{"id":1252,"date":"2018-01-08T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1252"},"modified":"2024-05-02T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:13:18","slug":"zegerman-alexis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1252","title":{"rendered":"Zegerman, Alexis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Alexis Zegerman is an actress and dramatist who was born in London in 1977. She grew up in a Jewish family and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. As an actress Zegerman is best known\u00a0for her role as Zoe in Mike Leigh’s<\/a> Oscar-nominated comedy-drama film Happy-Go-Lucky<\/em> (2008), for which she won a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and a London Film Critics Award. She also played the part of Daliah Sofer in Leigh’s\u00a0Storm<\/i> (2009) and in his stage play Two Thousand Years<\/em>\u00a0 (2005) at the National Theatre.<\/p>\n

Zegerman’s writing career began under the auspices of the Royal Court Young Writers\u2019 Programme. She has written plays for BBC Radio 4 and the play D\u00e9ja Vu<\/em>, co-produced by the BBC and ARTE, which was simultaneously broadcast in both countries in February 2009. Zegerman became Pearson Writer-in-Residence at Hampstead Theatre in 2007, where her play Lucky Seven<\/i> premiered in November 2008. Killing Brando<\/i> opened at the Young Vic as part of Paines Plough\u2019s Wild Lunch in 2004. Short plays include I Ran the World<\/i> for the Royal Court and Noise<\/i> at Soho Theatre (Westminster Prize for New Playwriting 2003). She was a finalist for the 2011-2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play The Steingolds<\/em>\u00a0(National Theatre Studio, 2011). Her play Holy Sh!t<\/em> opened the Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle Theatre) in 2018. It focuses on two middle-class couples, the secular Jews, Simone and Sam, and their Anglican best friends, Nick and Juliet. Having recently left the Labour Party over its antisemitism debates, Zegerman stated: \u201cI am British and I am Jewish. And I don\u2019t think they are mutually exclusive things and I hope that remains the same. Always.” (Jewish Chronicle). Zegerman’s newest play, The Fever Syndrome<\/em>, was shown by the Hampstead Theatre in 2022 and was directed by Roxana Silbert.<\/p>\n

Plays<\/p>\n

—. Lucky Seven<\/i>. London: Nick Hern Books, 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. Holy Sh!t<\/i>. London: Nick Hern Books, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexis Zegerman is an actress and dramatist who was born in London in 1977. She grew up in a Jewish family and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. As an actress Zegerman is best known\u00a0for her role as Zoe in Mike Leigh’s Oscar-nominated comedy-drama film Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), for which she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":567,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1252\/revisions\/3143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}