Philip Piacentino

Writer, director, actor, prompt, SCENE editor and set designer.

Pip as Mike Thompson in Gloucester Road (1980). Photograph by Brian Fretwell

'Pip'

SLTC/SLT Member 1979 - 1995

Acting Roles

• in The Freedom Fighter (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• David in Jenny (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Sparkish in Acting Class (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Victor Franz in The Price (1979) (Main Stage)
• Mercury in 'Sweet Planet' from Reflections in the Mirror (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Mike Thompson in Gloucester Road and Man in Mackintosh in Knightsbridge from Mortimer Evening (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Guiseppe in Man of Destiny (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Sparger in Kennedy's Children (1980) (Main Stage)
• Paul in The Typists (1981) (Main Stage)
• Silva Vicarro in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1981) (Main Stage)
• Alfieri in A View from the Bridge (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• Protean in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• Lampwick in Pinocchio (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Topolski/Tom (voices on telephone) in Post Mortem (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Bertold in Henry IV (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Harry in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Bob in The Interrogation (1984) (Prompt Corner)
• Giles Click in Joe Grimes (1984) (Prompt Corner)
• Ensemble in Another Celebration of Christmas (1984) (Prompt Corner)
• Reader for A Garland of Poppies (1985) (Memebers Club Bar)
• 2nd Collecting Gentleman/3rd Businessman in A Christmas Carol (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Investigator in Savages (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Weber/Cigar in Gypsy (1986) (Bell Theatre
• Jenkins in Dark of the Moon (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• Dr Prentice in What the Butler Saw (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• Man/Bob in God and Maniac in Death (1987) (Prompt Corner)
• Widdercombe in Stage Struck (1988) (Bell Theatre)
• Felix Turner in The Normal Heart (1988) (Prompt Corner)
• Professor/Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988) (Bell Theatre)
• in Summer (1989) (Prompt Corner)
• Werner Conklin in Come into the Garden Maud (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Stanley in Death of a Salesman (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Fender in The Bespoke Overcoat (1990) (Prompt Corner)
• Mr Baker/Expressman/Westcott/Plainclothes Man in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Vera in Costa Del Packet! (1992) (Prompt Corner) One-off Twenty-fifth Anniversary Charity Performance.
• Howie Newsome in Our Town (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Private Webster in Bury the Dead (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Company for Old Time Music Hall (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Charles in A Talk in the Park (1994) (Prompt Corner)
• Jimmy Perry in The Gingerbread Lady (1995) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Director

• Jenny (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Marble Arch and Knightsbridge from Mortimer Evening (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Carmilla (1982) (Prompt Corner) with Raymond Alexander
• Rashomon (1983) (Prompt Corner)
• Joe Grimes (1984) (Prompt Corner)
• Programme devisor for A Garland of Poppies (1985) (Members Club Bar) with Alan Rock
• The Accrington Pals (1985) (Prompt Corner
• The Lark (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Anatol (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Dark of the Moon (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• At the Changing of the Year (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Shakers (1990) (Bell Theatre) with Paul O'Connor
• There's One in Every Unit (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Happy Families (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Pantomime Tonight (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• Clara's on the Curtains and A Life in the Theatre (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• Creditors (1992) (Prompt Corner)
• Lear's Daughters (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Confusions (1994) (Prompt Corner) ('A Talk in the Park' & 'Between Mouthfulls')
• Same Time Next Year (1995) (Bell Theatre)
• The Gut Girls (1995) (Prompt Corner)
• Nasty Neighbours (1995) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Personal Assistant to the Director

• A Christmas Carol (1985) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Production Assistant

• Broadway! Broadway! (1991) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Designer

• The Writer's Strings (1980) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Stage Manager

• No Sex Please, We're Beginners (1980) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Assistant Stage Manager

• A Voyage Round My Father (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• The Homecoming (1982) (Prompt Corner)
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1988) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Set Designer

• Rashomon (1983) (Prompt Corner)
• The Normal Heart (1988) (Prompt Corner) with Victor Kelly

Set Construction on:

• A Christmas Carol (1985) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Set Painter

• Time to Kill (1990) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Prompt

• Once a Catholic (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• The Maintenance Man (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Stepping Out (1990) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Writer

• Jenny (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• 'Poppa Called in Reflections in the Mirror (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• The Writer's Strings (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Pinocchio (1983) (Bell Theatre) with Tina Massey from Carlo Collodi

Other SLT Roles

• General Secretary of General Council 1987 - 1988
• Theatre Director (i.e. member of Theatre Committee) 1987, 1989 - 1991, 1992 - 1994
• Membership Director 1988 - 1989, 1994 - 1995
• Public Relations Director 1991 - 1992

External Links

• This member's Web Site.