2012 Cast & Directors biographies
ACTORS (surnames in alphabetical order)
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Dermot Canavan Tranio (Shrew) and Stephano (Tempest)Born in Preston, Dermot spent many years working at the Charter Theatre and the Preston Playhouse, before, at the age of 35, going on to train at Drama Studio London in Ealing.Theatre includes; Man 1 in The 39 Steps (Criterion), Male Authority Figure in the Original London Cast of Hairspray (Shaftesbury), also covering ‘Wilbur’ and ‘Edna Turnblad', In The Club (Hampstead Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Shaw Theatre), The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth (The Oxford Shakespeare Company), The Incarcerator (The Red Lion), Mother Goose (Pneuma Arts), Office Suite (Theatre Royal, Bath and Nationwide Tour), The Accrington Pals (Pentameters), April In Paris (The Man in The Moon) and The Tempest (Il Palchetto, Tour of Italy).Television includes: Silent Witness (BBC TV), Daziel and Pascoe (BBC TV), Where the Heart Is (ITV), Celebrity Stitch Up ITV).Dermot also appears in the American film Like Crazy written and directed by Drake Doremus (Release 2011).Radio includes: Front Row (Radio 4), and Where D’ya Put Your Willy? (Stand Well Back Productions). Dermot’s first play Third Finger, Left Hand was performed at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, The Theatre Royal, York, and The New End, Hampstead. |
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David Davies Company Manager - Petruchio (Shrew) and Antonio (Tempest)David is the Company Manager of GB Theatre. His credits for the company are Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and Friar Lawrence / Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (2011), and Jacques in As You Like It and Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor for GB Theatre Company's launch in 2010. Last year he toured with New Triad Theatre’s tour of Germany in Romeo and Juliet playing the famous lover and finished the year in Sheringham Little Theatre’s Pantomime, Dick Whittington and His Cat. David was also Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, this time for Guildford Shakespeare Company. He was the company manager for The British Shakespeare Company’s national and international tour and played Oberon/Theseus and Don Pedro in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing in 2009. That year he toured for the Young Shakespeare Company and played Maximillian in the film Leaving, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival Short Corner 09. |
David was an ensemble member of the British Shakespeare Company (BSC) and played Oberon and Theseus at Arundel Castle in 2008. He played Chorus/Exeter in Henry V and Dukes Frederick and Senior in As You Like It for the BSC in 2007, and then finished that year with an extensive tour of Germany and Switzerland for New Triad Theatre in Alan Ayckbourn’s Time and Time Again. Other work for the BSC includes Oberon / Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet in 2006. He plays parts in the film Sweet Swan of Avon where the BSC provided its troupe of players.
David returned to England with the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of The Comedy of Errors to open the Bath Shakespeare Festival 2006, and to play Blackpool’s Grand Theatre. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney and was an ensemble member of Bell Shakespeare for six years playing the Sydney Opera House and touring Australia. His theatrical highlight has been playing Hamlet for The Hole in the Wall Theatre Company.
Other companies include the Perth Theatre Company and Deckchair Theatre’s 1999 tour of Croatia and Bosnia with Nevesinska 17.
Television includes Stingers, The Sleepover Club, and Bush Patrol, as well as writing several plays including The Karismatic Effekt and his one man show Finchie about the legendary Australian actor Peter Finch, based on Trader Faulkner’s biography. He directed The Winter’s Tale for Saffron Walden’s Shake-a-Leg Theatre Company, which marked his professional debut as a director.
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Peter Dineen Christopher Sly (Shrew) and Trinculo (Tempest)Peter is delighted to be working with this brave young company. One of the plays The Tempest we are performing is Shakespeare's last play, and in it you can sense his melancholia, leaving the magic of his works behind. Made me think back on my own longish career, and the magic of playing my favourite stage parts which include... Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd, Inspector Goole An Inspector Calls, Davies The Caretaker, Henry Higgins Pygmalion, Hugh Translations, Richard Harkin The Seafarer, Sergeant Rough Gaslight, Coleman The Lonesome West, Jack The Weir, Father Jack Dancing at Luaghnasa, Oberon/Theseus A Midsummer Nights Dream, Duke Frederick and Duke Senior As You Like It, Cassius Othello, Teach American Buffalo, Stan Lakeboat, Father/Moon Blood Wedding, Jimmy/Jack Brass Balls, (own play) Big Mick Mammy's Boy (own play) Irish Caruso Same Old Moon, |
Ed Entertaining Mister Sloane, Krapp Krapp's Last Tape, Archbishop Jose Laboa Devil's Advocate, (International P.E.N award from Harold Pinter) Nawadaha Hiawatha, The Man Saint Nicholas (Solo Play), Bob Cratchitt A Christmas Carol..."we are such things as dreams are made on"...Prospero.
LONDON: A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller, directed by Alan Ayckbourn. Yard Bush Theatre, Arawak Gold Jeanette Cochrane Theatre, directed by Yvonne Brewster, Macbeth Lyric Theatre, directed by Stephen Unwin. St. NIcholas Soho Theatre, directed by Justin Young. Dancing at Luaghnasa, Greenwich Theatre, Small Miracle, Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn. Credits at the Royal National Theatre include The Father/The Moon Blood Wedding, Chorus Antigone, The Futurists, Coriolanus, Danton's Death, Wild Honey, Venice Preserv'd and three hundred performances in the lead role of Nawadaha the Storyteller in Hiawatha - a much loved show.
TV and FILM: John Werth 9/11: Voices from the Air, Giant Reed Father Ted Channel 4. Father Flynn Coronation Street Granada. Upper Hand Central, Rory Mulligan in Plotlands BBC (6 part Sunday Night series). Doctors BBC. Heartbeat Yorkshire TV. Seamus McCracken in 26 episodes of Foreign Exchange RTE/Noel Price, Australia (filmed in Galway), Boon Central, Bust LWT, Majesty of the Law, LIFS, So You're in Charge, Red Cross training video. Arriverdeci Millwall BBC2, London's Burning, Judge John Deed BBC, Ardeevan a short film script written by Peter, won the Trophy and Cash award from RTE and Cork Film Centre for best short script at the Cork Film Festival. The film was made, directed by Jonathan Richardson. Peter recently played the lead role, Jimmy, in a feature film, directed by Gary Davies, called The Bricklayer, soon to be released. Work abroad includes, Malaysia, FINAS The Malaysian Film Board, Hong Kong, China, USA, Poland, Norway, Greece, and two very happy years with the Donovan Maule Theatre, Kenya, East Africa.
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Christopher Dingli Lucentio (Shrew) and Alonso (Tempest)Trained at Webber Douglas.Theatre work includes: Othello (National tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tour), Emma Thompson presents Fair Trade (Tour & Edinburgh Festival), Miracle (Leicester Square Theatre), Terms of Endearment (National tour), Twelfth Night (Greenwich Playhouse), Cabaret, Guys and Dolls (Marbella, Spain), Cabaret, Amadeus, Proof (National Theatre, Malta), The Rocky Horror Show (MFCC, Malta).TV includes: Sinbad (Impossible Pictures), Holmfirth Hollywood (BBC), Becky (TVM).Film includes: Looking Over the Dragon, The Hunt for Gollum, Agora, Helen of Troy, Morris: A Life with Bells On, Frites (short film).Other credits include: Workshop of the Philip Pullman novel I Was A Rat! (National Theatre Studio, Birmingham Rep, Warwick Arts Centre, Teatro Kismet), and the improvised comedies, Dingle Bells Malcolm Smells and Dingle Bells Malcolm Smells: The [blank] and the Big Shiny [blank]! with his own company Theatre Gone Wrong (St James Cavalier Theatre, Malta).An accomplished musician, Christopher has played as a soloist and with orchestras in London, Edinburgh, Italy and Malta. www.christopherdingli.com |
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Daniel Dingsdale Page / Widow (Shrew) and Ariel (Tempest)Daniel trained at Rose Bruford.Before training Daniel spent four years with Spotlites theatre company, performing in a repetory of plays including Hamlet, Robin Hood, The Sword in the Stone and Othello. Whislt training Daniel played Satan in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Chepornoy in Chilren of the Sun and Jack in Contact, a new play by Ella Hickson. During his time at Bruford he worked with Bred in the Bone theatre as a member of The Shakespeare Band; a performance which combined shakespearean monologues with live improvised music. Upon Graduating Daniel appeared in the BBC's Preston Passion a modern retelling of the passion of the Christ. He is delighted to be working with GB Theatre Company and thrilled to be playing Ariel as part of what promises to be a fantastic summer season! |
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Lennox Greaves Baptista Minola (Shrew) and Gonzalo (Tempest)Lennox trained at Manchester University and the Bristol Old Vic school. Extensive theatre experience includes seasons with Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company, and appearances in repertory theatre throughout the country including an eight year association with Peter Cheeseman at the New Victoria Theatre Stoke where he particularly enjoyed playing Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Dr Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles and Lucky Eric in Bouncers.Television work includes Emmerdale, EastEnders, The Bill, Casualty, Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Between the Lines, Stay Lucky, The Locksmith, Blue Money, Aimee, A Master of the Marionettes, Martin Chuzzlewit and Willy Russell’s Our Day Out.For Jenny Stephens, Lennox has appeared in several Radio plays and the very successful new play Red Skies Over The Severn at the Swan Theatre Worcester. He directed nine consecutive Pantomimes for Harrogate Theatre, and appeared in Peter Cheeseman's final revival of his famous documentary The Knotty, following the National Theatre’s Tour and West End run of The History Boys. In 2010 he appeared in As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor for GB Theatre Company and recently appeared in Hobson's Choice at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre. |
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Tom Kay Hortensio (Shrew) and Caliban (Tempest)Trained at RADA.Tom recently played the parts of Uncle Mountford / ensemble in A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre directed by Katie Mitchell. Whilst at RADA he played The Prince in La Dispute and Carl in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed directed by Sebastian Harkem, Husz in Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day directed by Rachel Grunwald, Larry in Sondheim’s Company directed by Edward Kemp and Medley in The Man of Mode directed by William Gaskill. |
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Gwilym Lloyd Gremio / Vincentio (Shrew) and Prospero (Tempest)Trained at Drama Centre London, Vakhtangov Institute Moscow.Theatre includes : Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac (White Bear), Diamond in The Lights (the Springs, Vauxhall), Tony MacDonald in A Day at the Racists (Finborough), Odysseus in The Odyssey (Tour), Pentheus and Agarve in Bacchaefull (Area 10 and the Old Abattoir, Clerkenwell), Sir John Brute in The Provok’d Wife (Courtyard), the Duke in Measure for Measure (Rosemary Branch), Moter in Black Light (Casa festival), Billy in Five Kinds of Silence (Theatro Technis), David in Wired (Kings Head), Caesar in Caesar (Catford Broadway), Smirnov in The Bear (Rosemary Branch) and Leontes in A Winter´s Tale (Courtyard).Film - The streetwalker in Resurrecting the Streetwalker (Scala Films 2010). |
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Lucia McAnespie Katherine (Shrew) and Sebastienne (Tempest)Lucia is from Belfast and trained at RADA.Theatre credits include: Carthaginians (Millennium Forum / Lyric Theatre Belfast), Happiness (Edinburgh Playhouse Studio), Twelfth Night (Ludlow Festival), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (ADG World Tour), As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor (GB Theatre Norway / British Isles Tour), Stephen And The Sexy Partridge (Trafalgar Studios), Hanjo (Soho Theatre), Macbeth / Ajax / A Skull in Connemara (Riverside Studios), Oliver Twist / La Ronde (Greenwich Theatre / National Tour), Gabriel (The Arcola), The Crane (Leicester Haymarket), A Christmas Carol (Greenwich Playhouse), Wuthering Heights / Richard III (QE2 World Tour), The Assassination of Paris Hilton (Assembly Rooms Edinburgh), Quan Shih Yin Hesitates (The Old Red Lion), Convictions (Crumlin Road Courthouse / Tinderbox).T.V and film: The Iceberg that Hit the Titanic (BBC2) The Devil You Know and Stumped (N.I Film Commission), Seconds From Disaster (National Geographic).Radio work includes; Iph...after Iphigenia at Aulis for BBC Radio Three Greek season, Rutabaga Romance and An Incident at Bethlehem for BBC Radio Four and The Price of a Kiss for BBC Radio Ulster. |
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Sarah Middleton Bianca (Shrew) and Miranda (Tempest)Sarah trained at Birmingham School of Acting where she graduated in 2011. Theatre credits include: Engaged (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Night Queen (UK tour); Frank & Ferdinand (National Theatre); Peter Pan (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Foot/Mouth (NYT); Frankenstein (YMT:UK) and a finalist in Over the Rainbow (BBC). Credits whilst training include: Leah in A Dybbuk; Anna in The Arsonists; Ilse in Spring Awakening; Vera in A Month in the Country and Marina in Pericles. |
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Simon Yadoo Grumio / Pedant (Shrew) and Ferdinand (Tempest)Trained: LAMDATheatre includes: 2401 Objects (Analogue Productions), Eulogy (Southwark Playhouse), Happiness (Edinburgh Playhouse), My Family and Other Animals (York Theatre Royal), Emma Thompson Presents Fair Trade (UK Tour); The Real Thing (The Old Vic), Three Men in a Boat (Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal); Richard III; Demi Monde: The Half Life of William Morris; Oliver Twist and La Ronde (all for Love and Madness Ensemble, Hammersmith Riverside Studios); Little Madam (Finborough Theatre); Dogfight (Arcola Theatre); Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for (Chapterhouse Theatre Company, UK and Irish Tour) and Resistance (Extant Productions, International Tour).Simon also regularly performs in various roles with comedian Adam Riches and appeared in his Edinburgh Comedy Award winning show Bring Me The Head Of Adam Riches at last year's Edinburgh Festival.Television includes: Bedlam (Seneca Productions).Film includes: The Constant Gardener (Focus Features), The Manual (Britpack Films), Feet (Hurcheon Films) and Green (Prussia Lane Films).Simon was nominated for Best Actor in the Van D'Or awards at last year's Cannes Film Festival for his work in Feet. |
DIRECTORS
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Jenny Stephens Director of The Taming of the ShrewJenny is a freelance director, writer and producer. She was a Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham University, won the BP Young Directors’ Award and was subsequently Artistic Director of the Worcester Swan Theatre for eight years. She has also directed for, amongst other companies, Bolton Octagon Theatre, Great Eastern Stage, BBC Radio Drama, Battersea Arts Centre and East 15 drama school. Her productions have toured nationally and internationally.As a writer her credits include two series for BBC Radio 7 (Jefferson 37 and Project Raphael) with a further series – Project Archangel – is now under commission. Her play The Speckled Monster was produced by Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2008.She is a founding partner of Hoopla Productions, a company specialising in creating and touring music-theatre for young audiences. The Night Queen, a radical reworking of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, is now in development.Directing credits for BOVTS: Tartuffe by Moliere (2008), Man of Mode by Etheredge (2009) and our director of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2010. |
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Jack Shepherd Director of The TempestWe are thrilled to announce that the esteemed actor and director, Jack Shepherd will direct our production of The Tempest. Jack is probably best known for his role as Superintendent Wycliffe in the Police series of that name, this is currently re-running on ITV3. He has a great love of Shakespeare and has directed a number of productions both at the Royal National Theatre and The Globe. We are so pleased that Jack has decided to work with us this year directing The Tempest. |
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