actress
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and theatre-director. She is co-founder of '' Told by an Idiot'' and has both devised and performed in almost all their productions. She won the TMA and Time Out awards in 1999 for Best Actress for her performances in ''I Weep At My Piano'', ''Mr Puntilla'' and ''The Dispute''.
Education
Carmichael attended
Middlesex Polytechnic
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, and graduated in 1993.
Career
In 1995, Carmichael appeared in a stage adaptation of
Emir Kusturica
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's '' Time of the Gypsies''. Later, Carmichael spoke of her frustration with the production,"we would work four scenes, then not know where to go, and we kept getting to dead ends and buggering off to the pub, thinking, 'what do we do now?'"
The same year, Carmichael played the part of Lovely, a kidnapped prostitute in ''I'm So Big''; a play where two
Romani
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brothers kidnap a prostitute and chain her up in a caravan so that they can buy pizza. The production suffered from protracted exposition at the expense of plot, comedy or character.
In the latter half of the 90s, Carmichael played an upper class girl besotted with her chauffeur in The Right Size' production
Kathryn Hunter
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''. Following The Right Size production, Carmichael performed ''I Weep at my piano'' with her theatre troupe as part of the
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The Witness for the Prosecution
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Appearances
Theatre work
"Here Be Lions"
(French text by Stéphane Olry/La Revue Eclair Paris, English translation by Neil Bartlett). Theatre of Europe - The Print Room at the Coronet - London 2015
For Told by an Idiot
* ''I'm A Fool To Want You''
* ''Playing The Victim''
* '' The Firework-Maker's Daughter''
* ''A Little Fantasy''
* '' Aladdin''
* ''Shoot Me In The Heart''
* ''Happy Birthday Mister Deka D''
* ''I Weep At My Piano''
* ''Casanova'' (2007)
Other work
* ''The Dispute'' ( RSC)
* ''Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti'' ( The Right Size/ Almeida co-production)
* ''The Maids'' (2007,
Brighton Festival
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King Lear
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The Witness for the Prosecution
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In 1933, the story ...