Features Mickey 17 actor Jamila Wingett: 'There's a special vibe in Hackney' The local-born star on her East London roots, working with Bong Joon-Ho, and her dual role as an intimacy coordinator Author: Liam Brady
News ‘Hopefully the first of many’: Students impress at Hackney Shed’s first Monologue Slam Teachers want the theatre company’s acting contest to become an annual, borough-wide event Author: Hackney Citizen
News Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival stages 1,000 plays Actors will climb aboard a custom built ‘pageant wagon’ and set off on a tour of Hackney Author: Hackney Citizen
News Channel 4’s Top Boy lands second series East London gang drama starring Ashley Walters will return next year Author: Hackney Citizen
News Top Boy is the real deal I thought this TV series set in Hackney – where I grew up – might be another cliched urban drama. It rose far above that Author: Hackney Citizen
News Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough Author: Hackney Citizen
What's on Kats Whiskers children’s free open drama day 10.30am Saturday 5 March 2011, St Matthias School Author: Hackney Citizen
News Channel 4 commissions Hackney-based crime thriller Top Boy has been written by Ronan Bennett whose credits include the film Public Enemies and TV’s Fields of Gold Author: Hackney Citizen
