As she likes it – Hampstead girl Heather Johnson takes on the Globe
Published: 15 April 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
A FORMER pupil of Hampstead School has kicked off her acting career on the prestigious stage of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Heather Johnson, 24, of Mill Lane, performed a scene from Shakespeare’s As You Like It in front of an audience of casting agents, artistic directors and students from 22 of the UK’s leading drama schools on March 22.
Ms Johnson, who acted as part of the fifth annual Sam Wanamaker Festival, said she was first introduced to acting as a primary school pupil at Beckford.
“A local theatre company called Chicken Shed came in to do a workshop and I really enjoyed it,” she said. “After that my mum encouraged me to do some classes at the Central School of Speech of Drama in Swiss Cottage and then I went on to take GCSE
drama and A Level theatre studies at Hampstead School.”
Ms Johnson is currently in her final year at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and is planning to return to West Hampstead when she completes her course.
She partly attributes her love for the stage to teachers at Hampstead School who were “passionate” about new writing and developed links with the Tricycle and Hampstead theatres.