MONICA DOLAN, TAMSIN GREIG AND STEPHEN MANGAN JOIN LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE’S FUNDRAISING WEEK TO SUPPORT THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, SPRINGBOARD
MONICA DOLAN, TAMSIN GREIG AND STEPHEN MANGAN JOIN LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE’S FUNDRAISING WEEK TO SUPPORT THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, SPRINGBOARD
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre alumni Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan together with West Londoner Monica Dolan are helping to raise money for the pioneering talent development programme, Springboard, which aims to find, shape, inspire, champion and sustain the next generation of performers from underrepresented backgrounds.
The venue is hosting a week of events to help raise funds for the programme which includes talks from the critically acclaimed actors, a rare opportunity to thrift directly from the Lyric costume department, and a drag night variety show. Tickets are available to book now at www.lyric.co.uk.
Monday 19th September, 7.30-9pm
An Evening with Monica Dolan hosted by Artistic Director and CEO Rachel O’Riordan
Tuesday 20th September, 7.30-9pm
An Evening with Tamsin Greig hosted by Bill Cashmore Award Founder, Sasha Bates
Wednesday 21st September, 2-9pm
Lyric Costume Sale. A rare chance for thrift-lovers to buy the gems from the first costume department following its first clear out in 10 years.
Thursday 22nd September, 7.30pm-midnight
Chariots of Glitter – A Drag Night Variety Show hosted by Aurora Kills
Comedy, lip-sync and songs with guest performers supporting marathon runner Aurora Kills followed by a discotheque
Friday 23rd September, 7.30-9pm
An Evening with Stephen Mangan hosted by Lyric Chair, Lorraine Heggessey,
Tickets are £20. Book at www.lyric.co.uk or 0208 741 6850
Biographies
Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Her recent theatre credits include Doubt (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Shrine (The Bridge), Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse), All About Eve – winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Noel Coward Theatre), The Beasts (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Bush Theatre). For television, her credits include The Thief, His Wife, And The Canoe, My Name Is Leon, Appropriate Adult, Talking Heads, A Very English Scandal, Black Mirror, The Witness For The Prosecution, The Casual Vacancy and W1A, and for film; Cyrano, Days of the Bagnold Summer, The Dig, Rialto, Official Secrets, Eye in the Sky, The Arbor, Pride and The Falling.
Tamsin Greig is an award-winning actor of stage and screen. One of her first performances ever, in 1997, was in Don Carlos at the Lyric Studio. Her theatre credits include Peggy For You (Hampstead Theatre), Talking Heads Live: Nights In The Garden of Spain (Bridge Theatre), A Kind of Alaska/Landscape (Harold Pinter Theatre), Twelfth Night, Gethsemane (National Theatre), Jumpy (Royal Court), God of Carnage (Gielgud Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (RSC and Novello Theatre). Her television credits include The Amazing Mr Blunden, Romeo and Juliet, Belgravia, Elementary, Diana and I, Inside No.0, Episodes, Friday Night Dinner, Emma, The Diary of Anne Frank, Love Soup, Green Wing, Doctor Who, Black Books, Jonathan Creek, Falling Apart, People Like Us, Happiness, and for film; Official Secrets, Days of the Bagnold Summer, Tamara Drewe, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Breaking the Bank, Stop the World, Shaun of the Dead, Captain Eager and The Mark of Voth.
Stephen Mangan returns to the Lyric 17 years since he appeared in The Magic Carpet. His theatre credits include The People Are Friendly, Birthday (Royal Court), The Norman Conquests (Old Vic and Broadway), Noises Off (Piccadilly Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, School For Scandal (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl World Tour), Hayfever (Savoy Theatre), She Stoops To Conquer (Birmingham Rep), As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse), Hamlet (Theatre Royal, Norwich), Crouch Grass and Ribbon (Watermill Theatre), Rules for Living (National Theatre) and The Rover (Salisbury Playhouse). His television credits include Episodes, Green Wing, Dirk Gently, The Hunt for Tony Blair, Free Agents, The Split, Urban Myths, Hang Ups, Bliss, Drunk History, Houdini and Doyle, Never Better, Jane Hall, Bromwell High, Watership Down and Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, and for film; Breathe, Rush, Beyond the Pole, Someone Else, Confetti, Festival, SuperTex, New Year’s Eve, Birthday Girl and Chunky Monkey.