Michelle Thomson

SLT Member 2004 - Present

Photo by Gavin Parker

Acting/Performing Roles:

• Corporal Baker in The Dust Collectors (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• High Priestess/Poi in Dr Faustus (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Ridya in The Hot Mikado (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Swing dancer in Aladdin (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Penny, Shirl in A Slice of Saturday Night (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• Oboe & Recorder House of Demons (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Miss Waller in Daisy Pulls it Off (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Swing dancer in Dick Whittington (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Saxaphone, Oboe, Recorder & Flute in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• Oboe & Saxaphone Oh What a Lovely War (2012) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Assistant Director

• Jeffrey (2012) (Prompt Corner) & Choreographer

Productions as Stage Manager:

• Chinese Coffee (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• The Dice House (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (2008) (Prompt Corner) & PA
• The Shagaround (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• The Actor's Nightmare (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Bash: Latter Day Plays (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• Dick Barton: The Tango of Terror (2011) (Prompt Corner)
• Present Laughter (2011) (Bell Theatre)

Assistant Stage Manager:

• Private Lives (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Neville's Island (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Daisy Pulls it Off (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (2010) (Bell Theatre)

PA:

• Who Was Hilary Maconochie? (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Over the Top (2013) (Prompt Corner) & Birds Still Fly (2013) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Lighting Designer

• The Birthday Party (2009) (Bell Theatre) with Phil Gammon & Mark Ireson

Productions as Sound Operator

• A Doll's House (2005) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Prop-maker

• The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew (2010) (Bell Theatre) (Dragon tails)

Costumes/Wardrobe:

• Romeo and Juliet (2004) (Bell Theatre)
• Loveplay (2005) (Prompt Corner)
• A Doll's House (2005) (Bell Theatre) and Make-up.
• Road (2005) (Bell Theatre)
• Stay With Me (2006) (Prompt Corner) with Stuart Draper
• The Positive Hour (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• Neville's Island (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Dr Faustus (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Aladdin (2007) (Bell Theatre) with Jenni Chadney, Lisa Thomas & Jenny Clements
• The Dice House (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Burglary for Beginners and Bang, You're Dead! (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (2008) (Prompt Corner) As 'Costume Advisor' with Jess Osorio
• Daisy Pulls it Off (2009) (Bell Theatre) with Val Williams, Lisa Thomas, Anthea Martin & Emma Kerby-Evans
• Ghosts (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Dick Whittington (2009) (Bell Theatre) as Costume Mistress
• Ladies Down Under (2010) (Prompt Corner) with Emma Kerby-Evans
• Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (2010) (Bell Theatre) with Lisa Thomas
• Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• Babes in the Wood (2011) (Bell Theatre) with Lisa Thomas, Helen Todd, Naomi Liddle, Caroline Doyle and Siobhan Campbell
• Our Country's Good (2012) (Bell Theatre) with Lisa Thomas. Carole Coyne, Caroline Doyle, Chaz Doyle. Jono Gadsby, Naomi Liddle, Matthew Lyne, Lauri Morgan, Kathryn Ramsay, Steph Urquhart & Melissa Williams.
• The Penelopiad (2012) (Bell Theatre) with Lisa Thomas

Hair/Make up:

• The Beguiled (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• The Winter's Tale (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Ladies Down Under (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• Vincent River (2010) (Prompt Corner) Make-up Designer

Musician

• Oboe & Recorder House of Demons (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Oboe, Recorder, Saxophone & Flute You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• Oboe & Saxaphone Oh What a Lovely War (2012) (Bell Theatre)

Interests:

Costumes, dressing up, sewing, stage managing, musicals, singing, dancing, playing silly and not so silly woodwind instruments, poi twirling, organising things, travelling, climbing mountains, real ale and sleeping.