Free Artist Talk with Simon Russell Beale and Josh Hamilton

KORERO TOI / ARTIST TALK
Join us for a FREE Artist talk and Question and Answer session

Featuring two of the stars of The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale - Simon Russell Beale (UK) and Josh Hamilton (US)

“….mixed group of English and American actors to perform classical plays in repertory under the direction of Sam Mendes – is a shining success.”
AM New York

Hosted by Silo Theatre’s Artistic Director, Shane Bosher

5.15pm to 6.00pm, Thursday 9 April
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE®
Owens Foyer level only

NOTE: Stalls only, Seating subject to availability, first in first seated.

Artist Bios

SIMON RUSSELL BEALE’s theater career began with plays at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. For the National Theatre: Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, Galileo, The Alchemist, Jumpers (also New York, where he was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor), Humble Boy, Hamlet (at BAM in 2001; 2000 Evening Standard Best Actor, Critics’ Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance and the Boston Critics’ Association Outstanding Actor in a Large Company), Battle Royal, Candide (2000 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Summerfolk, Money, Othello (BAM, 1998), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Volpone (1996 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor). For the RSC plays include The Tempest, King Lear, Ghosts, Richard III, Edward II, The Seagull, Troilus and Cressida, The Man of Mode and Restoration.

Other theater includes Monty Python’s Spamalot on Broadway; for the Donmar, The Philanthropist (2005 Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Best Actor), Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (BAM, 2003; both winning him 2002 Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier Awards for Best Actor and Drama Desk award nominations in the US. For Uncle Vanya: Village Voice Obie for Best Actor); Julius Caesar at the Barbican and on international tour. TV includes A Dance to the Music of Time (1997 Royal Television Society Best Actor and BAFTA Best Actor), Persuasion.

He is also the presenter of the series Sacred Music for the BBC. Simon Russell Beale is an associate of the National Theatre and an associate artist of the RSC.

In 2003 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the Arts.

JOSH HAMILTON’s stage credits include The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center), Things We Want (New Group), Hurlyburly (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations, New Group), Proof (Broadway), The Waverly Gallery (Promenade), This is Our Youth (New Group), As Bees in Honey Drown, and Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept.), The Violet Hour (Steppenwolf), The Cider House Rules (Atlantic and Mark Taper), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic), Gone Home (MTC), One Plus One (NYS&F), Suburbia (LTC), Sons and Fathers (Malaparte-cofounder), and Woman and Wallace (YPF).

TV and film include Outsourced, Broken English, Diggers, Alive, Kicking and Screaming, The F Word, Freak Talks About Sex, On Line, With Honors, House of Yes, The Proprietor, Abby My Love (Emmy Award), and Absolutely Fabulous. Upcoming: Away We Go, Ten Stories Tall, Margaret, Tonight at Noon, and Alexander the Last.

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