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Sinéad Rushe Actress CV 2020 Sinéad Rushe www.sineadrushe.co.uk/acting/ www.spotlight.com/5217-8977-0086 Theatre Title Venue Director ON AIR St.Botolphe’s/Whitechapel Arts Gallery/V&A Graeme Museum Miller/ArtsAdmin OOGLY BOOGLY Sadler’s Wells Theatre/Melbourne International Tom Morris/Emma Festival/ Centre National de la Danse (Paris) & Gladstone tour CONCERT* Baryshnikov Arts Centre (New York)/The Pit, Sinéad Rushe Barbican & tour INWARD OUT Nottdance Festival: Nottingham Contemporary Guy Gallery/Chelsea Theatre/Musse Festival: The Dartnell/Dance4 Orangerie (Germany) NIGHT JUST BEFORE Macau Arts Festival, Macau, China Sinéad Rushe THE FORESTS BLAST Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) Liz Ranken OUT OF TIME* Baryshnikov Arts Centre (NY), Kennedy Centre Sinéad Rushe DC (USA)/The Pit, Barbican & tour DIARY OF A Sherman Cymru Theatre (Cardiff)/Mannheim Sinéad Rushe MADMAN Theatre Festival (Germany)/British Council showcase & tour to India SOMETHING OR The Place Theatre/Lilian Baylis, Sadler’s Wells Sinéad Rushe NOTHING & tour LOADED* Old Rep Birmingham/Jacksons’ Lane Sinéad Rushe CONJUNCTION Toynbee Studios/Battersea Arts Centre Graeme Miller/ArtsAdmin LUCRÈCE Tron Theatre (Glasgow) Gregory Thomson PTSD/Lucrèce FOUR SEASONS Clore Theatre, Royal Opera House Máire Clerkin CENTENARY KNEES Purcell Room & tour Máire Clerkin UP/Kit AFTERMATH BAC Barnaby Stone/Rachel Davies BEAUTY AND THE Belgrade Theatre (Coventry) John Wright BEAST/Beauty THE HAPPY Polka Theatre/Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) Annie Wood PRINCE/Swallow NIGHT-LIGHT/Lead Oval House/OMAC (Belfast)/Bristol Old Sinéad Rushe Vic/Ustinov Theatre Royal Bath & tour LIFE IN THE BAC/Bristol Old Vic/Ustinov Theatre Royal Sinéad Rushe FOLDS/Plume Bath & tour THE FOLLOWING BAC Sinéad Rushe STORY/Mussert PRONOUNCING Neumarkt Theatre (Zurich) Sinéad Rushe CINOC/Cinoc CALVINO: AN BAC Steve Tiplady/John EXPERIMENT Hegley LIFE A USER’S Lyric Hammersmith Leslie Ann Wells MANUAL/Bartleby THE Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Paris) Sarah Hirschmuller POSSIBILITIES/Her *Concert was the winner of Gradam Comharcheoil TG4 2018 Award Ireland *Out of Time was nominated for an Olivier Award and Dance Critic’s Circle Award *Loaded was the winner of a Choreodrome Commission Award, Unity Theatre Trust and Ernest Cook Award Film & Television Title Production Company Director ANTIGONENOW* Wyatt Theatre, UC Davis USA/online Sinéad Rushe/ Margaret Kemp TWEENIES/Judy Tell Tale Productions/BBC Ian Lachlan MEDEA BBC Open University Fiona Shaw *Sinéad was the recipient of the Granada-Artist-in-Residence Award Spring 2020 AntigoneNOW was selected for the Cairo International Experimental Film Festival 2020 Voice-over Title Company MULLER Commercial ITV/TWBA CORNERS BRAND NEW Audiobook BBC CHOO CHOO I’LL HUFF AND Audiobook BBC I’LL PUFF LOOKING Audiobook BBC AFTER DOODLES TWEENIES TV Series regular: voice of Judy BBC TV/ Tell Tale Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Special skills: Irish dance (All-Ireland and Ulster Irish dance champion), piano (Grade 8), animatronic puppeteering, Meyerhold’s Biomechanics. Languages: Fluent French, good Spanish. Native of Northern Ireland. Other: Sinéad is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019). She is a master teacher for Michael Chekhov UK and Michael Chekhov Association, USA. She is the co-translator into French (with Sarah Hirschmuller) of five plays by Howard Barker, all published with Editions Théâtrales. She has made many appearances on BBC Radio Ulster, including The Ticket, Arts Extra and the John Toal show. Sinéad is a regular director at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Productions include: The Government Inspector, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. .
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