Hayley Carmichael
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Hayley Carmichael is an English actress and theatre-director. She is co-founder of Told By An Idiot and has both devised and performed in almost all their productions. She won the TMA
and Time Out awards in 1999 for Best Actress for her performances in I Weep At My Piano, Mr Puntilla and The Dispute.
TMA Awards
The TMA Awards, established in 1991, are presented annually by the Theatrical Management Association in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in United Kingdom theatres...
and Time Out awards in 1999 for Best Actress for her performances in I Weep At My Piano, Mr Puntilla and The Dispute.
For Told by an Idiot
- I'm A Fool To Want You
- Playing The Victim
- The Firework-Makers Daughter
- A Little Fantasy
- AladdinAladdinAladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
- Shoot Me In The Heart
- Happy Birthday Mister Deka D
- I Weep At My Piano
- Casanova (2007)
Other work
- The Dispute (RSCRoyal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
) - Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti (The Right SizeThe Right SizeThe Right Size theatre company is a British comedy double act made up of Hamish McColl and Sean Foley. They first met at a clown school in Paris late in the 1980s, studying with Philippe Gaulier, and formed their own small-scale theatre company...
/AlmeidaAlmeida TheatreThe Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
co-production) - The Maids (2007, Brighton FestivalBrighton FestivalThe Brighton Festival is an annual arts festival which takes place in the city of Brighton and Hove in England each May. It was founded in 1966, and is the largest multi-art form festival in England...
) - Cymbeline (2006, RSC/ Kneehigh TheatreKneehigh TheatreKneehigh Theatre is an international theatre company based in Cornwall, England.Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed in village halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries...
) - Theatre of Blood (Royal National TheatreRoyal National TheatreThe Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
) - Bliss (2008, Royal Court TheatreRoyal Court TheatreThe Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
)
- The BirdsThe Birds (play)The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BCE at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs...
(Royal National Theatre) - The Street of Crocodiles (CompliciteCompliciteThe British theatre company Complicite was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni. Its original name was Théâtre de Complicité. "The Company's inimitable style of visual and devised theatre [has] an emphasis on strong, corporeal, poetic and surrealist image supporting...
) - The New Tenant (Young Vic)
- King LearKing LearKing Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
(Young Vic) - Mother Courage and Her ChildrenMother Courage and Her ChildrenMother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...
(Shared ExperienceShared ExperienceShared Experience is a British theatre company. Its current joint artistic directors are Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale. Kate Saxon is an Associate Director.-Productions:*A Passage to India *Madame Bovary...
) - A Servant to Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible)
- Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble)
- David Copperfield (Dundee Rep)
- MetamorphosisMetamorphosisMetamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
(Dundee Rep) - Loser
Film work
- National Achievement Day (1995)
- Simon MagusSimon Magus (film)-Story:A Jew named Dovid Bendel tries to revive his dwindling village by building a railway station next to it. The squire agrees to provide the land, on the condition that Dovid will read his poetry. A cunning business man is also interested in the land and he tries to compete using money and...
(1999) - Anazapia (2001)
- One Day (2007)
Television work
- Viva Blackpool (2006)
- Tunnel of Love
- Little RobotsLittle RobotsLittle Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited and broadcast on CBeebies . The fiction series was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow, published by Ragged Bears Publishing...
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
- The Many Cinderellas
- Life's A Bitch (aka Life's a Bitch and So Am I)