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• Jade Anouka - Read bio

  Jade Anouka - Biography

  

  CALPURNIA/METELLUS CIMBER/PINDARUS

  Theatre: includes Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe/Middle Easter tour), Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (NT), Sixty-Six Books (Bush), Hamlet (Globe/European tour), Romeo and Juliet (Bolton Octagon), Wild Horses (Theatre503), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe/US tour), Blood Wedding (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal), The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Penelopiad (RSC), Dick Whittington, Golden Boy (Greenwich), Handa’s Suprise (Little Angel), UnStoned, Outright Terror, Bold & Bright (Soho).
  Film: includes A Running Jump.
  Television: includes Doctor Who, Shakespeare Uncovered, Secrets and Words, Law & Order, USS Constellation, Happy Hour.

• Frances Barber - Read bio

  Frances Barber - Biography

  

  CAESAR

  For the Donmar: Les Parents Terribles (Trafalgar Studios), Madame de Sade (Wyndham’s), Insignificance.
  Theatre: includes That Face (Sheffield Theatres), Afterplay (Gate, Dublin) King Lear, The Seagull (RSC/New York), The Dead Monkey, Love Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, Camille – Olivier Award (RSC), Antony & Cleopatra (Globe), Aladdin (Old Vic), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Whatsonstage Award (Gielgud), Tales from the Vienna Woods, Pygmalion, The Night of the Iguana (NT), Closer to Heaven- Whatsonstage Award (Arts), Closer (Lyric), Uncle Vanya – TMA Award (Noël Coward, formerly Albery), Imagine Drowning (Hampstead), My Heart’s A Suitcase (Royal Court), Macbeth (Manchester Royal Exchange), Twelfth Night (Renaissance Theatre Co), Summer & Smoke (Leicester Haymarket).
  Film: includes May I Kill U?, Goal 2!,King Lear, Goal!, Evilenko, Suzie Gold, 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, La Sirene Rouge, Superstition, Flyfishing, Shiner, The Escort, Esther Kahn, Still Crazy, Photographing Fairies, Prick Up Your Ears, A Zed and Two Noughts, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.
  Television: includes Bad Education, Psychobitches, The Spa, Silk, Vexed, Great Expectations, Pete vs Life, We’ll Take Manhattan, Doctor Who, Friday Night Dinner, The Nativity, A Passionate Woman, The Fattest Man in Britain, Poirot, The Street,  Hotel Babylon, Beautiful People, Hustle, Law and Order: UK, Funland, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Manchild, Real Women, Love in a Cold Climate, Boudicca, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse.

• Alice Bell - Read bio

  Alice Bell - Biography

  

  PRISON GUARD

  Trained: Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama
  Theatre: includes Birds of a Feather, Dinnerladies, Keeping Up Appearances (Classic Comedy Productions), By the Weird Fountain (Offcut Festival), The Harlot (APC Theatre Company), There Are No Guarantees (This House is Not a Circus), The Importance of Being Earnest, Outside Edge (PEEL), The Missing Dauphin, The Lost Treasure of Toulouse (PEEL/Thomson Cruises), Jubilee Street Party, We’re In The Army (Beards Productions/English Heritage), Moon (Dead Penguin Theatre Company), The Hired Man (The Steam Industry), Berkoff’s Agamemnon (Nash Theatre Company).
  Television: includes Derren’s Brown’s The Experiments, The 7^th Player, No Job for a Lady.
  Radio: includes Escorts.

• Ishia Bennison - Read bio

  Ishia Bennison - Biography

  

  CASCA 

  Theatre: includes The Importance of Being Earnest (Rose/Hong Kong), Our Private Life  (Royal Court), The Canterbury Tales (Rose/UK tour), A Couple Of Poor, Polish Speaking Romanians (Soho), A New Way To Please You, Sejanus -His Fall, Speaking Like Magpies, Cymbeline, Measure for Measure (RSC), Bites (Bush) Strange Orchestra,  Mother Courage (Orange Tree) Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Manchester Library), Arabian Nights (Young Vic) Antony And Cleopatra (New York),  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Brazil) The Merry Wives (India), Richard III (Riverside Studios/Tower of London) Poetry Or Bust , Samson Agonistes, Romeo and Juliet (Northern Broadsides) Medea (Lilian Baylis) Les Miserables (Nottingham Playhouse) Turcaret (Gate), One For The Road (Meridian Prods.), Educating Rita (Oxford Playhouse), Red Devils (Liverpool Playhouse).    
  Film: includes King David, Anno Domini, The Awakening, Jesus of Nazareth.
  Television: includes Last Tango in Halifax, True Dare Kiss, At Home With The Braithwaites , Holby City, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Burnside, Love Hurts, Give And Take, Mother’s Day, Story Teller, Bread, Eastenders, Much Ado About Nothing, Mitch: A Family Affair, Kessler, Bid For Power. 

• Helen Cripps - Read bio

  Helen Cripps - Biography

  

  CINNA THE POET / DRUMS

  Theatre: includes The Low Road (Royal Court), Earthquakes in London (NT/Headlong), The Hotel (Invisible Dot). As Writer and Performer includes Mrs Biscuit, Alex and Helen’s Radio Nowhere, Happy Now (London/Edinburgh Fringe), Wham Bam, Niceties (Cambridge Footlights).
  Film: includes Blue Monday, Black Pond.
  Television: includes Anna and Katy, Teaboys, Horne and Corden.

• Clare Dunne - Read bio

  Clare Dunne - Biography

  

  PORTIA/OCTAVIUS CAESAR

  Trained: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
  Theatre: includes Detroit (NT/Chicago), Juno & the Paycock (NT/Abbey, Dublin), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Druid 35, The Silver Tassie, The Playboy of the Western World (Druid), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Filter/Latitude), Three Sisters (Filter/Lyric Hammersmith), Crunch (nabakov/Latitude), Babel (Elan Wales). As Writer and Performer includes Living with Missy (Smock Alley, Dublin).

• Jennifer Joseph - Read bio

  Jennifer Joseph - Biography

  

  TREBONIUS

  Trained: Clean Break Theatre Company
  Theatre: includes Hours Til Midnight (Clean Break), A Woman Inside (Hen & Chickens), Cleaning Up (Oval House), 17 Minutes (Various Venues), The Quick (Tristan Bates/NYT/Lewisham Youth Theatre).
  Film: includes Starred Up.

• Charlotte Josephine - Read bio

  Charlotte Josephine - Biography

  

  LUCIUS

  Trained: East 15 Acting School
  Theatre: as performer and writer includes Bitch Boxer – Soho Theatre Young Writers Award, Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, Perffection (Edinburgh Fringe).
  Charlotte is one third of Snuff Box Theatre who have recently been appointed the Apprentice Company of the Redbridge Drama Centre where they are currently developing their new piece Altitude Brothers. Her one-woman show Bitch Boxer will also take a three week run at the Soho Theatre in February 2013 before touring nationally.

• Jenny Jules - Read bio

  Jenny Jules - Biography

  

  CASSIUS

  Theatre: includes King Lear, The Homecoming, Big White Fog (Almeida), Moon on A Rainbow Shawl , Death and the King’s Horseman (NT), Ruined – Critics’ Circle Award (Almeida/Washington), A Raisin in the Sun (Manchester Royal Exchange), Fabulations, Gem in the Ocean, Walk Hard, The Promise, Wine in the Wilderness, The Colour of Justice, Two Trains Running, Pecong (Tricycle), The Vagina Monologues (New Ambassadors/UK tour), Born Bad (Hampstead), The Pan Beaters (Greenwich), Familiar Feelings, Whispers in the Dark (Theatre Centre), Deadmeat (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
  Film: includes The Man Inside, Victims, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Octane, SW9, WIT, Up ‘N’ Under, Spiders and Flies.
  Television: includes Law & Order, Skins, Vexed, Father and Son, Casualty, Doctors, Judge John Deed, Holby City, I Saw You, NCS Manhunt, A Respectable Tale, Kavanagh QC, Little Napoleons, Prime Suspect. 

• Cush Jumbo - Read bio

  Cush Jumbo - Biography

  

  MARK ANTONY

  Theatre: includes Josephine and I (Bush), A Doll’s House, As You Like It, Pygmalion (Manchester Royal Exchange), Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival), She Stoops to Conquer (NT), An Argument About Sex (Traverse), Liquid Gold (Almeida), Brixton Stories (Lyric Hammersmith), Love’s Labour’s Lost, We the People (Globe).
  Film: includes The Inbetweeners.
  Television: includes Getting On, Vera, Lip Service, Casualty, Torchwood, Harley Street, My Family.

• Irene Ketikidi - Read bio

  Irene Ketikidi - Biography

  

  DARDANIUS / GUITAR

  Trained: Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
  Performance: as Guitarist includes work with session members of The Darkness, Guy Chambers, Cee Lo Green, Saint Saviour, Heather Peace, Adam Bomb, We Will Rock You, Thriller - Live (Lyric), X-Factor as well as touring and performing in the UK and Europe including for Steve Vai, ZZ Top, Colm Kirwan, Heidi Feek, Victoria Shaw, Cherry Lee Mewis, AKS, JtheX, Toli Nameless, Maja Slatinsek, Gravil and RedNPink.
  Recording: includes Martial Arts and Magic Tricks (featuring Dave Marks, Darby Todd, Dave Kilminster and Phil Hilborne) and is featured on various artists and bands recordings.

• Carrie Rock - Read bio

  Carrie Rock - Biography

  

  SOOTHSAYER

  Trained: Clean Break Theatre Company
  Theatre: includes Pastoral (Soho/HighTide Festival), Treading Water (Holloway Prison), She From the Sea (The Lift – Mobile Theatre), Rondo, Hope and Anchor (Etcetera), 17 Minutes (Soho), Criminal Cabaret (Brick Lane), This Time Tomorrow (Brighton Festival), A Woman Inside (Etcetera/Edinburgh 2012).

• Carolina Valdés - Read bio

  Carolina Valdés - Biography

  

  CINNA/VOLUMNIUS

  Trained: L’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
  Theatre: includes The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC/Latitude Festival), Delirium (Theatre O/Barbican/Abbey, Dublin), Casanova, Told by an Idiot (Lyric Hammersmith/UK tour), Lyndie’s Got a Gun (Trafalgar Studios), Astronaut (Theatre O/Barbican/UK tour), The Argument (Theatre O/Barbican/Edinburgh Festival/UK and World tours), 3 Dark Tales (Theatre O/Barbican/New York/Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/World tour), Bond (Theatre O/Battersea Arts Centre/Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh/UK tour).
  Opera: includes Carmen, Don Giovanni (Opera 21/UK tour).
  Television: includes Call the Midwife.
  Carolina is Co-Artistic Director of Theatre O, a London based national and international touring theatre company, and an experienced Director, Workshop Leader and Acting Coach.

• Harriet Walter - Read bio

  Harriet Walter - Biography

  

  BRUTUS

  For the Donmar: Mary Stuart – Evening Standard Award (also Apollo/New York).
  Theatre: includes Women Beware Women, Dinner, Life Times Three, The Children’s Hour, Arcadia (NT), Anthony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Three Sisters – Olivier Award (RSC), The Castle (Barbican), All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC/Barbican), Nicholas Nickleby (Aldwych), Fallujah (Old Truman Brewery), The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath), The Royal Family (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Late Middle Classes (Watford Palace), Ivanov (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Chichester Festival/UK tour), Us and Them, Sweet Panic, La Musica (Hampstead), Old Times (Wyndham’s), Three Birds Alighting on a Field, The Seagull, Cloud Nine, Hamlet (Royal Court), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Joint Stock/Riverside).
  Film: includes The Wedding Video, A Royal Affair, The Domino Effect, Young Victoria, Atonement, Babel, Chromophobia, Bright Young Things, Onegin, The Governess, Sense & Sensibility, Milou en Mai, The Good Father, Turtle Diary.
  Television: includes Heading Out, Law & Order, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Little Dorrit, Poirot, Midsomer Murders, George Eliot – A Scandalous Life, Uncle Silas, Waking the Dead, Macbeth, Unfinished Business, A Dance to the Music of Time, Inspector Morse, Ashenden, The Men’s Room, Dorothy L Sayers Trilogy, The Price, Amy, The Cherry Orchard, The Imitation Game, Rebecca.
  Books: includes Other People’s Shoes, Macbeth, Facing It.
  Harriet is a patron of Clean Break.

• Danielle Ward - Read bio

  Danielle Ward - Biography

  

  LEPIDUS/CLITUS/BASS

  Theatre: as Writer and Performer includes Gutted: A Revenger's Musical (Riverside Studios), Psister Psycho (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Take a Break Tales (Pleasance, Edinburgh) Blast Off (Soho), Laugh Your Farce Off (Pleasance).
  Television: includes Mock The Week, Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, NBC's Last Comic Standing, Newsnight Live, Comedy Shuffle.
  Radio: includes The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth, Dilemma, 4 Stands Up, Look Away Now, Rory Bremner's One Question Quiz.
  Albums: include Techicolour by The Loves, Three by The Loves (Fortuna Pop Records).
  Danielle won the 2012 Sony Radio Award for Do the Right Thing podcast and the 2006 Time Out Comedy Award for Best Newcomer.

Director

Phyllida Lloyd - Read bio

Phyllida Lloyd - Biography

For the Donmar: The Threepenny Opera, Boston Marriage, Mary Stuart (also Apollo/New York).
Theatre: includes Six Degrees of Separation, Hysteria, Wild East (Royal Court), The Way of the World, Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Duchess of Malfi (NT), Artists and Admirers, The Virtuoso (RSC), Mamma Mia! (West End/New York/Worldwide).
Opera: includes La Bohème, Medea, Carmen, L’Etoile, Gloriana, Albert Herring, Peter Grimes – South Bank Show Award (Opera North), Macbeth (Paris/Royal Opera House), The Handmaid’s Tale (Copenhagen/ENO/Toronto), The Carmelites, Verdi Requiem, Rhinegold, Valkyrie, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods (ENO).
Film: includes The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia!, Gloriana.

Designer

Bunny Christie - Read bio

Bunny Christie - Biography

For the Donmar: Moonlight, Dimetos, The Family Reunion, After Miss Julie.
Theatre: includes Hay Fever (Noël Coward), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Comedy of Errors, The Cherry Orchard, Greenland, Men Should Weep, The White Guard – Olivier Award, Mrs Affleck, Women of Troy, Our Class, Philistines, The Life of Galileo, Baby Doll – Evening Standard Award, A Streetcar Named Desire – Olivier Award, (NT), Kin (Royal Court), The Dance of Death Parts 1 & 2 (Royal Dramatic/Sweden), The Postman Always Rings Twice (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fool for Love (Noël Coward, formerly Albery), The Vagina Monologues  (West End/UK tour/Old Vic/Royal Albert Hall).
Opera: includes Brief Encounter, Tosca (Houston) The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia Di Lammermoor, Cosi Fan Tutte (ETO).

Lighting Designer

Neil Austin - Read bio

Neil Austin - Biography

For the Donmar: The Weir, Julius Caesar, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, King Lear, Passion, The Prince of Homburg, Red – Tony Award, Drama Desk Award (also New York/Los Angeles), Life Is a Dream, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet (also New York), Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night, Piaf (also Vaudeville/Buenos Aires/Madrid), Parade - Knight of Illumination Award, Garland Award (also Los Angeles), John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, The Cryptogram, Frost/Nixon (also Gielgud/New York/US tour), The Wild Duck, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Henry IV, World Music, After Miss Julie, Caligula. 
Theatre: includes Children of the Sun, The Captain of Köpenick, Port, The Doctor’s Dilemma, She Stoops to Conquer, The Cherry Orchard, Welcome to Thebes, Women Beware Women, The White Guard – Olivier Award, London Assurance, England People Very Nice, Oedipus, Her Naked Skin, Philistines, Thérèse Raquin (NT), The Faith Machine, Tusk Tusk (Royal Court), The Hothouse, The Sunshine Boys, South Downs / The Browning Version, Death and the Maiden, The Children’s Hour, Betty Blue Eyes, No Man’s Land (West End), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita, The Seafarer (New York).
Dance: includes 24 Preludes, Rhapsody, As One (Royal Ballet), The Sleeping Beauty (English National Ballet), Cinderella (New Adventures), Pineapple Poll (Birmingham Royal Ballet).

Sound Designer

Tom Gibbons - Read bio

Tom Gibbons - Biography

Trained: Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre: includes The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse), London, The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough), Love, Love, Love (Royal Court/Paines Plough), The Hairy Ape, Shivered, Faith, Hope and Charity, The Hostage, Toad, Present Tense (Southwark Playhouse), Rhinegold (The Yard) Utopia, Bagpuss, Everything Must Go, Soho Streets (Soho), Chalet Lines, The Knowledge, Little Platoons, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover@Xmas, Broken Space Season (Bush), Romeo and Juliet (Headlong), Island (NT/UK tour), Disco Pigs (Young Vic), Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman), Plenty (Sheffield Crucible Studio), Encourage The Others (Almeida), Wasted (Paines Plough/UK tour), Sold (Theatre503), The Chairs (Ustinov Bath), The Country, The Road To Mecca, The Roman Bath, 1936, The Shawl (Arcola), The Machine Gunners (Polka), Holes (New Wimbledon Studio), Terror Tales (Hampstead Studio), Faustus (Watford Palace/UK tour), Faithless Bitches (Courtyard), FAT (Oval House/UK tour), Just Me Bell (Graeae/UK tour), Fanta Orange, Blue Heaven (Finborough). As Associate Designer includes The Aliens (Bush).
Tom is the Resident Sound Designer for the international physical theatre company Parrot {in the} Tank.

Composer

Gary Yershon - Read bio

Gary Yershon - Biography

For the Donmar: The Threepenny Opera, Boston Marriage.
Theatre: includes The Comedy of Errors, Grief, 2000 Years, Buried Child, The Duchess of Malfi, Troilus and Cressida, Life (x) 3, The Way of the World, Volpone, The Tempest, Broken Glass, Pericles, Widowersʼ Houses, Further Than The Furthest Thing (NT), Arabian Nights, Noughts and Crosses, Pericles, The Winterʼs Tale [2002 & 2006], The Crucible, As You Like It [1992 & 2005], Cymbeline, Macbeth, The Malcontent, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, Hamlet, Don Carlos, The Devil Is An Ass, Artists and Admirers, The Virtuoso (RSC - Associate Artist); Chicken Soup With Barley, Rhinoceros, Redundant, Plasticine, Fireface (Royal Court), Art, The Unexpected Man, The Play What I Wrote, The God of Carnage (West End/New York), The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/New York), Deathtrap, Hysteria, By the Bog of Cats (West End).
Film: includes Topsy-Turvy, Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year, A Running Jump, Swim.
Television: includes Trial and Retribution, Ebb and Flo, James the Cat, Painted Tales, The Heritage Game, Skin Deep.
Radio: includes Autumn Journal, The Theban Plays, Gawain and the Green Knight, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Eve of St Agnes, The Odyssey, Troilus and Criseyde.

Movement Director

Ann Yee - Read bio

Ann Yee - Biography

For the Donmar: Berenice, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Novecento (Trafalgar Studios).
Theatre: includes The Country Wife, Sex, Chips & Rock ’n’ Roll (Manchester Royal Exchange), Torch Song Trilogy (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), After Miss Julie (Young Vic), She Stoops to Conquer, The Comedy of Errors (NT), A Soldier in Every Son (RSC), God of Soho (Globe), Orpheus & Eurydice (NYT/Old Vic Tunnels), American Trade, Silence (RSC/Hampstead), King Lear (RSC/Roundhouse/ New York), The Secret Garden, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Ingerland (Operashots/Royal  Opera House), Salome (Headlong/UK tour), Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park), Piranha Heights, Shraddha , This Isn’t Romance (Soho), Dance Radio, Mates (Latitude Festival/Drywrite), Eric’s (Liverpool Everyman), Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall), Oxford Street (Royal Court), Bad Girls the Musical (Garrick), Angels in America (Lyric Hammersmith/UK tour), Bent (Trafalgar Studios), Hair, Big Love (Gate), Woyzeck (New York/Gate), The Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith/Bristol Old Vic), The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith), Food (Traverse/UK tour).

Fight Director

Kate Waters - Read bio

Kate Waters - Biography

Theatre: includes Cabaret (Savoy), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Comedy of Errors, One Man Two Guvnors, (also Theatre Royal Haymarket), Frankenstein, Season’s Greetings, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Welcome to Thebes, Women Beware Women, War Horse (also New London) (NT), Noises Off (Old Vic/Novello), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Written On Skin (Aix En Provence/Royal Opera House), Company (Sheffield Theatres), Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Theatre Royal Bath/Peter Hall Co), Richard III, Henry V, Doctor Faustus (Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ragtime, Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park), The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida), The Homecoming, King Lear, American Trade (RSC), Our New Girl (Bush), Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Private Lives, A View The From Bridge, As You Like It (Manchester Royal Exchange), King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Desire Under The Elms, Saved, The Chair Plays, Blasted, Twisted Tales (Lyric Hammersmith), Communicating Doors, Carmen (New York), A View From The Bridge (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Great Expectations (ETT/Watford Palace).  
Kate is one of only two women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors.

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