Actors and Writers London
@actorsandwriters.bsky.social
We're a professional play-reading forum for actors & writers, established in 1973. Performed readings at Posk Centre, Hammersmith. New members welcome - FREE for under-30s. Join us!
Website: https://www.actorsandwriters.london//index.php
Website: https://www.actorsandwriters.london//index.php
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Our next session is Competition Night at 7.30pm on Monday 15th December.
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
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#Writers, we need you!
AWL is always looking for emerging writers. It's a great opportunity to have professional directors & actors bring your work to life, and get constructive audience feedback. And for under-30s it's all FREE.
More here: actorsandwriters.london/writers/inde...
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AWL is always looking for emerging writers. It's a great opportunity to have professional directors & actors bring your work to life, and get constructive audience feedback. And for under-30s it's all FREE.
More here: actorsandwriters.london/writers/inde...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#Writers, we need you!
AWL is always looking for emerging writers. It's a great opportunity to have professional directors & actors bring your work to life, and get constructive audience feedback. And for under-30s it's all FREE.
More here: actorsandwriters.london/writers/inde...
Please repost!!
AWL is always looking for emerging writers. It's a great opportunity to have professional directors & actors bring your work to life, and get constructive audience feedback. And for under-30s it's all FREE.
More here: actorsandwriters.london/writers/inde...
Please repost!!
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Hello! We're AWL, a professional play-reading forum for actors & writers.
We're always looking for new members, so if you're an actor, writer or director, or just like seeing plays, check our website to find out how to join.
Please follow us and repost!
We're always looking for new members, so if you're an actor, writer or director, or just like seeing plays, check our website to find out how to join.
Please follow us and repost!
November 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Hello! We're AWL, a professional play-reading forum for actors & writers.
We're always looking for new members, so if you're an actor, writer or director, or just like seeing plays, check our website to find out how to join.
Please follow us and repost!
We're always looking for new members, so if you're an actor, writer or director, or just like seeing plays, check our website to find out how to join.
Please follow us and repost!
Rehearsal photo of "Make Peace Not Love" by Nicolas Ridley, read at AWL on Monday.
More photos here: www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
More photos here: www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Rehearsal photo of "Make Peace Not Love" by Nicolas Ridley, read at AWL on Monday.
More photos here: www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
More photos here: www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
Our next session is Competition Night at 7.30pm on Monday 15th December.
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Our next session is Competition Night at 7.30pm on Monday 15th December.
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
8 plays written under pseudonyms are performed & AWL members vote on their favourites. The writers’ true identities are then revealed & prizes awarded.
Come along & join in the fun! www.actorsandwriters.london/readings/ind...
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Huge shout out to our amazing Sherlock company, who closed a packed autumn tour tonight after 12 weeks of performances across England. Big thanks to our fantastic cast and crew, the artistic team and our audiences. For now at least case closed, but the hunt for Moriarty will be on again in 2026!
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Huge shout out to our amazing Sherlock company, who closed a packed autumn tour tonight after 12 weeks of performances across England. Big thanks to our fantastic cast and crew, the artistic team and our audiences. For now at least case closed, but the hunt for Moriarty will be on again in 2026!
Paul Antony-Barber has one more day recording ADR on "Casualty" for the BBC, then starts filming for two months on the second series of Netflix’s "Black Doves", playing opposite Keira Knightley and Ben ‘Paddington’ Whishaw.
www.netflix.com/title/81682935
www.netflix.com/title/81682935
Watch Black Doves | Netflix Official Site
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
www.netflix.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Paul Antony-Barber has one more day recording ADR on "Casualty" for the BBC, then starts filming for two months on the second series of Netflix’s "Black Doves", playing opposite Keira Knightley and Ben ‘Paddington’ Whishaw.
www.netflix.com/title/81682935
www.netflix.com/title/81682935
Featuring Ben Owora as Dr Watson
Could even Holmes be dreaming of Christmas? Not yet he's not! He has one last case to close before panto season sets in. Join him for an adventure stretching from 221B Baker Street to the Reichenbach Falls - at The Haymarket @anvilarts.bsky.social until Saturday!
www.anvilarts.org.uk/events/sherl...
www.anvilarts.org.uk/events/sherl...
Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty | Anvil Arts
The great detective is back for another adventure in this world premiere from the team behind Blackeyed Theatre's hugely successful productions of The Vall
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Featuring Ben Owora as Dr Watson
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As well as actors & writers, we need professional or aspiring #directors.
If you're a non-professional or inexperienced director, you may get mentoring from AWL directors to help us develop directing talent.
Remember, under-30s join FREE!
More here: actorsandwriters.london/ads/index.php
If you're a non-professional or inexperienced director, you may get mentoring from AWL directors to help us develop directing talent.
Remember, under-30s join FREE!
More here: actorsandwriters.london/ads/index.php
December 10, 2024 at 5:07 PM
As well as actors & writers, we need professional or aspiring #directors.
If you're a non-professional or inexperienced director, you may get mentoring from AWL directors to help us develop directing talent.
Remember, under-30s join FREE!
More here: actorsandwriters.london/ads/index.php
If you're a non-professional or inexperienced director, you may get mentoring from AWL directors to help us develop directing talent.
Remember, under-30s join FREE!
More here: actorsandwriters.london/ads/index.php
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ACTORS UNDER 30!
We're a professional play-reading forum & we want you, especially if you're BAME.
Join our sessions FREE & raise your profile.
And after 3 sessions you get your OWN PAGE on our website: actorsandwriters.london
Please everyone REPOST!
We're a professional play-reading forum & we want you, especially if you're BAME.
Join our sessions FREE & raise your profile.
And after 3 sessions you get your OWN PAGE on our website: actorsandwriters.london
Please everyone REPOST!
November 21, 2024 at 6:13 PM
ACTORS UNDER 30!
We're a professional play-reading forum & we want you, especially if you're BAME.
Join our sessions FREE & raise your profile.
And after 3 sessions you get your OWN PAGE on our website: actorsandwriters.london
Please everyone REPOST!
We're a professional play-reading forum & we want you, especially if you're BAME.
Join our sessions FREE & raise your profile.
And after 3 sessions you get your OWN PAGE on our website: actorsandwriters.london
Please everyone REPOST!
Stephen Riddle can be heard as the Narrator and Thomas O’Regano in "Members", a sitcom set in the House of Commons during the reign of George II, a strange and cloistered world of the corrupt and the eccentric.
One of six episodes in an audio release.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/c...
One of six episodes in an audio release.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/c...
1. Comedy Playhouse - Big Finish Originals - Big Finish
Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian G...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Stephen Riddle can be heard as the Narrator and Thomas O’Regano in "Members", a sitcom set in the House of Commons during the reign of George II, a strange and cloistered world of the corrupt and the eccentric.
One of six episodes in an audio release.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/c...
One of six episodes in an audio release.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/c...
"Ben Owora is the upright Doctor John Watson, keeping the audience informed and attempting to keep Holmes on an even keel. Owora portrays a warm, calm, collected character, reliable and consistent."
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fairypoweredproductions.com/sherlock-hol...
Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty Review * Fairy Powered Productions
Yvonne Arnaud – until 22nd November 2025 Reviewed by Heather Chalkley 4**** Writer Nick Lane has cleverly woven several threads of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s catalogue of short stories, giving us an ori...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Ben Owora is the upright Doctor John Watson, keeping the audience informed and attempting to keep Holmes on an even keel. Owora portrays a warm, calm, collected character, reliable and consistent."
fairypoweredproductions.com/sherlock-hol...
fairypoweredproductions.com/sherlock-hol...
"Ben Owora is brilliant as the overshadowed but loyal Watson. He has a great voice which brings life to the character but also a power. A great story telling actor (...) He manages to portray the loyalty to Holmes without being comical or subservient."
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt For Moriarty –
Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt For Moriarty is playing at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre until 22nd November 2025 (click here to book & details). Running at about 2 hours and 40 minutes (including a 20 m…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Ben Owora is brilliant as the overshadowed but loyal Watson. He has a great voice which brings life to the character but also a power. A great story telling actor (...) He manages to portray the loyalty to Holmes without being comical or subservient."
numbbumblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/s...
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Other well written histories are available… londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Other well written histories are available… londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
Our next reading is "Make Peace Not Love" by Nicolas Ridley, directed by Maurice Thorogood, at 7.30pm on 1st December.
Frustrated by the local patriarchy, some women stage the play Lysistrata, where women hold a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian wars. www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
Frustrated by the local patriarchy, some women stage the play Lysistrata, where women hold a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian wars. www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our next reading is "Make Peace Not Love" by Nicolas Ridley, directed by Maurice Thorogood, at 7.30pm on 1st December.
Frustrated by the local patriarchy, some women stage the play Lysistrata, where women hold a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian wars. www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
Frustrated by the local patriarchy, some women stage the play Lysistrata, where women hold a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian wars. www.actorsandwriters.london/castlist/ind...
Rehearsal photo of "Tattle Bank" by Richard Fitchett, read at AWL on Monday together with "Judgement" by Edward Dehn and "Hiroshima" by Ruth O'Callaghan.
More photos under the writers' names on our website: www.actorsandwriters.london/biographies/...
More photos under the writers' names on our website: www.actorsandwriters.london/biographies/...
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Rehearsal photo of "Tattle Bank" by Richard Fitchett, read at AWL on Monday together with "Judgement" by Edward Dehn and "Hiroshima" by Ruth O'Callaghan.
More photos under the writers' names on our website: www.actorsandwriters.london/biographies/...
More photos under the writers' names on our website: www.actorsandwriters.london/biographies/...
Vaughan Evans’s "Hello Mammon", read at AWL in March, will play at the White Bear Theatre from 9th-13th December.
Orsolya Nagy directs and Stefan Chanyaem plays the rogue Jim, alongside fellow Central School alumni.
Orsi & Vaughan also take cameo roles.
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/hell...
Orsolya Nagy directs and Stefan Chanyaem plays the rogue Jim, alongside fellow Central School alumni.
Orsi & Vaughan also take cameo roles.
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/hell...
Hello Mammon | The White Bear Theatre
Hello Mammon comes to the White Bear Theatre. Book your tickets today!
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Vaughan Evans’s "Hello Mammon", read at AWL in March, will play at the White Bear Theatre from 9th-13th December.
Orsolya Nagy directs and Stefan Chanyaem plays the rogue Jim, alongside fellow Central School alumni.
Orsi & Vaughan also take cameo roles.
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/hell...
Orsolya Nagy directs and Stefan Chanyaem plays the rogue Jim, alongside fellow Central School alumni.
Orsi & Vaughan also take cameo roles.
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/hell...
Featuring Ben Owora as Dr Watson
Well hey there @yvonnearnaud.bsky.social - great to see you! We're bringing all the thrills this week with a brand new SHERLOCK HOLMES adventure. THE HUNT FOR MORIARTY opens tonight!
www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/she...
www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/she...
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Looking forward to seeing my play "Accidental Manoeuvres in the Dark" brought to life in this showcase at @breadrosestheatre.bsky.social on Saturday, along with work by the brilliant Richard Fitchett, @merylwww.bsky.social, Liam O'Grady and Maria Cole.
www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Looking forward to seeing my play "Accidental Manoeuvres in the Dark" brought to life in this showcase at @breadrosestheatre.bsky.social on Saturday, along with work by the brilliant Richard Fitchett, @merylwww.bsky.social, Liam O'Grady and Maria Cole.
www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
@manseldavid.bsky.social premieres a solo dramatic reading of "A Christmas Carol" on 4th Dec in The Charterhouse, London, and 7th Dec in Arundel Castle chapel.
Contact Mansel for the London show, as a few tickets may be left (£22, including wine & mince pies).
thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/wha...
Contact Mansel for the London show, as a few tickets may be left (£22, including wine & mince pies).
thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/wha...
'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens performed by Mansel David - The Charterhouse
Get into the spirit of Christmas with Charles Dickens’ timeless tale brought to life in the historic grandeur of the Great Chamber. Join us for a special festive treat as Charterhouse resident and act...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@manseldavid.bsky.social premieres a solo dramatic reading of "A Christmas Carol" on 4th Dec in The Charterhouse, London, and 7th Dec in Arundel Castle chapel.
Contact Mansel for the London show, as a few tickets may be left (£22, including wine & mince pies).
thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/wha...
Contact Mansel for the London show, as a few tickets may be left (£22, including wine & mince pies).
thecharterhouse.org/visit-us/wha...
Emma King-Farlow’s company, Shadow Road Productions, is launching the Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival, with classic stories reimagined & performed in late May 2026.
See website below to bring a show. Applications close at the end of November.
shadowroad.com/fireside-fol...
See website below to bring a show. Applications close at the end of November.
shadowroad.com/fireside-fol...
shadowroad.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Emma King-Farlow’s company, Shadow Road Productions, is launching the Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival, with classic stories reimagined & performed in late May 2026.
See website below to bring a show. Applications close at the end of November.
shadowroad.com/fireside-fol...
See website below to bring a show. Applications close at the end of November.
shadowroad.com/fireside-fol...
Well-deserved 4-star review of "Starfish" by Richard Fitchett, directed by Lucy Appleby and featuring Peter Saracen, Emma Riches and Ed Jobling.
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STARFISH – REVIEW – BREAD AND ROSES THEATRE
Self-professed upwardly mobile teacher couple Tim (Ed Jobling) and Cheryl (Emma Riches), from their snug (smug?) dining-table perch in their South London Victorian-terraced abode, bottle of wine cl…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Well-deserved 4-star review of "Starfish" by Richard Fitchett, directed by Lucy Appleby and featuring Peter Saracen, Emma Riches and Ed Jobling.
lostintheatreland.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/s...
lostintheatreland.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/s...
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As well as new #actors, we are always looking for new #directors and #writers.
Here's how you can get involved: www.actorsandwriters.london/members/inde...
Here's how you can get involved: www.actorsandwriters.london/members/inde...
December 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM
As well as new #actors, we are always looking for new #directors and #writers.
Here's how you can get involved: www.actorsandwriters.london/members/inde...
Here's how you can get involved: www.actorsandwriters.london/members/inde...
Featuring Ben Owora as Dr Watson
We're on a bus! (does that mean we've made it?)
Where? Glad you asked. Currently circulating Guildford where The Hunt for Moriarty continues next week. Join Holmes and Watson at @yvonnearnaud.bsky.social 18 - 22 November. Conspiracy, mystery and murder await!
www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/she...
Where? Glad you asked. Currently circulating Guildford where The Hunt for Moriarty continues next week. Join Holmes and Watson at @yvonnearnaud.bsky.social 18 - 22 November. Conspiracy, mystery and murder await!
www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/she...
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Featuring Ben Owora as Dr Watson
Written by Richard Fitchett, directed by Lucy Appleby and featuring actors Peter Saracen, Emma Riches and Edward Jobling
REVIEW: Starfish ★★★ " Moments of humour combine with an entertaining story." #LondonFringe https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/starfish/831277
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Written by Richard Fitchett, directed by Lucy Appleby and featuring actors Peter Saracen, Emma Riches and Edward Jobling