A midsummer nights dream biogs

CASTHELENA 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 Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights 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

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 Belgrade Production Services AND PAINTING

BOTTOM MAKER BY Scott Brooker

STAGE MANAGEMENTCOMPANY MANAGER Tracey Cooper

STAGE MANAGER Vanessa Sutherland

DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER Robyn Hardisty

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Lauren Halsall

STAGE MANAGEMENT Hannah Boyle APPRENTICE

PRODUCTION TEAMWARDROBE MAINTENANCE Danuta Tarbard DRESSERS 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

CHILDRENS ACTING COACH Joe Leat

CHAPERONES Sarah Adams Alison Phelps-Allen George Rennison

PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY Mike Kwasniak

SAIKAT AHAMEDSNOUT

Saikat is a Bristol based writer and performer.

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 Nights Dream (Bristol Old Vic and International

tour), A Fine Balance (Hampstead Theatre / Tamasha Arts), East is East (Oldham Coliseum), Shepherds

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-Mla), The Immigrant Song (Mainbrace), Three Sisters, The Matchmaker (Jermyn Street Theatre)

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), Undreamd

Shores (Grand Union Orchestra).

For more information about Saikat, visit: www.saikatahamed.com

Twitter: @AhamedSaikat

ESH ALLADI PUCK

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)

Television credits: Houdini and Doyle (ITV/Fox), Frankie (BBC)

MICHELLE BISHOPFIRST 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

We will meet; and there we may

rehearse most obscenely and courageously

SAM DASTOREGEUS

Over forty years Sam Dastors career has spanned theatre, film, television and radio.

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 Scofields Prospero in what became the longest run

of any Shakespeare play in Londons West End in the 20th century. His other London appearances include the world premiere of three of Simon Grays 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. Sams 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, Blakes 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

Saints 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 Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon.

IMOGEN DAINESHELENA

Imogen started her acting career as a member of the National Youth Theatre, and performing at the National

Theatre in Melly Stills 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.

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 Nunns War of the Roses trilogy at the Rose Theatre Kingston.

KULVINDER GHIRBOTTOM

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), Thatchers Children (Bristol Old Vic), The Caucasion Chalk Circle (Royal National Theatre/ Theatre Dcomplicite), 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 Winters Tale (Royal Exchange, Manchester).

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), Ninas 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 Wont Change My

Life, Samsara, Take Away, The Raj Quartet, Three Large Beers and Whose Sari Now.

FIONA HAMPTONTATANIA & HIPPOLYTA

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).

MUZZ KHANSNUG

Muzz Khan trained at Webber Douglas and cole Philippe Gaulier.

Theatre credits: A Midsummer Nights 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: Dafs 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).

Muzz is also a highly-acclaimed professional DJ.

HARRY LISTER SMITHLYSANDER

Theatre credits: Mouthful (Metta Theatre), Macbeth (Manchester International/Festival /Park Avenue

Armory (Off Broadway)), Everyday Maps for Everyday Use (Finborough Theatre), Posh (Duke of Yorks

Theatre) and Hamlet (Sheffield Crucible).

Television credits: War and Peace (Weinstein Co. /BBC), New Tricks (Wall to Wall Television), The Crimson

Field (BBC), Tom Browns Schooldays (ITV/Company Pictures), and My Dads the Prime Minister (BBC).

Film credits: Gods Own Country (Dales Productions Limited), Mums 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).

DEVEN MODHAFLUTE

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); Robis 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).

NEERJA NAIKHERMIA

Neerja graduated from Cambridge before training at the Drama Centre London.

Film credits: Sold (with Gillian Anderson & David Arquette, directed by Oscar & Emmy award winning Jeffrey Brown, executive producer Emma Thompson, Jaya International), Hackneys 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).

When in that moment, ~ so it came

to pass, ~ Titania wakd, and straightway lovd

an ass.

MINAL PATELSNUG

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

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

MATT RAWLEOBERON

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 Claps Molly House (Royal National Theatre), Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse), Hard

Times (Haymarket Theatre), South Pacific (Grange Park Opera), Marius in Les Miserable (Queens

Theatre, London), Alice In Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic), Putting It Together (Chichester Festival Theatre), Flute/Puck in A Midsummer Nights 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).

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).

Television and Radio credits: Doctors, Holby City (BBC), Coming Up (Channel 4) and for BBC Radio 3 Baghdad Wedding, In The Van and Womens Hour

He has performed in concert performances with the CBSO, Shanghai Concert Orchestra, Bangkok

Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.

Give me your hands, if we be friends,

and Robin shall restore amends

HARMAGE SINGH KALIRAIPETER QUINCE

Harmage trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, London, and cole Internationale de Thtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris.

Theatre credits: The Winters 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), Politicians 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).

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).

ASSAD ZAMANDEMETRIUS

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

Shakespeares 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).

The Fairy Chorus in rehearsal and add credit Mike

Kwasniak

TREVOR NUNNDIRECTOR

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 Loves Labours Lost. He has directed the world premieres

of Tom Stoppards 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).

MICHAEL OAKLEYASSOCIATE 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.

LIBBY WATSONDESIGNER

Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a 1st class BA Hons in Theatre Design from Wimbledon

School of Art.

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, Rudys 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

Dont 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) Its 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, .Hes 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 Willss Girls Tobacco Factory, Blest Be the Tie and Whats 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.

MARK JONATHAN LIGHTING 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

Londons 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 Childrens Ballet, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera Holland Park

and Glyndebourne.

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

DREW BAUMOHL SOUND DESIGNER

Drew trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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, Amys View, Twelfth Night, The Families of Lockerbie, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Forever

Young, Blithe Spirit, Glamour, Vertigo, Toms 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, Sance 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

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 Birmingham-

based 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.

Sabris work can be heard on numerous CDs playing with some of the worlds 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 todays 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.

Sonias 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 UKs most

celebrated arts centres, mac.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in

nights; Four nights will quickly dream

away the time.

MORWENNA ROWE VOICE COACH

Morwenna Rowe was voice coach for Trevor Nunns 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 UKs 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 Centrals 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.

GINNY SCHILLER CDG CASTING DIRECTOR

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, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible,

Young Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Wiltons 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 Nights 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 Millers 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 Posners productions of Harvey at Birmingham Rep,

on tour and at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Abigails Party at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Wyndhams 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 Wrights adaptation

of Regeneration directed by Simon Godwin; Lynn Nottages Intimate Apparel which moved from the

Ustinov to the Park Theatre; and The American Plan directed by David Grindley and Sarah Ruhls In the

Next Room, or The Vibrator Play directed by Laurence Boswell, which transferred from the

Ustinov to the St James Theatre.

Ill met by moonlight,

proud Titania.

BOARD OF DIRECTORSEmma 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

ARTISTICPeter Rowe Artistic Director Rob Salmon Associate Director Adrian Berry Childrens Shows Advisor Jamie Beddard Agent For Change

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATESChina Plate, Zoe Svensden, Paulette Randall

ADMINISTRATIONDavid Watson Head Of Operations Klyde Robinson Finance & IT Manager Lorna Owen Administration & Human Resources Manager Sharon Osborne Ramps on the Moon Administrator Suzanne Simpson Finance Officer Terri Winwood Finance Officer Ellen Farmer Administration Apprentice

BUILDING MAINTENANCENeil Daines Building Services Technician Keith Mickleburgh Cleaner Scott Mickleburgh Cleaner

CREATIVE LEARNINGSian Thomas Creative Learning Producer Marcus Neal Creative Learning Manager Helen Baggett Youth Theatre Practitioner Joe Leat Youth Theatre Practitioner Tanya White Youth Theatre2 Practitioner Liam Gregory Youth Theatre2 Practitioner

YOUTH THEATRE ASSISTANTSTom Chamberlain, Lorna Garside, Debbie Grant, Liam Gregory, Mae Munuo, Stanley Rudkin, Ollie Ward

FREELANCE PRACTITIONERSHelen Baggett, Mark Curtis, Danusia Iwaszko, Joe Leat, Rachael Morrison, Tom Roe

PRODUCTIONDavid Phillips Head of Production Matthew Ramsey Theatre Technician (Stage) David Gardener Theatre Technician (Lighting) Peter Hazelwood Theatre Technician (Sound) Ben Ager Theatre Technician Alex Noble Technical Apprentice Tracey J Cooper Production Services Manager Sky Barnes Stage Manager Cassie Gallagher Deputy Stage Manager Hannah Boyce Stage Management Apprentice Vanessa Sutherland Stage Manager Robyn Hardisty Deputy Stage Manager Lauren Halsall Assistant Stage Manager

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PRODUCTION CASUAL STAFFJames 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

COMMUNICATIONSStephen Skrypec Head Of Communications Daniel Emmens Sales Manager Jeni Raw Marketing Manager Jack ODell Assistant Marketing Manager Elise Golbourn Relationship Manager Joseph Valentine Assistant Relationship Manager John Adam Baker Relationship Officer Amy Nettleton Agent For Change - Relationships Kelly Kirkbride Front Of House Manager Lauren Crowley Hospitality Manager Lianne Willis Assistant Hospitality Manager Scott Fidgett Theatre Chef

TICKET SALES TEAMSam Biscoe, Lorna Garside

FRONT OF HOUSE ASSISTANTSLucy 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 USHERSSusan 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 AMBASSADORSMichele Bevan-Margetts, Hayley Brett, Helen Charters, David Farthing, Vera Forsdike, Rachel Gowers, Jill Grosvenor, Sue Hall, Michael Hole, Gary Kenworthy, Ruth Longhurst

FRIDAY CLUBSusan 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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