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ANN HENNING JOCELYN

Ann Henning Jocelyn grew up in her native Sweden and finished her education in England. She had an early playwright debut in Sweden while completing a degree in Drama, Art History and English. After two years at drama school Studio 68 in London, she worked as assistant to legendary director Charles Marowitz and appeared in a number of productions at his Open Space Theatre in London.

Naturally bi-lingual, she subsequently went on to translate plays, films and books, working with authors such as Ruth Rendell, Kazuo Ishiguro and Joanna Trollope. She also spent the best part of a year collaborating with film star Ingrid Bergman on the autobiography My Life. She became the Chairman of the Translators’ Association in England and served several terms on the Society of Authors’ Committee of Management. In Ireland, she was on the board of the Society of Playwrights.

Since the mid 1980s, after marrying fellow-author the Earl of Roden, she has been based mainly in the West of Ireland, where her home Doonreagan has provided the inspiration to write eight books and three more stage plays. Her interest in horses soon brought her into close contact with the people of Connemara, and her Connemara Whirlwind Trilogy, featuring her own stallion Cuaifeach, hit the bestseller list in 1990. Still selling in Irish bookshops, the trilogy is well established as a classic and remains a popular exam project in Irish schools. It represents Ireland in the UNESCO International Youth Library.

Ann Henning Jocelyn always kept up her ties with the theatre: in 1996 she was appointed Artistic Director of the International Women Playwrights’ Conference at University College Galway, and the following year she became writer-in-residence of the newly founded Connemara Theatre Co., which produced her plays Baptism of Fire, The Alternative and Becoming The Tree. Baptism of Fire travelled as far as Pernik, Bulgaria, and The Alternative was seen around Ireland and at the Belfast Fringe Festival. For many years she was an adjudicator of The O.Z. Whitehead national playwriting competition. Her more recent translations into English of internationally renowned playwrights like the Norwegian Jon Fosse and Swedish Henning Mankell have won much acclaim.

In Sweden and Ireland, she is also well known for her career as a broadcaster, writing and presenting her own material. Keylines and Keylines for Living, compilations of her inspirational “thoughts for the day”, broadcast regularly in both countries, have been published in nine countries to date, including India and China. Extracts have appeared in numerous anthologies.

Her play Only Our Own, about three generations of a dispossessed Anglo-Irish family, will have its world premiere at the Arts Theatre West End, London in January 2014.

CAST

Flora Montgomery (Assia Wevill)

Flora is an award-winning theatre, television and film actress. Theatre credits include: In the Next Room, Good Grief and The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath), The Heart of Robin Hood (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dinner (Wyndhams Theatre, West End), Uncle Vanya (Birmingham Rep), Taming Of The Shrew (Bristol Old vic), Walk Hard (Tricycle Theatre), A Reckoning (Soho Theatre), The Shape of Things and Bash (Gate Theatre, Dublin) and Miss Julie (Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Her Tv credits include Quirke (BBC), An Innocent Abroad (BBC), Endeavour, Morse (ITV), Father and Son (ITV), Poirot (ITV), Wuthering Heights (ITV), Monarch of the Glen (BBC), A Certain Justice (ITV), Heat of the Sun (ITV), Mosley (C4). Film credits include: When Brendan Met Trudy, The Discovery of Heaven, Goldfish Memory, and Basic Instinct 2. She won Best Actress Awards at 2003 Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival and the Las Palmas Film Festival, Shooting Star Award at 2003 Berlin Film Festival, Best Actress Award for Miss Julie (Irish Times Theatre Awards). She trained at The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.

Daniel Simpson (Ted Hughes)

Daniel trained at East 15 and The Actor Works. Theatre credits include: London Road (National Theatre); Driving Miss Daisy (Julian Stoneman UK – National Tour); Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo & Juliet (Cambridge Shakespeare Company); Sweeney Todd, Piaf (All Star Productions); Infinite Riches (Old Red Lion); Another Biafra (Tales From The Motherland); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (European Tour); The Lower Depths (Cogs Theatre); The Title of the Drama About Ante is Written Here (Blue Elephant). Television credits include Norway Massacre: I Was There (as Anders Breivik). Film credits include: RED 2; The Magnificent Eleven; Eva’s Diamond; The Silence at the Song’s End; Moon in Gemini.

CREATIVE TEAM

Alex Dmitriev (Director)

Alex Dmitriev has directed across the United States and Canada. He was the Artistic Director of the Toronto Center for the Arts and the Associate Artistic Director of Canada’s prestigious Manitoba Theatre Centre and was the Resident Director at the North Carolina State Theatre for two seasons. He directed the premier production for the Abingdon Theatre Company in New York: Berilla Kerr’s German Games and Evangeline and God, as well Barton Bishop’s Graduation Day and God’s Daughter. Also in New York, he has directed seven productions for the York Theatre Company, including the Drama Desk nominated production of Lost in the Stars, and critically acclaimed productions of Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps and How the Other Half Loves. Other work in New York includes Conor McPherson’s St. Nicholas for the Irish Rep; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for the village Theatre Company; Mrs. Warren’s Profession for the Pearl Theatre and Bedtime Story for the Actors Studio. Regionally, he has directed at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Virginia Stage Company, McCarter Theatre Company and Actors Theatre of Louisville among others. Most recently, the workshop production of Doonreagan at Cashel in Connemara. Trained in London.

Fionntan Gogarty (Designer)

Fionntan is a visual artist and designer from West of Ireland where he established his studio and gallery in 2006. He has pursued his artistic career for forty years and his work as a painter depicts the immense sea and skyscapes of this beautiful and magical coastline. Fionntan’s work is to be found in both public and private collections worldwide. He enjoys collaborating and experimenting with other artists in other mediums. Outside of his visual arts career, he has taught dance and lectured on early Irish art. Theatre and opera credits include: Brian Friel’s Communication Cord (Field Day Company) and Donizetti’s opera Daughter of the Regiment.

Beth Hoare-Barnes (Stage Manager)

Most recently Beth has toured to Taipei with Fevered Sleep’s Brilliant, and been part of a fully staged opera on a beach, Peter Grimes with Aldeburgh Music, both of which are being made into films. Diverse other projects include Above Me The Wide Blue Sky with Fevered Sleep at Young Vic, The Kingdom by Colin Teevan at the Soho Theatre, the opera Where The Wild Things Are at Aldeburgh Music, Fevered Sleep’s The Forest on a national tour and at the Sydney Opera House, and Reykjavik, an immersive piece by Shams Theatre at the Roundhouse. Beth has also worked with Akademi South Asian dance, Little Angel, Shakespeare’s Globe, Regent’s Park, Unicorn Theatre and Theatre-Rites, among others. Previously she spent four years in the U.S. studying and working as a Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, where she received an MFA and designed professionally in New York, Cleveland and Columbus.

Berislav Juraic (Producer)

Berislav Juraic is a creative producer with extensive international experience. Recent producing credits include: the English language premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play (National Tour, Chelsea Theatre & Soho Theatre, 2012, revival at Camden People’s Theatre in 2013 and international tour to three continents in 2013 and 2014), Peer Gynt Recharged (Riverside Studios, London), the UK premiere of Woman Bomb by Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko (Tristan Bates Theatre, selected for 2011 Havana International Theatre Festival in Cuba) and the UK premiere of It’s Raining in Barcelona by leading Catalan playwright Pau Miró. He also produced the critically acclaimed Edward Bond Season (including a world premiere, two first revivals and two UK premieres). Other London credits include: the UK Premiere of Jon Fosse’s Visits (Theatre Delicatessen) and Hedda (Riverside Studios, 2010). Credits abroad include: J.L. Lagarce’s Just the End of the World (Croatia, France); B.M. Koltès’ Tabataba (Croatia, France); Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Croatia, France, S.Korea, Japan); El-Harrag, a contemporary dance and circus project (Algeria, Croatia, Palestine, Jordan). In addition to producing for other companies, he co-founded Just a Must company with director Vanda Butkovic to introduce postdramatic theatre in translation to British and international audiences.

Rebecca Salvadori (Video Designer)

Rebecca is a London-based visual artist. After graduating in Visual Arts in 2007, she moved to Germany where she was involved within multidisciplinary art environments until 2010. She has been producing videos for both experimental art collectives such as .HBC Berlin, Gallery Mittwoch, White Rabbit, and more established institutions like Guggenheim Berlin as well as working on theatre productions such as Lou Blue and Fr. Monster by Bösediva in collaboration with Sophiensaele Theatre. In 2010 she moved to London where she has gained an MA in Screen and Film Studies at Goldsmiths University. London credits include the video documentation of Anri Salas’ solo exhibition at Serpentine Gallery; the collaboration with artist Adelita Husni-Bey on The Clays Lane Live Archive, a theatre re-enactment recently selected for Lofoten International Festival; producing Music Videos for Domino Record band Trailer Trash Tracys as well as for Bo Ningen and critically acclaimed Savages. Rebecca Salvadori has performed and exhibited her audio/visual work at venues and festivals throughout Europe including Barbican Art Centre (United Kingdom), Festival IMAGES (Switzerland), Crosstalk video art Festival (Hungary), David Lynch’s Silencio (France), SCHNUCK-Glaspalais (Netherlands), Sophiensaele Theatre (Germany) and her videos have been reviewed by The Quietus, The Fader, DIY, HUH Magazine and published by PIG Quarterly Magazine, Electronic Beats and NME.

Ana Vilar (Lighting Designer)

Ana is a London-based freelance lighting designer, re-lighter and consultant. She combines her career in lighting with photography, art and design, exploiting these skills throughout her practice. From 2010 she has been an active member of an exclusive lighting company, Urban Electric, working as a Lighting Engineer and Product specialist in neon installation. Recent work in dance and theatre includes relighting Lucy Hansom’s design for James Wilton dance company’s UK tour, lighting design for The Typewriters’ piece Adaptors at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre in London and lighting design for Just a Must production Sports Play on its UK tour and at Ohrid Summer Festival in Macedonia. She has a BA(Hons) in Photography from School of Arts, Huesca, Spain and BA in Theatre Practice (Lighting Design for Performance) from Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

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