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Bretton Hall College
Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds. The college merged with the University of Leeds in 2001 and the campus closed in 2007. History In 1949 Bretton Hall College, a teacher training college founded by Alec Clegg specialising in innovative courses in design, music and the visual and performance arts, opened in the historic Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, Bretton Hall in West Bretton, Yorkshire. It became an affiliated college of the University of Leeds, which validated its degrees. The college had financial difficulties, and, with the support of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), merged with the University of Leeds in August 2001. Most of the music, fine art and teacher training courses were moved to the Leeds campus, but visual and performing arts education and creative writing remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton Hall - Geograph
Bretton may refer to: Places in the UK * Bretton, Derbyshire, England, a hamlet * Bretton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, a settlement and civil parish * Bretton, Flintshire, Wales, a village Other uses * Bretton (name), a list of people with the name * Bretton (EP), ''Bretton'' (EP), a 2008 record by Lower Than Atlantis * Bretton's, a former Canadian high-end department store See also * Bretton Hall (other) * Bretton Woods (other) * West Bretton, West Yorkshire * Bretten (other) * Brenton (other) * Breton (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasia Demetriou
Natasia Charlotte Demetriou (born 15 January 1984) is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. She is best known for her roles as Nadja in the FX comedy horror series ''What We Do in the Shadows'' (2019–2024) and Sophie in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Stath Lets Flats'' (2018–2021). In 2022, Demetriou co-wrote and starred in the BBC sketch show '' Ellie & Natasia'', alongside her comedy partner Ellie White. The show was renewed for a second series in 2023. Early life Natasia Charlotte Demetriou was born in London, the daughter of an English mother and Greek-Cypriot father. She was raised in North London. Her younger brother, Jamie Demetriou, is a comedian and actor with whom she often collaborates. She studied acting at the University of Leeds. Prior to becoming a professional comedian, Demetriou worked as a makeup artist, notably working on music videos for Boy Better Know. Career Demetriou's debut show, ''You'll Never Have All of Me'', won the '' Skinny'' Debutant Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Leaman
Louisa Leaman (born 24 June 1976) is a London-based author. Her debut novel, ''The Perfect Dress'', published by Penguin Random House, is an uplifting contemporary romance about vintage wedding dresses, inspired by her work researching and writing for the Victoria & Albert Museum. In the US it is titled ''The Second Chance Boutique'' and is published by Sourcebooks. It is also published in Germany, Italy and Spain. Leaman's second novel, ''Meant To Be'', published in October 2020, features a charmed antique necklace that leads its owner to their true love. Early life Louisa was born on 24 June 1976 and grew up in Loughton, Essex. She was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, then attended Leeds University, where she studied Art History followed by a PGCE teaching qualification in Secondary Art & Design. Career In 2004 Louisa won a writing competition in the ''Times Educational Supplement''. This led to a publishing deal with Continuum International Publishing), for w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kerrigan
Jonathan Kerrigan (born 14 October 1972) is an English actor well known for various leading roles on TV including '' In the Club'', ''Casualty'', '' Heartbeat'', ''Merseybeat, The Five'' and ''Reach For The Moon''. Films include '' Diana'', ''FLiM'', ''The Somnambulists'' ,''The Best Possible Taste'' and ''The Santa Incident''. He wrote and composed and starred in the short film, ''Fellow Creatures'' which has had some success in the festival circuit. He is also a musician and has composed for both television and film. Career He had his screen debut in The Chemical Brothers music video, Life Is Sweet. In Peak Practice he played climber Ewan Harvey. From 1996 to 1999 he played a Project 2000 nurse, Sam Colloby, in BBC medical drama ''Casualty''. In 2001, as well as starring in '' Merseybeat'' as Police Constable Steve Traynor, Kerrigan also composed the theme tune. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Kavanagh
Christine Mary Kavanagh (born 24 March 1957) is an English actress. Early life Kavanagh was born in Prescot, Lancashire. She was educated in Brussels, and trained as a drama teacher at Bretton Hall College and as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Kavanagh first appeared in ''The Onedin Line'', followed by a BBC2 Playhouse production before appearing as Nicky in a 1984 episode of ''Minder''. In 1990 she played the lead in the first production (in Scarborough) of Alan Ayckbourne's ''The Revengers' Comedies'', opposite Jon Strickland. In 1985 she appeared in the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' Timelash''. She played Lucy Downes in the ''Inspector Morse'' ITV series, in the episode "The Wolvercote Tongue" in 1987, Barbara Hazlitt in a 1989 episode of '' All Creatures Great and Small'', and Dr Alison Wells in the 1991 series ''Chimera''. In 1992 she played the part of Isabel Vandervent in the production of ''The Blackheath Poisonings'' produced by ITV. In 1994 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hutchinson (writer)
Roger Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born at Farnworth, near Bolton, in Lancashire, but lives on Raasay, off the east coast of Skye. Education Hutchinson attended Bretton Hall College in Leeds to study English. Career In the late 1960s, around the time he studied English at Bretton Hall College, he founded and edited 'Sad Traffic', published from a small office in Barnsley, which ran for five issues before morphing into Yorkshire's alternative newspaper, Styng (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip). He then moved to London and edited '' OZ'', ''International Times'' and the magazine '' Time Out''. In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the '' West Highland Free Press''. Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay. He has also served as editor of the '' Stornoway Gazette''. Books As of 2017, Hutchinson has written 15 non-fiction books. ''Polly, The True Story Behind Whisky Galore'' (1990) was about the SS ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Howells
Adrian Howells (9 April 1962 – 16 March 2014) was a British performance artist associated with one-to-one performance and intimate theatre. He performed in the United Kingdom and internationally (including in Israel, Singapore, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries). He was a pioneer of one-to-one performance, in which an artist repeats and adapts a score for a performance for a single audience member, or audience-participant, and repeats the action serially across a run of several days. The process and outcomes in Howells' signature works were frequently modelled on activities associated with the service industries or the tertiary sector of the economy, such as washing the audience-participant's hair or clothes, or giving an audience-member a bath, replicating in some ways the labour of a hairdresser, laundry worker, or caregiver; or he appropriated and adapted intimate interpersonal experiences in carefully mediated situations, like talking around a script or score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Henry
Carla Henry is a British actress, most famous for her role as Donna Clarke in '' Queer as Folk''. She trained at Bretton Hall College. Her performances in stage productions such as ''Storm'' (Contact Theatre) and ''Habitat'' (Royal Exchange) and ''On the Shore of the Wide World'' have seen her tackle a wide variety of roles. She played Kristin in the 2012 production of '' Miss Julie'' alongside Maxine Peake, Joe Armstrong and Liam Gerrard at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and was nominated for a best supporting actress award in the Manchester Theatre Awards She played Castiza in Alex Cox's film '' Revengers Tragedy'' and also appeared in his television film '' I'm A Juvenile Delinquent - Jail Me!''. In 2013 she appeared in the BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Hall
Esther Jane Hall (born 28 August 1970) is an English actress who has appeared in a number of television dramas. She is most notable for her performance in ''Black Mirror'' “Hated in the Nation”. Early life Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree. Career Hall's first high-profile role was as Romey Sullivan in the television drama '' Queer as Folk'' (1999–2000), in which she played one half of a lesbian couple who conceive a baby with the help of their gay best friend. In 2001 she appeared in the award-winning TV drama ''Men Only'' as Katie, the wife of Mac (Marc Warren). Roles in '' Always and Everyone'' (2000–01), ''Serious and Organised'' (2003) and an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's ''Sons and Lovers'' (2003) followed. Hall played Ellie Simm, the girlfriend of main character T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Godber
John Harry Godber (born 18 May 1956) is an English playwright, known mainly for observational comedy, observational comedies. The ''Plays and Players Yearbook'' of 1993 rated him the third most performed playwright in the UK after William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. He has been creative director of the Theatre Royal Wakefield since 2011. Early life and education Godber was born in Upton, West Yorkshire, Upton, West Riding of Yorkshire. He trained as a teacher of drama at Bretton Hall College of Education, Bretton Hall College, which was affiliated to the University of Leeds, and became artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1984. Career Before venturing into plays, he was head of drama at Minsthorpe Community College, Prince Henry’s grammar school where he had attended as a student, and then wrote for the TV series ''Brookside (television programme), Brookside'' and ''Grange Hill''. While he was at Minsthorpe he taught future actors Adrian Hood (''Preston Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. Best known for his acting work on stage and screen as well as for co-creating television shows with Steven Moffat, he has received several awards including two Laurence Olivier Awards, a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award. Gatiss co-created, co-wrote and acted in BBC comedy series ''The League of Gentlemen'' (1999–2002). He co-created and portrayed Mycroft Holmes in the BBC series ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'' (2010–2017) and Renfield, Frank Renfield in BBC One, BBC / Netflix miniseries ''Dracula (2020 TV series), Dracula'' (2020). He also wrote several episodes of ''Doctor Who'' during Moffat's tenure as showrunner, as well as two episodes during Russell T Davies's earlier tenure. His other TV roles include Tycho Nestoris in ''Game of Thrones'' (2014–2017), Stephen Gardiner in ''Wolf Hall (miniseries), Wolf Hall'' (2015), and Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Fryer
Emma Fryer is a British stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Coventry, best known for playing Tania in BBC Three's '' Ideal'', Janine in E4's ''PhoneShop'' and Gaynor in BBC Two's '' Home Time'', which she co-wrote with Neil Edmond. Career In 2005, she was a finalist in the '' So You Think You're Funny?'', '' Funny Women'' and '' Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year'' competitions. She has also appeared as one of the spoof presenters in Channel 4's Comedy Lab ''Swizzcall'', played the lead character, Dawn Jones, in the online sitcom '' Where are the Joneses?'' and provided the single additional voice in the finale of Tim Key's '' All Bar Luke''. More recently, she has appeared in BBC dramas '' Moving On'' and '' In The Dark''. Fryer was nominated for ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
