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Plays we have cast


When The Chickens Came Home To Roost

(Brixton Empire)
Melissa Bethune (just taken the act for course) - played the part of the maid.


Films we have cast

Pop

A staged reading of the feature 'Pop', the story of one Jewish family in 1960s Dublin. Screenplay Shivaun Woolfson and Frances Tay and director Trilby James. For more details click here.

Full Writer/director In-Sook Chappell.

A film for B3 Media/BBC.  For more details click here.
Lizzie Roper was cast in the lead with Daniel Mills and Louise Bond who both came through act up.

Triangles. Director Graham Taylor

This was a competition commissioned by the agency Satusfaction for Rushes Soho Shorts.

“Satusfaction bring us the second year of their unique screenwriting competition, in which a winning screenplay is filmed twice, by two production teams. Here, they’ll screen the final films, get the screenwriter’s (hopefully ecstatic) reaction and discuss such questions as how to turn the tables on an editor and get them to direct a film themselves.”

It was screened at BAFTA on Sunday 24th July 2011. Sophie Aide and Paula James were cast in the lead roles, both came through act up.

Mercutio’s Dreaming: The Killing of a Chinese actor.

Director Daniel York. Daniel won an award through B3Media and BBC to produce this film.

Cast in the leading roles were Frances Barber, Jack Brough, Andrew Koji, Gabby Wong and Alisdair Simpson. Details of this and Daniel’s previous film can be found here: http://www.b3media.net/projects/beautiful-friend-daniel-york.


Callused Hands. Director Jesse Quinones

Gemma Lloyd is the UK casting director for Jesse Quinones new feature Calloused Hands, to be shot in Miami in the Summer of 2012.  She has just cast Natalie Press in the lead.

The Script is in development in the States and has already won awards. Production Company: http://www.woolfcub.com/

There was a reading of the script at Soho Theatre in August 2011.

Benjamin Cawley and William Byrd Wilkins were cast in the leads. Both actors are whooped up by act up.