Hayley Carmichael

Hayley Carmichael is an English actress and theatre-director. She is co-founder of Told By An Idiot and has both devised and performed in almost all their productions. She won the TMA and Time Out awards in 1999 for Best Actress for her performances in I Weep At My Piano, Mr Puntilla and The Dispute.

Theatre work

"Here Be Lions" (French text by Stéphane Olry/La Revue Eclair Paris, English translation by Neil Bartlett). Theatre of Europe - The Print Room at the Coronet - London 2015

For Told by an Idiot

• I'm A Fool To Want You
• Playing The Victim
• The Firework-Makers Daughter
• A Little Fantasy
• Aladdin
• Shoot Me In The Heart
• Happy Birthday Mister Deka D
• I Weep At My Piano
• Casanova (2007)

Other work

• The Dispute (RSC)
• Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti (The Right Size/Almeida co-production)
• The Maids (2007, Brighton Festival)
• Cymbeline (2006, RSC/ Kneehigh Theatre)
• Theatre of Blood (Royal National Theatre)
• Bliss (2008, Royal Court Theatre)
• The Birds (Royal National Theatre)
• The Street of Crocodiles (Complicite)
• The New Tenant (Young Vic)
• King Lear (Young Vic)
• Mother Courage and Her Children (Shared Experience)
• A Servant to Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible)
• Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble)
• David Copperfield (Dundee Rep)
• Metamorphosis (Dundee Rep)
• Loser

Film work

• National Achievement Day (1995)
• Simon Magus (1999)
• Anazapta (2001)
• One Day (2007)
• Tale of Tales (2015)

Television work

• Viva Blackpool (2006)
• Tunnel of Love
• Little Robots
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• The Bill
• The Many Cinderellas
• Life's A Bitch (aka Life's a Bitch and So Am I)
• Our Zoo (2014)
• The Witness for the Prosecution (Alice Mayhew, 2016)