Hi!
I had a wonderful time filming a short movie called 'Open Plan' directed by the talented Daniel Murtha of DDAANN Studio about a polyamorous 'Throuple' looking to all move in together in a flat.
Also, the online commercials that I worked on with Shaun Williamson have all been released online with more than half a million hits on the Currys. PC World official Facebook website!
I did a semi-staged rehearsed reading of a new comedy "Hell's Grannies" written by Jackie Skarvellis which we staged at Pentameters Theatre and doing for a further few days there in the new year.
It's a funny tale of two senior citizens on the run when they decide to rob a bank!
I also read a poem 'A New Country' about being an immigrant in the UK at the monthly event 'Paper Tiger Poetry' at The Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall hosted by actor and author Alain English.
It's been Onother busy and productive year and will now be putting my feet up and enjoy the break.
I would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year and thank you so much for reading my blog! xx

I filmed five different commercials for an online campaign for Currys PC World with actor Shaun Williamson known for playing Barry in Eastenders as well as many other notable actors.
The first one will be online as soon as next week so look out for them.
They were directed by Will Riddell and produced by 1000 Heads.
I'm also preparing for a very funny and well-written character for a short film which we're filming next month about a flat viewing with a twist!
As well as a film based on a true story during WW2
Will keep you posted with all upcoming projects.
Keep smiling

A big thank you to all who came to see my directorial debut 'Filumena' at The Drayton Arms Theatre.
It was a huge learning curve for me personally but I enjoyed every minute (almost!)
The cast were phenomenal and the production team were all top-notch.
We had full houses and some very positive responses from audiences who told me that it had touched them and made them laugh.
The critics were also very favourable giving us very good reviews which was a real bonus.
And of course it was an honour to bring De Filippo's beautiful and heart-warming words to life.
In other news,I filmed a reconstruction for a Channel 5 documentary which I cannot talk about at the moment but will keep you posted once it's shown on T.V.
I also shot a photographic campaign for Network Rail which was shot by Gary Salter.
The UK Podcasters awards were a lot of fun...we went up toManchester for the ceremony which took place at the lovely Midland Hotel.
It didn't win but what an honour to be nominated and be amongst such creative and original Podcasters,so keep listening as we have some fantastic guests on!
Til next time
Keep smiling ;-)

Hi!
We are nearly half way through rehearsals for the play that I'm directing 'Filumena' by Eduardo De Filippo at The Drayton Arms Theatre from 6-18th September 8.00 pm (no performance on 13th)
It's a wonderful play depicting life in my birthplace,Naples in the 1940's and is full of humour and poignancy.
Tickets can be booked on:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/filumena
So hope to see you there!
Also my podcast "The Tino Orsini Show" has been nominated for a UK Podcasters Award in the 'Best Arts Podcast' category which is very exciting!
You can vote for us on:
Http://newmediaeurope.com/2015/UK-Podcasters-awards-the-nominations-are-in/
Til next time!

hello folks!
I'm really having lots of fun doing my podcast "The Tino Orsini Show" which comes out every friday on Podbean.com and iTunes.
my first guest was theatre royalty Bob Kingdom who takes his one man shows portraying Dylan Thomas and Truman Capote among others all over the world and I'm very excited to welcome the lovely actress Linda Alexander to episode 2 which airs tomorrow,Friday 11th June.
we have some wonderful guests lined up for the next few weeks so make sure to tune in!
I'm continuing classes at Anthony Meindl Actors Workshop and really learning about what is holding me back in my acting.
Casting for "Filumena" the play I will be directing is being organized and I'm very excited to start rehearsing and putting it on its feet!
til next time and remember creativity starts from within!

Hello!
As well as recording the first episode of my podcast this week I am busy with making my dream of directing into a reality.
I have chosen to direct a play by the great Neapolitan playwright Eduardo De Filippo called 'Filumena' translated into English.
It will be on for a one-week run in September at The Drayton Arms Theatre to start off and then possibly take it further afield.
I am crowdfunding on Indiegogo to raise funds for the budget so I hope you will donate as much or as little as you can.
Also,look out for my HSBC commercial which airs in the UK on the 6th of June.
Thanks for reading and more soon!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filumena-by-eduardo-de-filippo--2

I'm happy to announce my next theatre production is David Eldridge's 'Under the Blue Sky' at Drayton Arms Theatre on the 8th and 9th March directed by Denholm Spurr in which I will be playing Robert along with David Paisley,Natalie Sheriff,Alex Piggins,Rachel Dobell and Louise Tyler.
Its a terrific 3 act play about a group of teachers and the difficulty of embracing love.
It premiered at The Royal Court in 2000 under the helm of Rufus Norris.
I also filmed a short film 'Fare Thee Well"playing 'Napoleon' which will be screened at the BFI as part of a composer competition at The Waterloo Festival with the winning orchestra playing live at the special screening on 15th June.
It is directed by Sye Allen and Adam Greves of APOSTLE production company and I had a lot of fun with all the cast and crew!

So,here goes my second blog of the year.
The play I did at The Hen and Chickens Theatre 'The Blind Bet' was a great joy to work on.
It was very well received and the cast and everybody involved under the helm of Jordan Murphy did a brilliant job!
My classes at The Anthony Meindl Actors Workshop are continuing and I'm getting a lot out of them,learning to get out of my own way in a scene and really just be in the moment,listening to my scene partner as well as taking onboard the notes and directions afterwards as a way of learning or in my case unlearning and to trust myself that I am enough! Thanks Anthony Meindl,Mitchell Mullen and Cynthia Levin for your guidance and inspiration as well as all my class mates.you guys are amazing!
My next project is going to take me in a whole new direction and I'm very excited.
I'm starting my own podcast: The Tino Orsini Show.
It'll be an irreverent chat show about the arts with special guests and film/theatre reviews so look out for it soon,it'll be broadcast on Podbean and hopefully on ITunes once we get it going.
So,thanks for following my blog and keep smiling!

Happy new year!
Back to work rehearsing the premiere of a darkly comic play 'The Blind Bet' by Robert Jenkins of Hillcrest Artists and directed by Jordan Murphy.
It runs for five performances at The Hen and Chickens Theatre from the 3rd-7th February.
Principal photography has began for 'Monalisa Lives'.
I will be working on it at the end of January under the helm of Anthony Abuah (Woolwich Boys)
I begin new acting classes at The Anthony Meindl Actors Workshop and am doing a casting director workshop with Rowland Buckley who casts for 'Eastenders'
Til next time!

I took part in "The Platform" a page to stage workshop at the inaugural night of The Bread and Roses Theatre.
The piece we did,'The Stand-In"was very well received.
I played a flamboyant American theatre director holding an audition with a young ingenue actress played by Natasha Santos.
We were both upstaged by our "co-star" Socko the puppet wonderfully worked by Emily Essery.
It was directed by Charlotte Peters with great aplomb!
I also shot a national commercial for one of the high street banks directed by Gary Freedman for Independent which will come out soon and had fun at The British Theatre Challenge at the LOST Theatre with 'The Proposition' ' by Brian Coyle.
It's been a very productive year and looking forward to getting my teeth into some more great and challenging roles in the new year,starting with the feature film "Monalisa Lives".
Thank you for reading this blog and I hope to keep you posted on all my upcoming creative projects!

Hi there!

I'm busy with a few projects.

I took part in Blackshaw Theatre's new writing night held at The Horse and Stables in Lambeth with a one-act play written by Richard Woulfe and directed by Robert Beck called 'No Going Back'.

It is a humorous take on connecting with former lovers via Facebook and I played Drew.

My wife was read by Andrea Deeley and the ex-lover by Tara Gadomski (Orange is the New Black)

We received some very positive feedback from the audience and Richard plans to write a further piece with the same characters which I would love to do.

Also,I am doing The Cambridge Theatre Challenge again,having done it last year with Sky Blue Theatre Company.

I am performing one of the 10 plays called 'The Proposition' directed by John Mitton.

We perform it on the 24th of October at the LOST Theatre with an additional night on the 25th for the other half of the plays.

The audience votes their favourite.

that's all for now.

Will keep you posted as usual with all my shows!

I am taking part in the annual Cambridge Shakespeare Festival for the summer with 'As You Like it' from 7-26th July and then 'The Taming of the Shrew' from 28th July-23rd August in the beautiful outdoors gardens of St John's College and Homerton College respectively.
Let's hope the weather will hold up!
I did a casting director's workshop with Jeremy Zimmerman who has been in the business for many years which was fun.
Also I have been offered a role in the independent feature film 'Monalisa Lives' written and directed by Anthony Abuah being filmed in London soon.
Thanks for reading!

Hi folks!
Well,I'm in rehearsals for Polish avant-grade playwright Witkacy's "The Madman and the Nun" which runs from 13-16th June at the Chelsea Theatre.
I also filmed a commercial which was a lot of fun to do.
I played an executive and had to wear a hair-piece in some strange positions!
Look out for it soon!
Til next time!

I filmed two supporting roles for a feature film called 'Mum,Dad,Meet Sam' directed by Tony S Ukpo and produced by OKP Productions and a short film 'Night Shift' directed by Richard Higson of Curve Films.
I am also taking part in The Vault Festival next year in February which takes place at The Vaults,Waterloo(formerly the Old Vic Tunnels) with a new play that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival called 'Project Lolita' written and directed by Sophie Foster of Angry Bairds Theatre Company.
Will keep you posted on these and other upcoming projects!

'The Frogs" was a success at Theatro technis,we had full houses for almost the whole run.
My next projects include a one-off performance of the Chekhov comedy 'The Proposal' at Etcetera theatre on the 21st of December and a week run of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' at Barons Court Theatre from the 28th of January till the 2nd of February.
I was invited to a rehearsed reading of a new play by James Hogan at The Print Room called 'Beati Quorum' with an excellent cast including Jacki Skarvellis.
looking forward to seeing the release of some film projects i have worked on too.
till next time folks!...

Rehearsals have begun for the third play of the Aristophanes season at Theatro Technis called 'The Frogs' directed by George Eugeniou in which I will be playing the lead Dyonosis the God of theatre and wine!
we open mid-October for a two-week run.
Also the short film i worked on recently is in post-production and will have a screening in London later this month.
I really enjoyed my participation in the Cambridge Theatre challenge;the two plays I did had challenging themes and were very rewarding,we didn't win the top prizes for the playwrights involved but i'm sure we were pretty close.
I have an audition for a web series this sunday which will be filmed in France for a few days which would be fun.fingers crossed!
till next time folks.....

Presently...

I had the pleasure of working with Tony S Ukpo again on his new short film 'There's Something in the Woods' With fellow actor Emily Lucienne.
I am performing at the Cambridge Theatre Challenge in two short plays with only a week's rehearsing this weekend 6/7 July at Cambridge Junction produced by Sky Blue Theatre Company.
I have also been cast in onother short film 'What If...' which is produced by Rkive Productions.

I am currently in rehearsals for the second comedy of the Aristophanes season at Theatro Technis "Women in Parliament".
We open on the 4th til the 15th of June.
I am also training with acting coach Dominic Kelly who teaches the Meisner technique at the Cockpit Theatre.
A few other projects in the works so stay tuned!

Happy new year!
So,I am currently in rehearsals for 'Mary Stuart' by Friedrich Schiller.
I am playing Count Aubespine,the French ambassador who causes havoc in the English court.
We open at Questors Theatre on February 8th until the 16th.
I am also working on onother play,'Oh Democracy' a bawdy musical adaption of Aristophanes' political satire 'The Knights' in which I play Dem the European citizen.
We open that show on the 26th of February for an off-West End three week run at Theatro Technis.
Also, 'After the World Ended' is released on the 1st of June so look out for that.
So busy and loving it!