Leah Gayer
Productions whilst at RADA
- Alisa in 2011
3 Winters directed by Eleanor Rhode - Maid
The House of Bernarda Alba directed by Simona Gonella - Grace (Something Unspoken) / Miss Foxhill (Suddenly Last Summer)
Something Unspoken & Suddenly Last Summer directed by Psyche Stott - Poppy
Leaves directed by Cara Nolan - Woman / Ghost
With a Little Help From My Friends (short film) directed by Edward Hicks - Jay
A Heart Shaped Stone (short film) directed by Edward Hicks - Ski Resort / Helen / B
Small Scenes (radio) directed by Jeremy Mortimer
- Becky
The Oven Cleaner (radio) directed by Jeremy Mortimer - Meg
Three Quick Phone Calls and Headless Rabbit (radio) directed by Jeremy Mortimer - Lilim 2 / Daisy
Stardust (radio) directed by Jeremy Mortimer - Feste
Twelfth Night directed by Mark Leipacher - Miss Hoyden
The Relapse directed by Giles Havergal - Celia
As You Like It directed by Michael Attenborough - Hecuba
The Trojan Women directed by Aoife Smyth and Shona Morris
Voice reels
Georgie
Spike Heels
by Theresa Rebeck
Rosemary
Outside Mullingar
by John Patrick Shanley
Narrator
Planet Earth
by David Attenborough
Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Special skills
- Stage Combat (BASSC) Distinction;
- Good ear for accents including: General American, Cork, Mississippi, West Country;
- Singing: Soprano;
- Dance: Period, Waltz, Flamenco;
- Music: Piano (basic), violin (basic), ukulele (basic);
- Languages: German (basic);
- Other: Horse riding (basic), unicycling, juggling;
- Full driving licence.
Previous experience
- Directed tour of India performing in orphanages, slums and hospitals with Wind Up Penguin Theatre Company (2017).
- Tour of refugee camps in Belgium and Greece with Wind Up Penguin Theatre Company (2016/7).
- Sweet Love Remembered (Shakespeare’s Globe) dir. Federay Holmes (2015).
- Member of the National Youth Theatre.
- Team Welcome Ceremonies for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games (NYT) dirs. Richard Weinman and Kane Husbands.
- Assistant director for NYT Masterclass’s and intake courses.
- Physical Theatre Masterclass, dir. Kane Husbands.
- Member of the Forest Forge Youth Theatre (2006-2014).
Interests
Sailing, cycling, writing, painting, mindfulness, travel and the great outdoors.