List of Members
Here are the members of the Ensemble Laboratory since July 2010 There are currently 25 actors working at the weekly Lab and performing the current pop-up production. Read more about them here:
Selection for the ensemble was through submissions and follow-up audition workshops held at The Actors Centre London. For more information on the Laboratory click here:
Lab Cats #1 (Joined July 2010): Margaret Ann-Bain, Lisa Castle, Daniel Cane, Giles Coram, Benjamin Davies, Emma Deegan, Caroline Killpatrick, Samara MacLaren, James Richard Marshall, Lachlan McCall, Ifan Meredith, Helen Millar, Tessa Parr, Jessica Sedler, Katie Sheridan and Chiara Silvestrin.
Lab Cats #2 (Joined September 2010): Charlie Cattrall, Hannah Croft, Alex Gatehouse, Becky Haigh, Freddie Machin, Nathan Nolan, Caitlin Thorburn, Liana Weafer and Francis Woolf.
Lab Cats #3 (Joined January 2011): Michael Cox, Danielle Richards.
Lab Cats #4 (Joined June 2011): Robert Fawsitt, James French, Simon Jones, Olalekan Lawal, Ben Pohlman, Ben Whybrow and Tom Ross Williams.
If you are interested in joining the Ensemble Laboratory please send us a statement of interest and your CV. We will get back to you as and when space becomes available / new auditions are happening. Contact details can be found here
Please see the Forum for ongoing discussions and Weekly sign-up for Visiting Members
Creative Team:
Director: Simon Pittman
Associate Director – Tess Denman-Cleaver
Associate (Music) – Aimee Leonard
Read our biographies here
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It was great to meet everyone (almost), yesterday. I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks.
p.s
Someone left their sunglasses in the pub, I think they belong to Tess, I’ll bring them in next week.
Helen
It was great, and those sunglasses are mine! I shall collect my evidently female looking lenses from you next week.
Phil
Yeah it was great. It would be good to have a suggestion board , say for writers, plays and scenes to look at, like , Molière/ Tartuff, Stephen Adly Guirgis/Jesus Hopped the A Train/ Act 1 scene 5…What do you think?
Ben
Hi Ben. Yes, I’m working on a forum page to enable this kind of thing more effectively at the moment. Watch this space: We’ll email you all with instructions if we manage to get it working. I’m hoping you’ll also be able to log in as users on it.
See you next week
S
Fantastic to meet everyone. Really excited about weeks to come. Getting stuck into Libby Worth and Helen Poynor’s book on Anna Halprin this week and loving it.
See you all on Sunday,
Tess
Great fun last sunday, looking forward to this one, have a good week everyone, Katie xXx
Phil your sunglasses are incredible masculine and it was only their placement on the table that made me think they had a female owner. Unfortunately this Sunday is the week I can’t make, however I am rehearsing from from 10 till half 5 in the actors centre so I can leave them at reception or return them to you in the pub if you are going there again?
Looking forward to tomorrow immensely.
I though also I’d recommend going to the One to One festival at the BAC. It’s 50 pieces of theatre and performance for one audience member, you get a personal itinerary with three appointments spread over the night, and then in between you get to explore the BAC and find other hidden experiences.
It’s a very cool night out.
See you all tomorrow, james x
I really enjoyed the first session! I feel I’ve already learnt a hell of a lot and came away with loads to think about.
I particularly liked Tess’s comment about ‘play’, but can’t for the life of me remember it fully…any chance it can be posted on here?
And what a lovely bunch of people! Can’t wait to get stuck in again next week.
I think it was comparing the ‘creative process’ to ‘play’ and describing them both as ‘trial and error with no fear of failure’. Summat like that anyway. I’m sure Tess will correct me tomorrow if I’m wrong.
I echo those sentiments by the way, Emma.
Looking forward to seeing you all again tomorrow! Yes, that balance between play, responsibility and humility as an ensemble member feels like a tricky one. I very much liked Simon’s comment about ‘looking for the promise’ though which seemed to help when my head felt like it might explode… I shall be bearing that in mind tomorrow! Until then x
Sunday was ACE! I think what i’ll take from that it, apart from that if you wear bright stripey trousers you’ll be justly mocked, is the feeling of as a group shifting the focus around, jumping from the individual, to the sub group, to the whole group, to outside the group, or any combination at the same time.
I love this expansion and contraction of space, doing what is achieved with a camera suddenly zooming in from a massive wide to a close up of someones eyes, and then cutting to others reactions, just by the subtle repositioning of bodies in a room.
Good song too.
Have a lovely week all.
I didn’t say it, Micheal Rosen did; ‘Play or the creative process is trial and error without fear of failure’.
Hi,
what was the name of the play we will be looking at this Sunday? I’ve forgotten.
I’ve also forgotten how that song went, anyone remember words?
james (i think, or maybe i’ve forgotten that too)
Hi James,
Fewer Emergencies.
It was a Latvian song. The words as I would write them phonetically are:
“Too ray a lay, par ly su dey or,
Su dey ah, su dey or,
Su dey ur, La ta ta toe”.
I’ll post more session notes in the forum soon but everyone should feel free to start this off too. It should be working now. Please contribute there with questions such as this:
Link to Discussion Forum
Simon
Sunday was so great – really good to be stretching and playing and exploring. And working with such a great group of people! Sorry I’ll miss you all this week – off to Cornwall to play in the sand, but I shall see you all the week after! xx