Summer 2, 2021 GBS Theatre

As You Like It (1599) by William Shakespeare

Cast (in alphabetical order) Creative Team

Jacques / Celia Director Florence Dobson Jatinder Verma

Silvius / Charles / Amiens Designer Raphel Famotibe Claudia Mayer

Rosalind Lighting Designer Chloe Fenwick-Brown Roberto Esquenazi Alkabes

Audrey / Le Beau / Lady (Arden) Sound Designer and Composer Elizabeth Hollingshead Florence Hand

Adam / Sir Oliver / Hymen / Jacques de Boys Movement Coach Gabriel Howell Elizabeth Ballinger

Phoebe / Le Beau / Lady (Arden) Voice / Dialect Coach Megan Langford Victoria Woodward

Touchstone Singing Coach Andy McCredie Philip Raymond

Orlando Fight Coach Samuel Tracy Bret Yount

Oliver / Corin Benjamin Westerby

Duke Frederick / Duke Senior Benedict Wishart Student Production Team

Production Manager Venue Production Sound Millie Drury Engineer and Operator Dylan Marsh Technical Manager Rosa Watson Radio Mic Co-ordinator Elliott Roberts Stage Manager Laura Whittle-Letchford Radio Mic Runner Benet Doeringer Deputy Stage Manager Thomas Fielding Broadcast Reuben Cohen * Assistant Stage Manager / Anita Gander Book Cover Roberto Esquenazi Alkabes Sarah Back Costume Supervisor Assistant Stage Manager Amera Spagnoli Elsie O’Rourke Wardrobe Assistants ASM 2s Sophie Reshad Niamh Birkett Allison Silberberg Iona Fern Ridley Dressers Chief Electrician India Day Samuel Blakemore Sylvia Wan

Production Electrician Props Supervisor Sammy Emmins Sarah Hsien

Lighting Programmer Props Assistant Susie Yi Su Jayden Hendricks-Kynaston

Lighting Operator Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu

Set Lighting and Practicals Sophia Dreyer

Chief Production Sound Engineer Kieran Dye Please note this production Deputy Production Sound contains: pyrotechnics (loud Engineer noises and flashing lights), haze James Breedon and scenes with implied violence.

* Guildhall School of Music and Drama student Biographies

Jatinder Verma Florence Hand Director Sound Designer and Composer Jatinder Verma came to Britain in 1968 as part Florence is in her second year of the Foundation of the “Exodus” of Asians from Kenya, founding Degree in Technical Theatre and Stage theatre company Tara Arts in 1977 as a response to Management specialising in sound. She has a racist murder. a passion for everything surrounding music, including composition and performance, as well He has worked with a wide range of theatres and as design. Her previous achievements include was the first non-white director at the National, an ARSM Diploma on Classical Voice, as well as where he directed Moliere’s Tartuffe. being named Lincolnshire Young Musician of the Year at the age of 15. Her previous credits at RADA After helping develop the new Tara Theatre into include Sound Designer for David Glass’ Margot Britain’s first multicultural theatre building, he Monroe’s Nibelungen and Composer for Against by formed his own company, JVP, to continue cross- Christopher Shinn. She is delighted to have had the cultural work. In 2017 he was awarded an MBE for opportunity to work on this production. services to diversity in the arts.

Claudia Mayer Designer Claudia Mayer lived in India as child and trained at Motley. After many years working freelance in opera, dance and theatre she joined Tara Arts as Resident Designer. With Jatinder Verma, as well as designing shows, she co-wrote children’s plays and a radio version of the Mahabharata, designed the Ramayana exhibition for the British Library, and collaborated on the building of an award- winning new theatre building with an earth floor in Wandsworth. Until Covid she went annually to teach stage design at the National Drama School in Delhi.

Roberto Esquenazi Alkabes Lighting Designer Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, Roberto moved to the United Kingdom to pursue higher education. Most of his previous experience as a lighting designer took place in Panama, working in community theatre and as part as his own production company, NIU Panama. Some of his credits while at RADA include: The Winter’s Tale, Red Velvet, Consent and more. He is very excited to be a part of this new production of As You Like It and hopes you enjoy it! Production photos and contact information can be found at his website, robertoesquenazi.com RADA Supporters

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