Jacob Butler – It’s A Sin

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Jacob Butler made his on-screen debut in Channel 4’s It’s a Sin – the moving and impactful drama from Russell T Davies which aired on Channel 4.

It’s A Sin focuses on the lives of three young gay men, Richie, Roscoe and Colin, affected by the 1980’s AIDS crisis. Jacob plays the role of BENJAMIN who appears in one episode of the series. 

It will also be coming to the USA on HBO Max. 

Jacob graduated from ALRA North in 2019. 

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Stefanie Powers – The Artist’s Wife

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Stefanie plays the role of Artist Ada Risi in The Artist’s Wife which was released on September 25th.  

Directed by Tom Dolby and starring Lena Olin & Bruce Dern, it tells the story of Richard and Claire Smythson, a well-renowned modern artist and his long-suffering wife as he prepares the last exhibition of his illustrious career.

However, Richard is diagnosed with dementia after a string of wild mood swings, uncharacteristic behaviour and memory problems.

As his mental faculties deteriorates his wife Claire tries to shield his condition from the rest of the art community while trying to reconnect him with his estranged daughter and grandson from a previous marriage.

Challenged by the loss of her world as she knew it, Claire must now decide whether to stand with Richard on the sidelines or step into the spotlight herself, encouraged by a fellow artist Ada Risi played by Stefanie. 

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Grant Robert Keelan – Schemers

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Grant co-stars in Black Factory Films’ Schemers which released in select UK cinemas on the 25th of September in 2021, and is now available on almost all online platforms and in physical copies from Amazon and HMV.

Set in Dundee in 1979 and based off writer/producer David McLean’s early years in the music business, it follows David and his friends John and Scot working as fledgling promoters.

Determined to not get “real” jobs, they start running local discos and, after a run-in with a local gangster, they raise their ambitions to booking major bands such as Iron Maiden.

This comedy celebrates youthful ambition and was shot in and around Dundee with local actors.

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Joe Osborne – Tin Star

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Joe appeared in the 3rd series of Kudos Film & Television’s Tin Star, which aired on Sky Atlantic at the end of last year. 

Starring Tim Roth, Genevieve O’Reilly, Abigail Lawrie and Christina Hendricks; it follows former Metropolitan Police detective Jim Worth who moves himself and his family to Little Big Bear, a small town in the Canadian Rockies, and is appointed as the town’s police chief.

However, this isn’t the serene escape Jim and his family were hoping for as not only does their father’s gloomy and violent past catch up with him but they must also contend with the domineering North Stream Oil Company who are trying to take over the town and gain access to its abundant natural resources. 

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Cary Crankson – Silent Night

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Cary co-stars as Alan in Break Em Films’ Silent Night, currently available for viewing on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video!

 Written and directed by Will Thorne, it tells the tale of Mark, fresh out of prison and living in his van, trying to reconnect with his young daughter Daisy by giving her a fabulous Christmas.

While struggling to scrape together the money, he runs into Alan, his former cellmate, who encourages him to get back into his previous life of crime.

This is made all the more pressing by the fact that Caddy, the ruthless crime boss, blackmails Mark by threatening his daughter’s safety if he doesn’t carry out one more job: the deaths of the three Azzi Brothers. 

As Alan begins to play a dangerous game, Caddy loses his patience and a dark secret is revealed, with his card now marked across town, will Mark be able to complete the contract and save his daughter? 

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Reice Weathers – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

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Reice costared in Greenwich Theatre’s winter show The Wolves of Willoughby Chase which ran from the 18th of December to the 10th of January 2021.

Based on the novel by Joan Aiken and directed by James Haddrell, it is set in an alternate history of England where two cousins Bonnie & Sylvia and their friend Simon the Gooseboy fight against ferocious wolves while battling their way through snowy wastelands to defeat their evil guardian Miss Slighcarp.

Adapted for stage by Russ Tunney, the original story won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Edgar Allen Poe Award and its author was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature in 1999.

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Steve North – War Horse

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Steve played Ted Narracott in The National Theatre’s globe-trotting smash War Horse, which returned to cinemas on the 11th of November in the UK and internationally on the 24th of February 2021.

Based off the best-selling children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, it tells the story of the deep companionship between the son of a poor farmer called Arthur and a bay thoroughbred horse named Joey as they grow up together and eventually have to face the horrors of the First World War together.

The show immediately received rapturous praise on its first run at the National Theatre in 2009 winning countless warlords, particularly for its stunningly realistic puppetry of the animals including Joey by the South Africa-based Handspring Puppet Company, and brought to Broadway in 2011 and has toured all over the world since.

2011 was also the year that it was made into a film adaptation by Steven Spielberg which received several award nominations including Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAS.

 

Jumoké Fashola – London Sinfonietta: Reassemble Online

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Jumoké hosted the London Sinfonietta’s Reassemble Online festival, which streamed on the 25th of October, 2020. 

Founded in 1968 by David Atherton and Nicholas Snowman, the London Sinfonietta is the Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre and has been at the forefront of contemporary classical music for 50 years, having commissioned over 300 works and premiered many hundreds of others from such composers as Luciano Berio, Steve Reich, Django Bates, Jonny Greenwood and Iannis Xenakis. 

Starting at 2pm and ending at 9pm, Reassemble Online will be a free day of contemporary classical music featuring live performances of new work and replays of pre-recorded events being broadcast online for the first time.

The schedule includes new pieces by Shiva Fershareki and Gavin Higgins, a new performance of Dai Fujikura’s made-for-internet composition Longing from Afar and the first chance to see Richard Ayres’ The Garden with animations by Martha Colburn before ending with a composition with composer George Benjamin and a performance of one of his chamber works. 

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Joe Gallina – Urban Myths

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Joe featured in Episode 2 of Season 4 of Sky UK’s Urban Myths.

This International Emmy Award-nominated series fictionalises some of the most peculiar stories to have ever leaked out of the world of Hollywood, the Music Industry and the Worlds of Arts and Culture.

Often casting big names in the main roles, previous storylines have included everything from Alice Cooper (Noel Fielding) and Salvador Dali (Sir David Suchet) enjoying a wild weekend together in 1970s New York, to a young David Bowie (Luke Treadaway) and Marc Bolan (Jack Whitehall) spending an afternoon redecorating their manager’s Soho office, to even a certain Austrian 20-year-old named Adolf Hitler (Iwan Rheon) trying to get into the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Joe’s episode, set in the rehearsals of an Off-Broadway theatre company in the 1950s, centres on the relationship between two up-and-coming young actresses; Barbara Streisand and Joan Rivers. 

Joe plays Greg, an eager young member of the theatre company whose become infatuated with the idea of seeing the then-unknown Streisand and Rivers kiss on stage and will do everything he can to sneak a peek at this taboo being broken.

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Sona Vyas Dunne – Saint Maud

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Sona featured in A24’s religious psychological horror Saint Maud. 

Written and Directed by Rose Glass, it follows the titular Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable character makes her pursue a path of piety triggered by an act of trauma obscured from the audience. 

Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer whose body is being ravaged by terminal-stage cancer, Maud’s devout faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save Amanda’s soul from eternal damnation, whatever the cost.

The film received incredible reviews including 5 stars from both The Guardian, The Independent and the Evening Standard as well as a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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