Karen Ascoe

CATHERINE DICKENS
WHAT THE DICKENS?

Karen trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Carleton Hobbs Award.

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Theatre includes: Love All, A Splinter of Ice (Jermyn Street Theatre), Gertrude in Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Switzerland (English Theatre, Frankfurt), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Lowry, Manchester), Single Spies, Sense and Sensibility (TBTL and York Theatre Royal), Rabbits (Park Theatre), Shakespeare in the Abbey (Globe Theatre at Westminster Abbey) Down and Out in Paris and London (New Diorama), Prospera in The Tempest (PSF), Artefacts (Bush Theatre, Off Broadway), Footloose (UK Tour), Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens), The Years Between, Adam Bede, (Orange Tree), The Letter (Wyndham's Theatre), Anna Karenina, After Mrs. Rochester (Shared Experience – London and International tours), Jackie in Jackie, the Musical (Gardyne Theatre), Season’s Greetings (Theatre Royal Bath), Perfect Days, Extremities (Derby Playhouse).

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Television includes: Juice, Wolf, Holby City, Housebound (comedy web series), Sex Pistols v Bill Grundy, Coronation Street, Drifters, My Mad Fat Diary, Cuckoo, W1A, Emmerdale, Peep Show, The Taking of Prince Harry, EastEnders, The Armando Iannucci Shows.

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Film includes: A Brixton Tale, Paper Mask, Loaf and Daisy.

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Radio includes: The History of Mr. Polly, Madam, Will You Talk?, Tartuffe, The Tempest.