Bronya Deutsch

Bronya grew up in Florida, running round on the beach, climbing sand-pine trees and having barbecues at Christmas, while her father wrote scripts. Her acting career began as a teenager back in Britain. At The Thorndike Theatre studio she played Grusha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mina Harker in Dracula. Then she joined the National Youth Theatre, performing at The Lyric Studio, Hammersmith in Immaculate Conceit and touring in DorothyDotCom, both devised by the company from original books.

Bronya trained at Mountview, graduating in 2006. While training, she gave an impressive and touching performance as Isobel Bridie in An Experiment With An Air Pump, suppressing her natural ebullience to transform into a pathetic hump-backed Scottish maidservant. In After Mrs Rochester she played Ella, in a very physical production that gave her the opportunity to use her dance, gymnastic and movement skills.

For the Young Shakespeare Company on tour she doubled Hermia and Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Miranda and Trinculo in The Tempest. She covered the role of cheeky waitress Mimi on a No.1 tour of ’Allo ’Allo for Calibre Productions. In Tara Arts’ two-hander for young people, When The Lights Went Out, she played the naughty Sally and other roles, and at the Edinburgh Fringe she was Sylvia, the long-suffering girlfriend of the eponymous Dirk The Astronaut.

She has appeared in a number of short films, with roles including Anne in Selection for Wildwood Productions and Arlene, the friendly park ranger who transforms into a werewolf, in The Furred Man for Evil Hypnotist productions.

Bronya has been involved in the development of various scripts with Box of Tricks Theatre Company and at Hampstead Theatre for the Big Break Festival. Her first script for children, Up, Up Against the Sky, was performed at the Louder Than Words Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre in February 2009, and she is currently working on her first script for grown-ups.

Listen to Bronya's voice clips via her Spotlight page.