The first play I was ever in was a version of Mary Poppins at my primary school, where the audition consisted of the question ‘Can you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?’ As I could not, being five years old, I was cast as a penguin with no lines, my part reduced to waddling onstage and then waddling off again. Somehow, I was hooked.
But my career did not peak (or should I say ‘beak’) there, as few spaces of time have passed since then when I haven’t been involved in some sort of theatrical production, with my performance at the National Theatre to perform I’m Spilling My Heart Out Here as part of NT connections being the highlight of my experiences. More recently, I performed as Jack Frost in The Lincoln Company’s Alice’s Adventures in Winter Wonderland, and Prince Florizel in A Winter’s Tale.
After having a taste of writing my own script for the first time last term, I (along with one other) am attempting to write my first full(ish) length script. Filter Theatre, the RSC and Wes Anderson’s films inspire me.
For me, growing up is having to kill the spider yourself because there is no one else there to do it.
“Oh, get a job? Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on little jobbies?!” Charlie Kelly, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia