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Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano.
The show won the first Victoria Wood award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 [13] and raised almost £20,000 for Richards' family. [14] Awards.
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Each award currently has a separate sponsor, being sponsored by Sky TV, DLT Entertainment and The Victoria Wood Foundation, respectively. They have previously been sponsored by Perrier, lastminute.com, Dave, [1] and Foster's Lager. Currently three awards are given – Best Comedy Show, Best Newcomer and the Panel Prize.
One of his biggest successes came in 1985, when he produced and directed the multi-award-winning Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, a sketch show written by (and starring) the comedian. [3] Posner has since produced and directed some of the most popular British television comedies of the 1990s and 2000s.
In At The Death was a sketch revue performed at The Bush Theatre, London in 1978, most notable for being the first time that future colleagues Victoria Wood and Julie Walters would work together. [1] The show is described in Neil Brandwood's biography of Wood as an "alternative theatre company's sketch show about mortality."
George Ian Kenneth Ireland (7 August 1945 – 31 July 2014) [2] was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.
Andrée Molyneux, Diarmuid Lawrence, Charles Wood: BBC One: Screen One: "Pat and Margaret" Ruth Caleb, Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood: Stages: "Suffer the Little Children" Jack Emery, Betsan Morris-Evans: BBC Two: 1996: Screen Two: "Persuasion" Fiona Finlay, Roger Michell, Nick Dear: BBC Two: Eleven Men Against Eleven: Jimmy Mulville, Andy ...