Helen Mirren grants an Audience with National Youth Theatre

Helen Mirren, who hit the headlines over the weekend for berating a group of drummers outside the Gielgud Theatre, will take part in a fundraising event for her alma mater the National Youth Theatre on 10 June.

Mirren, who is playing the Queen in Peter
Morgan’s acclaimed {The
Audience::L0570541542}, will be interviewed on stage in an event billed ‘An Audience With Helen Mirren’.

Paul Roseby, artistic director of the NYT, will chair the interview and invite questions from current NYT members.

Mirren began her career in the role of Cleopatra at the National Youth
Theatre. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring in such
productions as Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth.

Her other theatre work
includes A Month in the Country (Tony nomination), Dance of Death (Tony
nomination), Mourning Becomes Electra (Olivier nomination for Best
Actress) and Phèdre (both for the National Theatre). She recently won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth II in The Audience.

The production will be broadcast live to cinemas through NT Live on 13 June.

The National Youth Theatre trains performers and theatre technicians aged 14-25 from Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. Other famous alumni include Daniel Craig, Colin Firth, Rosamund Pike, Daniel
Day-Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Catherine Tate, Ben Kingsley, Ashley
Jensen, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Dalton, David Walliams, Matt Lucas,
Hugh Bonneville and Matt Smith.