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PHILIP PARR (Director)

Alongside a wide-ranging freelance practice as director of theatre, opera and festivals, Philip is Artistic Director of Parrabbola, who make large scale community plays in the UK and across Europe, and Director of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Theatre work has ranged from main house productions, to small scale rural touring, with a particular focus on site specific and promenade theatre and on Shakespeare.

Current Shakespeare productions include Henry V [Man and Monarch], FEAST: A Play in One Cooking – exploring Shakespeare’s female characters, and touring productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth and As You Like It.

His production of Pericles Prince of Tyre premiered in 2024 at the Hungarian State Theatre Csiky Gergely in Timișoara and was selected for the National Theatre Festival in Romania.
His most recent premiere was Codename Othello, a new play by the Ukrainian playwright Olga Annenko, which premiered in York.

Larger work has included site specific, promenade performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet for the Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, and Pericles and The Winter’s Tale in Gdańsk. His most recent large scale projects were a site-specific, cross-border production of The Winter’s Tale, which travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and Shake Fear | Break Walls in Gdańsk – an exploration of borders real and imagined with five European partners.

Philip is a founding council member of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network and in 2021 was elected Chairman. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

FILIP KRENUS (Actor)

Filip graduated from the University of Zagreb and trained at East 15 Acting School and Drama Centre. He founded Honey-tongued Theatre Productions in 2012 and co-founded the Midsummer Scene Festival in 2014. In 2013, he produced Short Shrift — the first festival of Croatian contemporary drama in London — at RADA, where he also staged his first production, the children’s musical Hedgehog’s Home. In 2015, he launched the LittleBIG Shakespeare workshop series for young audiences.

His translation work includes plays by Steven Berkoff, Clare Dowie and Lanford Wilson into Croatian, which have been performed in Croatia. He leads the ongoing project to translate the works of Marin Držić. To date, he has translated the comedies Uncle Maroye (Dundo Maroje), Old Stan or A Fool Fooled (Novela od Stanca), Pinch Hoard (Skup), and edited the translation of Venus and Adonis (Venere i Adon). He is currently working on Plakir or The Son of Cupid.

An abridged version of Uncle Maroye was performed at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival in August 2019, and his translations have been presented in London, York, and at the Library of the European Parliament in Brussels. He is also collaborating with Zdenko Bašić on translations and adaptations of fairy tales by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić.

Filip co-produced the play Conundrum for the European Capital of Culture 2020, Rijeka, which was later staged at the Young Vic Theatre, where he also appeared as an actor. He co-wrote the one-man show A Poor Player with Sean Aita, which toured across Europe.

Theatre credits include: Around the World in Eighty Days, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Midsummer Scene); Twelfth Night (Midsummer Scene and Vienna’s English Theatre); School for Scandal (directed by Jessica Swale); The Winter’s Tale (LittleBIG Shakespeare); King Lear and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre); Bent (Landor/Tabard); Orestes – Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse); Peer Gynt (Riverside Studios); Hell Screen (Oval House); Richard III and Macbeth (Faction Theatre Company).

Film: Transmania, Zebra Creative Production
TV: Everyone Hates Suzy, Bad Wolf / Sky Studios; Slumbering Concrete, Hulahop
Radio: Gino Ginelli Lives, Wireless Theatre Company

Filip is a member of the Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists and the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association.