The Joan Crawford Collective

The Joan Crawford Collective was founded in 2004 at BAFTA- they had lied about who they were in order to enjoy the subsidised bar. Their aim is to provide a sketch-come-cabaret show using darkly observed characters. During the course of an evening you can expect to laugh out loud one minute and be vaguely disturbed the next. There are also songs and poetry thrown in for your Gran... maybe.

Embrace the darkness...

The Collective

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Teri Levett	Teri is the founding member of The Joan Crawford Collective. She originally trained as an actress and was hugely successful playing Sister Lee in Judge John Deed (1 scene) and WPC in Crimewatch Solved (she arrested a paedophile) as well as "Placid Wife" and "Angry Girlfriend" in various adverts. She was also in the ground-breaking 2001 production of Lady Windermere's Fan starring Liza Goddard, Fenella Fielding and Christopher Biggins. Despite these acting riches, she felt the public needed to witness even more of her talents. As well as writing and performing for The Joan Crawford Collective she is also a member of Ken Campbell's Warp Company and is known on the stand-up circuit as Janice Windebank, Performance Poet.
Sarah Mayhew	Sarah started off life as a baby and progressed to the terrible twos without hitch, she made her stage debut at the age of 3 in a beautifully crafted piece entitled 'Thank Heavens for Little Girls' within the next few years she played the usual characters .....Mary Poppins, a cat, 3rd girl from the left in the back row, etc. Amazingly she became a professional dancer and travelled the world, but soon grew tired of this lifestyle and gave it all up to tread the boards rather than leap around on them. Again she played the usual characters......3rd girl from the left behind the market stall, policeman no:2......plus many more memorable moments. Then she found comedy and has entertained people ever since in some wonderful character based pieces as well as part of Scared Scriptless the improvisational comedy team. Sarah mostly enjoys swearing and is partial to the odd pickled onion sandwich or maybe a crabstick.
John Henry Keating	As the eldest member of the team, John suffers many cruel jibes about baldness and incontinence. He has worked in theatre, television and film, yet is still skint. Dead apparently, no other member of the team has the heart to tell him.
Simon Blackman	Simon Blackman is the brains/sick, twisted idiot behind hilarious sketch series such as Wit Tank and Unexploded Knickers. He has written and performed in well-received black comedies such as: A Day in the Life of John Lemon and Your Indoor World. Simon took the lead role in two runs of Joe Orton's: The Erpingham Camp which were both sell-out successes. He performs improvised comedy with Scared Scriptless and Quirkish Delight. Simon is currently working on the correct pronunciation of 'hyperbole'. .
Martin Carroll	We'd love to tell you more about the fourth member of the team, but at the moment, we don't anything about this mystery man. Hopefully someone will be along soon to look at this page and provide the webmaster with a name, a biog, or a large cheque. Until then, there will be a short delay...