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Jon Culshaw
Jon Culshaw is an impressionist and comedian, best know for his work on Dead Ringers and Spitting Image.
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Jon Culshaw is an impressionist and comedian, best know for his work on Dead Ringers and Spitting Image.
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Jordan Stephens is a musician, actor and campaigner, known for roles in Rogue One, Last Vegas and Why Him? At Letters Live he's performed letters from writers as varied as Kobe Bryant, Italo Calvino and Prince.
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Juliet Stevenson is an award-winning actor. She has read letters at Letters Live from Marge Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, Dorris Lessing and many more.
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Kae Tempest is an incredibly talented and acclaimed writer and perfomer: a poet, recording artist, playwright and novelist. They appeared at Letters Live in 2016 at Brixton Prison, our show in support of the Prison Radio Association.
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Kyle MacLachlan is an actor perhaps best known for his collaborations with David Lynch – including as Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks and Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet.
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One of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers, in May of 2018 Laurence Fishburne made his Letters Live debut in New York City.
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Lemn Sissay is a poet, broadcaster and the author of the number one bestselling memoir My Name Is Why.
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14 December 2016
Letters Live presented a truly unique show that took place in the chapel of Her Majesty’s Prison, Brixton.
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4-5 June 2022
Join Benedict Cumberbatch and friends as the hugely popular all-star show returns for the sixth year to Hay Festival for two shows. Letters Live 1 Saturday 4 June 2022, 7pm Baillie Gifford Stage Join Benedict Cumberbatch and friends as the hugely popular all-star show returns for the sixth year to Hay Festival and in aid of the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. A celebration of the enduring power of literary correspondence, Letters Live sees a diverse array of outstanding performers read remarkable letters, inspired by and often drawn from Shaun Usher’s bestselling Letters of Note anthologies. The full cast will be kept under wraps until the performance. All ticket sales from this event go to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. If you cannot attend in person, there will be a fundraising virtual livestream tickets on sale shortly on the Hay website. Letters Live 2 Sunday 5 June 2022, 11.30am Baillie Gifford Stage Join an all-star cast for a one-off, family-friendly edition of Letters Live, a hugely popular celebration of the enduring power of literary correspondence. The event sees a diverse array of outstanding performers read remarkable letters, inspired by and often drawn from Shaun Usher’s best-selling Letters of Note anthologies. The full cast will be kept under wraps until the performance. Price: £25.00 https://www.hayfestival.com/p-19057-letters-live-2.aspx
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