Vicki Carpenter

Vicki Carpenter is a British actress and director best known for her appearances as both Lulu and Rirette in Michael Almaz's Intimacy, a play based on the short story by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Career

Vicki staged, directed and performed in Nick Warburton's two handed radio 4 play, Fridays When it Rains. She first put it on at the Iambic theatre, during the Brighton Festival. It was very well received and got a 5 star rating. It was also well received when she performed it recently at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead.

During her career Vicki has performed in seven different productions of Michael Almaz's Intimacy. The successful adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's short story earned the play the title of, 'Longest ever running fringe play' and 'Mousetrap of the fringe'. Vicki performed in Intimacy for almost a year in Covent Garden at the Cafe Theatre playing Rirette. She played in the opposite role of Lulu at the Pentameters theatre and the Iambic theatre in Brighton.

She devised and performed at Keats House in Hampstead a one-woman show based on the life of Fanny Brawne, John Keats's fiancée. She collaborated extensively with the author John Symonds, completing and extensively adapting one of his late dramatic works, The Poison Maker, which she produced and directed at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, appearing in the role of Florence.

Vicki Carpenter for many years ran summer schools in etiquette, dress and deportment at Lucie Clayton, a finishing school and business college in Chelsea. She is the founder and principal of London Voice Coaching, an elocution school based in Hampstead.