East 15's International Star of Tomorrow
Arsher Ali, who graduated from East 15 Acting School in 2006, has been nominated by the film industry magazine, Screen International, as a Star of Tomorrow.
Those nominated, which includes an array of British actors and directors, were described as 'the brightest new hopes of the British film industry.'
Arsher won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Student Award in his second year at East 15 and landed a string of small parts in TV dramas after his graduation. He recently appeared in Peter Kosminsky's Channel 4 programme about Asian identity in the UK, Britz, and has starred in Ayub Khan-Din's stage play, Rafta Rafta, directed by Nicholas Hytner, at London's National Theatre.
East 15, one of the UK's most innovative acting schools, has been providing professional training for those wishing to work in theatre, film, TV, radio and other related fields for more than 40 years. It has a campus in Loughton, just 12 miles outside of London and, in September 2000, became part of the University of Essex. Since then a strategy has been developed to expand East 15's provision to the University's new campus in Southend-on-Sea.
Alumni of East 15 include actresses Alison Steadman and Annette Badland, Coronation Street star Jenny Platt, playwright April de Angelis, former artistic director of The Bush Theatre, Mike Bradwell, and director Stephen Daldry, who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his feature films The Hours and Billy Elliott.
