Welcome to the Celebration Show 2020, we would have loved to be welcoming you to the Trafalgar Studios as we have done in recent years, instead this year we have asked students to record their speeches from home. Each of our participating students has worked with one of our alumni acting tutors. We have not filmed these specifically as self-tapes, some of the participants have found ways to use their environments to enhance their speech. We hope that you enjoy the work.

The BRIT School is the only State school (non-fee paying) dedicated to performing arts and technology which is sponsored, and indeed was founded by the British Record Industry Trust. The school has a unique atmosphere of support and respect which helps cultivate the ability and talent of our young people. Our outstanding achievements at both Key stage 4 and Post 16 in vocational and academic qualifications testify to our success, as do the range of successful ex‐students now working and studying in the creative industries.

The Theatre department is committed to offering young people a broad range of opportunities to perform, write, devise and direct theatre in a creative learning environment. The graduating students you will see today have performed in productions of Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh and Guantanamo by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo as part of our Common Ground season. In the same season they have appeared in a devised piece called Something Good inspired by the music of Kate Bush. They have written, directed and performed a season of plays as part of new writing festival ‘Strawberry Picking’; created and performed new work with a variety of community groups, including Certitude , Wey Valley PRU and local primary schools.

It has been a pleasure to invite our 5 acting tutors, all whom are BRIT Theatre alumni, to work with our students over the last 3 weeks. All of the tutors have gone on to be make a success of their acting careers and it has been a privilege to have them supporting the next generation of graduates. A huge thank you to them for their time and creative guidance.

Selection of achievements and current productions of Theatre Department Graduates

Cush Jumbo OBE Deadwater Fell (Channel 4), The Good Fight (CBS), The Good Wife (CBS), Josephine and I (The Public Theatre, NY), The River (Broadway), Olivier Nomination 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination 2013 Best Actress in A Supporting Role Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse. Winner of the Ian Charleson Award 2012 for her performance as the Rosalind in As You Like It at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. A Doll’s House (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester), She Stoops To Conquer (NT), Vera (ITV)

Ivanno Jeremiah Humans (Channel 4), The Nether (Royal Court and West End), The Suit (World Tour), Julius Caeser (RSC), Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court) Alan Bates Bursary Winner 2010

Elliott Barnes‐Worrell Van der Valk (ITV), Against (Almeida), Hamlet (Almeida), Man and Superman (NT) Henry IV part I and II, Richard II (RSC), Ian Charleson Award Commendation 2013, Poirot (ITV), Doctor Who (BBC), Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre), Alan Bates Bursary Winner 2012

Robert Emms Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal Pictures), His Dark Materials (HBO), Chernobyl (HBO), Cleaning Up (ITV), Gunpowder (ITV), Atlantis (BBC), Broken (BBC Films), Kick Ass 2, (Feature), Mirror, Mirror (Feature), Ravens (Hampstead Theatre), War Horse (Feature), War Horse (West End)

Ryan Gage Three Musketeers (BBC1/Series 1‐2), The Hobbit, Ghost Stories (Lyric/Duke of Yorks), Hamlet (BBC/RSC) Nominated for the Ian Charleson Award 2009

Pearl Chanda The Angry Brigade (The Bush), C/Crave/4.48 Psychosis (Sheffield Crucible), Two Gentleman Of Verona (RSC), Godchild (Hampstead Theatre), The Seagull (Headlong), One For Sorrow (The Royal Court), Three Sisters (The Almeida)

Theo Barklem Biggs The First Team (BBC), Sliced (Dave), Ballot Monkeys (Channel 4), Tatau, (BBC America), Kingsmand: The Secret Service (Feature), Hammer of The Gods (Feature), Silk (Series 1 & 2), The Fades (BBC), The Inbetweeners Movie

Jake Davies The Divide (Old Vic), Yen (Manchester Royal Exchange), Jungle Book (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Beautiful Thing (West End and Tour), Artemis Fowl (Disney), X&Y (Origin Pictures), The Missing (BBC), A Mother’s Son (ITV), Call The Midwife (BBC), Holby City (BBC)

Percelle Ascott The Innocents (Netflix), New Tricks (BBC), Youngers (E4), co writer and star of the critically acclaimed online comedy series Mandem on The Wall, Wizards Vs Aliens (BBC Series Lead), Silent Witness (BBC)

Joivan Wade Doom Patrol (Warner Bros/DC Comics), The First Purge (Blumhouse Productions/ Universal), The Interceptor (BBC), Rudy’s Rare Records (Brimingham Rep/Hackney Empire), Big School (BBC), Youngers (E4), Casualty (BBC) co writer and star of the critically acclaimed online comedy series Mandem on The Wall

Ashley Madekwe Salem (Fox 21), Revenge (ABC/E4), Bedlam (Red Productions), Victim (Feature)

Eric Abrefa Blue Story (Paramount), A Taste of Honey (NT), The Amen Corner (NT), Choir Boy (Royal Court), Ear for Eye (Royal Court), Julie (NT)

Selin Hizli Women on The Verge of Nervous Breakdown (West End), In The Republic of Happiness (Royal Court), Appropriate Adult (ITV, BAFTA award Winning), Jumpy (Royal Court)

Rikki Henry Venus/Mars (Old Red Lion, Director) The Suit (Young Vic, Assistant Director to Peter Brook and Performer), Assistant Director; Vernon God Little (Young Vic)

Anna Beecher Performer, Writer and Theatre maker. The Surge (Young Vic ‐ writer), Living Things (BAC), Co‐Founder Fat Content Theatre (Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude, Buxton Fringe). Anna's debut novel Here Comes the Miracle.

Ola Ince As Director; Rachel, (Finborough), The Soft of Her Plam (Finborough), Pet’s Corner (Arcola), Associate Director; Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Assistant Director; Dara (NT), Porgy and Bess (Regents Park), A Taste of Honey (NT), Josephine and I (The Bush), Secret Thoughts (Bolton Octagon), Poet In Da Corner (Royal Court), The Convert (Young Vic), Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse), Romeo and Juliet (The Globe)

Laura Dockrill Author and illustrator of Darcy Burdock, Mistakes In The Background, Ugly Shy Girl, and Echoes (Harper Collins). Her most recent book What Have I done? She has performed her work on Woman’s Hour, The Huw Stephens show, The Jo Whiley show, The Verb, Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and each of the BBC’s respective radio channels 1‐6

Archie Madekwe See (Apple TV), Midsommar (A24), Les Miserables (BBC), The Goat (Theatre Royal), Dead Don’t Floss (NT)

Kitty Archer One for Sorrow (Royal Court), Tartuffe (NT), Othello (ETT), Present Laughter (Old Vic). Shortlisted for the Ian Charleson Award 2019 for her performance as Mariane in Tartuffe

Rhianne Barreto Hanna (Amazon), Honour (ITV), Little Boy Blue (ITV). Winner of Grand Jury Award Winner at Sundance Festival 2018 for Share (A24).

We have graduates who are currently training and studying at, or recently graduated from:

RADA, LAMDA, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Ecole Jacques Le Coq (Paris), Bristol Old Vic, Rose Bruford, Drama Centre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Goldsmiths College, University of Exeter, East 15, LIPA, AADA (LA and New York).