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February 2025
“If you took Red Ladder out of my journey then god knows what it would look like” – Q&A with actor & writer William Fox
William Fox is an actor and writer whose numerous TV credits include EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Boat Story and the CBBC series Jamie Johnson. He has appeared in several Red Ladder productions, including Promised Land (2012), The Thing About Psychopaths (2013), Rabbitskin (2015), and Connected (2020). When did you first work with Red Ladder? It was […]
“I don’t think my career would have taken off in the way it has without Red Ladder” – Q&A with writer Ben Tagoe
Ben Tagoe is a screenwriter and playwright. His plays Bittersweet Sunshine (2010) and The Thing About Psychopaths (2013) were produced by Red Ladder Theatre. He is a consulting producer on season 3 of Amazon Prime’s hit series The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, and is adapting his stage play Better Days for TV. […]
“It isn’t an exercise in virtue signalling, it’s a hardworking and realistically focused theatre group.” – Q&A with comedian, actor & performer, Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus is best known as a stand-up, improv comedian, actor and performer. He was a team captain on BBC2’s long-running pop quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks and a regular guest on TV and radio shows like QI and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. In 2013, he played old-style variety entertainer George Lightfeather in Red […]
“I realised that being in the theatre was a bit like being in a band.” – Q&A with writer and Red Ladder ‘ally’, Alice Nutter
Alice Nutter is a playwright and screenwriter and a former member of anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. In 2008 she wrote Where’s Vietnam? to mark Red Ladder Theatre’s 40th anniversary. Her TV writing credits include Jimmy McGovern’s The Street, Casualty, The Mill, and acclaimed US drama Trust, created by Simon Beaufoy. How did you come to work […]
