2011 Poetry Competition

Associate Artists

Helen Eastman, Anthony Shuster, Alice Barclay, Charles de Bromhead, Simon Muller, Helena Johnson, Holly Atkins, Robin Norton Hale, Claire Redcliffe, James Scott, Rebecca Blackstone, Matthew Wilson, Antony Eden

Anthony Shuster trained at RADA, after graduating from Oxford University. Winner of a Lockwood West Award for Poetry Speaking. Theatre includes the recent Histories Cycle (RSC, Olivier Award Best Ensemble), The Ballad of Crazy Paola (Arcola), Tristan and Yseult (Kneehigh and the National Theatre), The World Cup Final 1966 and Jason and the Argonauts (Schtanhaus), The Cure at Troy (BAC, Delphi International Festival and tour) and Fair (Trafalgar Studios). Television work includes the forthcoming A Short Stay in Switzerland (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Golden Hour and Broken Morning (Channel 4).

Claire Redcliffe trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes : When We Are Married (West Yorkshire and Liverpool Playhouse), Great Expectations and Tom's Midnight Garden ( Manchester Library ), Hamlet (The Factory), Top Girls ( Watford Palace and Greenwich), Felt Effects ( Latchmere), High Society ( West End), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( West Yorkshire Playhouse), Kindertransport ( Bolton Octagon - MEN nomination for best actress), Question Time( Arcola), A Midsummer Night's Dream and High Society ( Regents Park Open Air), Road to Ruin, Engaged and The Beggars Opera ( Orangetree ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ( Theatre Clywd and tour). Television : Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Doctors, The Royal, Holby City, Eastenders. Film : Charlotte Gray

Alice Barclay Studied music at Manchester and trained at Drama Studio. Theatre includes De Monfort (Orange Tree); War Horse (National Theatre); A season with the RSC including Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew and Comedy of Errors, King Arthur (Arcola), As You Like It (Arundel Festival/Orange Tree); Othello (Globe Education); Tonight We Fly (Trestle Theatre Co.); The Triumph of Love (Newbury Watermill); Tithe War! (Eastern Angles); The Trial (Edinburgh); Numerous workshops and rehearsed readings at the National Theatre Studio; Screen credits include: Casualty, An Unequalled Love & The Trouble with Love (BBC), Eyeball Tennis (filmfour).

Charles de Bromhead Trained at LAMDA after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin. Theatre includes the one man show, Best Man’s Speech (Lion and Unicorn), McFly in the UK tour of Cloudcuckooland (Total Theatre Awards nomination) and Pick n Myths (Edinburgh Festival and tour). Recent television/film includes Todd Riviera in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and episodes of Fair City (RTE).

Helen Eastman Trained as a director at LAMDA after graduating from Oxford University. Theatre includes Circus Etc (The De La Warr Pavillion), Dido and Aeneas (ETO UK tour), Fair (Trafalgar Studios), Felt Effects (503), Hansel and Gretel (Cork Opera House), The Sweet Science of Bruising (National Theatre Studio), Cloudcuckooland (UK tour; Total Theatre Award Nomination), Wild Raspberries (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), Bug Off (OTC), Cure at Troy (Delphi International Festival/ tour) and the world premiere of Julian Joseph’s jazz opera Bridgetower (Hackney Empire and tour). She’s Producer of the Onassis Programme at Oxford University, Guest Fellow in Theatre at Westminster University and a member of the Associate Literary Panel at Soho Theatre. She is currently directing Speakout at The Queens Hornchurch for ETO.

Holly Atkins Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama after graduating from Edinburgh University Theatre includes The Ballad of Crazy Paola (Arcola), Scarborough (Royal Court Theatre and Assembly Rooms), Summer Begins (Southwark Playhouse), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Centreline Natinoal Tour). Television includes Criminal Justice, City Lights, Residents, Kiss Me Kate, On the Run, Sarah Jane Adventures, Casualty, The Bill, Eastenders.

Simon Muller trained at LAMDA. Recent theatre credits include: Hamlet (TheFactory; Shakespeare's Globe and tour); Vanity Fair and The Winter's Tale (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Love's Labour's Lost, In Extremis, Anthony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe); Othello (Shakespeare's Globe Education National Tour); The Cage and The Grizzled Skipper (The Nuffield, Southampton); Hamlet (The Haymarket, Basingstoke); War Stories (A/Z theatre/oh!art), The Depths and Venezuela (The Arcola); Markings (Southwark Playhouse/The Traverse, Edinburgh); Habitats (The Gate); Natural Inclinations (The Finborough); Jack Drum's Entertainment (The Union); The Lie (The King's Head); As You Like It, A Midsummer Night' s Dream and Twelfth Night (Natural Perspectives). Simon is a founding member and Artistic Director of Natural Perspectives. TV includes: The Bill.