The bursary named after him will help Welsh students go to Oxford University. Read more below:
Ler maisJesus College is pleased to announce the creation of a new bursary scheme that will provide much-needed financial support for Welsh undergraduate students. The Michael Sheen Bursary has been developed in collaboration with, and is generously supported by, eminent Welsh actor and activist Michael Sheen, and will support students from across Wales.
Recipients of the Michael Sheen Bursary will be means-tested, based primarily on household income criteria. Economic inequity is a known barrier to Welsh school students pursuing courses in leading universities, and a barrier that Jesus College, and the University more broadly, is working hard to overcome.
The Michael Sheen Bursary is an exciting, positive step forward for the College, which already delivers a wide range of access and outreach activities for young people in Wales. In 2020, the College (in partnership with St Catherine’s College and New College) took responsibility for delivering Access and Outreach programmes for the whole of Wales on behalf of the University of Oxford; a consortium called Oxford Cymru. The consortium has been working closely with the Welsh Government to expand its reach – especially in the largely rural and coastal communities of mid and North Wales which experience the greatest disparities in educational attainment.
The programme for this year’s edition of Hay Festival, to take place online from May 24 to June 6, has been announced today (April 20). Michael Sheen will be attenting a pre-recorded lecture with Professor Daniel G. Willians and Leanne Wood MS called “Who Speaks for Wales? Raymond Williams at 100” on May 30 at pm BST. More information below:
Michael Sheen, Professor Daniel G. Williams and Leanne Wood MS
Lunchtime Lecture Series 4: Who Speaks for Wales? Raymond Williams at 100
Join us online: Sunday 30 May 2021, 1pm – 1.50pm BST
Virtual venue: Llwyfan Cymru Digidol – Wales Digital StageActor and activist Michael Sheen will join the professor Professor Daniel G. Williams and Member of the Senedd Leanne Wood, to discuss the life, work, and continued relevance of Raymond Williams, as a new centenary edition of his collected writings on Wales are published. Michael Sheen says, “Who Speaks for Wales is a truly landmark publication. It has had a profound effect on me and on countless others. The new afterword to this expanded centenary edition shows how Raymond Williams’ thinking is as important and relevant today as it has ever been.” Williams noted that Welsh history testifies to a “quite extraordinary process of self-generation and regeneration, from what seemed impossible conditions.” This discussion, ranging from 1920s Pandy to wartime Paris, from Extinction Rebellion to Yes Cymru, will be conducted with his words in mind.
Click here to register for this event (event 46). If you need help, click here. Most events will be available for free replay for up to 24 hours after the start time of the event. After this they will be available in the Hay Festival’s online archive Hay Player.
The nominees of the Broadcast Awards 2021 have been announced today (April 15) and two productions starring Michael Sheen made it to the shortlist: Quiz recieved a nod as Best Drama Series, whilst Staged season one was nominated as Best Lockdown Programme – Entertainment, Comedy and Scripted. See the nominees below:
Best Drama Series or Serial
Des
I Hate Suzie
I May Destroy You
Normal People
Quiz
The End of the F**king WorldBest Lockdown Programme – Entertainment, Comedy and Scripted
A League of Their Own
Home Alone with Joel Dommet
Isolation Stories
Staged
The Ragnanation
Unsaid Stories
The winners will be announced on May 27 at a virtual ceremony. You can register here to watch it.
Good luck to everyone involved in both shows!
The series produced by ONE Campaign aims to raise awareness to global vaccine acess will premiere tomorrow (March 25) on YouTube. Some other big names will lend their voices as well. Read more:
Ler maisLOS ANGELES (AP) — Bono, Penélope Cruz and David Oyelowo will lend their voices in an animated series to raise awareness about the importance of global vaccine access.
The ONE Campaign announced Wednesday the new series called “Pandemica,” which will launch Thursday. The series was created to bring attention to global vaccine access in an effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
The seven-episode series will feature characters voiced by Kumail Nanjiani, Danai Gurira, Michael Sheen, Phoebe Robinson and Wanda Sykes. The first episode will include Nanjiani, Robinson and Meg Donnelly.
According to Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, the play will be directed by Lyndsey Turner and is set to open in June. More below:
Celebrated Welsh stars Michael Sheen and Sian Phillips will lead the National Theatre out of lockdown with a jam-packed production of Dylan Thomas’s masterpiece Under Milk Wood.
Olivier award-winning director Lyndsey Turner, an associate of the NT, will stage Thomas’s play for voices in the Olivier Theatre.
The National’s hierarchy had considered reopening its South Bank complex with a new work, a move felt more appropriate for the occasion by some.
However, they were persuaded by Turner’s apparently ‘visionary’ ideas of staging Under Milk Wood, which took Thomas close to 20 torturous years to finally complete.
(The first full version of the radio play was broadcast from Manhattan cultural and community centre 92nd Street Y in 1954).
The plan is for the work to begin previews at the NT from June 16, with an official opening night on June 26.
Both Sheen and Phillips have form with Under Milk Wood. They took part in a BBC Wales commemorative version, to celebrate the centenary of the poet’s birth in 2014; and have been associated with several other productions. Sheen also directed a reading, on the 92Y stage where the play made its debut.
Set in the fictional Welsh fishing village of Llareggub (bugger-all, backwards), the scabrous piece charts a day in the life of the area’s colourful inhabitants who have been ‘lulled and dumbfounded’ by events; which seems fitting, given the current circumstances. (More cast are being assembled to play the residents of Llareggub.)
BBC One aired the 2021 edition of Comic Relief: Red Nose Day telethon tonight (March 19) and it featured several big British names. Michael Sheen appeared in two sketches: the first was a trailer for ‘2020: The Movie’, also starring Jodie Whittaker, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan:
The second one was ‘Staged 1592’, featuring Michael as Christopher Marlowe and David Tennant as William Shakespeare going through a plague. Sir Lenny Henry made a cameo appearance:
The charity event has raised more than £45 million. The clips are available on BBC iPlayer for 29 days. See some screencaptures of the segments on our gallery:
New episodes will be filmed in April, but premiere date is yet to be announced; Michael Sheen returns as team captain. Read more:
There’s Something About Movies is returning for a fourth series, with host Alan Carr, team captains Jennifer Saunders and Michael Sheen and regular guest Tom Allen all returning, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.
Recording on the Sky One panel show resumes next month, with celebrity guests on the film-based quiz due to be revealed soon.
Previous guests on the first eighteen episodes have included actors Matt Dillon, Sean Bean, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett and Warwick Davis.
First broadcast in 2019, the show is made by CPL Productions (A League Of Their Own, Rob And Romesh Vs).
More than 330,000 viewers watched the first episode of the third series in October, though this had declined to 195,000 by the sixth and final episode in December.
In the third installment of the Land of the Wild series, Michael will be narrating the mysteries of the Welsh wildlife. Read more below:
Ler maisFollowing the successful natural history series Wales: Land of the Wild and Land of the Wild: After Dark, a brand new documentary reveals the secrets of Welsh wildlife.
Narrated by Michael Sheen, Land of the Wild: Secrets is an extraordinary journey using innovative camera technology to uncover the hidden worlds of Welsh wildlife.
Speaking in the documentary, Michael Sheen said; “This is an epic journey, following wild waterways; from the highest mountains to the Celtic Deep. Cutting edge technology reveals hidden secrets and brings us a little closer to the land of the wild”.
In a post on his Twitter account, Michael Sheen revealed last night he has spent the last few weeks dealing with COVID-19, which as been “very difficult & quite scary”:
His partner Anna Lundberg went to Instagram to confirm that she and their daughter Lyra were infected too, but they are “all much better now than than we were.”
Wishing the Sheen-Lundberg clan a speedy recovery!
The Unbound campaign offers some nice rewards to the supporters of Completely Staged. The book unseen inages and Simon Evans’ notes. Read more below:
Ler maisA book featuring the scripts of Staged, the comedy series starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, is set to be published.
Simon Evans and Phin Glynn, the creators of the format, have compiled Completely Staged, described as “the complete illustrated scripts of the lockdown hit TV show.”
It is set to be released via Unbound, the book-based crowdfunding platform. When 100% of the funding has been achieved, copies will be printed for those who backed the project.