Sally Cookson trained at LAMDA and worked as an actor for ten years before embarking on a freelance directing career. Television includes Trollied (series regular) Twirly Woo, The Function Room, Coronation Street, Shameless, Him & Her, Inn Mates, Scallywagga, Guantanamo Phil, Octavia, and No Angels.įilm includes Mad, Bad & Sad and Service.Īwards include RTS Award for Best Performance in a Comedy for Massive.
Theatre includes Anna Bella Eema at the Arcola Dead Dog in a Suitcase (UK and international tour), Brief Encounter (Lowry and Haymarket Empire Cinema and national tour), and Tin Drum (UK tour) for Kneehigh Peter Pan, The Beggar’s Opera and Into the Woods at Regent’s Park Open Air James and the Giant Peach at Leeds Playhouse Much Ado About Nothing at the Royal Exchange Manchester Soho Cinders at the Soho Theatre The Little Mermaid at Bristol Old Vic Acorn Antiques the Musical on UK tour Girls Just Want to Have Fun for Limelight/Fiery Angel The Magistrate at the National Theatre Days of Significance for the RSC/Tricycle Titus Andronicus for Paradoxos and The Hole Story for Paines Plough. Radio Winner of the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award 2004. Television includes Game of Thrones, Line of Duty, Chernobyl, My Country, Vera, The Trial: A Murder in the Family, Call the Midwife, Wendy & Peter, Esio Trot, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Holby City, Doctors, My So Called Life Sentence and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.įilm includes Military Wives Choir, Peterloo, Leave to Remain and The History Boys.
Theatre includes Young Marx at The Bridge Rutherford and Son at Sheffield Crucible My Country (also on tour), Jane Eyre (also Bristol Old Vic), Pains of Youth and Women of Troy at the National Theatre Romeo and Juliet (as Mercutio) at the Rose Kingston The White Devil and The Crucible (also West End) for the RSC Virgin and Heartbreak House at Watford Palace If you don’t let us dream we won’t let you sleep, Love and Information, Breathing Corpses and Country Music at the Royal Court Chalet Lines at the Bush Utopia at Soho/Live Newcastle Top Girls (also Trafalgar Studios) and A Month in the Country at Chichester Festival Theatre Bedroom Farce at West Yorkshire Playhouse Far from the Madding Crowd for English Touring Theatre Glass Eels at Hampstead Scenes from an Execution at Hackney Empire Tom & Viv at the Almeida Lysistrata at the Arcola and Pictures of Clay at Manchester Royal Exchange.
White Witch / Mrs Macready Laura Elphinstone