GEORGE OLIVER (Puck)

George trained at East 15 School.
Theatre Includes: Dorian Gray in A Picture (Vienna’s English Theatre), Jim in Chatroom (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Adam in Forever (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Jose in Senor Carrar’s Rifles (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Arviragus in Cymbeline (Corbett Theatre).
Film includes: My Brother the Devil, Prowl, SoulBoy, Brand New Ancients (Short).
Television includes: Being Human, Mrs Biggs, Dani’s House.

DOMINIK GOLDING (Theseus/Oberon)

Recent theatre includes Far Side -Tricycle, B is For Black – Oval House, Mothers Day -Lyric, Don’t Dress for Dinner – Dubai, Francescos Room – Man in Moon, A Dolls House – Arcola , Foreskins Lament – Hackney Empire, Sleeping Beauty – Elgiva , Random Acts of Strangers, Marchers – White Bear, Awkward Redemption – Albery , Lifes a Gas – Kings Head , Commonsensical – Mac , Krapps Last Tape – Hanbury .
Film and TV includes Downton Abbey ITV , The Hour BBC , Thorne -Scardeycat Sky , Oscar Charlie BBC, Skanked, Uninvited , Nowhere , Flight , Urban Breakdown , I.D. ,
Dom would like to dedicate this performance to his late Uncle Pete.

CSILLA BARATH-BASTAIĆ (Hyppolita/Titania)

Award winning Croatian actress. Graduated from Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Has worked as a lead in major theaters across Croatia including Croatian National Theaters Rijeka, CNT Zadar, CNT Varazdin, Zagreb Youth Theatre etc. She has extensive experience in theatre, TV and film. Most recent work in UK include feature film AB Negative alongside Vincent Regan and Roger Ashton Griffiths. The film is due to premier later this year. In 2013 she has been awarded with “International Actress of the Month” award by BFA (British Filmmakers Alliance). Other nominations and awards include: Prize for Best Young Actress for the role of She in “Dead End” at the 14th Actor’s Festival in Vukovar,Croatia; Jury prize for Best Female Actress for the role of Klara in the play “Fever” at the 5th International Festival of Chamber Theater Leone D’Oro, Croatia; Nominated for Best Young Actress at Croatian National Theatre Awards for the role of Josie in “Iron”;  Nominated for Best Young Actress at Croatian Theatre Awards in the play “FSK 16”;  Nominated for “Evening Rose Award” for Best actress in the sit-com “Boomerang”. She is currently in preproduction of a feature film in London, UK.

MICHAEL SWATTON (Demetrius)

Michael graduated from The Oxford School of Drama in 2012. Recent theatre includes: Elliot in A World Elsewhere (Theatre 503); Sergeant Woodford in Dreams From The Pit (The Palace Theatre); Nathan in The Maid of Bankside (Jermyn Street Theatre); Joseph White in Ravens (horse drawn tour of southern England); Rich in Make Believe (The Hen and Chickens); Charlie in Defining Moments of Truth and Deception (Soho Theatre); Harry in Love and Other Vegetables (The Old Red Lion Theatre).

PATRICK NEYMAN (Lysander)

Patrick studied at Drama Centre London. He has appeared in several short films, a documentary about the closed world of scientific research and on stage. Recent theatre includes James in ‘Who the James is Jim Darke’, Devil and Rakitin in ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, Adrien in ‘A Woman of No Importance…Or Somewhat Little Importance Anyhow’ (Hen and Chickens), Eadric in ‘Silence’ (Brockley Jack), Lee in ‘Lethal Combination’ (Richmix), ‘Little Pieces of Gold’ at the Cockpit Theatre, the Cambrige Shakespeare Festival 2013, Benny Lucas in Noel Coward’s ‘Ace of Clubs’ at the Union Theatre and was directed by Gary Wright as Sebastian in ‘Hunter’, a one man show written for him and staged at the Tabernacle theatre. After playing Lysander in this beautiful city he will be going straight on to another beautiful city, Edinburgh, to star in a new piece of writing at The Gilded Balloon as part of the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

VICTORIA BARKER (Helena)

Victoria Barker graduated from the Urdang Academy in 2009 and went on to dance in music videos, cabarets and in shows at the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and the O2 as well as various west end theatres. She has been in commercials for Olliepops and Phillips Lumalive; TV credits include Fashion Wizards (Disney), Flash Prank-Ariel Abuse (MTV) and John Bishop’s Britain (BBC1), as well as feature films Jack Falls and St Trinians 2;Legend of Frittons Gold. Her theatre credits include The One (Dominion Theatre), Random Acts of Strangers, Primrose Hill Ladies Club (both at The Courtyard and directed by Gary Wright), Orestes (The Space), and more recently Victoria toured the UK and Ireland with productions of Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty and the Wizard of Oz. She is an experienced choreographer, dance captain and tour manager. She took the title role in a tour of Cinderella in December 2013 whilst also playing The Fox in Honey Bear Youth Theatre’s debut show at London’s Tabernacle; Hedgehog’s Home. She performed at ‘Shakespeare and Držić: Uncanny Affinities’ and is excited to work again with Honey Tongued Theatre Company and travel to Croatia.

LUCY HAGAN-WALKER (Hermia)

Lucy studied at the University of Birmingham before training at East 15 Acting School, where she appeared in productions including Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard and Cowboy Mouth.
Her work in theatre includes Love’s Labour’s Lost (Lcubed Theatre), The Cracks in my Skin (Infinity Stage Co), When the Rain Stops Falling (Article 19), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (3Bugs Fringe Theatre), Arsenic & Old Lace (Article 19), The Kidnapper’s Guide (Article 19), Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The School for Scandal (Baron’s Court), Anatomy of a Murder (For Short Theatre Co in assoc. with Pleasance), King Lear (Greenwich Theatre), Dido Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre) and Oedipus (Blue Elephant).
Recent film work includes The Opening Night and This Isn’t Manhattan.
Other work includes the music video for Passenger ‘Scare Off the Dark’, and rehearsed readings for For Short Theatre Co.

JIM MANNERING (Egeus/Peter Quince)

Jim is a Master of Arts graduate from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. Jim’s recent stage credits include revivals of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings (Union Theatre) as Eddie, Doug Lucie’s Doing The Business (Courtyard Theatre) playing Mike and a solo performance of Tom Morton Smith’s P.D.A (Theatre 503). Jim’s experience with Shakespeare’s plays include performing as Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Hasting’s in Richard III (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival) and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Courtyard Theatre).

FILIP KRENUS (Nick Bottom)

Prior to training at East 15 Acting School (BA Acting) and Drama Centre (MA in Classical European Acting), Filip Krenus studied English Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb. His theatre credits include: King Lear and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Spring Season at Greenwich Theatre), Bent by Martin Sherman (Landor Theatre/Tabard Theatre), School for Scandal (for Red Handed Theatre Company, directed by Jessica Swale), Orestes – Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse), Peer Gynt (Riverside Studios), Hell Screen (Oval House), Richard III and Macbeth (for the Faction Theatre Company), The Rivals (Camden People’s Theatre), Jane Eyre adapted by Polly Teale (Brockley Jack Theatre) and Shakespeare Inc. (Rosemary Branch Theatre). In Short Shrift – Season of Contemporary Croatian Drama, which he has also produced for Honey-tongued Theatre Productions, he has taken part in rehearsed readings of A Play About Mirjana and Those Around Her by Ivor Martinić (directed by Gary Wright), and Invisible by Tena Štivičić (directed by Eyal Israel) at RADA Studios. Filip has also toured as a singer with Caburlesque.

OWEN PULLAR (Francis Flute)

Training: Arts Ed London
Owen won the NSDF Emerging Artist Award as Matty in Territory.
For Butterfly: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malcom in Macbeth, Feste in Twelfth Night and most recently Boy Scrooge in Christmas Carol, St James Theatre.
Other work includes Barney, Stig of the Dump, UK Tour. Wolf in Bent and Frederik in Pirates of Penzance, both Tabard Theatre. Recent credits include NewsRevue at the Canal Cafe, Stephen, The Maid of Bankside, Jerymn Street Theatre and Matthew, Highlites Retouched, BBC Radio 4. Owen would like to dedicate his performance to his dad.

ZOOT LYNAM (Robin Starveling)

Theatre includes: Venice Preserv’d (The Spectators’ Guild), Missing In Action (Proteus Theatre), The Secret Garden (Proteus Theatre), Peter Pan (360 Theatre), Grimms – The Final Chapter (Horla), The Thought That Counts (Theatre-Rites), The Nutcracker And The Mouse King (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre), Farting Around in Disguises (Ken Campbell), The Oddysey (Icon Theatre), Fairy Tale Heart (Hampstead Theatre), You Can’t Keep a Good Story Down (Empty Space), The Winslow Boy (Birmingham Rep). His first stage appearance was ages just 5 months old in Ken Campbell’s epic 24 hour cycle play The Warp.
Film: The Silent Storm (to be released late 2014).

ADAM GRAYSON (Tom Snout)

Adam began his career as an actor becoming a member of the Bolton Octagon Youth Theatre (Activ8). There he played the lead role Danny in The Year My Voice Broke adapted by Peter Kay & directed by Sue Reddish. He then went on to gain a three year acting degree with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During training he felt compelled to write and won the WRITE 02 competition with his play Quids & Dimps. The play was performed at the Royal Exchange Studio in Manchester. He has played some coveted roles including Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew & most recently Withnail in a promenade production of Withnail & I at the Lass O’ Gowrie directed by Trevor MacFarlane and adapted by Ian Winterton.

PAUL McLAUGHLIN (Snug)

Training: Giles Foreman Centre for Acting. TV credits include: All Saints (Channel 7: Grundy). Theatre includes: John in Wasted, Hastings in Richard III, Hitler Youth in And Then They Came For Me and Lennox in Macbeth.

GARY WRIGHT (Director)

FILIP KRENUS (Creative Producer – Honey-tongued Theatre Productions)

Filip Krenus is celebrating the fifth anniversary of setting up Honey-tongued Theatre Productions this year. When he set it up in 2012, he aimed to create a cultural bridge between the United Kingdom and South-Eastern Europe. He set up and produced the first festival of Croatian contemporary drama in London Short Shrift , which was sponsored by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the United Kingdom. The event featured five top Croatian playwrights and brought to London some of the best young Croatian actors and directors.
He has launched Honey-tongued READINGS – a series of rehearsed readings of both British and South-Eastern European plays and has set up Honeybear Youth Theatre, the children’s theatre branch of Honey-tongued Theatre Productions. Hedgehog’s Home was its first production. In 2015 Filip has set up LittleBIG Shakespeare workshop series for young audiences.
In Croatia, Filip has collaborated with several theatre companies. He has translated the comedy The Complete Works of William Shakespeare – Abridged for Teatar EXIT, one of the most acclaimed Croatian theatres. The translation served as a basis for the Croatian version of the project for which he was also assistant director.
He also translated the works of the following playwrights into Croatian: Steven Berkoff, Jim Cartwright, Philip Ridley, Briony Lavery, Clare Dowie and Langford Wilson. For Short Shrift, he translated into English the plays by Croatian playwrights Vlatka Vorkapić and Dino Pešut. He is currently working on producing the UK premiere of Gloria by Ranko Marinković, a Croatian classic play which he has also translated into English.
He has translated into English the comedy Uncle Maroje by one of the greatest Croatian and European Renaissance playwrights Marin Držić.
Filip also translates for audio-visual media (Croatian National Television).

JAMES BILLINGTON (Assistant Director)

Theatre credits include: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (National Tour), Aladdin (National Tour), Company Swing (M and M Productions), Alice in Wonderland (National Tour), Jack and The Beanstalk (National Tour), Don Carlos (Blue Elephant Theatre), All Said and Done (Lyric Hammersmith), Macbeth (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Candida (Greenwich Playhouse), Agamemnon (The Courtyard), Macbeth (Blue Elephant Theatre), The White Devil (Blue Elephant Theatre) and Road (Royal and Derngate).
This is the first time James has worked as an Assistant Director and is thrilled to be working with the Honey-tongued Theatre Productions.

UNAI TELLERIA-BOLINAGA (Costume Designer)

ALAN MEGGS (Choreographer)

Alan Meggs trained in dance at the Arts Educational Schools, London.
Work includes: several years as assistant choreographer for a dance company in Italy, assistant choreographer for Directo en la noche (RTV Spain), movement director for The Ministry of Pleasure (Latchmere), The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios) and Gay School Musical (Above the Stag), assistant and resident director Chess the Musical (UK tour), resident director, Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (UK tour).
Alan has choreographed productions of Grease, Godspell and Carmen for various performing arts schools.
He is also Artist in Residence at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar and Performing Arts School, Aylesbury and is on the Committee of the Make a Difference Trust (HIV/AIDS Charity).
Currently, he is the company stage manager for Cinders at Emporium, Brighton.

VICTORIA BARKER (Assistant Choreographer)

Victoria began dancing aged 3, and at 16 undertook full time training at the prestigious Urdang Academy. Whilst studying she worked in many projects at top London venues including the Hammersmith and Victoria Apollo, Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and the O2. She danced in commercials and music videos, including one directed by Hamish Hamilton. She began choreographing with a show at Stratford Circus, followed by music video ‘Shining Star’. After graduation she went into a new musical staged in Victoria, London, as dance captain. She worked with Guy Chambers as a choreographer for his cabaret show andmanaged nationwide tours of Sleeping Beauty and the Wizard of Oz. She recently performed as ‘The Fox’ and was dance captains for ‘Hedgehog’s Home’ at the Tabernacle and is thrilled to be assisting Alan Meggs on one of her favourite plays.

DAN STYLES (Fight Choreographer)

As the eldest of three children Dan has been play fighting for as long as he can remember. He is now an experienced coordinator, teacher (British Academy of Dramatic Combat) and performer of action and combat both modern and historical. He has choreographed fights on well over 100 productions for stage, screen, video games and events.
Previous stage work includes; ‘Romeo & Juliet’ (x3), ‘A Midsummer Night’s’ Dream (x2)’, ‘The Three Musketeers’ (x2), ‘Macbeth’ (x2), ‘Dracula’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘Lord of the Flies’, ‘Madness of King George’, ‘Cabaret’, ‘Chorus Line’, and many more.
Screen work includes; ‘Ancient Black Ops’ (TV) ‘Tooting Broadway’ (feature), ‘The Harsh Light of Day’ (feature), ‘Fossil’ (feature), ‘Olive Green’ (feature), ‘Voodoo Magic’ (feature), ‘Ask Jeeves’ (viral), ‘Drake’ (award winning short film), ‘Santa’s Blotto’ (short film), ‘Richard III’ (short film), Ruen Brothers music video, etc.
Dan has performed fights on productions such as ‘Thor 2’, ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, ‘Green Street 3’, ‘Blue Peter’, ‘Killzone 4’ and more.
He has worked with the likes of Brian Blessed (‘Flash Gordon’), Ray Stevenson (‘Thor’), Steven Tompkinson (‘Wild at Heart’), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Matt Willis (‘McBusted’), Steven Arnold (‘Coronation Street’), Lilly Loveless (‘Skins’) and Helen Skelton (‘Blue Peter’).
Dan is a co-director of Independent Drama – Dramatic Action Specialists.

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DEAN KOPRI (Composer)

RAJKO LONČARIĆ (Sound Mixer)

LUKA ŠTEMBERGER (Video)

Luka was born in Rijeka, Croatia. He has worked extensively as a cameraman, video editor and web designer both for national and regional TV stations.
He was the chief video editor and cameraman for RTL Croatia and RiTV, Rijeka, Croatia. Luka has also worked for Foto Sluga Studio in Rijeka and was a web designer for Web Studio, Rijeka. He has filmed promotional videos for the Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka and adverts for Garcon Model and Martikas, London.
Luka lives and works in London, where he has relocated from Croatia in 2014.

PHIL EMERSON (Lighting Designer)

Phil trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London but learned most by working with established lighting designers in the UK and overseas and especially at Theatre Royal Stratford East. He specializes in lighting smaller spaces particularly those typical of the London fringe and believes too much technology can spoil the essence of theatre.
Recent work has included many pieces of new writing at The White Bear, London; Sherlock Holmes, the Cockpit Theatre London, Michael Rosen’s Nonsense; at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

JOHN DRENNAN (Photographer)