Tuesday 7 May 2013
PRESS RELEASE
The National Youth Theatre presents
AN AUDIENCE WITH HELEN MIRREN MONDAY 10 JUNE, 2.30PM THE GIELGUD THEATRE, LONDON
The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) will hold a fundraising ‘Audience with Helen Mirren’, on the set of her current hit West End show The Audience.
Dame Helen Mirren, who is a former NYT member, last week won the Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance as The Queen in The Audience, which is directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Peter Morgan.
Paul Roseby, Artistic Director of the NYT, will interview Dame Helen on stage in front of an audience at the Gielgud Theatre, and she will also be answering questions from current NYT members.
One of Helen Mirren’s earliest roles was that of Cleopatra in an NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra. In her career since, she has won an Academy Award and multiple Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards and BAFTA Awards, as well as an Olivier Award.
Paul Roseby was appointed Artistic Director of the NYT in 2004. He is also a former member of the NYT acting company.
Tickets go on sale from 10am on Tuesday 7 May from www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk or by calling 0844 482 5130
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For further information please contact Stephen Pidcock at The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 or email [email protected].
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National Youth Theatre presents An Audience with Helen Mirren 2.30pm, Monday 10 June 2013 Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 6AR
Tickets from £38.50 (£10.00 seats and £5.00 standing available for NYT members) https://tickets.delfont-mackintosh.com/index.asp?ShoID=1345 Telephone bookings 0844 482 5130
Dame Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren has won international recognition for her work on stage, screen and television. For her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 in The Queen, she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
Mirren began her career in the role of Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring in such productions as Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth. In 1972, she joined Peter Brook’s theatre company and toured the world. Other theatre includes A Month in the Country (Tony nomination), Dance of Death (Tony nomination), Mourning Becomes Electra (Olivier nomination for Best Actress) and Phèdre (both for the National Theatre). She is currently playing Elizabeth II in The Audience by Peter Morgan and her performance won the Olivier Award for Best Actress.
Mirren began her film career with Michael Powell’s Age of Consent but her breakthrough film role came in 1980 in John Mackenzie’s The Long Good Friday. Other films include Nicholas Hytner’s The Madness of King George (Oscar nomination and Best Actress honours at Cannes Film Festival), Gosford Park (Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, several critics groups’ awards and dual SAG Awards), Calendar Girls (Golden Globe nomination) and The Last Station (Oscar and Golden Globe nominations).
On television, Mirren earned an Emmy Award and three BAFTA Awards for her starring role in the award-winning series Prime Suspect. Other television includes her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth I, (Emmy Award, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award®), Losing Chase, (Golden Globe Award), The Passion of Ayn Rand, (Emmy Award and a Golden Globe nomination), Door to Door, (Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Award® nominations) and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Award® nominations).
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Helen Mirren became a Dame of the British Empire in 2003. National Youth Theatre
The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is a world-leading youth arts organisation. It was established in 1956 as the first youth theatre in the world and over the past 57 years it has nurtured the talent of hundreds of thousands of young people.
The National Youth Theatre inspires, trains, and showcases exceptional performers and theatre technicians aged 14-25 from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Each year it reaches out across the UK to discover diverse new talent.
Alumni also include: Daniel Craig, Colin Firth, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Day- Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Catherine Tate, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ashley Jensen, Sir Derek Jacobi, Timothy Dalton, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville, Matt Smith and many more. Former NYT members also include sector leaders in politics, business, law, the media and medicine.
The National Youth Theatre is a registered charity 306075/SC043665
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