Pride

THEATRE The History Boys (also on Broadway; Tony nomination), His Dark Materials, Women Beware Women, An Oak Tree and The Beaux’ Stratagem at the National Theatre; Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Ben and Imo for the RSC and the Orange Tree; The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse; Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen at Edinburgh Fringe (The Stage Edinburgh Award); Rock Follies, The Accrington Pals and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (also West End) at Chichester; Straight Line Crazy and Allelujah! at the Bridge; Twelfth Night (Tony nomination) and Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe, in the West End and on Broadway; The Way of the World at Sheffield Crucible; The Whisky Taster and When You Cure Me at the Bush; Kiss of the Spider Woman and Dealer’s Choice at Menier Chocolate Factory; and The Marriage of Figaro at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

TV includes Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (title role), Black Doves, The Amazing Mr Blunden, The Prince, Four Lives, Penny Dreadful, John Adams, Beautiful People, Desperate Romantics, Twenty Twelve, Not Safe for Work and Strange.

FILM include Savage House, Blame it on Rome, Lee, And Mrs, The Lady in the Van, Jupiter Ascending, Bright Star, The History Boys and Mrs Henderson Presents.

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; A Christmas Carol, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Housed at The Old Vic; Reykjavik at Hampstead; Lancastrians for Junction 8; The Secret Garden at Theatre Royal York; Oxy and the Morons at New Wolsey, Ipswich; Kiki’s Delivery Service at Southwark Playhouse; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Sherman, Cardiff; The History Boys on UK tour; Fragment for North Wall; The Man in the White Suit at Wyndham’s; and Nell Gwynn at the Apollo.

TV includes Toxic Town, Daddy Issues, Outlander, Wedding Season, Colosseum, Alma’s Not Normal, Holby City and Giri/Haji.

FILMS include Creation Stories and short films Chasing the Night and Dog.

RADIO includes Shandyland, Sleaze, Behind Beyond the Fringe, The Medici, Maupassant, Separate Tables, Pride and Protest, English Rose and The Reckoning.

TRAINING Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre and Matilda at the Sherman, Cardiff; Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre; Belonging on tour for Re-Live; Oliver! at Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Tic Toc at Cardiff Chapter Arts; Branwen: Dadeni at Wales Millennium Centre; and Grandma in Billy Elliot: The Musical in the West End.

TV includes Y Golau: Dŵr, Jam, The Pact, Craith/Hidden, Bang, Stella, Pobol y Cwm, The Company of Strangers, The Life and Times of Lloyd George, A Mind to Kill, Forever Green, High Hopes, Gavin and Stacey, Belonging, Casualty, Sherlock, Teulu (BAFTA Cymru nomination for Best Actress), Iaith ar Daith, Death Valley, Ma’ Ifan ‘Ma, Heyday in the Blood and Noson Lawen as Mrs O.T.T.

ALBUMS include We Belong, Haul ar Nos Hir and Rhywbeth yn y Glas. Gillian Elisa will be honoured by the Gorsedd of Bards in the 2026 National Eisteddfod (Y Garreg Las) for her 52 years service to the performing arts.

TRAINING Guildford School of Acting.

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Jack Absolute Flies Again and Hex at the National Theatre; Boundless as the Sea and Miss Littlewood for the RSC; Made in Dagenham for Grange Opera; A Face in the Crowd at Young Vic; Titanic The Musical on tour in China; Groundhog Day at The Old Vic; All That at King’s Head; Return of the Soldier at Hope Mill; The Arcadians at Wilton’s Musical Hall; tick, tick… BOOM! and The Burnt Part Boys at Park Theatre; South Pacific on UK tour; The Cradle Will Rock at the Arcola Theatre; War of the Worlds at the Dominion; Billy Elliot: The Musical at Victoria Palace; Spamalot at the Playhouse; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Gielgud; and Super Alice Smith at Trafalgar Studios.

OPERA AND CONCERT include Roméo et Juliette, Simon Boccanegra and Aida at the Royal Opera House; and Chess in Concert and The Beatles Philharmonic 50th Anniversary Tribute at the Royal Albert Hall.

TV includes It’s a Sin and Sanditon.

SHORT FILMS include Cigarettes at a Dinner Party, Mab Hudel, Settled and Loose Ends. chris-jenkins.co.uk

TRAINING Central School of Speech and Drama.

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre, Erogenous Zones, Saturday Night Fever and All’s Fair at Sherman, Cardiff; A Christmas Carol at Theatre by the Lake; The Importance of Being Earnest and Season’s Greetings at Theatr Clwyd; That Day We Sang and A Thousand Slimy Things at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Village Social and The Passion for National Theatre Wales; and The Beach for Cockpit.

TV includes The Way, Ordinary Lies (season two), Cucumber, Days That Shook the World and Nuts and Bolts.

FILMS include The Gospel of Us.

RADIO includes The Throne Room.

THEATRE includes, as performer, Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Honk! on tour for the National Theatre; Groundhog Day, Girl from the North Country and Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (also the Royal Alexandra, Toronto) at The Old Vic; Stroke of Luck at Park Theatre; The Wizard of Oz at Birmingham Rep and Leeds Playhouse; The Sound of Music and Crush on tours; Carmen and Die Fledermaus for the New Vic; Come From Away at the Phoenix and the Abbey, Dublin (also as assistant director/choreographer); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Lord of the Rings at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Chariots of Fire at the Gielgud; and Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Cambridge. As resident or associate director, Maiden Voyage at Southwark Playhouse; George Takei’s Allegiance at Charing Cross Theatre; and Clueless the Musical at the Trafalgar.

TV includes Casualty, Day of the Jackal, Star Wars: Andor (season two) and Playing Shop.

FILM includes Matilda the Musical.

RADIO includes Friday Night is Music Night.

TRAINING Royal Academy of Music

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Roadshow at Upstairs at the Gatehouse; and Under Milk Wood for Nova Music.

CONCERTS include Friday Night is Music Night.

Madeleine Morgan is the winner of the 2024 Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition.

TRAINING Emil Dale Academy

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; The Gondoliers, Pride and Prejudice and Pirates of Penzance for Illyria Theatre; Finding Home: East and West for Mercury Theatre Wales; and Dick Whittington Meets Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and Beauty and the Beast for South Wales Pantomime.

TV includes Squat.

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Once in a Lifetime and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the National Theatre; Military Wives at Theatre Royal York; Extraordinary Women at Jermyn Street; Camelot, Under Milk Wood and Crazy for You at the Watermill (as associate artist); Kiss Me, Kate at Kilworth House; Only the Brave at Wales Millennium Centre; City of Angels and Into the Woods at the Donmar; Putting It Together at St James, London; The Light in the Piazza at Leicester Curve; Mary Poppins on UK and US tour (Helen Hayes Award); Plaza Suite and 9 to 5 at the Savoy; Rags at the Apollo; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at London Palladium; The Witches o Eastwick at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Mamma Mia! at Prince Edward; Les Misérables at the Palace and Queen’s; and Grease at Cambridge Theatre and Victoria Palace.

TV includes Ted Lasso (season four), Ghosts, Casualty, The Mallorca Files, The Way, Silent Witness, Pitching In, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, Press, The Rook and Doctors.

FILMS include Mr Burton, Four Kids and It, Nativity Rocks and Les Misérables.

TRAINING ArtsEd.

THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre at Sherman, Cardiff; Sydney/Alice in Love Can, Kelly in The Mad Ones and The Throwaways at The Other Palace; Blast in SuperYou at Leicester Curve; Belle in Beauty and the Beast (also on UK tour) and Kerry Ellis Live at The Palladium in the West End; Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward; Six the Musical at Arts; Les Misérables at Queen’s; Bat Out of Hell at the Dominion; Mamma Mia! at Novello; Love Never Dies in Concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; and The Olivier Awards.

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THEATRE includes Pride for P&P Productions and the National Theatre and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Sherman, Cardiff; War Horse (original cast), Much Ado About Nothing and Moving Stories at the National Theatre; Fair Maid of the West for the RSC; Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof on UK and Ireland tour and Alternate Tevye at the Barbican; The Cabinet Minister at Menier Chocolate Factory; Half a Sixpence at Kilworth House; Piaf at Nottingham Playhouse; The Light in the Piazza at Southbank Centre, LA Opera and Lyric Opera, Chicago; The Assassination of Katie Hopkins at Theatr Clwyd; Fiddler on the Roof at Chichester; The Passion of Port Talbot and Silly Kings for National Theatre Wales; Love Story and James and the Giant Peach at Bolton Octagon; Animal Farm at Theatre Royal Bath; Berlusconi at Southwark Playhouse; One Man, Two Guvnors (also on UK and international tours) and Mack & Mabel in the West End.

TV includes Grandpa in My Pocket and The Passion – It Has Begun.

Films include A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life and The Gospel of Us.

Audio includes The Ratcatcher and A Magnificent Life.

THEATRE includes, at the Old Vic, The Three Kings (nominated for Broadway World UK Awards – Best New Production Created for Streaming), Fanny and Alexander (based on Ingmar Bergman’s film), and 24-Hour Plays Celebrity Gala. At the National Theatre, The Last of the Haussmans. He also directed Twelfth Night at the Albery.

FILM includes Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, which won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, the Best Film BIFA and South Bank Awards Best Film.

June 2022