Sam Peter Jackson (born 17 March 1978) is a writer/director and actor best known for writing the play "
Public Property
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", which ran at the
Trafalgar Studios
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in London's West End in 2009 starring
Nigel Harman
Nigel Derek Harman (born 11 August 1973) is an English actor, best known for his role as Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. He has worked mostly in theatre. He starred in the final series of '' Hotel Babylo ...
,
Robert Daws
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and
Steven Webb
Steven Michael Webb (born 8 November 1984 in Wirral, Merseyside, England) is an English actor in theatre, television and film. and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage
Theatregoers' Choice Award
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as Best New Comedy.
The play was published by Oberon Books.
As a filmmaker he wrote/directed the short film "The Bathroom", starring double
Laurence Olivier Award winning actress
Janie Dee
Janie Dee (born 20 June 1962) is an English actress and singer. She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play, and in New York the Obie and Theatre World Award ...
and acclaimed actor
Reece Noi
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, with music by
Grammy Award
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winning composer
David Arnold
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.
In total he has written and directed six short films, which have won awards, sold for broadcast and distribution, as well as screened at
BAFTA, the
BFI
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and festivals worldwide.
Most recently Sam worked as a MoCap Performance Director on Breaking Fourth's VR film Lucid, which premiered at the 2018
Venice Film Festival
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.
His latest short film Clothes & Blow is screening at the 43rd
Frameline Festival in
San Francisco
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. It was nominated for the 2018
Iris Prize
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Best British Short and won Best Comedy at the 2019 Beeston Film Festival.
Jackson's other plays include "Minor Irritations", which was the first play to receive the
Pleasance Theatre's Charlie Hartill Special Reserve and was nominated for the 2006 Oscar Wilde Award for Writing, and the short plays "Charity"and "Where I Used To Live", produced by
The Factory Theatre Company
The Factory Theatre Company is a theatre company based in the United Kingdom.
History
The Factory's first production, William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', was first performed at various pop-up locations across London, the first of these being a studi ...
in London, and "Icarus", produced by
Mind The Gap Theatre in New York.
As an actor, he has most notably appeared in
Channel 4
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's
BAFTA-winning ''Nuremberg - Goering's Last Stand'' and the
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TV film ''D-Day''.
He is also a successful voice over artist in both English and German. Most recently he provided the voice for Tobias Winter for the audiobook of ''
documentary "The Other Michael Jackson: Battle of the Boogie" about his father singer/songwriter
". To promote the film Sam appeared on
. He is represented by Berlin Associates in London.