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About ESMÉE
Esmée recently multi-roled as Banquo/Malcolm/Lady Macduff in Get Out Of My Space's outdoor production of Macbeth, directed by Tobias Cornwell. She also appeared in Full Disclosure's XPOSED scratch night at Southwark Playhouse, showcasing new writing by Kate Reid.
Esmée graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with recent theatre credits including: The Snow Queen (Redgrave Theatre) and The Laramie Project dir. by Nancy Medina (Bristol Old Vic). Film credits include: To Provide All People dir. by George Mann and Rockumentary dir. by Owen Franklin (Pendennis Productions Beacon). Prior to training, Esmée studied and lived in Edinburgh and her Fringe credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (G&T Productions), EIGHT (Bedlam Fringe), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Bare Productions).
Esmée appeared in the short film Gracie Jones as the titular character for BOVTV.
Esmée was the 2020 winner of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Newton Blick award for Most Versatile Actor, as well as the Rita Mason Award for contribution to Youth Theatre. In 2019 she was Runner Up for the Andy Fraser Stage Combat Award.
Esmée is a strong mezzo-soprano, trained in Musical Theatre (Dip LCM) and Jazz Singing. Esmée is also particularly facile with accents; General American, Edinburgh, Belfast, South Wales, Yorkshire, London and French.
Esmée is currently on tour with the Young Shakespeare Company - performing as Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Esmée graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with recent theatre credits including: The Snow Queen (Redgrave Theatre) and The Laramie Project dir. by Nancy Medina (Bristol Old Vic). Film credits include: To Provide All People dir. by George Mann and Rockumentary dir. by Owen Franklin (Pendennis Productions Beacon). Prior to training, Esmée studied and lived in Edinburgh and her Fringe credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (G&T Productions), EIGHT (Bedlam Fringe), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Bare Productions).
Esmée appeared in the short film Gracie Jones as the titular character for BOVTV.
Esmée was the 2020 winner of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Newton Blick award for Most Versatile Actor, as well as the Rita Mason Award for contribution to Youth Theatre. In 2019 she was Runner Up for the Andy Fraser Stage Combat Award.
Esmée is a strong mezzo-soprano, trained in Musical Theatre (Dip LCM) and Jazz Singing. Esmée is also particularly facile with accents; General American, Edinburgh, Belfast, South Wales, Yorkshire, London and French.
Esmée is currently on tour with the Young Shakespeare Company - performing as Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream.
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Reviews
COMPANY
★★★★★ "Yet while I could really pick any number of songs as stand-out highlights of this performance, it’s Esmee Cook’s The Ladies who Lunch that launches this show into the stratosphere. With depth, sensitivity and a killer belt, demonstrating maturity well beyond her years, Cook delivers a goosebump-inducing class act that deserves to be witnessed far and wide. Rarely do you see this level of talent from an amateur group on a Fringe stage." - Edinburgh 49
THE PILLOWMAN
★★★★ "Esmee Cook expertly runs the emotional gamut as wonderfully sadistic second-in-command Ariel” - Edinburgh 49
EIGHT
★★★★ "Esmee Cook’s apparently bumptious but frighteningly brittle call girl, wedded to outdated notions of social class, is perhaps the most successful, achieving layers of humour and sadness in a very short time." - All Edinburgh Theatre,
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
★★★★ "Esmee Cook had a wonderful regal air as Hippolyta and Titania, yet with an alluring edge that made the seduction of Bottom (Joe Mcardle) incredibly believable” Broadway Baby
★★★★★ "Yet while I could really pick any number of songs as stand-out highlights of this performance, it’s Esmee Cook’s The Ladies who Lunch that launches this show into the stratosphere. With depth, sensitivity and a killer belt, demonstrating maturity well beyond her years, Cook delivers a goosebump-inducing class act that deserves to be witnessed far and wide. Rarely do you see this level of talent from an amateur group on a Fringe stage." - Edinburgh 49
THE PILLOWMAN
★★★★ "Esmee Cook expertly runs the emotional gamut as wonderfully sadistic second-in-command Ariel” - Edinburgh 49
EIGHT
★★★★ "Esmee Cook’s apparently bumptious but frighteningly brittle call girl, wedded to outdated notions of social class, is perhaps the most successful, achieving layers of humour and sadness in a very short time." - All Edinburgh Theatre,
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
★★★★ "Esmee Cook had a wonderful regal air as Hippolyta and Titania, yet with an alluring edge that made the seduction of Bottom (Joe Mcardle) incredibly believable” Broadway Baby
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