Fiona Lindsay has interviewed many of the best actors in the business and is considered one of the UKs leading live, chat show hosts. She is extremely comfortable fronting large and small occasions, live or broadcast and has had a number of her interviews filmed by Sky Arts for prime time scheduling. In addition she has written and presented several programmes for BBC Radio 4 including the acclaimed Character Assassins and Dexter and Dodd, both were Critics Choice across newspapers and Pick of the Week. She is a very talented performer, interviewer and writer who demonstrates a rare mix of warm charm and gentle provocation. Her dynamic creative energy is infectious and this allows her access into the very private worlds of entertainers, as they trust her instinct and knowledge.
After training as an actor she worked at the world famous Royal Shakespeare Company for many years where she began hosting conversations with actors. Former RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd describes her as a creative chameleon, an artistic hybrid who brings huge wit and flair to all the entertainment she creates for audiences.
Fiona’s passion and specialism in theatre, performance and entertainment has enabled her to develop work across a variety of platforms including, Radio, Film, Theatre and Live Events. She is regularly invited to create and present programme strands at all of the major Literary Festivals, where guests and audiences feel comfortable in her company and are happy to share in intimate conversation. Peter Florence, Director of the Hay Festival says –The best interviewers are almost invisible and relax into easy conversation with their guests. Fiona makes an audience feel as though they are hanging out as A – lister equals – a rare gift.
Fiona also created, produced and presented the successful series of live interviews called Face to Face, an hour of candour, conversation and comedy at The Arts Theatre in London’s West End. The series invited guests to chat about what they do, how they do it and why and featured; Michael Parkinson, Alison Steadman, Raymond Blanc, Juliet Stevenson, David Baddiel and Stephen Mangan.
Most recently she has been doing the guest interviews for the prestigious London Evening Standard Theatre Awards and has filmed conversations with Alan Bennett, Richard Eyre, Adrian Lester, Trevor Nunn, Michael Grandage and Howard Brenton. As well as delivering a ten day series of conversations for the Cheltenham Literature Festival where she entertained over 17,000 people chatting to Rupert Everett, Christopher Eccleston, John Simm, Patricia Hodge, Stephen Mangan, Sandi Toksvig, Paul O’Grady, Robert Hardy, Vince Cable and Ben Fogle about their lives. She recently interviewed Alison Steadman and Ken Dodd at the Althorpe Literary Festival.
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