever Happened to ...? Whatever Happened to ..? is a series of eleven plays broadcast in two series on BBC Radio 4 in 1994 and 1995. They covered the fate of various fictional characters, such as Popeye and Susan Foreman, the granddaughter of the Doctor in "Doctor Who". The writer was Adrian Mourby, who in 1997 had published a book called "Whatever Happened to ...?: The Ultimate Sequels Book", in a similar vein with the further adventures of Frankenstein's Monster, The Artful Dodger, Snow White, Romeo, Big Bad Wolf, Pinocchio, Man Friday, Jane Eyre, Dorothy Gale from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", and Jim Hawkins.
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Agatha Christie Memorial The Agatha Christie Memorial is a memorial to author and playwright Agatha Christie, located at the intersection of Cranbourn Street and Great Newport Street by St Martin's Cross near Covent Garden, in London, United Kingdom. It is located in the heart of London's theatre district. This was chosen to pay homage to Christie's contribution to theatre: her murder mystery play "The Mousetrap" is the world's longest-running show, and she was the first female playwright to have three plays performing simultaneously in the West End.
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Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. The Bush strives to create a space which nurtures, develops and showcases the best of new artists and their work.
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Verity Bargate Verity Eileen Bargate (1940–1981) was an English novelist and theatre director. In 1969, she co-founded the cutting-edge Soho Theatre Company, later known as the Soho Theatre. She also wrote three novels, "No mama no", "Children crossing", and "Tit for Tat".
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Graham Kibble-White Graham Kibble-White is a British writer known for his writing on television and popular culture. The "Liverpool Daily Post" described him as a "cult TV guru".
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Brendan O'Carroll Brendan O'Carroll (born 17 September 1955) is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor, and director, best known for portraying foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown on stage, and in the BBC and RTÉ television sitcom "Mrs. Brown's Boys".
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Susannah Clapp Susannah Clapp (born 1949) is a British writer, who has been the theatre critic of "The Observer" since 1997 and is a contributor to the BBC's "Nightwaves".
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Tim Dawson Tim Dawson (born 1988) is a British screenwriter. He is the creator and writer of BBC Three sitcom "Coming of Age" (2007-2011), which was piloted in 2007 and ran for three series. He was educated at Abingdon School from 1999-2006 and created Coming of Age whilst still a teenager. He has also written for "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps".
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Green Shadows, White Whale Green Shadows, White Whale is a 1992 novel by Ray Bradbury. It gives a fictionalized account of his journey to Ireland in 1953-1954 to write a screen adaptation of the novel "Moby-Dick" with director John Huston. Bradbury has said he wrote it after reading actress Katharine Hepburn's account of filming "The African Queen" with Huston in Africa. The title itself is a play on Peter Viertel's novel "White Hunter, Black Heart", which is also about Huston.
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Iain Mackintosh Iain Mackintosh (born 1937) is a British practitioner of theatre combining four interwoven careers as theatre producer, theatre space designer, curator of theatre painting and architecture exhibitions, and author and lecturer on both modern and eighteenth century theatre. He has campaigned for the retention and restoration of historic theatres as working homes for live performance.
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Mervyn Haisman Mervyn Haisman (15 March 1928 – 29 October 2010) was a television and film script writer. Prior to this career he worked as an actor and managed a theatre company as well as working in insurance.
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Tony Guilfoyle Tony Guilfoyle (born March 30 1960) is an English actor. He was born in Washford, Somerset, England, of Irish parents Mary Josephine Guilfoyle (née Cullinan) and James (Jimmy) Guilfoyle. He is best known for his recurring role as the accident-prone Father Larry Duff in TV comedy "Father Ted". In theatre he is better known for his long collaboration with the Quebecois theatre director Robert Lepage and his company Ex Machina. Included in this association are Kindertoten Lieder Lincoln Centre NY and world tour, The Geometry Of Miracles performed at The Royal National Theatre and world wide, The Dragons Trilogy performed at the Barbican Theatre London and internationally plus their latest collaboration Cartes (Cards/ Pique) which played at the Roundhouse in London and then internationally. This last production is still touring the world and will eventually be part of a tetralogy Four shows covering the four suits of the playing cards. His other theatre credits are numerous and varied from Shopping And F**cking for the Royal Court Theatre in the West End to The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida Theatre in London with Kevin Spacey. It encompasses political, experimental theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company ( Hanif Kureshi's play Outskirts)
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The Slab Boys Trilogy The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by the Scottish playwright John Byrne. The trilogy was originally known as "Paisley Patterns". The three plays which make up the trilogy are: The Slab Boys, Cuttin' a Rug, and Still Life. The trilogy tells the story of a group of young, urban, working-class Scots during the period 1957–1972. "The Slab Boys Trilogy" was revived in 2003 by the Traverse Theatre starring Paul Thomas Hickey and Iain Robertson in the lead roles. This is the first time that the Traverse Theatre have ever done a revival and it was received to great critical success. In April 2008, the Traverse Theatre premièred "Nova Scotia", the fourth part of "The Slab Boys" story which follows the characters of Phil, Spanky and Lucille into the 21st century.
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My Family (series 3) The third series of the BBC family sitcom "My Family" originally aired between 6 September 2002 and 25 December 2002. The series was commissioned following consistently high ratings for the second series. The opening episode of the series, "Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey", re-introduces the five main characters, but also writes out the character of Janey, who plays only a recurring role in this series. In Episode 3, Abi Harper, played by Siobhan Hayes, is introduced to replace Janey. All fourteen episodes in the third series are thirty minutes in length, including the Christmas special. The series was once again produced by Rude Boy Productions, a company that produces comedies created by Fred Barron. The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, in front of a live audience.
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The Three Sisters (1970 film) The Three Sisters is a 1970 videotaped television production for the BBC's "Play of the Month" series of the play by Anton Chekhov. It features Eileen Atkins, Janet Suzman and Anthony Hopkins, This version was directed by Cedric Messina.
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Carol White Carole Joan White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was an English actress.