Ms Penny Cherns's Biography

Ms Penny Cherns's Professional Career

Career

director; numerous teaching appts incl: LAMDA, RADA Drama Centre, WSCAD, Royal Coll of Music, Trent Poly, Loughborough Univ, Oslo, Univ of Iowa, Juilliard Sch NY, Guildhall Sch of Drama, Nat Film Sch, Cultura Inglesa Sao Paolo Brazil, Anglo Inst Montevideo Uruguay, Amsterdam Int Theatre Workshop, Institut del Teatr Barcelona, Brandeis Univ USA, Yale Univ USA, Central Sch of Speech and Drama; Theatre and Conflict workshop, fndr Dramatic Solutions 1997; script conslt: Channel 4 1987, Warner Sisters (Hothouse Warner Sisters 1989), Family Pride (Channel 4) 1993; Theatre Hello and Goodbye Pal Joey 1974, Stop The World 1975, My Fair Lady 1975, West Side Story 1976 (all Northcott Theatre Exeter), Smile for Jesus (ICA and Sheffield Crucible Studio) 1976, A Winter's Tale 1977, Guys and Dolls 1977, Cabaret 1977 (all Gateway Theatre Chester), Queen Christina (RSC) 1977, School for Clowns (Haymarket Leicester) 1977, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (Bristol Old Vic) 1977, Wreckers (7:84) 1977, Prodigal Father (Soho Poly) 1978, Kiss Me Kate 1978, Beaux Stratagem 1978, Alice 1978 (all Nottingham Playhouse), You Never Can Tell 1978, Side By Side By Sondheim 1979 (both Palace Theatre Watford), Julius Caesar 1979, Teeth 'n' Smiles 1979 (both Nottingham Playhouse), Trees in the Wind (7:84) 1979, Heroes 1979, Statements (Bristol Old Vic) 1980, Letters Home 1980, Strangers 1981 (all New End), Chicago 1981, Pinocchio 1981 (both Newcastle Playhouse), Mourning Pictures (Monstrous Regiment) 1981, The Boyfriend (Churchill Theatre Bromley) 1982, Duet for One (Br Cncl India Tour) 1983, A Day In The Death of Joe Egg (Haymarket Leicester) 1984, Vigilantes (Asian Co-op Theatre) 1985, Alarms (Monstrous Regiment 1986, Riverside Studios 1987) Panorama (The King's Head) 1988, The Millionairess (Greenwich) 1988, Iranian Nights (Royal Court) 1989, Revelations (Traverse Edinburgh) 1992, Tant Per Tant Shakespeare (Barcelona) 1995, The Odd Couple (York Theatre Royal) 1997, Birth of Pleasure (Rosemary Bransch) 1997, A Doll's House (Harrogate) 1998, The Wolf Road (Gate Theatre) 1998-99, Perfect Day (Haymarket Basingstoke) 2000; Television and Film for Channel 4: Letters Home 1982, The Inner Eye (asst prodr only) 1986, Iranian Nights 1989, Bite the Ball 1989, Mixing It 1990; for BBC: Prisoners of Incest (Horizon) 1983, Battered Baby (Horizon) 1985, Home Front 1988, And The Cow Jumped Over The Moon 1990; other credits incl: Clients and Professionals and Managing Change (Melrose Film Productions) 1990

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