Interviews with Friends Q&A with Jonnie Broadbent and Laura Moody

This will be the 4th in this series of Q&A with Gemma Aston and some of her Friends and colleagues who work in the Arts and Culture Industries.
Watch the interview first in your own time by clicking on the link and then come along for the LIVE Zoom Q&A on Thursday 4th March at 7.30pm  You can just listen in or ask Jonny and Laura a question.
Jonny has been working as an actor for the RSC for several years and has had an incredibly successful and varied career. Laura, has been equally as prolific and successful in her musical career, having worked with some fabulously diverse musicians and writers, and also having recorded her debut album 'Acrobats'. These two make a great double act and never cease to amuse and entertain! join us for a great evening of banter. bring wine and nibbles!
Click here for more info, to see the original interview and to register your email for the zoom link

Jonathan Boradbent
Jonathan is currently a member of the RSC and hopes to re-open in Stratford this Summer in The Comedy of Errors. In 2019/20 he was in the Shakespeare’s Globe Ensemble, performing the title role in Henry VI as well as Buckingham in Richard III and Mistress Quickly in Henry IV and Henry V.
He won an OFFIE for his performance as Felix Humble in Charlotte Jones’ Olivier Award winning Humble Boy at the Orange Tree Theatre, and the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance as Guy in the Donmar’s Olivier nominated production of My Night With Reg in the West End. He played Reg in Chichester Festival Theatre’s
production of The Norman Conquests, and the Cowardly Lion in
The Wizard of Oz for Sheffield Theatres for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre award.
With the RSC he has had leading roles in The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Love for Love, Queen Anne and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
His long-term collaboration with Filter Theatre has seen him play Tusenbach in Three Sisters and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Lyric Theatre, and Orsino/Aguecheek in Twelfth Night - a production that has toured nationally and internationally for over ten years from Lancaster to Los Angeles. 
Stints in the West End include Ghost Stories with Andy Nyman and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dawn French as Bottom. 
He voices the characters of Bill and Ben in Thomas & Friends and has appeared in The Crown, Father Brown, EastEnders, Silent Witness and Gimme Gimme Gimme for the BBC. He has been directed by Kenneth Branagh on film in As You Like It and The Magic Flute, and recently filmed Benediction written and directed by Terence Davies, about the life of Siegfried Sassoon.
He teaches at BADA, ICAT and The Actor’s Centre and is currently voicing Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walk campaign.

Laura Moody
Laura is a cellist, vocalist, songwriter, composer and theatre performer.
Most recently she composed and performed in several consecutive productions for
Shakespeare’s Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: Love’s Labour’s Lost, 
Macbeth, After Edward and Deep Night, Dark Night.
Other theatre includes: several productions  
at The National Theatre, tours with Filter Theatre, Meredith Monk
Company and the role of the solo cellist in Broken Glass at the Tricycle
Theatre and in the West End. In November 2014 she released her debut
solo album Acrobats to major critical acclaim. She has since toured
the album extensively in the UK and to major festivals. Other recent
works include Medium for vocalising, ‘mind-reading’ string quartet and
award-nominated scores for dreamplay at The Vaults Theatre and Mary
Rose for BBC Radio 3. Parallelist, a collaborative music theatre work
with the sound artist Clay Gold dealing with theories of consciousness,
premiered at the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival and will tour next year. For
fifteen years she was a member of innovative string quartet the Elysian
Quartet, known for its pioneering performances and recordings of
contemporary classical, experimental and improvised music. She is
the arranger for Radiohead’s Philip Selway film scores. Other artists
she has worked with include: Bjork, Anna Calvi, Antony and the
Johnsons, Peter Gabriel and Kate Tempest.