Details

Height	5' 7"
Hair	Brown
Length	Short
Eyes	Brown
Playing Age	30-40

 

 

 

About Andrew

For several years, he performed stand-up poetry and improvised comedy at venues including Chats Palace, the Red Lion and the Tristan Bates Theatre. He is working on two short films, Perception and Adventures in Graphology and has just completed his first novel,  The Smell of Burnt Toast.

Plays

Andrew's first play, You've Been a Wonderful Audience was performed at the Barons Court Theatre, and had Martin Wimbush and Peter Saracen playing the leads.

 

 

Andrew Syers has tried his hand at acting, improvisational comedy, film making, directing, illustration, painting, journalism, comedy writing and stand-up poetry. While at Glamorgan University, Andrew developed a pilot for a sci-fi comedy radio series with Richard Wilson (then script editor for BBC Light Entertainment, now producer for Have I Got News For You. Andrew's first play Sums was performed at the Lost Theatre One Act Play Festival

Credits

AWL

Writing Credits

Play	Director
Departure Lounge	Peter Sutton

 

Film

Perception

After husband and wife, Kevin and Lucy die in a Nuclear attack, they find themselves
working in a celestial call centre. This was made into a short film and was shown at
A Few Brave Men Film Society, Chiswick in 1997.

Atmosphere

A mock bio-picture about an astronaut who becomes a glam rock star. In 1991
it reached the top 60 short-list of 2000 entries in the Sci-Fi Shorts Scriptwriting
competition (organised by the First Film Foundation).

You’ll Pay in the Next Life!

A Loans corporation uses hi-tech technology to locate the reincarnations of their
deceased debtors. It reached the top 35 short-list of 500 entries in the
Jerwood First Film Shorts Prize Initiative in 2002.

Stage Plays

Sums

A "state of the nation" play about the erosion of morality and logic by financial
targets. In one scene, a pensioner holds a surgeon at gunpoint to get a hip
replacement operation.  The play was performed at the Lost Theatre, Fulham Broadway
as part of its One Act Festival in September 1996.

Kings Head 7.30 pm

Giles Cooper meets his friends at a pub. He has been redundant for the past six months
and his wife is heavily pregnant. She thinks he has been going to a computer software
course to improve his employment chances when in fact he has been learning to become
a magician.  A tragi comedy about people giving advice not to help others but to make them
feel better about themselves. A rehearsed reading of a scene from the play was given at
Rocliffe in April 2004.

Intercom

Julian and Emily Dixon are a tired married couple with high stress career jobs.
Out of the blue on a weekday night they receive a visit from George Corbett, Julian’s
oldest best friend that he hasn’t seen for three years. They catch up on old times. What
George neglects to mention is that a few hours ago he has robbed a bank and
shot a policeman.

Departure Lounge

Unfunny veteran comedian Hugh Nichols visits his comedy partner Tony Bromley
at a hospice. Tony is dying of liver cancer and is funny. Hugh wants to settle his
differences with Tony but young ambitious comedian Paul Hanwell gets in the way. 
A tragic-comic study in the varying degrees of abusiveness in friendships and the way
humour is sometimes used to raise one’s status and lower someone else’s.

Radio

As If in Love

The comic misadventures of a lovesick sixth form college student who might have
been Andrew Syers.  In 1989, it reached the top 50 short-list out of 500 entries in the
Woolwich Playwrights Script competition (organised by Capital Radio).

The Alien Sneezed and his Eyes Popped Out

When Rodin Topov tells people he is an alien they remark: "Think I was born yesterday?"
which is quite a coincidence because he was. In his left trouser pocket he carries an alien
plum that could power the whole of London for a week. Vested big business interests
prevent him from helping the world. He is brainwashed into thinking he is human and
totally worthless.  In 1991, Richard Wilson, then script editor for BBC Radio Light
Entertainment, now Producer of Have I Got News for You helped Andrew develop the
play into a sci-fi comedy radio series during his summer recess at the University.
He was only 21 at the time and it showed.

Shopping Mall

A Shopping Mall is declared an independent state thus incarcerating all its shoppers,
forcing them to spend their days shopping until their credit runs out.  For a month
in 1993, Andrew tried his hand at writing comedy sketches for the Radio 4 Show,
Weekending. The only contribution of his that got used were the words:
Michael Winner!

Contact

E: Andrew Syers

 

 

 

 

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