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Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Sam Jackson
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Sam Peter Jackson is a writer/director and actor best known for writing the play "Public Property", which ran at the Trafalgar Studios in London"s West End in 2009 starring Nigel Harman, Robert Daws and Steven Webb and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers" Choice Award as Best New Comedy.
Career
The play was published by Oberon Books. As an actor he has most notably appeared in Channel 4"s British Academy of Film and Television Arts-winning "Nuremberg - Goering"s Last Stand" and the British Broadcasting Corporation television film "Doctorate-Day". Jackson also co-wrote and presented the 2010 Channel 4 documentary "The Other Michael Jackson: Battle of the Boogie" about his father singer/songwriter Mick Jackson (singer), who wrote the song "Blame lieutenant On The Boogie".
To promote the film Sam appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast with his father.
Jackson has been described as "a writing talent to watch" by Variety (magazine). He is represented by Berlin Associates in London.
Achievements
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As a filmmaker he wrote and co-directed the short film "Charity", which won Best Comedy at the 2012 Crystal Palace International Film Festival. And in 2013 he wrote/directed the short film "The Bathroom", starring double Laurence Olivier Award winning actress Janie Dee and acclaimed young actor Reece Noi, with music by Grammy Award winning composer David Arnold. Jackson"s other plays include "Minor Irritations", which was the first play to receive the Pleasance Theatre"s Charlie Hartill Special Reserve and was nominated for the 2006 Oscar Wilde Award for Writing, and the short plays "Charity"and "Where I Used To Live", produced by The Factory Theatre Company in London, and "Icarus", produced by Mind The Gap Theatre in New New York
