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The Company the Greenwich Theatre Production 2010 The Company The Greenwich Theatre Production 2010 by Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson In order of appearance Volpone Richard Bremmer Mosca Mark Hadfield Nano / Avvocato Conrad Westmaas Androgyno / Avvocato Harvey Virdi Castrone / Peregrine / Avvocato Edmund Kingsley Voltore Tim Treloar Corbaccio Maxwell Hutcheon Corvino Tim Steed Sir Politic Would-Be James Wallace Celia Aislín McGuckin Bonario / Corvino's Servant Peter Bankolé Lady Would-Be Brigid Zengeni All other parts played by members of the company Director Elizabeth Freestone Set and Costume Designer Neil Irish Lighting Designer Wayne Dowdeswell Sound Designer / Composer Adrienne Quartly Associate Director / Movement Stuart Angell Casting Director Ginny Schiller Fight Director Terry King Vocal Coach Cathy Weate Text Consultant Richard Twyman Wardrobe Supervisor Sades Robinson Costume Assistant Kat Cruickshank Dressers Pippa Mawbey, Kat Cruickshank Hair and Make Up Designer Caroline Silk Production Manager Peter Williams Company Stage Manager Jon Swain Deputy Stage Manager Ben Brayshaw Assistant Stage Manager Eleanor Bailey Design Assistant Ross Edwards Props Buyer Susy Payne Technical Assistant Daniel Leman Production Carpenter Rae George Production Intern Sennita Greene Producers James Haddrell / Tim Sawers THE CAST Peter Bankolé Twelfth Night , Without Walls, Drop the Theatre credits include The Dead Donkey , Made in Britain , Peak Caucasian Chalk Circle Practice, (all for Carlton), Sharpes, Doctors (Shared Experience), (BBC) , Dunkirk , Coronation Street, Dead Much Ado About Nothing Man Weds (Granada), Kingdom (Red (A.F.T.L.S) , A Midsummer Productions). Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens (The Globe Theatre), Film credits include: The Girl with Brains in Rough Crossings (Headlong), A Midsummer Her Feet, Richard II, The Thirteenth Warrior, Night’s Dream, As You Like It, The American Crime and Punishment, The Visitors, Harry Pilot, Venus And Adonis and season of Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, Half Migration To The North (RSC), Sing Yer Past Dead, Cromwell & Fairfax, Shanghai Heart Out For The Lads (UK tour, Pilot Knights, Ripper II, Aryan Couple, The Sin Theatre), Nakamitsu (Gate Theatre). Eater and Control. Television credits include The Trial of Gemma Lang, Casualty, Doctors, The Mark Hadfield Rotter’s Club & The Bill. Trained: RADA. Theatre includes: Richard Bremmer Talent, Rookery Nook (Menier Richard trained at Rose Chocolate Factory), The Hour Bruford School of Speech We Knew Nothing Of Each and Drama and Valparaiso Other, Therese Raquin – University, Indiana. WhatsOnStage, Olivier Theatre includes: Richard III, Nomination for Outstanding Supporting The Millionaires of Naples, Performance – (National Theatre), Donkey’s King Lear, The Good Person Years, 39 Steps (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A of Sichuan, Machine Wreckers and Richard II Night At The Dogs (Soho Theatre), Child Of (all for the Royal National Theatre), King The Snow and Two’s Company (Bristol Old John, Henry VI, Speculators, Great Vic), Man And Superman and Don Juan (Peter Expectations, The Great White Hope, Kissing Hall Co.) By Many Wounds, Cracked the Pope, Henry IV Part I and Henry V (RSC). (Hampstead), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), As You Like It and The Beaux Stratagem Becket (Haymarket), Much Ado About (English Touring Theatre), Richard II, Nothing (Queens Theatre), Guys And Dolls (Salzburg Festival), Dreaming (The Royal (Prince Of Wales), Romeo And Juliet (Lyric Exchange Theatre), Julius Caesar Hammersmith), Snoopy The Musical (Duchess (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rosencrantz & Theatre), The Danube and Amphytrion (Gate Guildenstern Are Dead (West Yorkshire Theatre), The Miser (Chichester), Peter Pan Playhouse’s), The Mayor of Zalamea (The and The Plough And The Stars (West Yorkshire Liverpool Playhouse/Everyman production), Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mongoose (Southwark Playhouse), Dracula Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme (RNT). For the (Tour), How to Disappear Completely and RSC: Hamlet , Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Never Be Found (The Sheffield Crucible), Midsummer Night’s Dream , The Canterbury Nicholas Nicklenby (the Chichester Festival Tales (Helen Hayes Award Nomination – Theatre), Bent and Entertaining Mr. Sloane Outstanding Lead Actor), Twelfth Night, (West End), Treasure Island (Rose Theatre). Jubilee, The Seagull, The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Talk Of The City, Bartholomew Fair, Television credits include: Scarlet and Black, The Winter’s Tale, The Plain Dealer, The The Buddha of Suburbia, Persuasion (BBC) , Plantaganets, Comedy Of Errors, Kissing The Pope. Television credits include: Doc Martin, Edmund Kingsley Foyle’s War, Casualty, Holby City, Rhona, Trained at RADA. Theatre People Like Us, The Wyvern Mystery, Pig Sty, includes: The Importance of Posh Nosh, Headless, The Vice 2, Cracker, Being Earnest (Salisbury Van Der Valk, Butterflies, The Bill. Playhouse), Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Film credits include: Hamlet, A Cock And Repertory Company), Antony Bull Story, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, In and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Bleak Midwinter, Century, Just Like A The Tempest, The Lord Of The Flies (Royal Woman. Shakespeare Company), As You Like It, A Christmas Carol (Bridge House Theatre), Rope Radio credits include: A High Wind In (Watermill Theatre),’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Jamaica, Talk Of The City, Hamlet, Romeo Human Rites (Southwark Playhouse), And Juliet, Fungus The Bogeyman. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Maxwell Hutcheon Common Threads (Sadler’s Wells), Julius Caesar Maxwell trained at the (Menier Chocolate Factory), Taming Of The Guildhall School of Music & Shrew (Thelma Holt national tour). Drama. Television credits include: Sensitive Skin Theatre includes: Origins (BBC), Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures (Pleasance Edinburgh), The (BBC), As If (Channel 4). Film includes: African Company Presents Vocation, Swan Song, Within the Woods, Richard III (Greenwich & Tour), Burial at Glasses of Wine and Freddie as FR07. Thebes (US tour), The Importance of Being Radio includes: Mercian World News, The Earnest (Vaudeville London), A Passage to Bulldog Has Landed (Tough Crowd). India and Madame Bovary (Shared Experience), A Woman of No Importance Aislín McGuckin (Salisbury), Travels with My Aunt (Exeter), Trained at Rose Bruford Misero Prospero (Almeida London), What School of Speech and Drama Every Woman Knows (West Yorkshire), The (Old Vic London), Tempest Sunday’s Theatre includes: Dial M for (Derby), Children The Weavers, The Stick Murder (West Yorkshire (Gate Wife and Outside on the Street Playhouse and tour), The London), As You Like it, All’s Well That Ends Homeplace (Lyric Belfast), Well, The Duchess of Malfi, The Taming of Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Belfast), Twelfth , the Shrew A Jovial Crew and Antony & Night (RSC), The Clearing (Shared (RSC). Cleopatra Experience), Richard III (RSC), Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3 (RSC), Our Father (Almeida Theatre), Film, Television and Radio credits include: The Steward of Christendom (Royal Court, Trial & Retribution, The Amazing Mrs Gate Dublin, B.A.M New York, Sydney, New Pritchard, Band of Brothers, Kavanagh QC, Zealand tours). The Bill, Tales from Hollywood, Close My Eyes, The Accountant and The Archers. Film includes: The White Countess (Merchant Ivory), The Nephew (Foxgrange), Trojan Eddie (Cairndawn) Television includes: Holby City (BBC), Heartbeat (2 series/YTV), David Copperfield (BBC), The Creatives (BB C), Amongst Women (BBC), The Unknown Soldier (Carlton), Casualty (BBC) . Tim Steed Harvey Virdi Trained: Central School of Theatre credits include Speech and Drama Arabian Nights (RSC), The School For Scandal , Dr Theatre includes: Much Ado Faustus (Greenwich Theatre), About Nothing (Open Air England People Very Nice Regents Park), The Pride (National Theatre), There’s (Royal Court/ Olivier Award Something About Simmy for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate (Rifco Arts), Meri Christmas (Rifco Arts The Theatre), All My Sons (Liverpool Playhouse), Deranged Marriage 2005/2006 (Rifco Arts), Silver and Arcola (59e59 Off Broadway,NY), Behzti (Kali Theatre & Birmingham Rep), Cigarettes & Chocolate , Hang Up (Kings Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre), Calcutta Head), An Inspector Calls (NT/Garrick Kosher (Kali Theatre), The Threepenny Theatre), Amoeba Project (Out of Joint), The Opera (National Theatre), Higra (West Importance of Being Earnest (The Royal, Yorkshire Playhouse), Fourteen Songs , Two Northampton), The Threepenny Opera (City Weddings and a Funeral , A Tainted Dawn Centre, NY). and A Yearning (Tamasha), Two Old Ladies, When We Are Married, Romeo and Juliet, Film credits include: Franklyn (Recorded Playboy Of The Asian World (all for Leicester Picture Company), Dark Ride (Action Haymarket), Airport 2000 (Rifco), Exodus Factory), Love Me or Else (hsi). (Tara Arts), Staying On (Theatre of Comedy), Bravely Fought The Queen (Border Television credits include: Peep Show Crossings), Magic Mirrors (Quicksilver), Juliet (Objective), Happy Birthday Shakespeare , in Romeo and Juliet (Soapbox Theatre). Rhona, WSH (BBC), Blonde Bombshell (ITV), Film and Television credits include: Casualty , Poirot (Carnival Films), Diary of a Somebody Coronation Street , Britz , Holby City , (SMG). Murphy’s Law , Doctors , Cherished , Whose Baby?, Rose and Maloney , Hear the Silence , Tim Treloar Boohbah , The House Across The Street , Theatre credits include The Staying Alive , The Bill , Swinging With The School For Scandal , Dr Finkels , No Honour, No Choice , It’s a Faustus (Greenwich Wonderful Afterlife
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