RSC SUMMER 2015 SEASON BIOGRAPHIES FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS

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1 SUMMER 2015 SEASON BIOGRAPHIES FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS JUSTIN AUDIBERT Director The Jew of Malta Future Regrets, The Tempest (Shakespeare in a Suitcase) Beached (Marlowe Theatre/Soho Theatre), Hamlet (Watermill Theatre), Wingman (Soho Theatre/Pleasance), Raymondo (BAC, Summerhall, Pulse Festival), World Enough and Time, Unscorched (Finborough Theatre), The Fu Manchu Complex (Oval House), A Season in the Congo, The Parallel Project (Clare, Young Vic), Wrong Un (Red Ladder), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre), Armley The Musical (Interplay), Company Along The Mile (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Arcola) In 2012 he was Acting Coach for the finalists of BBC2 s Shakespeare Off By Heart. He was the recipient of the 2012 Leverhulme Award for Emerging Directors from the National Theatre Studio. Freelance Theatre Director and Artistic Associate for HighTide Festival Theatre and Red Ladder GREGORY DORAN Artistic Director Director Death of a Salesman Gregory was officially appointed as the 's Artistic Director on 14 September 2012, and took up the reins properly in January Artistic Director. As Director: The Witch of Edmonton, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard II, The Orphan of Zhao, Julius Caesar, Written on the Heart, Cardenio, Morte D Arthur, Twelfth Night, Love s Labour s Lost, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, Merry Wives the Musical, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Director of Gunpowder Season 2005, Sejanus: His Fall, The Canterbury Tales, Othello, All s Well that Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tamer Tamed, The Winter s Tale, The Island Princess, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens, Jubilee, King John, All is True (Henry VIII), As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice,

2 Oroonoko, The Odyssey, Director of Jacobeans Season 2002 (Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year 2003). Anjin: The Shogun and English Samurai (Tokyo / Sadlers Wells); The Giant (Hampstead); The Merchant of Venice (Japan); The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy (Donmar/West End); Mahler s Conversion (Aldwych); Titus Andronicus (Market Theatre Johannesburg/National Theatre Studio); The Joker of Seville (Boston/Trinidad); Someone to Watch Over Me (Theatr Clwyd); The Importance of Being Earnest, Bedroom Farce, An Inspector Calls, Private Lives (Century Theatre); Long Day s Journey into Night, Waiting for Godot, The Norman Conquests (Nottingham Playhouse). Michael Wood s In Search of Shakespeare, Midsummer Night s Dreaming. Julius Caesar (BBC4) Hamlet (BBC2 / PBS), Macbeth (Channel 4). In May 2013 the announced Live From Stratford-upon-Avon, a new programme to screen its productions live from Shakespeare s home town, in collaboration with Picturehouse/Cityscreen Cinemas, and with Ravensbourne to stream the production straight to UK schools. Richard II was the first production to play live to cinemas around the world on 13 November Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 were broadcast on 14 May and 18 June Awards and Honours: Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute; Honorary Doctorates from University of Huddersfield, University of Nottingham, University of Bristol and University of Warwick; Sam Wanamaker Award 2012; Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama at Oxford University. Writing includes: Shakespeare s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio, The Shakespeare Almanac, Co-author (with Antony Sher) of Woza Shakespeare! MATTHEW DUNSTER Director Love s Sacrifice The Saints (Nuffield, Southampton), Mametz (National Theatre Wales), The Days The Nights, The Wounds and The Night (HeadSpaceDance at The Royal Opera House), Before the Party (Almeida Theatre), The Lightning Child, Doctor Faustus, Troilus and Cressida, The Frontline (Shakespeare s Globe),You Can Still Make A Killing, The Love Girl and The Innocent (Southwark Playhouse), The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre), A Midsummer Night s Dream (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Love The Sinner (National Theatre), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1984, Macbeth, (Royal Exchange Manchester), Testing The Echo (Out of Joint), The Member of the Wedding, Some Voices (Young Vic), Love and Money, You Can

3 See the Hills (Young Vic and Royal Exchange Theatre), Cruising (Bush Theatre), Project D: I m Mediocre (The Work), Port Authority (Liverpool Everyman). As Writer and Adaptor: You Used To, Tell Me, The Glazier, Two Clouds Over Eden, The Band, You Can See The Hills, 1984, The Litter, Children s Children, The Most Incredible Thing. Writing for Radio: Depth of Field, Poor Echo Directing for Radio: Love and Money, The Mother of Him. Matthew is an Associate Artist at the Young Vic. He is currently under commission to the Royal Exchange, Manchester and The Sheffield Crucible, and is writing his first feature film. POLLY FINDLAY Director The Merchant of Venice Arden of Faversham Treasure Island (National Theatre); Krapp s Last Tape (Sheffield); Protest Song (The Shed at the National Theatre), War Horse (National Theatre/Stage Theater des Westens, Berlin), A Taste of Honey (Crucible Theatre), The Country Wife (Royal Exchange Manchester), Antigone (Olivier, National Theatre); Good (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); The Swan and The Nightwatchman (Double Feature - National Theatre, Paintframe), Derren Brown: Svengali (Shaftesbury Theatre / UK Tour); Twisted Tales (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); Honest (Royal & Derngate and Milnes Bar, Edinburgh), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Thyestes (Arcola Theatre), Eigengrau (Bush Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (BAC). Polly was the joint winner (with Derren Brown) of the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for Derren Brown: Svengali. She won the JMK Award for Young Directors in 2007; previously to that she was awarded the 2006/7 Bulldog Princeps Bursary at the NT Studio..

4 HENRY GOODMAN Volpone in Volpone Includes title role in Richard III, The Shoot Horses Don t They, Every Man In His Humour, Henry V, The Devils, Redstar, Comedy of Errors, Volpone, The Time of Your Life, Jacques & His Master, Henry VIII The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Yes Prime Minister (Chichester Festival Theatre & West End), The Winslow Boy (The Old Vic), The Holy Rosenbergs, The Merchant of Venice, Metropolitan Kabarett, Summerfolk, Broken Glass, Angels in America, Pericles, After The Fall, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Beatrice & Benedick, Guys and Dolls (National Theatre), Duet For One (Almeida Theatre/West End), Fiddler on the Roof (Crucible Theatre/West End), Performances (Wilton Music Hall), The Gondoliers (ENO), The Hypochondriac (Almeida Theatre), The Birthday Party (Duchess Theatre), The Producers (Broadway), Feelgood (Garrick Theatre/Hampstead Theatre), Art (New York), Chicago (Adelphi Theatre), Art (Wyndhams Theatre), Hysteria (Royal Court Theatre/Duke of York Theatre) Woman In Gold, The Surprise, Adam Jones, Taking Woodstock, The Damned United, Out On A Limb, Colour Me Kubrick, Green Street, Churchill: The Hollywood Years, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Final Curtain, Notting Hill, The Saint, Private Parts, Mary Reilly, Son of the Pink Panther, Queen of Hearts Penny Dreadful, New Tricks, Doctor Weiss, Midsomer Murders, Yes Prime Minister, Nixon s The One, The Silent and the Damned, The Turing Project, Florizel Street, Murder in Suburbia, Mayor of Casterbridge, Keen Eddie, Foyles War, The Merchant of Venice, Secret Weapon, Hamilton Mattress, Murder Rooms, Dalziel and Pascoe, Dirty Tricks, Arabian Nights, Unfinished Business, Cold Lazarus, Broken Glass, Christmas, Measure for Measure, Degas & Pissaro Fall Out, 99-1, Lovejoy, Spinoza, Maigret, The Gravy Train II, London s Burning, This is David Lander, Bust, After The War AWARDS Henry has been nominated for 9 Olivier Awards and has won Best Actor for musicals Chicago and Assassins. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 2013 Evening Standard Awards for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2013) and Fiddler on the Roof (2012). He won The Olivier Award for Best Actor for The Merchant of Venice, for which he also won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor.

5 ALEX HASSELL Biff in Death of a Salesman Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Cardenio, The City Madam, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Othello The Caretaker (BAM/Theatre Royal Bath/Liverpool Everyman), Troilus & Cressida (Workshop, The Wooster Group), The Seagull, Hamlet (The Factory), A Midsummer Night s Dream (The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), Turandot (Hampstead Theatre), I Am Shakespeare (The London Theatre of the Imagination), The Tempest, The Storm, Measure for Measure (Shakespeare s Globe), Death of a Salesman, Blood and Ice (Royal Lyceum Theatre), Hardcore, Medea (Pleasance Theatre) Life of Crime, Silent Witness, Way To Go, Big Thunder, Hustle, Jo, Miranda, Love Soup, Robin Hood, Bonkers!, Torchwood, Murphy s Law, Kenneth Tynan In Praise of Hardcore, The Private Life of Samuel Pepys, Murder in Mind, Boudicca, Death in Holy Orders, Danielle Cable, Eye Witness, Hawkins, The Queen of Swords Two Down, Miss In Her Teens, Anonymous, The Sick House, Cold Mountain, Calendar Girls RADIO The Changeling Alex is Artistic Director of The Factory IQBAL KHAN Director - Othello Much Ado About Nothing Snookered (Bush Theatre and national tour), Broken Glass (Tricycle Theatre and West End), The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre), A Slight Ache, Landscape (National Theatre), Tiger at the Gates (National Studio), Oleanna, Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon), East is East (Birmingham Rep), Too Close To Home (Lyric Hammersmith and national tour), No Going Back (The MAC, Birmingham), The Baby and Fly Pie (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Solitude of Ofuko (Sendai Theatre, Japan), Dancing Within Walls (Contact Theatre), Treemonisha (Queen Elizabeth Hall and national tour), Madama Butterfly (Lyric Hammersmith and Minack Theatre), The Illustrious Corpse, Othello (Leicester Haymarket

6 and Soho Theatre), Into The Woods (Birmingham Hippodrome), Beautiful Thing, Perfect Days (Oldham Coliseum), The Maids (Old Red Lion) Iqbal has been an Associate Director on Simply Cinderella (Curve Theatre) and Resident Director on the national tour of Footloose.. LUCIAN MSAMATI Iago in Othello Pericles Little Revolution, Ruined, I.D (Almeida Theatre), The Amen Corner, Comedy of Errors, Death and the King s Horsman, The Overwhelming, President of an Empty Room, Mourning Becomes Electra, NT50 (National Theatre), If You Don t Let Us Dream We Won t Let You Sleep, Belong (Tiata Fahodzi/ Royal Court), Clybourne Park (Royal Court / West End), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith), 1807 The First Act (Shakespeare s Globe), Walk Hard, Fabulation, Gem of the Ocean (Tricycle Theatre), Who Killed Mr Drum? (Riverside), Twelfth Night (Over the Edge/Crucible Theatre) As Director: The Taming of the Shrew (Over the Edge, Zimbabwe/ Bath Shakespeare Festival), The Epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and his sexy wife Chipo (Tiata Fahodzi/Tricycle/ Watford Palace Theatre), The Legend of Hamba (Tiata Fahodzi/ Without Walls) As Writer: Born African, Zuva Crumbling; Memory Play The International, Coffin, Legend of the Sky Kingdom, Dr Juju; Lumumba Luther, Game of Thrones, Death in Paradise, The Hollow Crown: Richard II, No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Dr Who, Ashes To Ashes, Spooks, Ultimate Force, Too Close for Comfort, The Knock, Heads and Tales. RADIO An Elegy for Easterly, Mugabe: God s President, The Jero Plays, The Homecoming, Seventh Street Alchemy, Colours, The Virtuous Burglar, When the Laughter Stops

7 TREVOR NUNN Director - Volpone From 1968 to 1986, he was the longest serving Artistic Director of the, directing most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. King Lear and The Seagull From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll by Tom Stoppard, and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes Timon of Athens, Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady From The Sea (Almeida), Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), Scenes from a Marriage (Coventry and St James Theatre), A Little Night Music (London / New York), Cyrano de Bergerac and Kiss Me Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre), Birdsong (West End), Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Chorus of Disapproval (West End), All That Fall (Jermyn Street Theatre and New York) and Relative Values (West End). Opera productions include Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte, Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie s Choice (Royal Opera House). Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello and King Lear and on film Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night. HUGH QUARSHIE Othello in Othello Macbeth, The Rover, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV Parts I & II, Titus Andronicus, The Relapse, Julius Caesar, Faust Romeo & Juliet, Guys and Dolls (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg), Ma Rainey s Black Bottom (National Theatre), The Great White Hope (Tricycle Theatre), Split Second (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), The Admirable Crichton, Cymbeline (Royal Exchange Manchester), Black Ball Game (Crucible Theatre and Tricycle Theatre), Someone Who ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead Theatre)

8 Ghost, Conspiracy of Silence, It Was An Accident, Star Wars, To Walk With Lions, Wing Commander, Nightbreed, The Church, Highlander, Baby Secret of the Lost Legend, The Dogs of War Holby City, White Heat, Small Island, Doctor Who, The Good Citizen, I Saw You, Casualty, In Deep, North Square, Hornblower II, The Bill, Jason and the Argonauts, Arabian Nights, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, A Respectable Trade, Medics I-III, Loving Hazel, Drums Along Balmoral Drive, Titus Andronicus, Wide Games, A Midsummer Night s Dream, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs RADIO Twelve Years A Slave, King James Bible Readings, The Great Hargesia Goat Bubble, Soundscape: The Lion Pride, The Black Mozart, Strangers and Brothers, Time to Move, The Spanish Armada, Hate Crime, How Evil Came Into The World, Clothes of Nakedness, Timbuktu, African History, Deep Blue Sea, Othello, Ape Man, The Charm Factory, Taking The Long View ANTONY SHER Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Parts I & II The Tempest, Othello, The Malcontent, The Roman Actor, Macbeth, The Winter s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tamburlaine the Great, Travesties, Singer, Hello and Goodbye, Twelfth Night, The Revengers Tragedy, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Red Noses, Astonish Me, Maydays, Tartuffe, Moliere, King Lear The Captain of Kopenick, Travelling Light, Primo, Stanley, Titus Andronicus, Uncle Vanya, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Trial, True West (National Theatre), Hysteria (Theatre Royal Bath), Broken Glass (Vaudeville Theatre/Tricycle Theatre), An Enemy of the People (Crucible Theatre), I.D (Almeida Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Albery Theatre), Goose- Pimples (Hampstead Theatre/Garrick Theatre), Cloud Nine, Prayer for my Daughter, The Glad Hand, Teeth n Smiles (Royal Court Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Nottingham Playhouse), The Government Inspector (Lyceum Theatre), John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert (Liverpool Everyman/Lyric Theatre) As Director: Breakfast with Mugabe As Writer: The Giant (Hampstead Theatre), Primo (National Theatre), I.D (Almeida Theatre) Marple A Caribbean Mystery, The Shadowline, God ON Trial, Primo The Company, Murphy s Law, Home, The Jury, Macbeth, Hornblower: The Wrong War, The Winter s Tale,

9 The Moonstone, Look at the State We re In!, One Foot In The Grave, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Genghis Cohn, Comic Strip Presents.The Crying Game, Changing Step, The Land of Dreams, Tartuffe, Moliere, The History Man, One Fine Day, The Out of Town Boys, Collision Course, Cold Harbour, The Sheik of Pickersgill As Writer: Changing Step War Book, The Wolf Man, Three and out, A Higher Agency, Churchill: The Hollywood Years, The Miracle Maker, Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown, Alive and Kicking, The Wind in the Willows, The Young Poisoner s Handbook, Erik the Viking, Shadey, Mark Gertler: Fragments of a Biography, Superman II, Yanks