CAST HELENA
Imogen Daines
DEMETRIUS
Assad Zaman
FLUTE
Deven Modha
PUCK
Esh Alladi
PETER QUINCE
Harmage Singh Kalirai
BOTTOM
Kulvinder Ghir
SNUG
Minal Patel
STARVELING
Muzz Khan
EGEUS
Sam Dastor
OBERON/THESEUS
Matt Rawle
TITANIA/HIPPOLYTA
Fiona Hampton
FIRST FAIRY/PHYLLIS
Michelle Bishop
SNOUT
Saikat Ahamed
LYSANDER
Harry Lister Smith
HERMIA
Neerja Naik
INDIAN PRINCE
Ashraf Al-Islam Kiyan Tarique Roberts-Ahmed
SERVANTS
John Adam Baker
MUSICIANS FAIRY CHORUS TEAM A: Katie Evans, Sidney Reeve, William Pettit, Dominic Grist, Isabel Knights, Caoimhe Keaney, Isabel Carter, Liam Charleston, Cameron Charleston, Lucy Adams FAIRY CHORUS TEAM B: Olivia Morley, Elsa Pratt, Elliot Blair-Slater, Leo Thomas, Rosamund Moore-Smith, Libby Jackson, Esther Emiabata-Jalota, Will Jolly, Thomas Marshall, Leah Head This production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Trevor Nunn first premiered at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich on Thursday 16th June 2016 THANK YOU TO: The National Youth Theatre, Richard Darbourne Ltd
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CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Sir Trevor Nunn
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Michael Oakley
DESIGNER
Libby Watson
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Mark Jonathan
COMPOSER
Sarvar Sabri
CHOREOGRAPHER
Sonia Sabri
SOUND DESIGNER
Drew Baumohl
VOICE COACH
Morwenna Rowe
CASTING DIRECTOR
Ginny Schiller
PRODUCTION HEAD OF PRODUCTION
David Phillips
COSTUME SUPERVISOR
Mandy Brown
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Mandy Brown
WIG MAINTENANCE
Stuart Cheadle
SCENIC CONSTRUCTION AND PAINTING
Belgrade Production Services
BOTTOM MAKER BY
Scott Brooker
STAGE MANAGEMENT COMPANY MANAGER
Tracey Cooper
STAGE MANAGER
Vanessa Sutherland
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER
Robyn Hardisty
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Lauren Halsall
STAGE MANAGEMENT APPRENTICE
Hannah Boyle
PRODUCTION TEAM WARDROBE MAINTENANCE DRESSERS
Danuta Tarbard Carolyn Nichols Liz Gill-Beckett
PRODUCTION SOUND
Peter Hazelwood
PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN
David Gardener
LIGHTING PROGRAMMER
Tom Mulliner
PRODUCTION CARPENTER
Matt Ramsey
TECHNICAL APPRENTICE
Alex Noble
LIGHTING HIRES
Curve Theatre, Guildhall School
REHEARSAL ROOM
Jerwood Space
CHILDREN’S ACTING COACH
Joe Leat
CHAPERONES
Sarah Adams Alison Phelps-Allen George Rennison
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY Mike Kwasniak
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SAIKAT AHAMED SNOUT
ESH ALLADI PUCK
Saikat is a Bristol based writer and performer.
Theatre credits: The House of In Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Wit (Royal Exchange), The Beaux Stratagem, Dara, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, War Horse Prom, From Morning to Midnight, Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre),The Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep)
Theatre credits: Strictly Balti (National Tour and Alchemy Festival, Royal Festival Hall), The Tiger and the Moustache (National Tour), The Last Voyage of Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians (all Tobacco Factory Theatres), Treasure Island, Peter Pan (Bristol Old Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic and International tour), A Fine Balance (Hampstead Theatre / Tamasha Arts), East is East (Oldham Coliseum), Shepherd’s Pie Anyone? (Theatre Royal, Stratford), Gym Buddies (Soho Theatre), James and the Giant Peach (Polka Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Settle Festival Theatre), Journey to the West (Tara Arts), Cornershop (Man-Méla), The Immigrant Song (Mainbrace), Three Sisters, The Matchmaker (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Television credits: Houdini and Doyle (ITV/Fox), Frankie (BBC)
Television credits: Galavant, The Choir, Parents, Trollied (semi-regular), Home Time, Monday Monday (regular), Being Human, Afterlife, 7/7 Attack on London. Film credits: Frail, This Must be the Place, East is East, Halal Harry, It was an Accident. Radio credits: (Norman Beaton Fellowship recipient 2006) Silver Street (regular), Little Master Misery, Mahabharata, Two Men in the Fog, Walking the Line, Small Island, Dracula, A Land to Die For, Bhagdad Burning, The Ramayana, For the Time Being. Writing includes: Telling Tales (BBC Asian Network), The Tiger and the Moustache (One-man show), Strictly Balti (One-man show originally commissioned by Travelling Light Theatre Company), Undream’d Shores (Grand Union Orchestra). For more information about Saikat, visit: www.saikatahamed.com Twitter: @AhamedSaikat
MICHELLE BISHOP FIRST FAIRY & PHYLLIS Training: Laine Theatre Arts. Theatre credits: The Great American Trailer Park (Waterloo East Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum), Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre), White Christmas (Dominion Theatre & UK tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Kiss Me, Kate (Old Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre), Monkee Business (UK tour), Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud Theatre and Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Company (Southwark Playhouse), Jersey Boys (Prince Edward), Guys and Dolls (Kilworth House), Footloose (UK tour), The Wedding Singer (UK tour), Fame (Shaftesbury Theatre), Saturday Night Fever (Asia Tour), Grease (UK tour), Jus’ Like That (UK tour) Snow White (Victoria Palace), Seasonal Sauce (The Watermill), Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai). Film credits: Mrs Henderson Presents directed by Stephen Frears. Television credits: Galavant (ABC Network) and The Royal Variety Performance. For more information about Michelle, visit: www.access-uk.com
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IMOGEN DAINES HELENA
SAM DASTOR EGEUS
Imogen started her acting career as a member of the National Youth Theatre, and performing at the National Theatre in Melly Still’s production of Coram Boy. She went on to study drama at RADA and during her three year training performed in various productions, including playing Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Masha in Three Sisters and Gloria in You Never Can Tell. Not only is Imogen classically trained in theatre but she is also classically trained in music, having Grade 8 Singing and Violin and being proficient in piano, flute and guitar.
Over forty years Sam Dastor’s career has spanned theatre, film, television and radio.
Having graduated from RADA in 2012 Imogen has worked across theatre, film and television. Last year she starred in The Great Gatsby and Hutch at the Riverside Studios, both directed by Linne Reedman. More recently at the beginning of this year she played a US state officer in political Cold War thriller Despite the Falling Snow directed by Shamim Sharif and starring Charles Dance and Rebecca Fergusson. She also shot the British TV drama Chasing Shadows, a four part drama for ITV, described as a suspense filled crime thriller she features alongside Alex Kingston and Noel Clarke which aired at the end of 2014. She appeared in Merlin at the Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton and was in Playing for Time at Sheffield Crucible playing alongside Sian Phillips in a production directed by Richard Beecham last year, and Trevor Nunn’s War of the Roses trilogy at the Rose Theatre Kingston.
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously
He studied English at Cambridge University before winning a scholarship to RADA. Soon after finishing his training he joined the National Theatre, then under the direction of Sir Laurence Olivier. He made his London West End debut in The Tempest playing Ariel to Paul Scofield’s Prospero in what became the longest run of any Shakespeare play in London’s West End in the 20th century. His other London appearances include the world premiere of three of Simon Gray’s plays Melon with Sir Alan Bates, Hidden Laughter with Felicity Kendall and Cell Mates with Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has appeared in Timon of Athens and Tales from Ovid and on a world tour of The Servant to Two Masters which included a month at Kennedy Centre in Washington DC. Sam’s most recent stage credit was Yes, Prime Minister at Chichester Festival Theatre, UK tour and the West End. On television he has been seen in I, Claudius, Julius Caesar, Comedy of Errors, The Borgias, Space 1999, Blake’s 7, Yes Minister, Mountbatten, The Last Viceroy and Fortunes of War with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. In 2002 he played St Paul in a documentary drama about the Saint’s life for the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Most recently Sam has appeared in the BBC series Spooks and Yes Prime Minister for UK Gold. His films include Such a Long Journey, Jinnah and most recently The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. On radio he has made innumerable broadcasts for Radio 3, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service including playing with Sir John Gielgud in Forty Years On and Ariel to his Prospero. Sam has recorded many audiobooks, some of which have won Audiofile Awards in the USA. His one man show of Shakespeare’s Sonnets has been seen at several universities in the USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, the Czeck Republic, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland and Spain as well as Westminster Abbey and the Rose Theatre in London and Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust in Stratfordupon-Avon.
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KULVINDER GHIR BOTTOM
FIONA HAMPTON TATANIA & HIPPOLYTA
Theatre credits: Dick Whittington And His Cat (Lyric Hammersmith), Aladdin (Bradford Alhambra Theatre), Blood (Royal Court Theatre, Manchester), Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith), Drink The Mercury (Octogon Theatre, Bolton), Excess (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Hot Summer ( Royal National Theatre), I Miss My War (Almeida Theatre), Midnights Children (RSC), Prometheus In Evin (Young Vic), Romeo And Juliet (The Albany), Small Miracles (Colchester Mercury Theatre / Tricycle Theatre), South Pacific (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Strange Attractors (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Thatcher’s Children (Bristol Old Vic), The Caucasion Chalk Circle (Royal National Theatre/ Theatre D’complicite), The Gulf Between Us (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Marriage Of Figaro (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Waiting Room (Royal National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre), and The Winter’s Tale (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Theatre credits: for the Octogon Theatre, Bolton Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, Tull, Of Mice And Men, and Lighthearted Intercourse. Other Theatre credits: Playhouse Creatures (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Changeling (The Production Works/ Southwark Playhouse), Roar and Clockheart Boy (Rose Theatre, Kingston), and The Merchant Of Venice (Derby LIVE). Television credits: Switch (ITV), Holby City (BBC) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (DW Productions). Film credits: Kingsman: Secret Service (Marv Films), The Windmill (Pellicola) and Legacy (Unstoppable Entertainment).
Television credits: for the BBC, Goodness Gracious Me, Still Open All Hours, Psychoville, Holby City, Out Of The Blue, The Real Mccoy, Food For Ravens, Casualty, and Howards Way. Other Television Includes The Bill (Anglia Tv), My Life As A Popat (Itv), and At Home With The Braithwaites (Yorkshire Television). Film credits: Arjun & Alison (Sid Said Sid Productions), Gone Too Far (Destiny Ekaragha), The Arbor (Art Angel), Nina’s Heavenly Delights (Kali Films /Priority Pictures), and Rita, Sue And Bob Too (Alan Clark). Radio credits: for the BBC, A Tiger For Malgudi, Dr Zhivago, Goodness Gracious Me, It Won’t Change My Life, Samsara, Take Away, The Raj Quartet, Three Large Beers and Whose Sari Now.
MUZZ KHAN SNUG Muzz Khan trained at Webber Douglas and École Philippe Gaulier. Theatre credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Wolsey Theatre), Romeo + Juliet (Secret Theatre), Behind The beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC and West End), Snookered (Bush Theatre), Mixed Up North (Out of Joint), TEN (Royal Court), Antony & Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse), One Nineteen (Arcola Theatre). Television credits: Galavant, Catastrophe, The Last Hours of Laura K, Black Mirror, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, 24, Bradford Riots, No Angels. Film credits: Me Before You, The Hatching, Happy Toys, Four Lions, East Is East Radio credits: Daf’s Cabs, Arabian Nights, An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Street and Lane, Siege, An Imam and a Rabbi, Mercy, It Takes Two To Lie (all for BBC Radio 4), Silver Street (BBC Asian Network).
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Muzz is also a highly-acclaimed professional DJ.
HARRY LISTER SMITH LYSANDER
NEERJA NAIK HERMIA
Theatre credits: Mouthful (Metta Theatre), Macbeth (Manchester International/Festival /Park Avenue Armory (Off Broadway)), Everyday Maps for Everyday Use (Finborough Theatre), Posh (Duke of York’s Theatre) and Hamlet (Sheffield Crucible).
Neerja graduated from Cambridge before training at the Drama Centre London.
Television credits: War and Peace (Weinstein Co. /BBC), New Tricks (Wall to Wall Television), The Crimson Field (BBC), Tom Brown’s Schooldays (ITV/Company Pictures), and My Dad’s the Prime Minister (BBC). Film credits: Gods Own Country (Dales Productions Limited), Mum’s List (Studio Soho Films), Pan (Warner Brothers), Dragonheart (1440 UK Productions), Viking Quest (Odyssey Media), Najim the Grocer (Hikmat Studio) and Madame Solario (Les Films).
Film credits: Sold (with Gillian Anderson & David Arquette, directed by Oscar & Emmy award winning Jeffrey Brown, executive producer Emma Thompson, Jaya International), Hackney’s Finest (directed by Chris Bouchard, Rickety Shack Films & Framestore), Await Further Instructions (with David Bradley & Abigail Cruttenden, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, Shudder Films), Life Goes On (with Om Puri, Sharmila Tagore & Girish Karnad, directed by Sangeeta Datta, SD Films), Olivia Twist (directed by Arno Hazebroek, Falcon Features), Professional Woman of the Year (directed by Don Boyd), Mastermind (directed by Dictynna Hood), The Great European Disaster Movie (directed by Annalisa Piras, Springshot & BBC), Planet X (directed by Rohit Gill), The Hallying (directed by Rohit Gill), Untouchable (directed by Rohit Gill), Maryam (directed by Sara Gama), Lingerie (directed by Jacopo Gandolfini), Meetha Zehar (directed by Rohit Gill). Television credits: Casualty (directed by Oscar nominated Ian Barnes, BBC). Theatre credits: How to Hold Your Breath (directed by Kamaal Hussain, Reduced Circumstances Showcase, Leicester Square Theatre), Right of Way (directed by Tunji Falana, Showcase,The Lost Theatre), Ivanov (directed by Scott Williams, Impulse Company Showcase, Actors Centre), Macbeth (directed by Scott Williams, Impulse Company Showcase, Actors Centre).
DEVEN MODHA FLUTE Training: Birmingham School of Acting (2011) Roles whilst training include: Mephistopheles (Dr. Faustus); Mowgli (The Jungle Book). Theatre credits: Macbeth (UK tour); Kanjoos – The Miser (UK tour); Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood (all for Tara Arts); Enig-Mas (RichMix); Robi’s Garden (Culturepot Global); XY (Theatre503); Mercury Fur (Trafalgar Studios); My Tram Experience (Tamasha Developing Artists) Television credits: Citizen Khan (BBC Comedy North) Film: Shoot Me (Palladio Film); Against the Norm (Dynamiq Films) Radio credits: Tommies; The Returnees (both for BBC Radio 4); Subterranean Sepoys (Unique Productions/Tara Arts).
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MINAL PATEL SNUG
MATT RAWLE OBERON
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits: Miss Saigon (Drury Lane), Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre), Treasure Island (Lyric Hammersmith), The Go Between (Pleasance Theatre), Almost Like Being In Love and Mother Clap’s Molly House (Royal National Theatre), Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse), Hard Times (Haymarket Theatre), South Pacific (Grange Park Opera), Marius in Les Miserable (Queen’s Theatre, London), Alice In Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic), Putting It Together (Chichester Festival Theatre), Flute/Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Camelot (Regents Park Theatre), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), The Light In The Piaza (Leicester Curve), Aspects Of Love (UK Tour), Carmen (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre Kingston) Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory), Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible/ UK Tour).
Theatre credits: Charles the Wrestler/Amiens in As You Like It (Southwark Playhouse); Porthos/Milady in The Three Musketeers (Barbershopera); Debesh in Between Empires (Edinburgh Festival); Uncle/Mr Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckham (workshop); Marcel in Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Royal Stratford East); You and Me, Here We Are (Birmingham Eastside Projects; Abdul Karim in The Queen and I (Arcola Theatre) Credits in training include: Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden; Alfieri in A View From The Bridge; Abner Dillon in 42nd Street. For further information, please visit www.keddiescott.com
Cast recordings include: Zorro, Martin Guerre, Hard Times, Evita and The Best Of Disney. His award nominations include Olivier Award nominations and WhatsOnStage.com nominations for Zorro (Garrick Theatre) and Evita (Aldephi Theatre), and a TMA Award nomination for Assassins (Sheffield Crucible).
Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends
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Television and Radio credits: Doctors, Holby City (BBC), Coming Up (Channel 4) and for BBC Radio 3 Baghdad Wedding, In The Van and Women’s Hour He has performed in concert performances with the CBSO, Shanghai Concert Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.
HARMAGE SINGH KALIRAI PETER QUINCE Harmage trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, London, and École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Theatre credits: The Winter’s Tale (Guildford Shakespeare Company), The Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre), LBW (The Bike Shed), The Post Office (Live Literature), Cargo (Iron Oxide), Hijra (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Behsharam (Soho Theatre/Birmingham Rep), Arabian Nights (Young Vic & National Tour), Bravely Fought the Queen (Border Crossing), Riddley Walker & The Moonstone (Royal Exchange Manchester), My Beautiful Laundrette (Sherman Cardiff), Dick Whittington (Grand Wolverhampton), The Illusion (Old Vic), Passage to India (Redgrave Farnham), Doolaly Days (Leicester Haymarket). Television credits: Emmerdale (ITV), Big School (BBC Comedy), Politician’s Husband (BBC), Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places Of My Life (Sky), Silent Witness (BBC), Spooks, (BBC), Taggart (STV), Casualty (BBC), Little Britain (BBC), The Bill (Thames), Outlaws (World/BBC), Peep Show (Objective), Emmerdale (YTV), Blue Murder (Granada), Holby City (BBC), Stan The Man (Granada), The Cops (World), Trial and Retribution (La Plante), A Touch of Frost (YTV), Hearts & Minds (Witzend), Medics (Granada).
ASSAD ZAMAN DEMETRIUS Originally from Elswick in Newcastle upon Tyne, Assad Zaman completed his training at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre in 2013. Productions whilst training include the title role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Theatre credits: National Tour of East is East (Ambassador Theatre Group/Jamie Lloyd Productions); Behind The Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre, London); Tyne (Live Theatre and Theatre Royal, Newcastle); Beats North (Northern Stage/Curious Monkey); Dark Woods, Deep Snow; A Grimm Tale for Christmas (Northern Stage) Television Credits: Cucumber (Red Productions/Channel 4) Assad has just wrapped on new 4-part thriller “Apple Tree Yard” for BBC1 (made by Kudos).
Films include: Dalida (Bethsabee Mucho), Dark Matters 2: Raining Aliens (Wide Eyed Entertainment), Mischief Nights (Company Pictures), Guru in Seven (Balhar), Brothers in Trouble (Renegade), Paper Mask (Granada), Partition (Bandung), A Very British Coup (Skreba).
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The Fairy Chorus in rehearsal and add credit Mike Kwasniak
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TREVOR NUNN DIRECTOR
LIBBY WATSON DESIGNER
From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, The Coast of Utopia, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s plays Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express and Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes The Lady From The Sea (Almeida); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac, Kiss Me Kate (Chichester); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval, All That Fall and Relative Values (West End); The Wars of the Roses (Kingston Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA New York).
Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a 1st class BA Hons in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art.
MICHAEL OAKLEY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Recent directing credits include: The Invisible (Bush Theatre); The Life and Times Of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic Theatre), As You Like It (OSC & Wilderness Festival),Variation on a Theme (Finborough Theatre); Dido, Queen of Carthage (Marlowe Society); Playhouse Creatures (Chichester Festival Theatre). In 2012 Michael was Co-Artistic Director of Theatre on the Fly, a pop-up venue, designed by Turner Award winning Architects Assemble at Chichester Festival Theatre . Prior to this, Michael was Trainee Director in Residence at Chichester and a recipient of the prestigious JMK Award for young directors for his production of Edward II.
Recent design credits include: The History Boys, UK tour, Play Mas, Orange Tree Fences, Theatre Royal Bath, tour and West End, Lady Anna Park Theatre, Sweet Charity, New Wolsey, The Dead Dogs, Print Room, Rudy’s Rare Records, Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire, Propoganda Swing Belgrade and Nottingham Playhouse, Frankie and Johnny, Chichester, Festival Theatre Other design credits include: Twelfth Night, Nottingham Playhouse, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, Sheffield Crucible, Tricycle and tour Bus Stop, A Fine Bright Day Today, New Vic and Stephen Joseph The Miser, Marriage, Stars in the Morning Sky & Babylone, Belgrade Coventry Persuasion, Salisbury Playhouse. God of Carnage Northampton Mountaintop, Trafalgar Studios West End (Winner of 2011 Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Play) It’s A Wonderful Life, Blues in the Night, Guys and Dolls Wolsey and tour Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It, Stafford and Ludlow Festival, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, Hampstead theatre and 3 UK tours. Twelfth Night, Relatively Speaking, Three Men in a Boat, .He’s Much to Blame, Much Ado About Nothing, Dangerous Corner Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal, Far From the Madding Crowd ETT, Hello and Goodbye Trafalgar Studios West End, French Lieutenants Woman UK tour, Up Against the Wall Bolton Octagon, Christ of Coldharbour Lane Soho, Macbeth Bristol Old Vic, Under their Influence, Blues for Mr Charlie, Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf and The War Next Door, Tricycle, Break the Floorboards, Watford Palace Crooked and I like Mine With a Kiss, Bush, The Wills’s Girls Tobacco Factory, Blest Be the Tie and What’s in the Cat Royal Court, Man of Mode and Hysteria Northcott Exeter. Over ten touring productions for the Watermill Theatre including I dreamt I dwelt in Marble Halls , The Comedian and The Story of a Great Lady. The Key Game Riverside Studios, Natural Selection, Peter and Vandy, and The Charming Man. Theatre 503 As resident designer at Salisbury Playhouse, The Changeling, Beautiful Thing, Arabian Nights, Side By Side by Sondheim, Secret Garden and Tenant of Wildfell Hall. For Stratford East Ready or Not, Night of the Dons, Cinderella, Jamaica House, Urban Afro Saxons, Sus, High Heeled Parrotfish, Funny Black Women and The Oddest Couple. For Birmingham Rep Hysteria and Respect and Eclipse Uk tour of Three Sisters and Angel House.
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MARK JONATHAN LIGHTING DESIGNER
DREW BAUMOHL SOUND DESIGNER
Mark Jonathan was resident at Glyndebourne opera from 1978 until 1992 when he became head of lighting at the National Theatre until 2003 where work included the award winning play Skylight and the musical Honk!. His lighting designs for plays, musicals, opera and ballet have taken him from London’s West End to almost every regional drama company in the UK including the RSC, Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, Belgrade Coventry, Chichester Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Edinburgh Festival as well as many productions for the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Scottish Ballet, London Children’s Ballet, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera Holland Park and Glyndebourne.
Drew trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Overseas he has designed in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the USA where his work included designs for the film directors John Schlesinger, William Friedkin and Woody Allen. Many of his opera and ballet productions have been broadcast on TV and in cinemas worldwide. He represented the UK in the Prague Quadrennial in 1989, received a drama desk nomination in New York for outstanding lighting for Prometheus Bound, and a nomination for the Knights of Illumination for his opera design for Lulu at WNO as well as being a finalist in the 2013 World Stage Design. In 2014 he was made an honorary fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is the deputy chair of the Association of Lighting Designers. In his spare time he likes to ski off piste in deep powder snow in the Alps. www.markjonathan.com
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Previous sound designs include: Miss Nightingale: Uk Tour 2015 (Mr Bugg Presents) Sweet Charity (New Wolsey Theatre) The Dissidents (The Tricycle Theatre) Mary Shelley (Shared Experience) A Season in the Congo: Parallel Production (Young Vic) The Kite Runner: UK Tour (UK Productions) The Threepenny Opera (Graeae) Here We Stay, Unforgettable (New Perspectives) Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds) Sleeping Beauty (CAST Doncaster)Time and The Conways, My Judy Garland Life, Richard III, The Kite Runner, Of Mice and Men, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grandpa in my Pocket: Teamwork, Umbrellas, Private Lives, Amy’s View, Twelfth Night, The Families of Lockerbie, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Forever Young, Blithe Spirit, Glamour, Vertigo, Tom’s Midnight Garden, Beast on the Moon and Aladdin (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company); Dust, Dreamtime (Derby Theatre) The Crossing (New Art Exchange); The Grandfathers (LYTX); The Trial, Blood Wedding, The Visit, Find Me and Down in the Dumps (Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre); West Side Story (Nottingham Operatic Society) The Wiz, Séance on a Sunday Afternoon, Empty Bed Blues and Smile (Lakeside Arts Centre); Thoroughly Modern Millie, Crazy for you, Peter Pan (Carlton Operatic Society); and as Associate Sound Designer, Summer and Smoke (Apollo Theatre, London).
SARVAR SABRI COMPOSER
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
Sarvar Sabri is an internationally renowned tabla player/composer. His versatility and passion for the rich diversity of the world's musical traditions has spurred him to constantly experiment with other world-class musicians and composers, and to extend the boundaries of his own classical form. Sarvar has also been involved in experimental work. As a soloist, he has worked with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) collaborating with the composer Judith Weir, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, East of England Orchestra and Sinfonia Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Viva Sinfonia and the Edinburgh Quartet. He is the founder of the Sabri Ensemble; a Birminghambased group dedicated to exploring the richness of different musical traditions and styles. Sarvar has provided music for TV, Radio and various dance and theatre companies. He was also awarded the Arts Council Composer for Dance Award (2006). His recent works include composing music for 1928 silent film ‘Shiraz’ which is currently on tour. Sabri’s work can be heard on numerous CDs playing with some of the world’s renowned musicians.
SONIA SABRI CHOREOGRAPHER Sonia Sabri is amongst the brightest and most inspirational of British born dancer-choreographers working in the twenty-first century. Creating work that spans from the presentation of classical North Indian Kathak to explorations of contemporary approaches, her productions reflect an appreciation of Indian and British culture. She has created a fresh, unique style of Kathak by reinventing it from within, by pushing boundaries and generating work that is original in concept and exciting and relevant to today’s audiences. As a dancer, she is acclaimed for her enchanting stage presence, grace and musicality that enthral audiences both nationally as well as globally. She has secured an international reputation for collaboration across dance styles and art forms including work with pioneers Richard Alston, Shobana Jeyasingh, Nitin Sawhney, Rose English, Jonzi D, Tigerstyle, and many more. In addition, Sonia is a teacher of Kathak and regularly undertakes various workshops, lecturedemonstrations and residencies in both national and international venues. She is accredited by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD). She is also the Artistic Director of her youth dance company, Kathakaars. Sonia’s innovation within her form has been highly acclaimed in the contemporary dance world through several commissions some including The Place Prize; BBC television, Channel Four, Tanzhaus, The South Bank Centre and recently for the Cultural Olympiad for 'Encompass 360 digital dance' project. She is a recipient of the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award and Lisa Ullman Choreography scholarship. Sonia was nominated for the Asian Women of Achievement Award and recently for the London Dance Awards 2011. Sonia is an Associate Artist of one UK’s most celebrated arts centres, mac.
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GINNY SCHILLER CDG CASTING DIRECTOR MORWENNA ROWE VOICE COACH Morwenna Rowe was voice coach for Trevor Nunn’s ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle at the Rose, Kingston in 2015 and for his recent production of ‘King John’ at the same theatre. Other recent productions include the feature film ‘Nameless’, ‘Matilda’ RSC/West End, ‘Sexual Perversity in Chicago’ Shermann Theatre Cardiff, and ‘Class Dismissed’ for BBC2. Over a 16 year career Morwenna has trained actors at some of the UK’s leading Drama Schools including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, and the Oxford School of Drama. She is currently voice, text and accent coach for Royal Central’s MA in Screen Acting. She has also taught voice, text and storytelling at the UN, the World Economic Forum, and London Business School, and writes speeches for Directors and CEOs across Europe.
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
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Ginny has been Casting Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre, and is the current casting director for the Ustinov Theatre, Bath under the Artistic Directorship of Laurence Boswell. She has worked on many shows for the West End and No. 1 touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Bath Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Young Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Wilton’s Music Hall. She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions. Theatre credits include: Relative Values at the Theatre Royal Bath and the Pinter Theatre, Fatal Attraction at Theatre Royal Haymarket, Scenes from a Marriage at the St James’ Theatre, The Wars of the Roses and King John at the Rose Theatre Kingston, all directed by Trevor Nunn; Present Laughter, While The Sun Shines and A Midssumer Night’s Dream for the 2016 Summer Season at the Theatre Royal Bath; 1984 adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for Headlong, returning to the West End for the third time this summer; Bad Jews directed by Michael Longhurst, at the Ustinov, St James, Arts and the Haymarket; the revival of The Merchant of Venice directed by Rupert Goold at the Almeida Theatre; The Father by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by James Macdonald, at the Ustinov, Tricycle and in the West End; The Mother, also by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton, at the Ustinov and the Tricycle; Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time at Sheffield Crucible; Great Expectations at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Around the World in 80 Days at the St James, both directed by Lucy Bailey; Lindsay Posner’s productions of Harvey at Birmingham Rep, on tour and at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Abigail’s Party at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Wyndham’s and on tour; Ghosts adapted and directed by Stephen Unwin, at the Rose and on tour for ETT; the inaugural production at the new Liverpool Everyman, Twelfth Night, directed by Gemma Bodinetz; Nicholas Wright’s adaptation of Regeneration directed by Simon Godwin; Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel which moved from the Ustinov to the Park Theatre; and The American Plan directed by David Grindley and Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play directed by Laurence Boswell, which transferred from the Ustinov to the St James’ Theatre.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Emma Champion, David Clements, Bonnie Collins, Adrian Grady, Isobel Hawson, David Hutchinson Richard Lister (Chairman), Barbara Peirson, Louise Rogers, Hannah Skeates, Chris Waters Sarah Holmes
Chief Executive
ARTISTIC Peter Rowe Rob Salmon Adrian Berry Jamie Beddard
Artistic Director Associate Director Children’s Shows Advisor Agent For Change
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES China Plate, Zoe Svensden, Paulette Randall
ADMINISTRATION David Watson Klyde Robinson Lorna Owen Sharon Osborne Suzanne Simpson Terri Winwood Ellen Farmer
Head Of Operations Finance & IT Manager Administration & Human Resources Manager Ramps on the Moon Administrator Finance Officer Finance Officer Administration Apprentice
BUILDING MAINTENANCE Neil Daines Building Services Technician Keith Mickleburgh Cleaner Scott Mickleburgh Cleaner
CREATIVE LEARNING Sian Thomas Marcus Neal Helen Baggett Joe Leat Tanya White Liam Gregory
Creative Learning Producer Creative Learning Manager Youth Theatre Practitioner Youth Theatre Practitioner Youth Theatre2 Practitioner Youth Theatre2 Practitioner
YOUTH THEATRE ASSISTANTS Tom Chamberlain, Lorna Garside, Debbie Grant, Liam Gregory, Mae Munuo, Stanley Rudkin, Ollie Ward FREELANCE PRACTITIONERS Helen Baggett, Mark Curtis, Danusia Iwaszko, Joe Leat, Rachael Morrison, Tom Roe
PRODUCTION David Phillips Matthew Ramsey David Gardener Peter Hazelwood Ben Ager Alex Noble Tracey J Cooper Sky Barnes Cassie Gallagher Hannah Boyce Vanessa Sutherland Robyn Hardisty Lauren Halsall
Head of Production Theatre Technician (Stage) Theatre Technician (Lighting) Theatre Technician (Sound) Theatre Technician Technical Apprentice Production Services Manager Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Stage Management Apprentice Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
PRODUCTION CASUAL STAFF James Aleksic, Elizabeth Gill Beckett, Matt Brand, Tom Chamberlain, James Cook, Steph Coxall, Simon Deacon, Dominic Eddington, Bryn Fitch, Chrisptopher Flagg, Crystal Gayle, Michael Glasper, Justin Goad, Dammo Goddard, Ronnie Green, Sam Hall, Olivia Jones, Chris Last, Roxy Last, Giles King, Callum Macdonald, Carolyn Nichols, Bill Parkin, Jake Pike, Joanne Sebastian-Green, Aidan Standish, Joshua Stuart, Danuta Tarbard, Jonathan Terry, Kyle Watts, Lee Whittaker
COMMUNICATIONS Stephen Skrypec Daniel Emmens Jeni Raw Jack O’Dell Elise Golbourn Joseph Valentine John Adam Baker Amy Nettleton Kelly Kirkbride Lauren Crowley Lianne Willis Scott Fidgett
Head Of Communications Sales Manager Marketing Manager Assistant Marketing Manager Relationship Manager Assistant Relationship Manager Relationship Officer Agent For Change - Relationships Front Of House Manager Hospitality Manager Assistant Hospitality Manager Theatre Chef
TICKET SALES TEAM Sam Biscoe, Lorna Garside FRONT OF HOUSE ASSISTANTS Lucy Allen, Sally Appleby, Juliette Aktins, Sam Biscoe, Karina Brown, Stuart Cheadle, Stephanie Dugville, Eleanor Dodwell, Joshua Dowsing, Lorna Garside, Marcell Grant, Claire Hardman, Cathy Hearne, Daniel Moore, Abigail Skrypec, Helen Taylor, Jack Tricker, Lauren Walker, Grace Wellfare VOLUNTEER USHERS Susan Andrews, Janet Black, Valentine Borja Herrera, Margaret Brown, Chris Bull, David Burgess, Rod Burrows, Sharon Cashen, Tracey Cory, Clare Cotterill, Trevor Cowans, Maxine Darlow, Sandy Davies, Verna Duncan, Hugh Durrant, Yvonne Ellam, Aly Ford, Kim Ford, Jane Flack, Eric Fuller, Gerry George, Patricia George, Katie Gibbs, Anne Godbold, Ben Horrex, Sonia Jackson, Rebecca Kitching, Dawn Mccracken, Mollie Markwell, Ron Markwell, Rena Mayoff, Christopher Meggs, Peter Mornard, Chris Mullard, Vicky Pannell, Janet Peacey, Pam Pelling, Ken Petherbridge, Cathy Ransom, Annie Ryall, Steven Shaw, Carol Snell, Robert Snell, Sue Spencer, Ben Starling, Julie Stevenson, Tony Stevenson, Margaret Tilloston, Kirsty Torr, Samuel Turland, David Vince, Judy Wadman, Jackie Wells, Hazel Wilding, Julia Williamson, Leigh Williamson, Will Woolsgrove VOLUNTEER AMBASSADORS Michele Bevan-Margetts, Hayley Brett, Helen Charters, David Farthing, Vera Forsdike, Rachel Gowers, Jill Grosvenor, Sue Hall, Michael Hole, Gary Kenworthy, Ruth Longhurst FRIDAY CLUB Susan Duff-Godfrey, Maureen Bailey, Joyce Bradley, Lynn Cowling, Merwyn Cunliffe, Mary Fuller, Eric Fuller, Heather Haines, June Jenkinson, Jean Johnson, Timothy Johnson, Jean Legg, Jean Lockie, Robin Morrow, Pearl Nichols, Chloe Quantrill, Christine Spall, Caroline Steward, Lewis Tyler, Mary Weiner, Alison Welham, Kylie Welham, Margaret Woollard
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