Page 280 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21
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6 April 2021
Actor Oliver Dimsdale: ‘I loved
every second of my first job’
ADVICE BY JOHN BYRNE
The actor and co-artistic director of Filter Theatre tells John
Byrne about relishing his first job acting in rep at Salisbury
Playhouse, and why you should never second-guess what a
casting director is looking for
Oliver Dimsdale. Photo: Jon Holloway
After graduating from Guildhall in 1999, I successfully auditioned for
Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing and Middleton and Rowley’s The
Changeling at Salisbury Playhouse. The idea was to offer recent graduates
the opportunity to rehearse and perform two shows in rep at a major
