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THE CREATIVE TEAM

William Lyons – Writer

William Lyons is a playwright who has spent much of his life as a student or teacher of philosophy in many countries. He is interested in ‘theatre of thought’ or drama that brings challenging ideas to the stage. His play Wittgenstein–The Crooked Roads won the START Chapbooks Award 2005 and was presented at Riverside Studios in London in 2011. Its companion piece, The Fir Tree and the Ivy, won the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award in 2006 and has been translated into Italian as L’Edera e l’Abete.

Melina Theocharidou – Director

Melina Theocharidou is a multilingual director, actor and translator. She has a BA in French and Italian (First Class) from UCL and a MA in Text and Performance Studies from RADA and King’s College. Melina has a special interest in new plays and has directed the World Premieres of Elle A Live and Unplugged for the Shaw Theatre and The Hospital Club in London and Södra Teatern in Stockholm, Princess for the Camden Fringe Festival and STOFF in Stockholm, Enarxis for Satiriko Theatre in Cyprus, Dream for Theatre Underground at Brunel Museum and Red in the Forest at Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. She has also directed the UK premiere of Pamela! The Musical for Lost Theatre One Act Festival. Melina was the Assistant Text Expert at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2010 and was commissioned as a literal translator by the Donmar Warehouse. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab 2012. As an actor she has worked in both text-based and devised physical theatre productions at The Hospital Club, The Shaw Theatre, The Yard Theatre, BAC, Lyric Hammersmith Studio and Forest Fringe amongst others. She also works in film and voice-overs. (www.melinatheo.com)

Katerina Angelopoupou – Designer

Katerina Angelopoulou studied Mathematics at Imperial College before training as a scenographer at Central Saint Martins. She was a finalist for the Linbury Prize in 2009, exhibited her work in the National Theatre and was a winner of the Royal Opera House Design Bursary in 2010. She has worked as an assistant for the National Theatre of Greece, the Schaubühne Berlin, and the Royal Opera House, and has designed for the Southbank Centre, the Camden Fringe, the STOFF in Stockholm, various short films, the last film of Theo Angelopoulos The Other Sea, and lately for choreographer Renato Zanella and the National Opera of Greece.

Karolina Spyrou – Lighting Designer

Karolina Spyrou was born in 1980 in Nicosia. She studied Theatre Design at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and graduated in 2003 with First Class Honours. Since 2004 she has been working as a freelance lighting and set designer in Cyprus. From 2005 until 2008 she was an in-house lighting designer for THOC where she lit numerous productions. She has an ongoing collaboration with many theatre groups including ETHAL, Dionysos Theatre, Fresh Target Theatre and Solo for Three. She has worked on many projects as a lighting and set designer including dance, concerts and fashion shows. She has taken part in several festivals around the world including Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a lighting designer for the musical Blues in the Night, Euro-scene 14 Festival in Germany as a lighting designer for the dance performance Awakening and the Dance Union festival in London as a lighting designer for the dance performance Turnaround. She is currently doing a MA in Theatre Design with a pathway in Lighting Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Olivios Karaolides – Composer/Orchestrator

Olivios Karaolides is a versatile composer and a musicologist. He has a Licence in Musique et Musicologie from the Sorbonne University and an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Musical Theatre includes: Carlotta, A Telenovela Musical (New York, 2011) and Pamela! The Musical (London, 2012). His instrumental piece La Trahison won the Award of Excellence at the Global Music Awards and was presented at the 22nd Fringe Festival of Montreal, Canada and then at the music performance Enarxis (Nicosia, 2012). He also won first prize at the 20th Cyprus Folk Composition Contest organised by the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation with the song ‘To Spiti mou’. Olivios is a composer of an internationally influenced character whose love for a wide range of different styles and genres, including classical music, instrumental music and musical theatre, is apparent in his compositions. (www.OliviosK.com)

Constantine Andronikou – Vocal Supervisor/Casting Director

Born and raised in Cyprus, Constantine trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Music Theatre) graduating in 2010. He also read Music at the University of Southampton (BA Hons) where he started his training as a Tenor. Constantine has just returned to London after the International Magic Tenors Tour in theatres around Germany. Last summer he performed at the London Olympics Closing Ceremony as part of the Urban Voices Collective. Theatre includes Tonelli in Flahooley (Sadler’s Wells), Soloist in Wonders of the West End (Millfield Theatre), Soloist at Gala (Greenwich Theatre), Vocalist in Cabaret Confidential (Pheasantry), Soloist in Song by Song (Canal Café Theatre) and Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors (White Bear Theatre). Constantine is a member of the West End Gospel Choir.

Sandra Maturana – Choreographer

Sandra is a Spanish movement director, director and actor with a strong background in physical theatre. She trained in Spain and completed a MA at RADA. She was a Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic and recently assisted Paul Hunter in the RSC production The Mouse and His Child. She has worked as a movement director in Sinbad (Roundhouse), The Government Inspector (parallel production at the Young Vic), and Seven Angels (The Opera Group). As an actor her credits include the Dreamthinkspeak production In the beginning was the end (Somerset House), The House of Bernarda Alba (The Space), Darkness Cycle (The Place), Danae (Sadler’s Wells) and playing Tinkerbell in the O2’s production of Peter Pan. She has developed excellent movement skills through her training in physical theatre and disciplines such as butoh, contact, aerial work and belly dance.

Ruth Mariner – Assistant Director

Ruth Mariner gained an Excellence Scholarship and First Class degree in Music at Goldsmiths (University of London) before taking up a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to complete an MPhil in Musicology. At Cambridge, she specialised in social anthropology of music, supervised by Head of Department, Nicholas Cook. 2012 saw her form Gestalt Arts Opera Company with award-winning composer Toby Young, producing and directing productions with London Symphony Orchestra and at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. She has since completed further directing training at Central School of Speech and Drama and on the Directors Programme at The Young Vic. She is currently working on the libretto for her second opera and enjoys a side-career in journalism, writing for Classical Music Magazine (previously writing for Time Out Hong Kong). She is also a libretti consultant for Oberon Books.

Ariadne Kritonos – Assistant Designer/Fundraising Manager

Ariadne Kritonos is a multidisciplinary artist, expressing herself primarily through performance art, installation and collage. Since obtaining a First Class Honours BA in Fine Arts from Middlesex University, she has worked as an assistant director for The Return of the Exile at the Yard Theatre. She is also the dance teacher of Lykion ton Hellinidon of London since 2009, with substantial experience in dancing and performing both in Greece and the UK, including the 2008 performance of Lykion ton Hellinidon of Athens at Herodion Theatre. (AriadneKritonos.blogspot.com)

Nathalie Gunzlé – Stage Manager

Nathalie graduated from the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2010 and has since worked as a freelance stage manager in theatre and events as well as a theatre technician, sound and lighting designer on various productions. Stage management credits include: La Bohème (King’s Head Theatre Islington), The Winter’s Tale (Camley Street Natural Park), The Shallow End (Southwark Playhouse), Olga’s Room (Arcola Theatre). DSM credits include: The Rape of Lucretia and The Turn of the Screw (Grimeborn Festival/Arcola Theatre), The Shape of Things (The Gallery Soho), Bed and Sofa and The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (Finborough Theatre) and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Rose Theatre Southbank).

Sofia Apospori – Associate Producer

Sofia Apospori is a producer, director and emerging theatre scholar. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies and a MA in Theatre (Applied Theatre) from Royal Holloway; currently, she is completing her PhD thesis on non-visual spectatorship. Sofia specialises in producing work that is accessible to audiences of multiple abilities. She recently produced Rockaby in the Dark, a production for an audience of multiple visual abilities and has produced a number of applied theatre projects, whose context ranges from theatre in health and care to cultural heritage work. She has also been a Visiting Tutor at Royal Holloway.

Lucy Pattison – Associate Producer

Lucy works for the National Theatre Studio and as a freelance producer. Producing credits include Nothing is the End of the World (Except the End of the World) (Finborough Theatre), Celebrity Night at Café Red (Trafalgar Studios), A New Way to Pay Old Debts (The Rose, Bankside) and Pinter’s People (Etcetera Theatre). Previously Lucy was Assistant Producer at Theatre503, where she produced The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Meat and Man in the Middle.

Jennifer Winder-Baggot – Associate Producer (Crowdfunding)

Jennifer Winder-Baggot studied Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin and remained friends with playwright William Lyons. She went on to earn a MA in Philosophy in Johns Hopkins University. Working as a pharmacist in Dublin, she maintains an interest in the arts. With her husband Stephen, she is a fundraiser for the production. She has worked previously on the Festival of Fools in Dublin 2010, and currently volunteers with the Irish Decorating and Fine Arts Society and is a member of the Garda Ladies Choir.

Mara Lockowandt – Associate Producer (Education)

Mara is a theatre practitioner, teacher and academic. She received her MA from King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her PhD in Theatre and Drama from Royal Holloway, University of London. Over the past six years she has worked in arts and education for a number of organisations including RADA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Almeida Theatre, and Refugee Support Network. She has also taught Drama for four years at Royal Holloway. She specialises in designing, facilitating and evaluating creative learning and participatory arts projects with under-served young people in London.

The Meddlers Theatre Company is dedicated to staging writing from across Europe that probes as well as entertains, that meddles with established attitudes towards the status quo and that ensures that as a society we keep questioning the ways in which we choose to lead our lives.

Company Director: Melina Theocharidou

Melina Theocharidou’s presentation of Socrates and his Clouds is the inaugural production by The Meddlers Theatre Company