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unusual facts about Almeida Theatre


Jerzy Popiełuszko

Ronald Harwood's documentary drama The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest was premiered at the Almeida Theatre in 1985 October — an early example of a theatre transcript of a trial, in this case the trial of Popiełuszko's murderers.


Hackney Empire

Ralph Fiennes played Hamlet to Francesca Annis's Gertrude in Jonathan Kent's Almeida Theatre Company production of Hamlet, 28 February – 30 March 1995; the production also transferred to the Belasco Theatre in New York.

Joel Horwood

His play All The Little Things We Crushed was produced in 2009 at the Almeida Theatre in London directed by Simon Godwin.

Lucy Kirkwood

Her play, Chimerica, examining the relationship between the US and China since the Tiananmen Square protests through the eyes of a former activist, featuring over forty scene changes and British-Chinese actors, opened at the Almeida Theatre in May 2013 and transferred to the West End in August 2013.

Malaya Drew

She left school a term early when she was cast in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here directed by David Leveaux at the Almeida Theatre (2002).

Nigel Lindsay

Lindsay has appeared in five plays at the Almeida Theatre, including as Lenny in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming with Ken Cranham and Danny Dyer in 2009 and as Moe Axelrod alongside Stockard Channing and Jodie Whittaker in Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2008 Whatsonstage Awards.

Rose Bruford College

Also in 2013, the drama school's profile was raised by several graduates who shot to fame in the United States including Lake Bell and Sam Palladio as well as by Evening Standard Awards for both Richard Eyre as Best Director for his production of Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre and Rosalie Craig for Best Musical Performance for The Light Princess at the National Theatre.

Scott Pask

Additional credits include On an Average Day (West End) and Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse) both directed by John Crowley; Bash (Almeida Theatre, New York, Los Angeles, and Showtime); Albert Herring (Opera North U.K); The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show (NY, London, Edinburgh, Cambridge), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love's Fowl, The Beginning of August, Refuge.


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