My name is Lilit and I’m a multilingual actor. Playbox is and was and always will be where all began! It was where the passion and learning began, that continues today. I think of it, and of the people who make it the wonder that it is, with inexpressible love and gratitude.
Post Playbox… I worked a lot with the National Youth Theatre, then (having learned of it through Playbox) went to Paris to do a life-changingly wonderful workshop in French at the Ecole de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq. Following much auditioning/rejection-ing, during which time I explored my passion for languages and trapeze, and translated a play into Spanish, I moved to London and begun to work…
I played the pioneering mathematician Ada Byron Lovelace in ITV’s The Frankenstein Chronicles, with Sean Bean. I was then the lead in a lovely short film for Channel 4, and then went straight from Slough to Budapest — a tiny, but lovely, part in an American series for Paramount called The Alienist.
After that came a wonderful bit of theatre: an absurdist/satirical/political comedy by Marcelo dos Santos at the Shoreditch Town Hall in east London. Then straight off the stage to rise at 5am to go and eat meringues and be nasty while wearing a feathery turban, as you do, in ITV’s Vanity Fair.
I’m also currently in the year 1968, playing a secretary with secrets…wearing itchy wool suits and jumping on men in graveyards. I wouldn’t change a thing.
As I start to get work, (after lots and lots and LOTS of rejections, as is the way!) I very often think of Playbox, and that magical and inspiring creativity that I was lucky enough to have access to then. It continues to support me now as I learn more and more. I learnt to always see yourself as a collaborator, nothing more and certainly nothing less, to speak up and fight your corner, to be honest and brave and always kind. And if you work in Budapest, never let having to wear a corset stop you eating a LOT of delicious Hungarian pancakes.