Hayley Carmichael Explained

Hayley Carmichael is an English actress and theatre director. She is co-founder of Told by an Idiot and has 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 Puntila and The Dispute.[1]

Education

Carmichael attended Middlesex Polytechnic, and graduated in 1993.[2]

Career

In 1995, Carmichael appeared in a stage adaptation of Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies. Later, Carmichael spoke of her frustration with the production, "we would work four scenes, then not know where to go, and we kept getting to dead ends and buggering off to the pub, thinking, 'what do we do now?'"[2] The same year, Carmichael played the part of Lovely, a kidnapped prostitute in I'm So Big; a play where two Romani brothers kidnap a prostitute and chain her up in a caravan so that they can buy pizza. The production suffered from protracted exposition at the expense of plot, comedy or character.[3] In the latter half of the 90s, Carmichael played an upper class girl besotted with her chauffeur in The Right Size' production Kathryn Hunter's Mr Puntila and his Man Matti.[4] Carmichael then performed I Weep at my Piano with her theatre troupe as part of the London International Mime Festival.[5]

In 2016, Carmichael played Alice in Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution.[6]

Appearances

Theatre work

Here Be Lions (French text by Stéphane Olry/La Revue Eclair Paris, English translation by Neil Bartlett). Theatre of Europe - The Print Room at the Coronet - London 2015

For Told by an Idiot

Other work

Film work

Television work

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tmauk.org/awards/previousawards.aspx Theatrical Management Association Awards
  2. Web site: Words of wisdom by the leading Idiot. 2000-09-17. 2020-11-19. The Independent. Logan. Brian. https://web.archive.org/web/20201119165555/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/words-of-wisdom-by-the-leading-idiot-701905.html. 2020-11-19. live.
  3. Web site: New Stages: I'm So Big BAC, London. 1995-06-07. 2020-11-20. The Independent. Abdulla. Sara. https://web.archive.org/web/20141126080106/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/new-stages-1585320.html. 2014-11-26. live.
  4. Web site: Theatre: Lorca, Dali, Bunuel: their naughtiness lives on. 1999-01-13. 2020-11-23. The Independent. Benedict. David. https://web.archive.org/web/20201123180233/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-lorca-dali-bunuel-their-naughtiness-lives-on-1046730.html. 2020-11-23. live.
  5. Web site: Carole Woddis I Weep at My Piano, BAC (part of the London Mime Festival). 1999-01-16. 2020-11-23. The Scottish Herald. https://web.archive.org/web/20201123182148/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12008090.carole-woddis-i-weep-at-my-piano-bac-part-of-the-london-mime-festival/. 2020-11-23. live.
  6. Web site: 2016-12-12. An Interview with Hayley Carmichael. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201120133754/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/witness-for-the-prosecution/carmichael. 20 November 2020. 2020-11-20. BBC.

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