Bourne Bette

artist profile

Bette Bourne

THEATRE includes:

2009 A LIFE IN THREE ACTS In conversation with Mark Ravenhill Mark Ravenhill Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, revived Soho Theatre, 2010  
2008 ROCK Henry Wilson Tim Fountain Oval House Theatre  
2007 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Dogberry Marianne Elliot Novello Theatre  
2007 RIPPER Queen Victoria Tamara Harvey Union Theatre  
2005 THEATRE OF BLOOD Michael Merridew Phelim McDermott National Theatre  
2005 READ MY HIPS Constantine P. Cavafy Bette Bourne The Drill Hall  
2004 H-O-T-B-O-I Reg Tim Fountain Soho Theatre  
2003 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE Gower Neil Bartlett Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith  
2002 THE VORTEX Pauncefort Quentin Michael Grandage Donmar Warehouse For this he won the Clarence Derwent Award  
1999 RESIDENT ALIEN Quentin Crisp Mike Bradwell Bush Theatre  
1996 SARASINE La Zambinella Neil Bartlett Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith  
1995 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Lady Bracknell Nicholas Wright English Touring Theatre For this he won the 1995 Manchester Evening News Award  
1969 RICHARD II Sir Henry Green Richard Cotterell Edinburgh Festival/West End  
1969 EDWARD II Edmund of Kent Toby Robertson Edinburgh Festival/West End  

In addition in 1977 he formed his own theatre company, Bloolips, in which he both starred and directed. He toured the UK and the rest of Europe throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, winning 3 Obie Awards (Off-Broadway Theater Award) for the New York productions of LUST IN SPACE, BELLE REPRIEVE and RESIDENT ALIEN.

TELEVISION includes:

2007 TWENTY THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE THIRTY Beryl Sue Howells (producer) Tiger Aspect  
1992 A LITTLE BIT OF LIPPY Venus Lamour Chris Bernard BBC TV  

FILM includes

2009 CHÉRI La Baronne Stephen Frears  
1991 CAUGHT LOOKING Narrator Konstantine Giannaris  
RADIO
2000 RESIDENT ALIEN Quentin Crisp Mike Bradwell BBC Radio 4  
1998 THE DISH China Paul Hallam BBC Radio  
1999 THE VERGER QUEEN Verger Neil Bartlett BBC Radio  
1999 AND ALL THAT JAZZ Vi Juliet Ace BBC Radio 4  
1998 THE BONA HISTORY OF JULIAN & SANDY Interviewee Taran Ali BBC Radio 4  
1997 RAPHAEL SANCHEZ RECOUNTS “ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST” Uncle Ace Ned Chaillet BBC Radio 4