Jamie Read
Credited as James Hillier-Brook (name changed in 1996)
Training – Sylvia Young Theatre School. Work includes Great West Road (Watermill Theatre), Salad Days (UK Tour), Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), Femme Fatale (Warehouse Croydon), D-Day 6.6.44 (BBC Films), The Emperor and the Nightingale (MAC Birmingham), Ballad of Reading Gaol (Edinburgh festival), La Belle Helene (Castleward Opera), Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat (UK Tour & West End), Hard Times (Workshop, Windsor Theatre Royal, West End & Original Cast recording), Spirit of The Dance (US and European Tour), Aladdin (Perth Rep), Marion’s Room (Hampstead & West End), Playbus (BBC), T-Bag’s Christmas Cracker (Thames TV), The Wizard of Oz (Barbican & Original Cast Recording), Entertaining Strangers (National Theatre).
Co-founder & former Artistic Director, Access to The Arts.
Past productions
- Tim, Salad Days, MTP
- Lero The Great, Hard Times The Musical, Peter Penny and Christopher Tookey in association with Bill Kenwright
- Munchkin Coroner, The Wizard of Oz, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Charles as a child; Albert Sibley, Entertaining Strangers, National Theatre