School of ACT Alumni Panel
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We’re welcoming back four graduates of the Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance degree to hear about what they did next. This alumni panel event is an opportunity to find out more about the many different career routes you can take after graduating from the Theatre programme.
The panellists are:
- Lotty Holder, is an independent producer and playwright who creates work that is inclusive, exciting and asks audiences to question the world around them.
- Robbie Nestor, is a dramaturg and producer and one of the founders of the dramaturgy company No Such Thing.
- Jessy Roberts, is a director, playwright and dramaturg
- Rachel Astall, is a lighting technician and designer.
Come along to hear about their experiences since graduating and to ask questions about how they have developed their careers.
This event is open to School of ACT students only.
About the speakers
Lotty Holder • Robbie Nestor • Jessy Roberts • Rachel Astall
Lotty Holder is an independent producer and playwright who creates work that is inclusive, exciting and asks audiences to question the world around them. During her career she has won the André Ptaszynski Prize for Producing and the Offie for Best Audio drama for her original Play Red Breast, and she is the cofounder and Head of Theatre at Cloudburst Productions.
Theatre Includes:
- As Associate Producer Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Ambassadors Theatre), A Mirror (Trafalgar Theatre)
- As Producer: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre) Glacier (Oxford Old Fire Station), Paper Cut (Park), No Man's Island (The Big House), NSDF: The Big Reset (UK Tour), Medusa Reloaded (The Void Nottingham),
- As Writer Red Breast (Chronic Insanity Theatre and The Traverse), Dispatched (Chol Theatre)
Film Includes:
- As Producer: Petrol Head (Cloudburst Productions)
Robbie Nestor is a dramaturg and producer with an expertise in new work. He runs the Readers’ Room playwriting scheme for the King’s Head Theatre and recently developed Clueless with Amy Heckerling for Trafalgar Studios. Robbie is currently developing Something, Not Yet with Freya Mavor (Skins, Sunshine on Leith) and is producing Nick Hyde’s critically acclaimed new play Double Act. He is the Co-Artistic Director of No Such Thing, a dramaturgy development company based in London.
Jessy Roberts is a director, playwright and dramaturg. She trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and studied Theatre at the University of York. Alongside working as a freelance director, she is Senior Reader at the National Theatre, was Literary Assistant at Soho Theatre, is an Associate Writer of Middle Child Theatre, and has been a reader for the RSC, The Royal Court and The Bruntwood Prize. She is the Artistic Director of Teastain Theatre, and an Associate Director of The Rondo Theatre, and of Bomb Factory Theatre. She is a member of the Mercury Theatre Directors Cohort 23/24, and was Artistic Director of York Theatre Royal's TakeOver Festival in 2018. Recent Credits as Director include: PAKIt In by Adam Iqbal (Derby Theatre),Tap Root by Ashley Milne (Longlisted for The Women's Prize for Playwriting), Thirst by Ashley Milne (Vault Festival), BRANDED by India Harrison Peppe (Bloomsbury Festival), Period Dramas by Heather Milstead (The Other Palace & Pleasance), Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play by Ashley Milne (Omnibus Theatre) Girls With Wings & Trauma by India Harrison Peppe (Bomb Factory Theatre Arts Foundation), Hitchhiker by Jessy Roberts (Rondo Theatre), I Hate Alone by Ellen Brammer(The Wardrobe Theatre), Details of a Hurricane (BOVTV), When They Go Low by Natalie Mitchell (the egg, Theatre Royal Bath), Messy Eaters by Aisling Lally (York Theatre Royal Studio) and lovely special best and most important by Ashley Milne (York Theatre Royal Studio). As Assistant Director: Octopolis by Marek Horn (Hampstead Theatre, dir. Ed Madden), Everybody Wants To be Ronaldo by Sam Butters (Birmingham Rep, dir. Nyasha Gudo) Broken Lad by Robin Hooper (Arcola Theatre, dir. Richard Speir), Absolute Scenes by Tim X Atack (Motion Bristol, dir. Tanuja Amarasuriya), Crimes Camera Action by Feargus Woods Dunlop (Theatre Royal Bath, dir. James Farrell), Horseshoes for Hand Grenades by Richard D. Cushing (East Riding Theatre, dir. Eric Loren).
Rachel Astall is a lighting technician and designer. She received a First Class BA in Theatre at the University of York and will be returning next month to embark on a PhD in Lighting Design and Musical Theatre.
Rachel also completed a Masters Degree in Design for Performance: Lighting Design Pathway from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
Rachel’s professional career began as a Theatre Technician at the Royal College of Music, London where she progressed to become the Venue and Production Lighting Manager. During this time, she designed both musical and opera performances, with notable credits including Barnum’s Bird (RCM) and SOMA (London School of Musical Theatre).
She is currently the Chief Electrician at the Opera House in Manchester, working with the latest musical theatre tours, live music and comedy events.
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