TRACK RECORD
Track Record
•Stand Up Drama was established in August 2005 with its first London Bites in October 2005
•Since then we have run shows every month (except January)
•London Bites started as the first Monday of every month. But in Feb 2006,
due to popular demand, we went to 2 nights per month. Since moving to the Top Floor & Turnmills we are happy to run on the first Thursday and Friday of each month.
•March 2006 saw the inclusion of “Stand & Deliver”. The interactive
improvisation games.
•Stand Up Drama won ‘Best Producer for Drama’ in 2006 for, “...introducing
excellent new theatrical acting and writing talent to audiences and media via
high-quality and compelling shows”.
•Stand Up Drama celebrated one year of London Bites last October (2006)
with a special show called “Birthday Bites”, which brought together some of
the strongest pieces and actors from throughout the year in a ‘best of’ show.
•Birthday Bites saw a guest list of 55 industry professionals, including The
Stage, Maverick Media, Satchi & Satchi and The Spotlight.
•Birthday Bites managed to secure a ‘free bar’ sponsored by Kirin Ichiban and
Alize who together provided us with nearly 600 free drinks for our audience.
•Birthday Bites also secured one-off sponsorship from Pilates Based Body
Awareness.
•Birthday Bites saw audience and actor give aways from Equity, who supplied
us with 20 Equity branded mugs.
•Birthday Bites introduced a prize for the audience’s favourite actor during
“Stand & Deliver”- which was supplied by the Spotlight. (One year’s free
entry into Spotlight)
•Stand Up Drama, London Bites has inspired many actors and writers to go on to create their own work.
•Alyisa Kira- wrote a monologue to perform in the first ever London Bites
called ‘A Spark in the Dark’, she then came back a few months later with
another character monologue. From these she went on to write a full length
one-woman show, which received 4 star reviews at 2006 Edinburgh fringe
and is about to be performed in full in London.
•Anna Jordan- was so inspired by her first performance at London Bites she
went away and wrote and directed a short two hander specifically for
London Bites. This was received so well that she wrote the full length play,
which has already had its first London performance and has interest from a
theatre company that would like to produce the play in New Zealand.
•These are just 2 of many stories like this.
•Many highly respected professionals have attended the events including;
Film producer and former Head of the BBC Michael Wearing, actor Frank
Harper (Lock Stock, The Football Factory), Head of the Conference of Drama
Schools, Satchi and Satchi, Gordon & French, Richard Evans, Hobson’s
International, Irene Fawkes Management, Catherine Comerford MD of The
Stage. , ITV associate Producer, BBC talent scout, BBC Radio 4 Producer,
and Di Carling. To Name but a few!
•Past performers have included; Sol Bernstein, Nathan Osgood (Chichester
Festival Theatre), Sarah Mennell (“Munich”, Steven Spielberg, “Resurrection
Blues”, Old Vic) Sam Alexander (Globe theatre) Kate Bell (“Grange Hill”)
Graham Lappin (“Jesus Christ Super Star”) Phillip Langhorne (Silent Witness)
and Shazia Mirza.
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