About Me

As long as I've been able to walk and talk, I have always loved the world of make-believe. I would always play games in which I would make entire worlds from inside my head come to life, and I loved creating different characters who could then live in these worlds. My family soon realized my creative potential, and it wasn't long before I was sent to my first day at Mo's Saturday Stage School, now called Berkshire Theatre School. The school built me up as a creative individual and made me realize just how much I love this absurd, yet wonderful world of make-believe. Almost ten years later, I finally left this Stage School and at the same time I finished A-Levels and went out into the big wide world. Almost straight away, I was performing in plays with the terrific and upcoming theatre company Reading Between The Lines, which was run by my ex-teachers from Berkshire Theatre School. In September 2017, I worked on a play called 'The Royal Burial: The Life and Death of Reading's Buried King', working as an intern, and performing with professional actors. The play was held outside the shopping center of Reading, taking place on a bridge, with scenes happening both on, and around this huge structure. Then, just a month later, I was working yet again as an intern on the company's next, and most impressive marvel. The play was called 'Matilda The Empress' and is to this day, the most memorable and important piece of work I have worked on. The rehearsal process was three weeks, and during this time, and indeed, the duration of time the play was on for, my eyes were opened to a huge extent on many, many different aspects to the art of acting, and on the industry as a whole. I was partnered with a professional actor, who would act as my mentor, giving me advice on drama schools, monologues and auditions, technique, and on the industry as a whole. The atmosphere in every rehearsal, every performance and every day I spent working on that play, was one of complete acceptance. There was no feeling that, as very young interns, we were inferior to the professional actors, and no one thought themselves higher than anyone else. I made such wonderful friends and the chemistry between the whole cast is one of the main reasons why, in my opinion, the production was such a success. Between then and now (as of September 2018), I have performed in yet another two productions with Reading Between The Lines, the first being a Foundations production of Romeo and Juliet, meaning the cast was made up of all young people aged 16-21, and the second being yet another experimental piece of work held in public, this time in Forbury Gardens, Reading, where we performed a piece of stage fighting to the public, as part of 'In Ruins', a guided tour where members of the public would walk around Reading and witness scenes taken from its long history.
Despite all of these theatre productions I have been in, including all the productions I did as part of Berkshire Theatre School, and with my school and college, over the course of the past few years, my love for film has increased to no end. Last year, I became obsessed with the films nominated for the Oscars 2018, and from that moment, I knew I was falling in love. I still have many, many films to watch, both old and new, before I can say I'm a fanatic, but it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that this is what I am slowly becoming. Despite this growing love for film, I have yet to have the full experience of working on one, even a small short film. I have starred in short films for friends, but nothing has ever been completed as of yet. For example, at the beginning of the year, my friend, an upcoming film director in his own right, cast me as the main character in a feature film he had created called 'Craig Becomes a Criminal'. However, due to cast cancellations and the fact that this film would end up being about an hour long, shooting for the film was cancelled early on. To be brutally honest, this has happened several times to me, and, while I do not put any of the blame on the directors (who all happen to be friends of mine), I cannot doubt the fact that I have felt frustrated, being so close to actually working on a film for once, and then being let down last minute.
So, therefore, I think it would be an understatement to say that I am always eager to be working on a piece of film, even if I only have one line, and I hope to be doing a lot more of this sooner rather than later.

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