Greg Jones – Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award

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It is with great pleasure to announce that our outstanding Greg Jones has won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award.

Carleton Hobbs was a highly acclaimed actor on film, stage, and television but especially on the airwaves. Hobbs, or ‘Hobbo’ to his friends, was famed for playing Sherlock Holmes in over 80 radio adaptations of Conan Doyle’s stories while being a regular on Children’s Hour and playing everything from a lizard in The Streets of Pompeii to the elderly Adam in As You Like It. Upon his death in 1978 at the age of 80 the BBC’s Student Acting Prize was renamed in his honour. 

Since 1953, BBC Radio Drama has selected 5 award-winners every year from the country’s best drama schools, in Greg’s case that being the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). The Bursary grants the recipient a highly-prized 5-month contract with the BBC’s highly acclaimed Radio Drama Company. 

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Michael Geary – Orpheus Descending

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Michael costarred as Pee Wee Binnings in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending which ran at Theatr Clwyd on the 15th of April until the 27th of April before transferring to the Menier Chocolate Factory from the 9th of  May to the 6th of July.

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus, it is set in a dry goods store in a small southern town defined by conformity, sexual frustration, narrowness and racism. In this scene enters Val: a young man with a guitar, a badass snakeskin jacket, a questionable past and undeniable erotic energy and appeal.

He gets a job at the dry goods store run by a middle-aged woman called Lady whose elderly husband is knocking on death’s door. She finds herself becoming attracted to Val and the new life he seems to offer in the form of a tempting antidote to her loveless marriage and boring hum-drum life. 

The play describes the awakening of passion, love and life as well as its tragic consequences for both Val and Lady.

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Katia Elizarova – Hobbs and Shaw

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Katia plays a supporting role as the head Flight Attendant in The Fast and Furious Present: Hobbs and Shaw set for release on the 2nd of August!

Part of the Fast and Furious franchise which has grossed over $5 billion worldwide, this spin-off centres around franchise stalwarts Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw.

Hobbs, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a hard-boiled federal agent working for the Diplomatic Security Service. Shaw, played by Jason Statham, is a ex-Special Forces assassin-turned-mercenary who was imprisoned by Hobbs after the events of Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious.

They are forced to team up with MI6 agent Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby) to defeat Brixton Lore, a genetically & cybernetically-enhanced terrorist leader and criminal mastermind. 

Katia plays a very stern Russian flight attendant who is preparing the passengers for take off but just when they’re ready Dwayne Johnson rocks up by opening the plane’s heavy door – resulting in Katia giving the action mega-star the bollocking of his life!! 

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Robin Kingsland – The Browning Version

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Robin co-stared in Rapture Theatre Company’s The Browning Version which toured across Scotland since February and finished at the East Kilbride Arts Centre on the 10th of March.

Set in an English public boy’s school after the Second World War, it follows Andrew Cocker-Harris who is being forced from his position as the school’s classics master due to ill health.

As he wraps up his final term in office he is shocked to discover that not only has his wife Millie been unfaithful with one of his fellow schoolmasters but also that the students and members of the faculty have long disdained him.  However, after an unexpected act of kindness, Cocker-Harris is made to re-evaluate his life’s work. 

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