Acting Bachelor's graduate shows 2026: Pinter, Chekhov, and a cohort ready to perform

Catalyst's third-year Acting students are taking the stage in a collaborative effort in an entirely student-led production. Student begin by researching and pitching a show to the cohort, the classes votes on which productions move forward, and from there the ensembles take on all the production work themselves – set, costume, budget, and dividing up creative roles between them. Programme Lead Adam Donald Ferreira and acting tutor Stephanie LeBolt guide the process, but the work belongs to the students.

It's a new addition to a third year that already includes solo shows and working on productions alongside students from the Schools of Film & Visual Media and Music & Sound. The shows are open to the public, and if you've ever been curious about what three years of practice-based actor training produces, this is your chance to see it.

The first show is The New World Order — an evening of four short plays by Harold Pinter: Celebration, The Applicant, The New World Order, and Party Time. Sharp, unsettling and bracingly current, each piece cuts into themes of power, society, and human nature. Together they form a single gripping evening of theatre performed in our Theatre.

Directed by Programme Lead Adam Donald Ferreira, the cast features: Abibou Ndiaye, Dimitra Ntogka, Filip Wencel, Kareem Nassar, Karoline Steiner, KayGee Sedibe, Luka Kalandadze, Niana Jayasinghege, and Viktoria Serg.

The New World Order runs 29 and 30 April, and 2 May at 7pm. Reserve your ticket here.

The second show is The Seagull — a site-specific reimagining of Anton Chekhov's classic, translated by Curt Columbus and directed by Stephanie LeBolt. Set across our campus spaces, the production unfolds over four acts, with audiences moving through the building as the story breathes around them.

The cast features: Rosalie Blau, Konrad Damer, Naseef Ganadry, Anja Lukic, Alex Oliver, Emilia Puustinen, Harvey Thorn, and Martha Tordia — with Breki Þór Óttarsson introducing as Yakov. Graphic design by Tata Zhvania.

The Seagull runs 7, 8 and 9 May at 7pm. Meeting point is outside the film tech office. Reserve your ticket here.

Both shows are free to attend and open to everyone. If you can, come to both — they're very different evenings, but together they show the full range of what this cohort has built over three years of training.