Are you involved in local theatre, in plays or stand-up comedy?
Do you act, write or work backstage?
Are you interested in this even if you’ve never done it before?
Ever wished you could link up with others to share ideas or promote your work to a bigger audience?
Join "Actors to Justice" - a new group for MoJ staff involved in theatre and performing arts and supported by JURA.
Why join?
Across MoJ there are lots of people involved in local arts including theatre and comedy. Promoting your work to a bigger audience, linking up with other people who may be able to help you and getting better takes time, and even if you've succeeded there's always likely to be other people who don't know the first thing about you and yet others who could become your biggest fan if they got to see your work.
The "Actors to Justice" Network will bring us all together to share ideas and promote each others work. With opportunities to bid for funding from JURA or subsidise costs for MoJ staff with CSSC membership, there is extra incentive to join our network.
Is this a Civil Service Drama Group?
No. If you are looking to join a civil service drama group and are in the London area, there is the Westminster Players, who have members from MoJ, Home Office and other Government Departments, and who will be part of Actors to Justice.
Contact Michelle English: Michelle.English@justice.gsi.gov.uk for further details about them.
Actors to Justice is a group being set up by Eddie Coleman, Andy Moseley and Michelle English. Eddie and Andy have both written plays which have been performed in London and at Fringe Festivals across the UK, and Michelle has directed, produced and stage managed numerous productions for Westminster Players and other drama groups as well as treading the boards herself on a few occasions.
Working towards a common purpose:
We will also be looking to launch the network with a showcase of MoJ talent next year, where you will be able to promote any forthcoming shows you have planned, and give a preview of them. The format of the showcase, and the extent of your involvement in it, will be for us all to decide (within the boundaries of taste and budget!).
This isn't a variety show, nor do we expect to anything formal in a theatre, we’re thinking more along the lines of some lunch time events in the atrium in 102 Petty France (and elsewhere depending on where members of the group are based). You don’t have to be involved in this though to be within the Actors to Justice group.
Interested or want further information?
Email Michelle.English@justice.gsi.gov.uk with brief details about yourself, including where you're based in the UK and your theatrical / musical interests and experiences. |
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