Rosalind Adler: Actress, Voice and Communications Skills Training

Click for Roslaind Adlers winning play on the London Playwrights' Collective website

I won the London Playwrights' Collective's one-minute play competition in June 2010 with my short play Paradise. Click the image on the left for playtext and further details.

LOL

My new play about internet dating - LOL premiered to a packed and lovely house at the Soho Theatre in March 2009, and has subsequently toured to Henley, Oxford, Brighton and various London theatres. I play three characters: Lucinda eats men for breakfast - if they're lucky; Sarah's ready for commitment - and even married Mags is curious. Click here for reviews.

FALLING

I was honoured with a stellar cast for the showcase reading of Falling, my new play for television, at St Paul's, Covent Garden on 26th February 2009: Maureen Beattie, Ruthie Henshall, Vince Leigh, Owen Teale, Dorothea Phillips, Charlie Capel and Robert Blackwood, with Shola Adewusi, Carole Carpenter and Edmund Dehn. The reading was directed by Jeremy Bond.

Click on the image below
for a short writing c.v.
(3-page PDF)

LITERARY AGENT:

Jill Foster Ltd. See the Contact page for further details.

BETWEEN FRIENDS

I recently appeared as Laura in Between Friends, a new play written by Carolyn Pertwee and me. We played to packed houses and excellent audience response at the O.S.O. Theatre in Barnes. The production, starring Catherine Shipton (best known as Duffy in Casualty), was directed by Anthony Biggs.

Gyles Brandreth on Between Friends...
"Funny, touching, beautifully observed - . a constantly surprising emotional roller-coaster that has you hooked from start to finish."

Gene David Kirk (Theatre 503) on Between Friends...
"A visceral piece of writing with palpable tensions underscoring a seemingly domestic drama. Secrets and lies unravel in this world of high stakes and the need for love."

JUBILATE!

Everyone knows someone who thinks they know best. In Jubilate! that someone is Anna, vicar's wife and radio personality. She has her own life sorted out - apparently - and now thinks it'd be a good idea to sort out everyone else's......oh dear.

Performances have included Edinburgh, Henley, Oxford and Brighton Festivals, Southwark Playhouse, Rosemary Branch, Tabard. Click here for reviews.

THE COMEDY PROJECT

I am a regular contributor, as writer and performer, to The Comedy Project (www.comedyproject.co.uk) at the Soho Theatre.

Most recently, in March 2009, my internet dating play, LOL, premiered there. (Audience coments on the Welcome page.)

My other writing for The Comedy Project has included:

Drastic Plastic, in which Daffodil attempts to roll back the years with the help of plastic surgery
Powercut - a short play for theatre about marriage, cruelty and reality TV;
Radio 24 (co-written with David Upsher) - 24 hours of talk radio in 24 minutes.

JUST FOR YOU

Tim Pigott-Smith and Stephanie Jacob gave a rehearsed reading of my 2001 play Just for You to an invited audience at The Actors' Centre, Covent Garden following which Catherine Bailey Productions submitted it to the BBC.

Just for You is a one-hour-long two-hander in which the actor and actress are required to play several roles and to age from 10 to 84. It deals with omelettes, incest, facelifts and fairytales - in short the awfulness and absurdity which lurk behind a conventional family façade.

OTHER WRITING

Co-writer of The Still Born directed by Lindsay Posner at Soho Poly 1986

Co-writer of Places to Crash directed by Peter Birch at Grace Theatre 1985

I wrote all the material (character-based) for my cabaret stand-up sets in the 1990s. See my acting page for further details.