Profile: Vanessa Comer

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Director, Abigail’s Party (2015)
• Director, Private Lives (2013)
• Set design/Director, Time of My Life (2012)
• Director, Made in Spain (2011)
• Director/Set design, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (2010)
• Director, Daughters of Albion (2010)
• Director, Absent Friends (2009)
• Set design/Director, Hobson’s Choice (2009)
• Director, Sparkleshark (2009)
• Lady Wishfort, The Way of the World (2008)
• Director, Duet for One (2008)
• Director, Absurd Person Singular (2007)
• Director, Christmas Music Hall (2006)
• Director, Season’s Greetings (2005)
• Director, Peter Pan (2004)
• Director, Brief Encounter (2004)
• Mrs Bennet, Pride and Prejudice (2003)
• Set design/Co-director, Toad of Toad Hall (2002)
• Mrs Prentice, What the Butler Saw (2002)
• Director, When We Are Married (2002)
• Director, Murder on the Nile (2001)
• Anna Petrovna, Wild Honey (2001)
• Director, The Glass Menagerie (2000)
• Martha, Tongues of Fire (2000)
• Mrs Waters, Tom Jones (1999)
• Paulina, The Winter’s Tale (1998)
• Director, My Night with Reg (1998)
• Mrs Reece, The Farndale Murder Mystery (1998)
• Mabel Crosswaite, The Reluctant Debutante (1997)
• Director, Single Spies (1997)
• Donna Lucia D’Esmeralda, Mr Cinders (1997)
• Linda Savignac, Shadows of the Evening (1996)
• Director, The Importance of Being Earnest (1995)
• Company, Salad Days (1995)
• Director, Whose Life is it Anyway? (1995)
• Celia, It’s a Girl (1994)
• Director, Five Women Alone (1994)
• Adele, Shakers (1993)
• Belinda Bunker, Season’s Greetings (1992)
• Belinda Blair, Noises Off (1991)
• Water Rat, Toad of Toad Hall (1990)
• Pauline Mole, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (1990)
• Mavis, Stepping Out (1990)
• Fraulein Kost, Cabaret (1990)
• Assistant Director, Arsenic and Old Lace (1990)
• Maria, Twelfth Night (1989)
• Grusha, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1989)
• Diana, Absent Friends (1987)
• Cheryl, Lovers Dancing (1987)
• Polya, Breaking the Silence (1987)
• Sheila Wendice, Dial M for Murder (1986)
• Vi Gibbons, This Happy Breed (1986)
• Eileen Midway, Semi-Detached (1984)

Elsewhere

• Director, Relatively Speaking (2015, The Bear Pit)
• Director, Pygmalion (2015, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, When We Are Married (2014, The Bear Pit)
• Director, An Ideal Husband (2014, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, ’Allo ’Allo! (2013, The Bear Pit)
• Director, Season’s Greetings (2012, The Bear Pit)
• Mag Folan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2011, Rugby Theatre)
• Frances Parnell, Racing Demon (1996, Talisman Theatre)

Notes

Vanessa is a former Artistic Director of the Loft Theatre Company. By day she teaches the LAMDA syllabus and the RADA Shakespeare Certificate both privately and at Leamington’s Kingsley School.

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