Our Next Show
We are a not-for-profit, professional Theatre Company, serving the local community with popular, entertaining and thought-provoking theatre. Through our association with LAUNCHPAD, we offer young people work experience and a chance to build up confidence. We also use local talent backstage and on-stage, and are bringing seasonal repertory theatre back into fashion! You’ll have a great evening!
GRAHAM POUNTNEY
Producer, director, actor and communications skills coach; Graham grew up in East Horsley, raised a family near Leatherhead and now splits his time between Surrey and the Isle of Wight. With 45 years in the performing media his career has encompassed Film, TV, Rep theatre in the UK, International touring, the Royal National Theatre and London’s West End. He was a founder and leading player in the British Actors Theatre Company in the late 1980s and was a founder and director of The Original Shakespeare Company in the 1990s performing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Graham was recently the Associate Artistic Director of the Leatherhead Theatre Rep Company. He is a partner in Centre Stage Dance and Drama, a local Performing Arts school in Leatherhead and Cobham. In 2014 he founded Surrey Hills Community Radio station; and he’s initiated LAUNCHPAD, a social enterprise to help young people build up their self-worth and learn employability skills.
Graham has founded Theatre Reviva! to bring regular professional theatre productions back into the local area.
Forthcoming Shows
Up-coming professional productions include
‘Catch My Soul …. Shakespeare on Cue’ by Graham Pountney,
and ‘Journey’s End’ by RC Sherriff in November 2018
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Graham Pountney
Graham is a Leatherhead resident, an actor, director, producer and communications skills coach. He grew up in West Byfleet and East Horsley, raised a family in Stoke d’Abernon and now lives in Leatherhead with his wife Suki Turner.
With 45 years in the performing media his career has encompassed Rep theatre in the UK and International touring, working with the Royal National Theatre and in London’s West End.
He founded the British Actors Theatre Company in the late 1980s and was a founder and director of The Original Shakespeare Company in the 1990s performing before Her Majesty the Queen in the opening ceremony of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Graham was recently the Associate Artistic Director of the Leatherhead Theatre Rep Company. He is a partner in Centre Stage Dance and Drama, a local Performing Arts school in Leatherhead and Oxshott. He has been creating, producing and directing plays, films, workshops, radio programmes and fundraising ‘edutainments’ for many years and continues to work as an actor exploring new characters, with credits in popular TV series (eg Howards Way, Life Begins, New Tricks, Hustle, etc).
In 2014 he founded the Surrey Hills Community Radio station, based in Leatherhead; and he’s initiating LAUNCHPAD, a social enterprise to help young people build up their self-worth and learn employability skills to lift them off into the world of work.
