Elva Makins is arriving today to Direct the MT6 1st performance Stepping Out!
Prior to becoming a teacher ( as Head of acting in Urdang Academy among others ) she had an acting career performing in theatre including Golden Days at Tyne Theatre Newcastle, Fallen Angels at Salisbury Playhouse, Relatively Speaking at Plymouth Theatre Royal, Look Back in Anger at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, Raspberry at Redgrave Theatre Farnham, Othello & Hamlet at St George’s Shakespearean Theatre, Duet For One at Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, King’s Hunch at ICA, Same Time Next Year at Old Vic, and A Patriot For Me directed by Ronald Eyre at the Theatre Royal Haymarket; radio including “Ann Veronica”, “Jude the Obscure” (serial) and “In the Venn Country” all for BBC Radio 4 ; television including “To Serve Them All My Days”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “Bowen and Partner” “Shoestring” and “Bergerac”; and film including “Birthday” and “The Most Dangerous Man in the World” directed by Gavin Millar. She presented “The Premiere Movie Club” on cable TV in the 1980s; she worked as a Voice artist in TV continuity, radio advertising and telephone information. She was a founder member of Bruised Fruit Theatre Company who produced new work on the London fringe. She has also worked as a writer of short stories & teenage fiction.
