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Current Genesis Foundation LAMDA scholars Ciarán Owens and Alisha Williams graduate with flying colours this week. Both scholars have successfully secured agent representation, with Ciaran already having landed his first professional job. Ciaran will be appearing in an episode of BBC drama series Wallander alongside Kenneth Branagh. We wish Ciarán and Alisha the best of luck in their careers and we will be keeping a close eye on their careers.
View the archive...On June 14, The Sixteen will be performing a concert of new Genesis Foundation commissions by Ruth Byrchmore, Tarik O'Regan and Roderick Williams alongside music by Spain's greatest Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, marking the 400th anniversary of his death (1548-1611). All tickets have now been allocated and we are no longer accepting applications.
View the archive...The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continues with the release in May 2011 of a CD of six new choral works from three of Britain’s most exciting contemporary composers: Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams and Ruth Byrchmore.
View the archive...Genesis Foundation LAMDA Scholar Samuel Barnett (Class of 2001) is to play Rosencrantz in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead alongside Jamie Parker (Guildenstern) and Tim Curry (The Player).
View the archive...Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak, translated by Rory Mullarkey, has now sold out for the rest of its highly successful run at the Royal Court Theatre. The play is part of the International Playwrights Season and is supported by the Genesis Foundation who celebrate 15 years of pioneering international work with the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.
View the archive...The 2008 Genesis Foundation commission, Stay with me Lord, has been performed again by the Romsey Choral Society and you can watch this performance on Youtube.
View the archive...Natalie Carter and Hayley Stobo have performed on the Bolshoi stage for the first time in the prestigious annual Repertoire Concert. You can watch their final performance of the Grand Pas Duet here on Youtube.
View the archive...Tom Riley (class of 2005) is currently making his debut in New York playing suave 19th century mathematics tutor Septimus Hodge in the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.
View the archive...Our Private Life by Pedro Miguel Rozo, translated by Simon Scardifield, has recently opened at the Royal Court Theatre and has attracted a wealth of praise from the national press. The play is part of the international playwrights season and is supported by the Genesis Foundation who celebrate 15 years of pioneering international work with the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.
View the archive...Yesterday, Natalie Carter and Hayley Stobo who are studying at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy thanks to support from the Genesis Foundation, were featured on BBC Breakfast along with Natalie's mum, Sue Carter. You can watch the excerpt on the BBC News website.
View the archive...Genesis LAMDA Scholar, Sam Swann (Class of 2010) has been chosen by the National Theatre to be featured in their main image for their new show, Greenland.
View the archive...On 16 January 2011 the Genesis Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary of nurturing emerging arts talent with a special evening at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
View the archive...This year, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, the Royal Court Theatre marks 15 years of pioneering international work with a season of plays from two very different parts of the world: Latin America and Eastern Europe.
View the archive...On Monday 27 January, the Ukrainian playwright Anna Yablonskaya was killed in the bomb blast at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Our thoughts are with her husband Artem and her daughter Maria whose loss is unimaginable.
View the archive...Over the Christmas period, LAMDA Genesis Scholar Ben Aldridge was in Toast on BBC1 alongside awarding-winning LAMDA alumnae, Victoria Hamilton and Clare Higgins. This was an adaptation of Nigel Slater’s celebrated memoir and was watched by 6.2 million viewers according to The Guardian.
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In September, Box of Tricks carried out a Genesis Laboratory on The Captain of the School Football Team to inform and inspire a final draft. Here they reflect on the process, the surprises and the findings.
View the archive...The Royal Court Theatre cemented its reputation as the leading new writing theatre and hotbed for new talent in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards last night (Sunday), winning in four categories, including Best Play, Most Promising Playwright, Best Design and the Editor’s Award.
View the archive...Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, will see her work 'In Ictu Oculi' shown in exhibitions at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Following his success directing Martin McDonagh’s celebrated play The Beauty Queen of Leenane earlier this year, Young Vic Genesis Fellow Joe Hill-Gibbins has recently received critical acclaim for his revival of Tennessee Williams’ renowned play, The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic.
View the archive...Director Steven Atkinson describes his process for creating a theatrical work. In this documentary Steven explains how he reinvisioned Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's Lidless in a unique staging which won rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2010 and was awarded a Fringe First.
View the archive...Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, has a solo show opening this week entitled 'ELOGIO DE LA BESTIA' (In Praise of the Beast) that will be held at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, in Pamplona, Spain.
View the archive...HighTide, with the support of The Bulldog Trust, have produced a series of web-based documentaries that invites you into the rehearsal room. Follow HighTide Genesis Laboratory artists behind the scenes and gain exclusive access to their creative processes. In this first instalment takis introduces his design concept for Ditch by Beth Steel.
View the archive...The Genesis LAMDA scholars for 2010 have now been selected and we can announce that the two students receiving support from the Genesis Foundation in order to fund their studies at LAMDA are Ryan Donaldson and Sam McAvoy.
View the archive...We are delighted to announce that the partnership between Lansons Communications and Genesis Foundation partner HighTide has been recognised in the 32nd Arts and Business Awards with a nomination for the Prudential A&B People Development Award.
View the archive...Tom Riley (class of 2005) will be appearing at 9pm tonight (6th September) in the ITV1 drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire alongside Trevor Eve and fellow LAMDA alumnus, Hermione Norris. Meanwhile, Paul Tinto (class of 2010) is currently understudying in the critically acclaimed Black Watch at the Barbican Theatre which will run from 27th November 2010 to 22nd January 2011.
View the archive...Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House will be returning to the Young Vic by popular demand this week, running from 28 March until 20 April 2013.
View media...Following its two sell-out runs, the Young Vic’s award-winning production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House will transfer to the West End. The production, directed by Carrie Cracknell will run from 8 August to 26 October at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
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