Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.
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I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.
I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
I grew up doing musical theater.
I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.
I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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