Whether climbing out of a smoking coffin singing a heavy metal ballad or jumping over a fishpond in slippers and a dressing gown… Eithne Browne has had an interesting and fairly successful 40 plus year career.

Coming late into the business at 28 when asked to join the chorus of the first production of Blood Brothers at the Liverpool Playhouse, the following years have bought work on stage, screen, radio, classrooms, hospitals and the world-famous Mersey Ferry.

Favourite plays include Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Shirley Valentine, Billy Liar, Two, Tartuffe, A Month in the Country, Abigail’s Party to name a few… More recently Work it Out for Home Manchester and a tour of Maggie May for which she received a nomination for Best Performance in a Play from UK Theatre Awards.

With work coming up for the year ahead, Eithne, at 70, is still glad to be “in the business” and breathing! Join us Downstairs at the Everyman to listen to some of Eithne wondrous tales of her successful, slightly madcap career!

Recent credits: Hansel and Gretel by Simon Armitage and Edward II at Shakespeare’s Globe; Our Lady of Blundellsands, Sweeney Todd, The Conquest of the South Pole, Romeo & Juliet, A Clockwork Orange and The Big I Am – a reimagining of Peer Gynt, all at the Liverpool
Everyman; and Hushabye Mountain at the Hope Mill Theatre Theatre includes: The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman); I Am Not Myself These Days (Edinburgh & UK Tour); The Last Days of Troy, Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Love Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3, The Death of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Christmas Fair, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Milton Rooms, Malton); Fragile (Belgrade Theatre); Betrayal (Crucible Theatre); A Separate Reality (Royal Court); By Jeeves (Landor); Billy Liar (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Guys and Dolls (Arts Theatre, Cambridge); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios); Burning Cars (Hampstead Theatre); Mongoose (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Promises and Lies (Birmingham Rep); Bolthole, ‘Low Dat (The Door, Birmingham Rep); The Ruffian on The Stair (Old Red Lion).

As part of The Complete Walk, marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Nick directed short films of Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3 and Titus Andronicus for Shakespeare’s Globe.

Nick trained at the Guildhall as an actor and has worked extensively in most major theatres in the country. He was formerly joint artistic
director of The Milton Rooms. Nick was the Associate Director of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse between 2014 and 2019.

Everyman & Playhouse New Works Associate, Tommo Fowler, will talk about how they take a new play from page to stage. They will explore the process behind developing a script from the seed of an original idea into a final draft that’s ready for production.