Curtain Call Podcast, an audio podcast featuring hour-long interviews with diverse theater professionals, announces the release of Episode Eight (8) with special guest Miles Anderson available for free download starting April 1, 2015.
Miles Anderson is an internationally acclaimed actor of film, television, theatre and radio. Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Miles has been acting for many years, moving from the UK to the US in 2008. He has appeared in television including Criminal Minds, Constantine, Battle Creek, film including Bollywood star, Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroopam, and three highly successful theatre seasons at the Old Globe San Diego in their Shakespeare Festivals of 2010, 2011 and 2013 under the directorship of Adrian Noble. For his performance as King George in The Madness of George III in 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel San Diego Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor in a Lead. His 2011 performance as Salieri in Amadeus garnered critical superlatives and his Prospero in The Tempest again secured him the nomination for Best Actor by the San Diego Critics' Circle. In 2013 he again won the San Diego Critics Circle Award for his Outstanding Performance of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. His stage appearances in the West End and for the Royal Shakespeare Company have won him acclaim with, amongst others, The Witch of Edmonton, The Twin Rivals, Macbeth, The Weir, Oliver! and Twelfth Night. He was awarded three British Drama Awards in his first season at Stratford. His work with directors including Richard Attenborough, Trevor Nunn, Adrian Noble, Max Stafford-Clark, Sam Mendes, Paul Seed, John Caird and Dominic Cooke - as well as actors including Peter Ustinov, Judi Dench, Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Simon Russell-Beale, Zoe Wanamaker, Harriet Walter, Juliet Stevenson, Richard Griffiths, Jean-Claude Van Damme - has established Miles internationally as an actor of immense versatility, notability and popularity.
Podcast creator and host Chuck Clay says of the most recent episode, "Miles is a treasure. He is an actor with this long, diverse, and impressive career, and now here he is at 67 and he is pursuing his lifelong dream of living and working in Hollywood. He's a fascinating man with a remarkable story. And he's truly one of the warmest and most generous, too!"
Each episode (available on the first of each month) goes behind the scenes with the leading artists, technicians, and craftspeople on stage and behind the scenes of today's top theaters. This monthly interview program that spotlights the creative talents working in the theatrical industry across the country and around the world, puts the spotlight on folks who don't normally get a chance to shine-house managers, stagehands, dressers, casting directors, agents, producers, writers, actors, electricians, accountants, and more--guests get the chance tell stories about what brought them to the theater and what keeps them coming back time after time. A resource of interest to anyone in the performing arts, Curtain Call Podcast is available for free download from iTunes, Stitcher, and other fine purveyors of podcasts.
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