{"id":1323,"date":"2018-01-18T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1323"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T09:46:50","slug":"amstell-simon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1323","title":{"rendered":"Amstell, Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Amstell is a comedian, television presenter, screenwriter, director, and actor who was born in 1979 in Gants Hill, Redbridge, East London. He was brought up in a Jewish family. Together with Dan Swimer, Amstell wrote the BBC2 series <em>Grandma&#8217;s House<\/em>\u00a0which aired in 2010; a second series followed in 2012. The series deals with British-Jewish family life and Amstell plays the protagonist of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Amstell authored and directed the short film\u00a0<i>William<\/i>. In 2016, he wrote and directed\u00a0<i>Something More<\/i>\u00a0for Channel 4.\u00a0In 2017, his\u00a0<em>Carnage <\/em>premiered on BBC iPlayer. It is set in the future and deals with a UK that has become vegan. The same year, Amstell published his first book,\u00a0<i>Help,<\/i>\u00a0and<i>\u00a0<\/i>did his third stand-up UK tour, titled &#8216;What Is This?&#8217;. Amstell&#8217;s debut feature film <em>Benjamin<\/em> premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2018. Amstell&#8217;s Netflix stand-up special, titled &#8220;<em>Set Free<\/em>&#8220;, premiered August 2019.\u00a0 Since this, Amstell has announced a new feature film, <em>Maria,<\/em> which he has written and will direct.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonamstell.com\">https:\/\/www.simonamstell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Amstell is a comedian, television presenter, screenwriter, director, and actor who was born in 1979 in Gants Hill, Redbridge, East London. He was brought up in a Jewish family. Together with Dan Swimer, Amstell wrote the BBC2 series Grandma&#8217;s House\u00a0which aired in 2010; a second series followed in 2012. The series deals with British-Jewish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323\/revisions\/3135"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}