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Gillian Bevan BIO

Most recent theatre:

Mama Mizner in the European Premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Prior to this she played Sheila in Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury and was asked to appear in the 80th Birthday tribute concert of Company for Stephen Sondheim for the Donmar. Gillian recently played Alice in Billy Liar at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, and With a Song in my Heart at Salisbury. Other theatre includes the award winning Grand Hotel at the Donmar Warehouse, and a tour of Japan with Adam Cooper in On Your Toes. She started work at Perth Rep, then worked in many rep companies including the Bristol Old Vic (A Doll’s House). She spent three years with Alan Ayckbourn’s Theatre in the Round appearing in Season’s Greetings, Me Myself & I, Making Tracks, Saturday Sunday Monday, Twelfth Night, and culminating in a US Tour of Way Upstream and Absent Friends.

Other regional work includes:

Ophelia in Hamlet (Leatherhead), Belle in Little Me, Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers (York), Lady Teazle in School for Scandal (Cambridge Theatre Co), Hawks and Doves (directed by Patrick Sandford) at Southampton and Facade at the Sage Gateshead for the Northern Sinfonia.

Work in London includes:

Lace in Making Tracks (Greenwich), Gertie in Noel & Gertie (King’s Head), Young Phyllis in Follies (West End), Roxy in In the Midnight Hour at the Young Vic and Luciana at the Open Air Theatre in The Boys From Syracuse (directed by Judi Dench).

Work at the RSC includes:

Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Barbican and Stratford and the Cast Album) and Celia in As You Like It (directed by John Caird).

Television:

Gillian is most known for playing Gina Hope for a year in Holby City, who went to Switzerland for assisted dying and four series playing Claire Hunter (the Head Teacher) in the award winning Teachers for Channel 4. Other TV includes The Innocents directed by Peter Kosminsky, Lewis, The Chief (Series 5/Det Supt Penfold), Cissie in Lost Empires (with Laurence Olivier and Colin Firth), the cult screen one drama Ghostwatch (BBC), Dance to the Music of Time (Millie Andriadis), Touch of Frost, Foyles War, Family Man, Whistleblowers, Kiss & Tell, Peak Practice, Loved by You (two series), Sunburn, New Tricks, Harley St and many other television performances.

Film includes:

Sergeant Slaughter with Tom Hardy.

Other work includes:

Founder member of Tight Assets Theatre with Tessa Peake-Jones and Helen Kluger. Directed John Dodd Gets taken for a Ride and A Good Place for Fishing written by Richard Lumsden for Radio 4. Gillian co-wrote the Radio Five Drama series Fifteen Love. Co-wrote and produced the Radio 4 two-part drama No Rights-Only Wrongs starring Celia Imrie and Robert Daws. Gillian has been in over fifty plays and has done many readings for BBC Radio 4. She also co-produced with Simon Green and played Mary in the charity gala at The Shaftesbury Theatre of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, and Sunday with Sondheim directed by Julia McKenzie.

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Gillian Bevan STAGE CREDITS

[West End]
European Premiere at Southwark Playhouse, 2017
Performer

[West End]
Original London Production, 2005
Mrs. Wilkinson [Replacement]

[West End]
London Revival, 2004
PerformerRaffaela

[London Fringe]
Original London Production, 1987
Performer


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Full Cast Set For THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester


The Mercury Theatre in Colchester has announced the full cast for their revival of Oscar Wilde’s beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest from 1-16 March 2024. Learn more about the show here!

Photos: First Look At THE CHILDREN At Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds'


See photos of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds’ much-anticipated upcoming production of The Children, alongside the previously announced Imogen Stubbs. 

Cast Announced For THE CHILDREN Alongside Imogen Stubbs at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds


The cast has been announced for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds' much-anticipated upcoming production of The Children, alongside the previously announced Imogen Stubbs.  Lucy Kirkwood's post-apocalyptic drama was hailed by The Guardian as one of the top three plays in their 'Best Theatre Shows of the 21st Century', following two retired nuclear scientists whose isolated life by the sea is disrupted by an old friend with a frightening request. 

Photos: First Look at INTO THE WOODS at Theatre Royal Bath


Into The Woods is now playing at Theatre Royal Bath. Check out first look photos here!

Cast Announced For INTO THE WOODS at Theatre Royal Bath; Julian Bleach, Audrey Brisson, and More!


The award-winning, experienced West End cast includes Julian Bleach [co-creator of the Olivier Award-winning Shockheaded Peter, The Grinning Man] as Mysterious Man, Audrey Brisson [Olivier nominee for Amélie, Outlander] as Cinderella, Nicola Hughes [Olivier nominee for Fosse and Porgy and Bess] as the Witch, Rhashan Stone [All About Eve at the Noël Coward, Finding Alice] as the Baker, and Alex Young [Follies at the National Theatre, South Pacific] as the Baker's Wife.  

BONNIE & CLYDE In Concert, Starring Jeremy Jordan and Frances Mayli McCann, Will Be Captured Live For Film Distribution


The sold-out BONNIE & CLYDE THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT starring Jeremy Jordan alongside rising West End star Frances Mayli McCann will be filmed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane during its performances on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 January 2022.

Photos: First Look at Jeremy Jordan and Frances Mayli McCann in Rehearsal For BONNIE & CLYDE IN CONCERT


Get an all new first look inside rehearsals for the upcoming Bonnie & Clyde in Concert, starring Broadway's Jeremy Jordan and Olivier Award nominee Frances Mayli McCann.

Frances Mayli McCann and Jeremy Jordan to Lead BONNIE AND CLYDE IN CONCERT


The full cast joining Broadway star Jeremy Jordan in the sell-out BONNIE AND CLYDE IN CONCERT has been announced. The concert will take place at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 January 2022.

Nick Hancock Will Star In The World Premiere Of New British Farce OCTOPUS SOUP!


Simon Fielder and the Belgrade Theatre Coventry announce full casting for the world premiere production of Octopus Soup!

VIDEO: London Cast Recording of WORKING to Be Released Next Week


Ghostlight Records will release the Original London Cast Recording of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING on Friday, March 2. Watch below for a preview of the new show!

WORKING to Release Original London Cast Recording With New Music By Lin-Manuel Miranda


Ghostlight Records has announced the release of the Original London Cast Recording of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING on Friday, March 2. The album is being released following a hugely successful run at Southwark Playhouse, directed by Luke Sheppard in Summer 2017. This will be the first recording of WORKING since the Original Broadway Cast Recording in 1978 and will feature never before released tracks by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Customers that pre-order the album on iTunes and Amazon will immediately receive the track "It's An Art." To pre-order the album, please click HERE.

Photo Flash: Stephen Schwartz Meets the Company of WORKING at Southwark Playhouse


On Monday 26 June, composer Stephen Schwartz stopped by to see the cast of Working during their run at Southwark Playhouse. Check out a photo of Schwartz with the cast below!

BWW Review: WORKING, Southwark Playhouse


With Wicked going strong across the world, and Hamilton a few months away from its much anticipated West End transfer, it seems like the perfect time for the European première of a reworked musical that features compositions from the pens of both Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as many others. It continues Southwark Playhouse's varied season, hot on the heels of The Cardinal.

Photo Flash: First Look at London's WORKING with Music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Schwartz, and More!


Directed by Luke Sheppard (In The Heights) the cast of Working includes Gillian Bevan (Teachers, Holby City), Dean Chisnall (Shrek, Blood Brothers), Krysten Cummings (Rent), Siubhan Harrison (Guys and Dolls), Peter Polycarpou (City of Angels, Miss Saigon, Oklahoma) and Liam Tamne (Rocky Horror, Les Miserables,The Phantom of the Opera). Completing the cast are rising stars Patrick Coulter, Nicola Espallardo, Izuka Hoyle, Luke Latchman, Huon Mackley and Kerri Norville, who are all making their professional debut. Check out a first look at the cast in action below!

Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal for the European Premiere of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING


Below, go inside rehearsal for the European Premiere of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING, which will run at the Southwark Playhouse from 2 June until 8 July with a National press night on 7 June!

Stephen Schwartz's WORKING Gives Drama Students Professional Debuts


Completing the cast of the European Premiere of WORKING at Southwark Playhouse are six young performers all making their professional debuts.

Principal Cast Announced for European Premiere of WORKING


???????Gillian Bevan, Dean Chisnall, Krysten Cummings, Siubhan Harrison, Peter Polycarpou and Liam Tamne will lead the cast of the European Premiere of WORKING.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Leads February's Top 10 New London Shows


London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a major Albee revival to starry Shakespeare and a steamy musical, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews...

Book Review: BRUTUS AND OTHER HEROINES by Harriet Walter


One of the big theatre stories of 2016 is women reclaiming Shakespeare, from Gillian Bevan's Cymbeline and Michelle Terry's Henry V to Glenda Jackson's Lear and Phyllida Lloyd's landmark all-female trilogy starring Harriet Walter.

BWW Review: CYMBELINE, Barbican, 3 November 2016


Over the next six years, the RSC aims to produce every single Shakespeare play. Its 2016 season features Cymbeline, one of the lesser known but not lesser performed plays; this production is a transfer from Stratford-Upon-Avon, and there have been two productions at Shakespeare's Globe this year alone. Why the sudden revival? A fool boasts 'Britain is a world by itself' (and no, I don't mean Nigel Farage). In a post-Brexit Britain, these words ring truer than ever before in this bold production, which ironically seems to be lacking a sense of unity and cohesion too.

Gillian Bevan FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Gillian Bevan been in?

Gillian Bevan has not appeared on Broadway.

How many West End shows has Gillian Bevan been in?

Gillian Bevan has appeared on London's West End in 3 shows.

What was Gillian Bevan's first West End show?

Gillian Bevan's first West End show was Grand Hotel which opened in 2004

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