OLADIPO AGBOLUAJE

OLADIPO AGBOLUAJE

Black British Theatre (Course Director)
Oladipo Agboluaje is the author of several plays including, Early Morning, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane, The Estate, Iyale - The First Wife, New Nigerians, Immune, The Hounding of David Oluwale and Here's What She Said To Me. Awards include the Alfred Fagon Award, The Pearson Award, the Peggy Ramsey Award and an International Research Centre Fellowship, Berlin. He is a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and Treasurer of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). Oladipo has been writer in residence at The New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the National Theatre. He is a member of The Fence, an international group of directors, dramaturgs and playwrights. Oladipo has taught African Theatre, Post-Colonial Theatre, Black British Playwriting and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University of London, City University and University of Greenwich.

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MABEL AITKEN

MABEL AITKEN

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Musica and Drama and then Goldsmiths University. Since then her theatre work has included The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Southwark Playouse), The Slab Boys Trilogy (Young Vic), The Life of Stuff (Donmar), and at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya (for which she received an Ian Charleson Award Commendation), Midsummer Night’s Dream (for which she received the Royal Lyceum’s Shakespeare Award), Shining Souls, Mirandolina; while her television work includes Sea of Souls, The Key, Glasgow Kiss, My Family (for BBC), The Book Group and Coming Soon (Channel 4). Mabel has also been involved in the creation of several dance pieces and sound installations. Previous teaching includes Shakespeare Workshops for the Film and Media Centre and tutoring for East 15 Drama College.

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GERALDINE ALEXANDER

GERALDINE ALEXANDER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Geraldine has worked in various productions on stage, television and film. Recently on stage she played Queen Elizabeth 1st in Shakespeare in Love on tour and Draw Me Close at the Young Vic, and Marianne Heiberg/Tori Grandal in Oslo at the National Theatre. Other stage credits include Persuasion and Breaking the Code at Royal Exchange and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with National Theatre. She also was in Titus Andronicus, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Holy Warriors at Globe Theatre.  Her extensive television credits include The Child in Time, Any Human Heart, Shetland, Coronation Street, Taggart and Extras. She is currently in Bridgerton for Netflix and The One and Oslo for HBO. She writes for film and stage and is currently directing the Lodger by Robert Holman at the Coronet theatre.

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DIANE ALISON-MITCHELL

DIANE ALISON-MITCHELL

London Theatre Program
Diane is a movement director, theatre choreographer, movement tutor  and workshop facilitator who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Recent theatre credits include Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate); The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); Holy Sh!t (Kiln Theatre); Never Vera Blue, Offside (Futures Theatre); The Island (Theatre Chipping Norton/Dukes Lancaster); Roundelay, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse), They Drink It In The Congo (Almeida Theatre), SOUL (Royal & Derngate/Hackney Empire), Othello, Julilus Caesar (RSC), The Emperor Jones (LOST Theatre), How Nigeria Became: A story, and a spear that didn't work (Unicorn Theatre), The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Nambia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 (Bush Theatre), The Island (Young Vic), Lola – The Life of Lola Montez (Trestle Theatre), The Relapse (Embassy Theatre). Diane was part of the creative team for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. She has taught across a number of drama conservatoires and led workshops at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ALRA South, Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, E15 Acting School, Arts Educational Schools, Regent's University London and the National Youth Theatre.   https://www.dianealisonmitchell.com/

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MICK BARNFATHER

MICK BARNFATHER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program
Mick Barnfather has been working in theatre as an actor, director and teacher for more than 40 years. Amongst other acting work he has been a member of the internationally aclaimed touring company Complicite since 1986, appearing in six of their shows: Food Stuff, Please Please Please, The Visit, The Three Lives Of Lucie Cabrol, The Chairs and Light. He has also worked as an actor in television, radio and short films and directed a number of devised physical theatre and comedy shows. During his career as an actor and director, he has always continued to teach theatre. He worked at the Commedia School in Copenhagen where he taught Melodrama and Neutral Mask. He also taught Clown at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Devising Theatre at both Rose Bruford Drama School and the Manchester Metropolitan University where he  teaches Improvisation at present. He was a teacher at the Philippe Gaulier School where he taught Bouffon, Clown and Neutral Mask. He is a regular teacher at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London, where he teaches Theatre Studies on the three year degree program, at the London School of Musical Theatre where he teaches improvisation and at the Florida State University London program where he teaches physical theatre . He has also taught Physical Theatre for over twenty five years for the British American Drama Academy and at RADA for ten years where he taught Clown, Mask, Ensemble and Physicality in Performance. During this time he also taught on the open Complicite workshop programs and has given classes and courses in Hong Kong, Berlin, Hamburg, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and America. He also runs his own open courses. For more details about him: www.mickbarnfather.com

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JONNIE BROADBENT

JONNIE BROADBENT

London Theatre Program
Jonathan is an actor, director and Associate Artist of Filter Theatre for whom he has worked for 12 years. In 2016 he received the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance as Guy in the Donmar’s production of My Night with Reg. More recently he played Felix Humble in Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones at the Orange Tree, Reg in Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests at Chichester, and the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz for Sheffield Theatres for which he has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the UK Theatre Awards 2018. Having joined the RSC in 1999 playing Edmund in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, he returned to the company in 2016 to play Tattle in Congreve’s Love for Love directed by Selina Cadell and Robert Harley in Queen Anne by Helen Edmundson. His long-term collaboration with Filter Theatre has seen him play Tusenbach in Three Sisters and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Lyric Theatre, and Orsino/Aguecheek in Twelfth Night - a production that has toured nationally and internationally for over ten years. Stints in the West End include Ghost Stories with Andy Nyman and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dawn French as Bottom. He will play Brisk for Selina Cadell in Congreve’s The Double Dealer this Christmas and in 2020 he is directing Black Dog by Levi Pinfold for Freckle Productions.

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IRINA BROWN

IRINA BROWN

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Born and educated in St. Petersburg, Irina is a freelance theatre and opera director, teacher, writer and dramaturge. Artistic Director of Tron Theatre, Glasgow (1996-1999) and Natural Perspective Theatre Company (2017-11). Theatre includes award-winning Further Than the Furthest Thing (world premiere, National Theatre, Tron, Tricycle and South Africa); The Importance of Being Earnest (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, London); Vagina Monologues (West End and national tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southern Shakespeare Festival, Florida), Racine’s Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Sound of Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Opera productions include: Prokofiev’s War and Peace (Scottish Opera/RSAMD); Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night (Royal Opera House, world premiere), Tarkovsky’s Boris Godunov (ROH, Monte Carlo, St Petersburg); and with Philharmonia Orchestra Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges (RFH, 2015); Shostakovich’s Orango (RFH and the Proms, 2015); Stravinsky’s Tales (a triple bill at the Stravinsky Festival, RFH, 2016).

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JAMES BUNDY

JAMES BUNDY

Midsummer in Oxford Program
Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre. Formerly Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company and Managing Director of Cornerstone Theatre Company. He directs at Yale and many of the leading Shakespeare Festivals, recently directing Paul Giamatti in the title role of Hamlet.

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MARIA CASSAR

MARIA CASSAR

London Theatre Program
Maria trained in Malta before moving to London to study at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where she graduated with a Ba (Hons) Dance Theatre. Maria is a dance practitioner, choreographer and movement director. Her ethos as a dance practitioner is an inclusive one and she strives to make movement accessible to all. She has worked with dancers, actors, intergenerational groups and people with physical / learning disabilities. Maria has worked with choreographers such as Tom Dale, Kerry Nicholls, Theo Clinkard, Kristina Sommerlade, Mavin Khoo, and James Wilton. From 2008 to 2015 Maria was Artistic Director of RedTape Dance Company in Malta. Since then her work has been shown at the Bonnie Bird Theatre, Notte Bianca Malta, BluePrint Festival,Resolutions!, London Bridge Live Arts, Ziguzajg International Youth Festival, Sadlers Wells, The London Palladium, Her Majesty’s Theatre, The Albany Theatre, O2 Indigo, Malta International Arts Festival, Intransit Festival, The Tabernacle, Royal Festival Hall, Hampton Court Palace and Tower of London. Maria has been the recipient of the Malta Arts Fund and Malta Cultural Export Fund. She has been recipient of Kensington and Chelsea Arts Grant and Greenshoots fund for dance work within the North Kensington community, in the aftermath of the Grenfell Fire. She recently co-founded ShakespeareMoves with Zoe Waites. Amongst her work engagements, Maria is an inclusive dance practitioner with Tavaziva Dance Company and for the Royal Academy of Dance. Maria was a movement tutor at London Dramatic Arts, at Fordham University and is now a movement teacher at Rose Bruford College on the MA APT course.

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PHILIP D’ORLEANS

PHILIP D’ORLEANS

London Theatre Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program
Has spent many years teaching stage combat at RADA and the Drama Studio in London.  He has conducted stage combat workshops in locations as diverse as Germany, Spain, Finland, and the United States.  He has worked as the fight director for over three hundred professional productions, including Oleanna on the West End, Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare in Love with the National Theatre of Norway and Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House.  He is currently working as sword master for a new Netflix series, Lockwood & Co.  Philip is a fight examiner for the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Stage Combat Deutschland, and the Irish Dramatic Combat Academy.

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ANNIE-LUNNETTE DEAKIN-FOSTER

ANNIE-LUNNETTE DEAKIN-FOSTER

London Theatre Program
Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster is a passionate contemporary dance theatre choreographer, maker and movement director and is a co-founding member of award winning company, C-12 Dance Theatre. Recent Theatre Credits Include: You Stupid Darkness by Sam Steiner (Theatre Royal Plymouth),  Phillip Pullman's Grimm Tales Adaptation by Philip Wilson (Unicorn Theatre), Jericho's Rose by Lilac Yosiphon (The Hope Theatre), POP MUSIC by Anna Jordan (Latitude Festival, Birmingham Rep and various UK venues) The Court Must Have a Queen by Ade Solanke (Hampton Court Palace), These Bridges by Phoebe Éclair-Powell (WCYT as part of National Theatre Connections at The Bush) The Little Match Girl and Other Happier Tales by Joel Horwood and Emma Rice (Presented on tour 2017-2018 at Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd, Chichester Festival Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Buxton Opera House, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Malvern Theatres and the Shakespeares Globe); The Dark Room by Angela Betzien (Theatre 503); Trumps Women by Lily Bevan (RADA); i know all the secrets of my world by Natalie Ibu (Latitude Festival, Watford Palace Theatre, The Porter Theatre, Pegasus Theatre Oxford, Salisbury Playhouse, Unity Theatre, Lincoln Drill Hall, Bristol Old Vic, The Lowry, The Drum, Nottingham Playhouse, Mercury Theatre, The Albany). Recent Dance Credits Include: Force (Abbey Road Studios, Imagine Festival Watford, Greenwich & Docklands International Festival, Dalsfen, Zwolle & Oldenzaal Netherlands) Shhh! (Dance City, MAC Birmingham, New Wolsey Ipswich, Norwich Playhouse, The Woodville Gravesend, CircoMedia Bristol, Winchester Theatre Royal) The Van Man (Watch This Space at The National, St Albans Festival, Freedom Festival Hull, The Albany Outdoors)

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ANDREW DICKSON

ANDREW DICKSON

London Theatre Program
Andrew Dickson is a freelance critic, journalist and broadcaster. He writes about theatre and culture for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New Yorker, and makes arts documentaries for the BBC. The Guardian's former theatre editor, his latest book is Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe (Vintage), and he's also the author of the play-by-play The Globe Guide to Shakespeare (Profile). His website is andrewjdickson.com.

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WILLIAM DONALDSON

WILLIAM DONALDSON

London Theatre Program
William trained at LAMDA. As a theatre practitioner and director he has worked with The Royal National Theatre, The Young Shakespeare Company, The Shakespeare Schools Festival and The Arcola Theatre. He is an artistic associate of Tucked In Productions (young people’s theatre and puppetry), Beautiful Creatures Theatre Co. (site specific theatre) and Actors From The London Stage (Shakespeare). RuPaul Charles in the Edinburgh Festival Award winning production of Prom Kween (Dir. Rebecca Humphries), The Diva in the award winning international production Testosterone (Rhum & Clay Theatre Co.), Boris in Boris Got Bu**ered (Dir. Scott Le Crass), Stephano in The Tempest, and Friar Lawrence in Romeo & Juliet (AFTLS, US Tour), and The Wicked Queen in Snow White (Old Vic Theatre).

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LYNN FARLEIGH

LYNN FARLEIGH

London Theatre Program
Lynn Farleigh is a Bristolian. She trained as a teacher at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama but was saved from the job by joining Salisbury Repertory Company. She has been fortunate to work as an actor ever since but now is very happy combining jobs with teaching and directing for BADA and Birmingham Conservatoire.   She has worked many times for the RSC, with parts including Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Portia in Julius Caesar, Amanda in The Relapse, Ruth in The Homecoming directed by Harold Pinter (for whom she worked again many times), Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible and Agatha in Family Reunion. Work with the National Theatre includes Brand, Close of Play, The Mysteries, Machinal and Inadmissible Evidence.   Recently Lynn filmed for a major new movie (which is still a secret!) Other films include Three into Two Won’t Go, From Time to Time, Voices and the voice of the cat in Watership Down. Her TV work includes playing Mrs Phillips in Pride and Prejudice, starring in a classic episode of Steptoe and Son, and EastEnders, as well as much more.   Lynn had just opened in The Tempest at Jermyn Street Theatre when lockdown happened last year and they very much hope to play it again in November this year .

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DK FASHOLA

DK FASHOLA

London Theatre Program
Fashola is a multidisciplinary artist who specialises in multi-form storytelling; fusing movement, witty dialogue & poetic multi-layered text in unexpected ways. Work includes:   Director & Writer - All The Things (Arts Ed), Fragments Of A Complicated Mind (Theatre 503) and Scalped (Without Walls National Tour). Movement Direction - Lava (Bush Theatre), Othello (NYTRep 21), Birds & Bees (Theatre Centre), 846Live (TRSE), Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree Theatre - Mvmt Consultant), and Essence Exhibition (Mr Eazi Culture Fest) Actress- Nadia’s Gift Film (Jack Studio Theatre), Mami Wata - WIP (Bush Theatre), Ilé La Wà (Stratford Circus) and Muscovado (Burnt Out Theatre Tour). Choreography (Music Video): Dis Love (Wizkid), Rushing (Alicai Harley), Olorun mi (Tiwa Savage), Don’t Bother Me (Shakka), Pour Me Water (Mr Eazi, Official Dance Video)   She is Artistic Director of Initiative.dkf - creators of Melanin Box Festival, Albany Theatre’s 2021 Artists of change, Tamasha Associate artists (‘19-20) and Talawa Make: Sustain Artists (17)

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PETER FRANCIS JAMES

PETER FRANCIS JAMES

Midsummer in Oxford Program
Graduate and associate of RADA and teacher at Yale School of Drama. Theatre productions include The Lady from Dubuque which opened the Signature Theatre on Broadway, having previously been in the same play with Dame Maggie Smith in London; The Merchant of Venice on Broadway; Colin Powell in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (Public Theater - OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards). Other theatre credits include: On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, Judgment at Nuremberg (Broadway), August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Mark Taper, L.A), House of Flowers (Encores!), the Baron in Suzan-Lori Park’s Venus (Public), Claire in The Maids (CSC - OBIE Award), Jupiter in Amphityron (CSC), Scent of the Roses with Julie Harris, Jean in Miss Julie (McCarter), and A.R. Gurney’s Buffalo Gal (Williamstown). His many roles in Shakespeare include: Othello in Othello, (Baltimore Center Stage), Oberon in Sir Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ahmanson), Coriolanus in Coriolanus (McCarter) Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (Central Park), Pisanio in Cymbeline (RSC/TFANA). Film and television credits include: The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger, Joe Gould’s Secret, The Rosa Parks Story with Angela Bassett, Oz, Gossip Girl, Kings, Simple Justice, The Ruby Bridges Story, The Wedding, Third Watch, Guiding Light, and all three Law & Order series.

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NIGEL GEARING

NIGEL GEARING

London Theatre Program
Nigel Gearing has some thirty years’ experience as a teacher of English & American Literature and Theatre & Film Studies at college and university level. He has a BA Honours and MA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in English & American Studies from the University of Michigan, USA. His work as a playwright, translator and screenwriter has been performed in the UK, the USA, Europe and the Middle East. He has taught at King’s College (University of London), Royal Holloway College (University of London), University of Birmingham, Fordham University, Drama Centre  and the Royal Academy of  Dramatic Art.

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ALICE HAIG

ALICE HAIG

London Theatre Program
Alice Haig trained at Central School of Speech And Drama   Television Credits include: This is going to Hurt (BBC); Untitled Series (Disney); Scottish Killers (BBC);  Beautality (Pilot )   Theatre credits include: Grandpa’s Great Escape (Arena Tour); Unmythable (The Vaults & Touring); Love From A Stranger (Royal and Derngate & UK Tour); Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse & York Theatre Royal); Richard III (USA Tour); The Brink (Orange Tree Theatre); 84 Charing Cross Road (Salisbury Playhouse); Tis Pity She's A Whore (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe Theatre); Sense and Sensibility (The Watermill); Wasted (Paines Plough); I Didn’t Always Live Here (The Finborough); The Fairy Queen (BAM & Glyndebourne) As You Like It; Hay Fever (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Curse Of The Starving Class (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Children's Hour(Royal Exchange); What Cheryl Did Next; Even Stillness (Theatre 503); Baby(Hope Theatre); Hard Shoulders (The Pleasance); Holding Fire (The Globe) Film credits include: How to disappear completely (Independent) Radio Credits include: Blood and Milk(BBC)   Alongside her acting career Alice has extensive experience coaching acting students, professionals and drama school entrants in audition technique. She has also worked with university students in the USA  and UK on acting, public speaking, interview technique, and text work.   Alice has also done a variety of voluntary work. She works as an appropriate adult at a local police station, making sure the human rights of the detainees are being upheld and has visited the refugee camps in Calais - helping to distribute food and working with the women and children there.

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SARAH HEMMING

SARAH HEMMING

London Theatre Program
Sarah Hemming writes and broadcasts about theatre. She has written features, columns and reviews for nearly all the major national newspapers in the UK and is currently theatre critic for the Financial Times. She was a founding editor of Scottish entertainment magazine The List. She wrote the official guide to the National Theatre, a handbook taking the reader backstage to eavesdrop on all the work that goes into creating a show in this flagship building, with interviews with playwrights, directors, actors and the vast army of skilled technical staff who make the sets, costumes, props and wigs.

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JESSICA HIGGS

JESSICA HIGGS

London Theatre Program
Jessica began life as an actor, singer and musical director working in the West End, Off West End, Rep theatre and national touring.  She retrained at Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD) on their specialist Voice Studies course and for the last 30 years her work has focused on voice coaching and teaching. Jessica has worked widely in actor training at CSSD, Rose Bruford College, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Poor School, City Lit, Northampton University, British-American Drama Academy (BADA), Syracuse University London Centre and the Actors Centre. Theatre includes work with the Royal Court, Prince Edward Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Bolton Octagon, Nottingham Playhouse, Barbican, Arcola, Old Red Lion and Soho Theatre. She has also worked extensively in Disability Arts with Graeae, Ramps on the Moon, Extant and Deafinitely Theatre. Jessica is also a director whose work is made in collaboration with artists who are culturally different to herself and is co-founder of Unfinished Histories, a major oral history project documenting British Alternative theatre, 1968-88.

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DAVID KENWORTHY

DAVID KENWORTHY

Midsummer Conservatory Program
Currently director of drama for Marlborough College and artistic director of Neutral Space Theatre Company which specialises in multi-lingual performance.  As a freelance director credits include The Country (Library Theatre Company);  The Possibilities (LTC) Macbeth (KESS company) and Damages (National Theatre Studio).  For Neutral Space The Piano Man; Romeo and Juliet; Folkestone and To See a Lamb.

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EVELYN MILLER

EVELYN MILLER

London Theatre Program
Evelyn trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is a member of the RSC education department and has led workshops and acting classes at universities and colleges including Wellesley, Vassar, Notre Dame, UCLA and UT Austin. With the Playground Theatre she facilitates writing and play reading groups with service users at the mental health ward at St. Charles hospital, as well as with the charities Age UK and Open age. Theatre includes: Deep Night Dark Night,The Taming of the Shrew (Sam Wannnamaker Playhouse); Pericles, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, (Shakespeare's Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible); Jane Eyre (National Theatre/ U.K Tour); Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, The Famous Victories of Henry V (RSC); The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III(AFTLS);Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre) and The Little Prince (Royal Opera House). Television includes: Flowers in the Attic - The Origins, Holby City, Doctors

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JOE MYDELL

JOE MYDELL

Midsummer in Oxford
Trained at the New York University of the Arts and BADA (1984). His theatre experience includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Last Confession, and The Boys Next Door, (London's West End), The Tempest (Regent's Park), Medea(Broadway), and A Season in the Congo(The Young Vic).   Joe has starred in many productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company: Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Breakfast with Mugabe, Worlds Apart and Macbeth and the National Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, Edmond, Alice’s Adventures Underground, Angels in America, Perestroika (Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) and Lyrics of the Hearthside (Edinburgh Fringe First). Most recent TV work includes Homeland, Midsummer Murders and The Missing. Radio credits include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Falco, Great Escape, Henry VIII and The Lost Boys. IMDb

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PAUL O’MAHONY

PAUL O’MAHONY

Greek Theatre (Course Director), London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Paul is an actor, writer, director and producer. He is the artistic director of Out of Chaos with whom he has devised, written, and performed Out of Chaos, UNMYTHABLE, and Norsesome. Out of Chaos have toured throughout the world, winning awards in Bilbao, Berlin, and Edinburgh. Their recently premiered two-man production of Macbeth will be touring again in 2017. Theatre credits include several seasons at The Orange Tree; Othello (RSC); The Taming of the Shrew (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Suppliants (BAC); Ice (ETO); Next Door (Out of Balanz); and Under the Hammerbeam Roof (ETO). He has toured the US with Actors From the London Stage, appearing in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Much Ado About Nothing (2014) and Richard III (2016). In 2015, Paul was Eminent Artist in residence at the University of Wyoming, in which capacity he directed Much Ado About Nothing. With Richard Twyman, he translated and adapted three Greek tragedies to create The House of Atreus (Barbican). Paul is associate producer at Jermyn Street Theatre where credits include All That Fall, St John's Night, and Mother Adam. He studied Classics at Oxford, where he was awarded an Ancient History Scholarship, a Cawkwell Scholarship and two Cawkwell Prizes.

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MARTIN PARR

MARTIN PARR

London Theatre Program
Martin was nominated for Best Director by the Off West End Awards for his production of Noël Coward's 'Home Chat' in 2017 and also his production of Hamlet' in 2013. Directing work includes: Anyone Can Whistle and Snoopy for RADA, 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Urinetown', Liverpool, The Eighth Wonder of the World', Brunel Tunnels, London, 'The Devil to Pay on Brook Street', Handel House, Mayfair, 'Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang', Rose Theatre, 'The Three Georges', Gottingen Festival in Germany, 'A Door Must be Kept Open or Shut', Osborne Studio, London, 'A Night in CDU', Landor Theatre, 'Romeo and Juliet', St George's, Bloomsbury, 'Doctor Faustus', Rose Theatre, 'Too Clever by Half', Derby, 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Into the Woods', 'Company', 'A Little Night Music', 'Hay Fever' and 'Sunday in the Park with George' for The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, The Country Wife, BADA, Romeo and Juliet for Dukes Theatre Company (tour), Follies (Sondheim) for Central. Opera work includes: 'Acis and Galatea', Canons and St John's Smith Square, London, Teixeira's 'Te Deum' and Handel's Messiah, Casa Da Musica in Porto, 'L'Ippolito', Sable and Ambronnay Festivals in France and 'Comus', London Handel Festival. Martin also assistant-directed '84 Charing Cross Road' for Salisbury Playhouse. He is an Associate with 'Actors from the London Stage' who tour Shakespeare plays to the USA twice a year. Martin originally trained and worked as an actor, working at most theatres in the UK and on tour in the USA. He is also a regular director for RADA, Central, Guildford and LIPA and has taught High Comedy for BADA.

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MADELEINE POTTER

MADELEINE POTTER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Madeleine Potter is an actress and director residing in London. She has dual Irish and American citizenship. Her recent London theatre credits include True West (Vaudeville Theatre) and The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court). Pre pandemic recent US credits include the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet (2019, 2017) in Washington DC and The Glass Menagerie (Fords Theatre, 2016). Other London credits include Electra and The Internationalist (GateTheatre), 4:48 Psychosis (Royal Court), After Mrs Rochester, Madame Melville, An Ideal Husband (West End), All My Sons, Southwark Fair (National Theatre), Broken Glass (Tricycle), The Waters Edge (Arcola). Her Broadway credits include Plenty, Slab Boys, Metamorphoses, Coastal Disturbances, The Master Builder, The Crucible, A Little Hotel On the Side, Getting Married. Other NY credits include Pygmalion (Roundabout), Richard III (NYSF), Playboy of the Western World (Irish Rep), The Plough and the Stars and many more. Madeleine’s film credits include The Bostonians, Slaves of New York, The Golden Bowl and The White Countess, all for Merchant Ivory; recent television includes Cobra, Foyles War, Houdini and Mr Selfridge in which she played Elizabeth Arden. She has done numerous radio plays and other voice work. She has taught for BADA, FSU, Manchester School of Theatre (MST) and she has directed for MST, Rose Bruford and Synergy Theatre Project. Madeleine is a member of the Actors Studio.

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ROBERT PRICE

ROBERT PRICE

Midsummer in Oxford Program
A former Senior Voice and Classical Text Tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.  He has also taught and directed at RCSSD, The Lir, BADA, Arts Ed and East 15. Prior to becoming a teacher Robert had a worked as an actor in Ireland performing regularly at the Abbey and Gate Theatres and for many of Dublin's independent Theatre companies. He is the artistic director of Lubkinfinds Theatre Company for whom he directed Elizabeth Kuti’s plays Fishskin Trousers and The Broken Token. He currently works as a voice and text teacher at Lamda.

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BRIAN RIDGERS

BRIAN RIDGERS

London Theatre Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program
Brian Ridgers has been teaching theatre and literature to American and English students for over twenty years. He specialises in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Literature, Modern Theatre as well as Victorian Literature.

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EUNICE ROBERTS

EUNICE ROBERTS

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program
Dean of BADA. Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a wide professional acting experience in theatre and television. One of her first jobs was the Old Vic World Tour of Hamlet with Sir Derek Jacobi – who was BADA’s Patron for many years. For most of her professional life she has combined acting with teaching and has had the good fortune to tour American universities many times with Actors From The London Stage in Shakespeare plays, she remains an Associate Director of the company. She has returned to work at various campuses, including for a year being the Visiting Director of Theatre at Vassar College. Eunice has written & produced her own one woman show; Wonderful Women on the Victorian actress Ellen Terry, as well as a devised piece …one, two, three…based onTwelfth Night. She was Producer for the new Norton online edition of theComplete Works of Shakespeare– 69 scenes, from 23 plays with 26 actors. She has worked for BADA since 2006 in London and Oxford. Eunice recently filmed parts in the TV series This Sceptered Isle with Sir Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson, in which she plays Jenny Harries for Sky TV (airing in 2022), The Sister Boniface Mysteries for the BBC (airing in fall 2021), and the film Living written by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy (premiering in 2022).

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DAVID RUBIN

DAVID RUBIN

London Theatre Program
David is an actor who has worked extensively in British Theatre and Television. Fifteen productions with The Royal Shakespeare Company, eight with The National Theatre and many, many more in the country’s regional theatres, as well as productions in London’s West End. On TV he has appeared on most of the soaps, and for a few years was also a presenter. David has always taught alongside his work, reaching hundreds of theatres, schools, colleges and universities across the UK and North America with his practical, actor-focused workshops. David’s last theatre job was a North American tour of ‘The Tempest’, playing Prospero and teaching alongside the production. He is an Associate Practitioner with the RSC and has recently been teaching at LAMDA. David has been enjoying a move towards more TV and film since lockdown. He has just finished filming a role for ‘Midsomer Murders’, and prior to that a role for a forthcoming Hollywood movie ‘The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight’, due out at the end of 2021. And! He is a very proud father to two fabulous 20 something daughters, Molly and Maya.

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JACKIE SNOW

JACKIE SNOW

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Jackie has been training actors in movement for over 30 years. After training as a dancer and teacher at the London College of Dance and Drama, she joined the Gymnastic Dance Theatre Company. She began teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she met Trish Arnold and Sue Lefton. It was with was with these women , that she trained to be a movement for actors teacher. She continued teaching at Guildhall for the next 20 years, before moving on to be Head of Movement at RADA . She was a visiting tutor at LAMDA, Drama Centre, Rose Bruford and Mountview, London and at Regents University, Virginia, USA . She was Master of Movement at the Globe Theatre under Mark Rylance for 3 seasons, as well as movement directing at West End theatres including the Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Wyndhams, the Old Vic, the RSC, and the National as well as the Nottingham Playhouse, and the Nothcott Theatre, Devon She shared her practice in China, with the teachers of the Central Academy of Drama and the Military academy of Drama in Beijing. Film and TV include The Lost Prince (Stephen Poliakov), The New World (Terence Malik), Quills, Marie Antoinette, and All Forgotten. She is presently training new teachers in London and is Senior Lecturer in Movement at Manchester School of Theatre (MMU). Her book Movement Training for Actors, Methuen Drama, was published in 2012.

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ADRIENNE THOMAS

ADRIENNE THOMAS

London Theatre Program
Adrienne Thomas read Modern History at Oxford University and then trained as an actor at The Central School of Speech and Drama.  She has appeared in a wide variety of modern and classical plays in the West End and throughout the UK, including Stephen Daldry’s production of ‘Search and Destroy’ at the Royal Court Theatre, and she was also in Charlton Heston’s film of ‘A Man for All Seasons’ for US Television.   She returned to The Central School of Speech and Drama to study on their postgraduate voice course, and now teaches mainly at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and The British American Drama Academy.  She has worked in the U.S., most recently as an artist in residence at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She loves inviting students to explore the relationship between practical voice work and their imaginations, to see how language reveals character and emotion.   She also gives private coaching to actors and works with corporate clients on presentation skills and accent softening. She is a Kristin Linklater designated teacher and is proud to be one of the few practitioners of this work in the UK.

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KAREN TOMLIN

KAREN TOMLIN

London Theatre Program
Karen has been a Theatre Practitioner and Artist for over twenty years, firstly, as an actor and singer studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and working for theatre companies such as the Globe and the National Theatre.  I was associate director for London Bubble Theatre Company between 2005 -2008 and am now a freelance theatre director making work for theatre companies such as Paines Plough, Clean Break, Almeida, The Gate, Ovalhouse Theatre Company, Unicorn Theatre, Fourth Monkey.   She has made work within professional and community settings for over twenty years. Her work is equally positioned between classical texts such as Shakespeare and Chekov and new writing placed in conventional and unconventional performance spaces. For example, is ‘The Streets’ for Theatre Royal Stratford East.  A promenade performance starting at Stratford Station and ending on a roof top overlooking the cultural quarter. A contemporary love story with a diverse cast of actors, poets, musicians and dancers of all ages. As a freelance director she has made work for companies such as Paines Plough, Clean Break, The Gate, Ovalhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East.   Karen has an MA in applied theatre and has worked extensively as a drama facilitator in schools as well as the educational provision of theatre companies such as the Ovalhouse Globe, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.   Karen is qualified teacher in post compulsory education and currently studying for her PhD at Queen Mary, London University. She has delivered workshops, lectured and directed within drama schools and university spaces such as at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford, Drama Centre, Arts Educational, LAMDA, Queen Mary University of London, Royal Holloway, University of East London and Cambridge University.  Her subject areas are Facilitation Skills, Race Relations in Theatre Film and Television, Directing, New Writing, Forum and Verbatim Theatre praxis, Actor Training and of course Shakespeare. Finally, she is currently associate lecturer at Birkbeck College University of London and audition panelist for the BA Acting at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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JOHN TUCKER

JOHN TUCKER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
John is a voice coach and director with an MA in Voice from the Central School of Speech and Drama and an AGSM Diploma in Singing from Guildhall School of Music and Drama. At BADA, John has been a voice tutor on the faculty since 2010 teaching on both the Oxford and London programs. John is also a voice tutor on the faculty at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). John started his career as an opera singer. He made his operatic debut singing Owen Wingrave at the Aldeburgh Festival. During his career he sang at the English National Opera, Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House with directors including Stephen Daldry and Sir Peter Hall. In recital and concert, John sang at major halls and festivals through-out Britain and Europe and was a member of the The Songmakers' Alamac.   John today runs a private voice studio (www.john-tucker.com) training professional actors where his clients include Emily Bruni, Edward Holcroft, William Huston, Alex Jennings, Katherine Kingsley, Elliot Levey, Sophie Okonedo, Diana Quick, Rupert Simonian, Andrew Simpson, Jeany Spark, Toby Stephens, Hannah Tointon, Indira Varma, Daisy Waterstone and Molly Windsor. John’s professional theatre credits as voice coach include productions for the Bush Theatre, English Touring Theatre, Gate Theatre, Headlong Theatre, HighTide Theatre, National Theatre, and the Young and Old Vic Theatres. John recently worked as voice coach on the TV series Industry for HBO/BBC (2020). John is the director of the theatre company REP:UNLOCKED (www.rep-unlocked.com). For RU he has directed Simon Stephens’ 1000 Stars Explode in the Sky (2021), Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro (2021), Hamlet (2020) and The Sonnet Project (2020). At The Actors Center in New York, John directed Macbeth (2017) and Hamlet (2106). For the British Council in Uzbekistan, John directed Hamlet (2018) at the Arts Theatre and Uzbek State TV. John's business clients include Christie’s Auction House, Facebook, Al Jazeera English TV Station and individuals such as Richard Coles and Shami Chakrabarti.  

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ANDREW WADE

ANDREW WADE

Midsummer in Oxford Program
Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 – 2003 and Assistant Head of Voice from 1987-90. He directed and devised a number of poetry programs and conferences with the legendary Cecily Berry. Since leaving the RSC in 2003, Andrew works predominately in the US leading Master Classes and Workshops, as well as coaching with theatre companies and actors. He has particular links with the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, Delaware University, the National Theater School in Montreal, The Juilliard School and with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where he has coached Antony and Cleopatra, Comedy of Errors, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet and Merchant of Venice. Other work includes Verse Consultant on the film Shakespeare in Love and voice coach on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew (TFANA); Matilda (Broadway); Lord of the Rings (Montreal and London); La Traviata (ENO), A Misummer Night’s Dream and Clay Cart (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Henry V (Guthrie Theatre) Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet (co-production with The Acting Company). Publications include “Working Shakespeare”, a series on voice and text work with Helen Hunt, Samuel L Jackson, Toby Stevens, Clare Danes, Blythe Danner, Emily Watson and introduced by Jeremy Irons. He is currently working on “Shakespeare Experience”, editions of Shakespearean recordings, plus audio excerpts with contemporary actors.

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ZOË WAITES

ZOË WAITES

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Zoë is an an actor, theatre maker and teaching artist. She trained at RADA, where she is now an Associate, and has performed in theatres all over the world, as well as throughout the UK. Shortly after graduating Zoë was invited to play Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, for which she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding Performance in a Classical Role. Multiple leading roles for the company followed, including Desdemona in Othello, Mary in The Family Reunion, and Viola in Twelfth Night (winner of 2nd prize for Ian Charleson) alongside world premieres of new plays The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Night Of The Soul, and latterly Mrs Frail in Love For Love. Other classical roles include Rosalind at STC in Washington DC, Goneril to Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear at the Almeida, and Cassius in Julius Caesar for Sheffield Crucible Theatre. Other new work includes world premieres of Edward Albee’s The Play About The Baby (Almeida), Sir Trevor Nunn’s production of Birdsong (West End), the 24 hour Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre) and David Edgar’s ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End, UK tour, Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto.) Zoë is also the co-founder and joint Artistic Director of two theatre companies - the multi award-nominated Bee Jar Theatre, and ShakespeareMoves, a physical theatre collective. She is a founder member of the Creative Learning Panel for Digital Theatre, and is currently the Associate Lecturer for Acting Shakespeare on the MA/MFA in Actor Performer Training at Rose Bruford, where she also directed Julius Caesar in September 2020. Zoë has performed extensively for BBC radio, and on television has most recently been seen as series regular in Netflix’s Cursed.

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LEO WRINGER

LEO WRINGER

Greek Theatre, London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program
Leo went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize. His classical work includes: Michael Grandage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre; Blackta for Young Vic; Fool in King Lear with the late Corin Redgrave as Lear, Prince of Verona in Romeo and Juliet directed by Peter Gill, and Duke of Ephesus doubled with Doctor Pinch in Tim Supple’s production of Comedy of Errors – all for the RSC. For Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory, Bristol, he played Brutus in Julius Caesar, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus and the title role in Othello – director Andrew Hilton; Camillo in The Winters Tale for Complicité; Cinna The Poet in Julius Caesar at the Barbican, then King Of Athens in Fiona Shaw’s Medea in Dublin and West End, both productions directed by Deborah Warner. Among the modern work he’s played in: Perseverance Drive, Sixty-Six Books & Two Horsemen – all at the Bush Theatre, the latter achieving a Time Out Award; Zinnie Harris’s The Wheel for National Theatre of Scotland, directed by Vicky Featherstone; and Search and Destroy at the Royal Court directed by Stephen Daldry. Film and TV credits include: Nighthawks, Death in Paradise, The Kitchen Toto, Silent Witness, Judge John Deed, Canterbury Tales, Casualty, Law and Order, Rebus, and the role of Thomas Peters in Simon Schama’s Rough Crossing.

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YOU-RI YAMANAKA

YOU-RI YAMANAKA

London Theatre Program
You-Ri Yamanaka is an actor, movement director and teacher. She was born in Japan and has lived in the UK since 1995. She trained at LAMDA and Lecoq (Phillipe Gaulier) in the UK after completing an MA in directing at the Drama department at Royal Holloway University of London, also in Kabuki dance (traditional Japanese dance) and Butoh (avant-garde Japanese dance) in Japan for over 25 years. She discovered the Michael Chekhov technique in 2002 and several years later became one of the founders of Michael Chekhov Europe. You-Ri has been exploring the meeting points between the East and the West to find the universal aspect in acting. She has taught at LAMDA, ALRA, East 15, The London Dramatic Academy in the UK, New National Theatre Drama Studio, Tokyo Japan, Sophia University & Toyo University. She will be movement directing a new production for the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) under the direction of Phelim McDermott in 2022. www.you-ri.com

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