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COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

theatre O is a vehicle for co-artistic directors Joseph Alford and Carolina Valdés to create and tour inspirational, devised inter-disciplinary theatre. Their aim is to make work that inspires, moves and challenges both themselves and the audience. They look at the world and try to present it in unexpected and revealing ways, constantly coming back to the dilemmas of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, using humour and playfulness to tell stories that can also be dark and bleak. Previous work includes 3 Dark Tales (Edinburgh Fringe and Barbican), Astronaut (Barbican and International Tour), The Argument (Barbican, Mexico, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh Festival and UK tour) and Delirium (Barbican, The Abbey Theatre and UK tour), a reinterpretation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov created with playwright Enda Walsh. theatre O is an Associate Company of Shoreditch Town Hall.

DIRECTION, JOSEPH ALFORD– Joseph is Co-Artistic Director of theatre O. He studied at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. His directing work includes The Man Jesus (Lyric Belfast); Delirium (theatre O) The Bridge (Mimbre); Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby Playhouse); Astronaut, The Argument, 3 Dark Tales (All theatre O); Bond (GBP); and What If…? (Tohu Bohu). His movement directing work includes Le Vin Herbé (Staatsoper Berlin); Hamlet (RSC); Hansel & Gretel, A Woman Killed with Kindness, Beauty and the Beast and The Cat in the Hat (National Theatre); Play House (Orange Tree Theatre); The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre); Idomeneo ( ENO); Clemency (ROH2) and Blackta (Young Vic).

DESIGN & VIDEO DESIGN, SIMON DAW – Simon designs set, costume and video for theatre, dance and opera as well as creating installation/ performance works. Recent projects include: The Daughter-in-Law and Democracy (Sheffield Crucible and Old Vic); The Metamorphosis (Royal Opera House); As One (Royal Ballet); Eventual Progress (Yekaterinburg Ballet); Lost Monsters (Liverpool Everyman); Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland); Fast Labour (Hampstead Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse); DNA, Baby Girl, The Miracle, The Enchantment (National Theatre); Elling (Bush Theatre and Trafalgar Studios) and 3rd Ring Out, an interactive simulation of a climate changed future that toured the UK inside two specially adapted shipping containers.

WRITING, MATTHEW HURT – Matthew's play The Man Jesus ran at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast earlier this year. His adaptation from the French, Tuesdays at Tesco's, won Fringe First at 2011’s Edinburgh Festival and his play Phumzile was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Other plays include Sailing Somewhere (Johannesburg); Believe (Traverse; Finborough and UK Tour; Adelaide; Sweden); Mortal Ladies Possessed (Assembly Rooms and UK Tour; New York; Milan) and Singing! Dancing! Acting! (Soho Theatre; Athens). Matthew has received bursaries from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio. He is currently under commission for the West End.

LIGHT, ANNA WATSON– Theatre credits include: Bank On It (Theatre-Rites/Barbican); A Time to Reap (Royal Court); Fireface, Disco Pigs, Sus (Young Vic); Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar); On the Record, It Felt Empty (Arcola); Eden End, In Praise of Love, The Talented Mr Ripley, My Zinc Bed (Northampton Royal); Paradise, Salt (Ruhr Triennale, Germany); Gambling, This Wide Night (Soho Theatre); … Sisters (Headlong, The Gate). Opera credits include: Orlando (Scottish Opera); Ruddigore (Opera North); Critical Mass (Almeida); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom, Tongue Tied (Linbury, ROH); The Bartered Bride (Royal College of Music). Dance credits include: Refugees of a Septic Heart (The Garage); Soul Play (The Place); View from the Shore (Clore, ROH, Hall for Cornwall).

SOUND, GARETH FRY – Recent work includes: Soundscape Design for Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, The Master and Margarita (Complicite); Othello (NT); Hamlet (RSC); Trojan Women (Gate Theatre); Black Watch (NTS); David Bowie Is (V&A). Also: Astronaut (theatre O), Shun-kin, Endgame, Noise of Time (Complicite), Living Costs (DV8), Babel (Stan Won't Dance), No Idea (Improbable), Wild Swans (Young Vic), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Fahrenheit Twins (Told By An Idiot), The Missing, Peter Pan, Be Near Me (NTS). Awards include: Laurence Olivier Award 2007 for Waves; Helpmann Award 2008 and Olivier Award 2009 for Black Watch; IRNE Award 2012 for Wild Swans in Boston.

ILLUSTRATION & VIDEO DESIGN, PADDY MOLLOY – Paddy Molloy studied Illustration and Animation at Kingston University and Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art. Projection design for theatre credits include; Qudz (The Yard, 2012), The Snow Queen (Polka, 2010), Origins (Pentabus, 2009), A History of Falling Things (Theatr Clwyd, 2009) and Delirium (Theatre O/Barbican Bite/Abbey Theatre, 2008). Print-based illustration clients include; The Guardian, New York Times (US), Globe and Mail (Canada), Time Out, BBC Worldwide, Delta Airlines (US), Hermitage (Russia), HHMI (US) and Random House. He is currently lecturer in Illustration and Animation at Kingston University.

CHOREOGRAPHY, EVA VILAMITJANA– Eva trained as a contemporary dancer and choreographer at Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, and completed her studies at New York, North Caroline, Paris and Wien. She has been awarded by International Tanzwochen (Wien), American Dance Festival (North Carolina), Certamen Coreográfico (Madrid), Premios Ricard Moragas (Barcelona). As a performer she has toured throughout Europe and North and South America with Joe Alegado, Bebeto Cidra, Mar Gómez, Trànsit, Pepe Hevia, Las Malqueridas, Nats Nus Nens, El Liceu (Barcelona), theatre O (UK) and Buissionère (Switzerland). As a choreographer her credits include theatre O: 3 Dark Tales, The Argument, The Astronaut, Delirium and The Secret Agent; Comédie Musical: Voyage (France); Entre Tres: Iaxis Re, Desmai, Quasi Pesa; LA Petita Malumaluga: Diuen, La Lluna en un pot and operas L'elisir d'amore (G.Donizetti), Ruleta, Opera para un fin de siglo. Eva is co-founder of La Petita Malumaluga Dance Company (Barcelona).

COMPOSITION, MARC TEITLER– Theatre includes: Blood and Gifts (director Howard Davies/National Theatre); Twitterdaemmerung (dir. John Lloyd Davies/Royal Opera House); Wild Oats (director Mark Rosenblatt/ Bristol Old Vic); Juliet and Her Romeo (director Tom Morris/Bristol Old Vic); ADOT (director Daniel Junsei/Royal Albert Hall); The Secret Rapture (director Guy Retallack/Lyric Theatre.) Musical in development: The Grinning Man (director Tom Morris/Bristol Old Vic) co-composed with Tim Phillips; Baddies at Unicorn Theatre; The Death Map with Bijan Sheibani at National Theatre Studio. Awards/Nominations: Guardian 2010 Innovation Award for Twitterdaemmerung (Royal Opera House) composed with Helen Porter; 2013 Best Music for Animated Film Nominee at Berlin Independent Film Festival; 2005 VW Film Score Award Nominee.

DEVISOR & PERFORMER (STEVIE & VLADIMIR), LEANDER DEENY – Theatre Includes The Misanthrope (Liverpool Playhouse); Deadkidsongs (Ustinov Studio, Bath); Bugsy Malone and Brief Encounter (Secret Cinema); The Man by James Graham and The Representative (Finborough); Dr Faustus (Watford Palace Theatre); Victory by Howard Barker (Arcola); Corporate Rock by John Donnelly (Latitude); The Merchant of Venice, Holding Fire! (Shakespeare's Globe) and The Seduction of Almighty God by Howard Barker (Riverside Studios). Television includes Skins, Merlin, and guest regular George Binns on Holby City. Film includes Captain America and Atonement. His first children's book, Hazel's Phantasmagoria, is published by Quercus.

DEVISOR & PERFORMER (OSSIPON & INSPECTOR HEAT), DENNIS HERDMAN – Recent theatre includes: Around the World in 80 Days, Bleak House (New Vic, Stoke); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Told By An Idiot, Helsinki); Stones In His Pockets, Closer, Not A Game For Boys, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Anorak of Fire (Keswick); The Suicide, An Inspector Calls (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Carnival Messiah (Cherub Theatre); The Mysteries (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations (Shifting Sands); He has also worked at Manchester Library, Northampton Royal, Southwark Playhouse, Chester Gateway; and with Cartoon de Salvo, Penny Dreadful, Walk The Plank, Big Telly, Third Party, and played Dame and much else in pantomime at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.

DEVISOR & PERFORMER (MOTHER & THE PROFESSOR), HELENA LYMBERY – Theatre work includes: This House, The Cat in the Hat, ..some trace of her, Women of Troy, Attempts on Her Life, Iphigenia at Aulis, His Dark Materials (National Theatre); Coasting (Bristol Old Vic); Roughcuts – God Bless the Child (Royal Court); Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Blackpool (Theatre503); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola); Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore (Salzburg Festival, Berlin Staatsoper); After Dido (ENO/Young Vic); Sleeping Beauty (Barbican, NY, Young Vic); Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith); Mammals (Bush Theatre); Faith, Hope & Charity, The Woman Who Swallowed a Pin (Southwark Playhouse); The Asylum Project (Riverside Studios); Strike Gently Away from Body, The Art of Random Whistling (Young Vic). TV includes: Father Brown, Oliver Twist, Alastair McGowan's Big Impression.

DEVISOR & PERFORMER (ADOLF VERLOC), GEORGE POTTS – Theatre credits: The Misanthrope (Liverpool Playhouse/ETT); Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Edmond (Wilton's Music Hall) Arcadia (Duke of York's Theatre); All My Sons (Liverpool Playhouse); Murderer (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Art Of Success (Arcola). TV credits include: Big Bad World, Nixon's The One, Peep Show, In With The Flynns, Parade's End, The Cricklewood Greats, Lip Service, Hotel Babylon, Little Dorrit, Mutual Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Messiah, North and South. Film credits: Nativity! The Second Coming, Papadopoulos and Sons, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Burke and Hare, Bel Ami, Dorian Gray.

DEVSIOR & PERFORMER (WINNIE VERLOC), CAROLINA VALDÉS – Carolina is Co-Artistic Director of theatre O. She studied at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and at Col.legi de Teatre in Barcelona. She has performed in Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse); The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC); Delirium (theatre O); Casanova (Told by an Idiot); Lyndie's Got A Gun (Enda Walsh); The Barber of Seville and Carmen (Opera 21); Astronaut, The Argument, 3 Dark Tales (theatre O) and Bond (GBP). Her television credits include Call the Midwife (BBC1) and for film A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman). Her directing work includes The Garden and Reykjavik (Shams) and as a Movement Director, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Liverpool Playhouse) and Absurdia (Donmar Warehouse).

ASSISTANT DIRECTION, JEMIMA JAMES– Jemima trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama, specialising in Collaborative and Devised Theatre. She has worked as an actor and theatre maker with Complicite, theatre O and Quiconque, and is the Artistic Director of newly formed company, Past The Hour.

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, HELEN MUGRIDGE – Helen is an experienced stage and production manager. Her previous credits include: The Victorian in the Wall, Will Adamsdale and Fuel (Royal Court and National Tour), Rockpool, Inspector Sands (Schools Tour), Monkey Bars, Chris Goode & Co (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tour and Unicorn), Mass Observation, Inspector Sands (Almeida), Cooking Ghosts, Beady Eye (South East Tour and Camden People's Theatre), BYO, Thickskin (Research and development), 2401 Objects, Analogue (National Theatre and European development, Edinburgh 2011 and National and European Tour), Total Football, Ridiculusmus (Barbican Pit, Belfast Festival and Autumn 2012 tour), Beachy Head, Analogue (National and European Tour).

STAGE MANAGEMENT, EMMA MCKIE– Stage Management theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice and The Homecoming (RSC); Kursk (Fuel/Sydney Opera House); The Crucible and Into the Woods (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels Theatre Company/Barbican and New Victory Theater, Broadway); Molly Sweeney and Fabrication (The Print Room); The Snowman (Birmingham Rep/West End); Everything Must Go, Behud and Invasion! (Soho Theatre); Sense and Boiling Frogs (Southwark Playhouse), Delirium (theatre O/Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Barbican Pit); Switzerland and I Caught Crabs in Walberswick (Hightide Festival).

COSTUME SUPERVISION, CLIO ALPHAS – Clio Alphas graduated from London College of Fashion in 2010, with an MA in Costume for Performance. Ever since, she has been working as a costume designer and maker in London and Cyprus.

PRODUCING, LUCY MOORE – Lucy is an Independent Producer working with a number of companies including theatre O (The Secret Agent), Cartoon de Salvo (Made Up and The Irish Giant), and Inspector Sands (Mass Observation, Rock Pool and A High Street Odyssey). Interested in the role and sustainability of independent producers, Lucy along with independent producers Emily Coleman and Ruth Dudman, is currently exploring ‘SOUPing’ as an action and model of working which enables independent producers to advocate for, and better support, each other. Lucy has worked in various organisations including China Plate, ArtsAgenda, Battersea Arts Centre and the Arts Council England.

SUPPORTERS

Dr Neil and Sarah Brener

Mr and Mrs R Carr

Mr and Mrs J Keenan

THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Laszlo and Wilhelmina Valdés-Alford	David Micklem
Jessica Alford	Katie Mitchell
Richard & Penny Alford	Hannah Montague
Dominic Burdess	Purni Morell
Helen Burgun	Natasha Nixon
Polly Cetin	Edward and Lizzie Parry
Peter Challis	George Ramsay
Rachel Daniels	The Rockmounters
Nelson Fernandez	Oliver Senton
Gus Casely-Hayford	Daniel Smith
Eddie Keogh	Lizzie Wingham
Roula Konzotis	Griselda Yorke
Ellen Mcdougall	Simon Zimmerman