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Lorna Laidlaw

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Lorna Laidlaw

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For the New Vic: Pat and Margaret, Romeo and Juliet, Green Form, Stepping Out, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Theatre credits include: These Four Streets, Peter Pan, Nativity, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Getting it Straight, Pinocchio, The Devil’s Only Sleeping, Nothing Compares to You, The Last Carnival, Mickey and Me, The Mother, Past 30 Years. You knew me, Wizard of Oz, Park Bench, Transmissions rehearsed readings (Birmingham Rep); Thatcher the Musical (Foursight); Buddy (E&B Productions); Educating Rita (Wolverhampton Grand); Flathampton (Royal and Derngate); Misery, Little Shop of Horrors (Redditch Palace); Macbeth (Theatre Foundry); Shot Through The Heart (Pentabus); Singing Rock, Magic Earth Magic Sky, Big for Me Little for You (Midlands Arts Centre); Putting it About (Women and Theatre); Spitting Image (Birmingham Rep and Phoenix Theatre London); Birmingham University rehearsed readings. Lorna has worked in most Birmingham schools and with fantastic local theatre companies on innovative and thought-provoking productions.

Film & television credit include: Leaving ( Birmingham Film & Video); Hope (Red Carpet Co); Are you Jim’s Wife, Tikkabilla, BAFTA winner Grandpa in my Pocket, Little Human Planet (BBC TV); Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV); Twirleywoos (Ragdoll); Park Bench (Sky Arts); Doctors (for which she has won an RTS, MVSA and Inside Soap award for Best Actress); Coronation Street (ITV).

Radio credits include: Over 30 radio productions including Archers, Silver Street, award-winning Double Dribble, Something to Think About, Jeff’s Kingdom, Undine, Whispers in the Wall-The Hijab, Second Chance. Reans Girls (BBC Radio 3, 4 and The Asian Network); Kareaboo (Amazon Audible).

Theatre Directing credits include: Caribbean Kitchen, Nativity, Stranger in the Park, ID-79, In Between the Music (The Birmingham Rep); Mr Soon Come (winner of The MVSA Award, Best Black Theatre Production); The Drum. Big for me, Little for you (Mac and National tour); Dismortal Life (Stratford Fringe Festival); Lite (The Public and Arena Wolverhampton); Bun and Cheese (Bussey Centre, Peckham and Old Joint Stock); Rosa Parks the Hidden Journey (Midlands Arts Centre MAC); Sky Comedy Festival, Black Men Don’t Fish (Patch, Birmingham Rep Theatre); She’s Royal (Birmingham Hippodrome and Wolverhampton Grand).

Lorna has also worked with a number of writers developing new work for the stage and screen.