Welcome to the March edition of Ensemble.

Starting this month, we are launching a brand new jobs bulletin page which you can link directly to from the newsletter. You’ll find the link in the right hand column underneath the submit a story section. The page will be updated regularly with vacancies across the entire group including job opportunities at Stagecoach and Trafalgar Releasing.

A big thank you from Karin Gartzke and Jessamy Hadley to everyone involved in the very lively Vision and Values workshops this month.  Just shows what can happen when creative minds from across Trafalgar Entertainment get together! 

Defining our common purpose and the values that guide the way we work allowed us to explore the many things we have in common. 

Here are the latest exclusive pics from our new office in Woking. It’s just over a week now until moving day and we can’t wait! The building project is all but finished apart from snagging, signage and IT installation.

Colleagues from Stagecoach and the West Byfleet office were invited to view the office last week and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

In June 2018 Andy Serkis and Tom Morris directed a full motion capture of Trafalgar Entertainment and Bristol Old Vic’s hit West End show The Grinning Man at the Imaginarium studios in Ealing.  The capture was funded by Magic Leap in order to create content for an Augmented Reality experience using the pioneering Magic Leap glasses.

Congratulations to Tarquin Shaw-Young, Managing Director – Head of Casting for Stagecoach Talent Agency UK, who has been elected President of the National Council and Entertainment Agent’s Association of Great Britain.  

Tarquin has been part of the National Council as a Director for the last four years but last week he was joined by other council members at a ceremony at the Comedy Store to announce his presidency.

Returning to cinemas for its 40^th Anniversary, in glorious standard definition and mono-sound, Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood’s depiction of all things biblical with their 1979 feature film Life of Brian.

Highly controversial upon its original release and banned in several countries, the film is now frequently ranked as the greatest comedy feature of all time by media outlets around the world. 

This month’s press night for Admissions at Trafalgar Studios was a star-studded affair with celebs such as Ben Stiller, Jill Halfpenny, Russell Tovey, Angela Griffin, Iwan Rhoen, Floella Benjamin, Natascha McElhone, Tyger Drew-Honey, Fionn Whitehead, Nick Moran and Charlie Condou walking our red carpet. The after show party took place at Brown’s on St Martin’s Lane.

Trafalgar Theatre Productions has been nominated for a total of twelve Olivier Awards across five of its co-productions.

The nomination tally includes six nods for the critically acclaimed multi Tony Award winning smash hit, The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, following a sold out record breaking season at the world famous London Palladium.

Multi-platinum award winning global superstar Khalid celebrates the upcoming release of his highly anticipated sophomore album “Free Spirit” with a special companion short film, also titled “Free Spirit” which will be screened as a one-night event in cinemas worldwide on 3 April. This special fan event will be followed by an exclusive early listen of the album.

Children from eight different schools in Westcliff courageously took their place on stage last month to showcase their talents and celebrate the work of Stagecoach in the region.

All students kicked off the showcase with an opening ensemble ‘The Climb’ by Miley Cyrus and rounded off their performances with ‘Shine’ by Take That.