Clement will graduate from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire this July. His first professional engagement was between the second and third years of his training at RBC, as Theo Martin in the sell-out debut run of Kids Play by BAFTA-winning writer Glenn Chandler. It received a string of five-star reviews and the coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award for Best Play on the Edinburgh Fringe. Clement first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2107 with a one man show written by English playwright Tom Wells, for which he received the Best Newcomer award at the Birmingham Theatre Festival. As part of his training at RBC, Clement enjoyed such roles as Marko in 3 Winters by Croatian playwright Tena Štivičić, Talthybius from Caroline Birds The Trojan Women, Alan Seymour in Picnic by William Inge and Konstantin in The Seagull. Clement will be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this August to perform in the debut run of The Good Scout. Instagram: @clement.charles Twitter:@_clementcharles Facebook: @clementAcharles

Mark trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He has worked all over the UK as well as Vienna, Lisbon, Berlin, Athens, Frankfurt and Jerusalem. Theatre work includes Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part One, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Noises Off, Neville’s Island, An Ideal Husband and Hamlet (both directed by Sir Peter Hall), Salome (directed by Steven Berkoff), The Power of Yes at the National Theatre, Macbeth, Lend Me A Tenor, Moonlight and Magnolias, Venus in Fur, Present Laughter, The Lady in the Van, Thark, This Happy Breed, Pyrenees, Monarch of the Glen, Chicago and Travesties. Mark’s TV and film appearances include A Hazard of Hearts, The Monk, Lady Jane (directed by Trevor Nunn), Eastenders, The Bill, Peak Practice, Zeus in Gory Greek Gods, Emmerdale (playing the regular role of Andrew Fraser) and Inspector George Gently. Mark is a regular reader of Talking Books and appears in many audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, including Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Prisoner (as Number Six).

Theatre includes Chess (ENO Coliseum, West End); Alain Boublil’s new musical Manhattan Parisienne (The Other Palace); A Chorus of Disapproval directed by Trevor Nunn (West End); Homer in Monteverdi’s il ritorno d’ulisse in patria (La Pietra, Florence); Les Enfants Terribles’ The Vaudevillains (Assembly, Edinburgh); UK Premiere of The First Man (Jermyn Street Theatre); Adolphus Cousins in Major Barbara (W52nd St Theatre, NYC); Hamlet (Salisbury Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Taming of the Shrew (GSC); The Tempest (RETZ); Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Royal Touring); Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, Feste in Twelfth Night (Forest Forge). Film includes The Last Photograph directed by Danny Huston; Radio; the Prime Minister in The Offering; The First Man. Richard is delighted to be working again with Sean Aita, having appeared in Sean’s productions of Deathtrap (Jill Freud and Company); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Theatre, Northampton); The Lost World, The Country Wife (Forest Forge); The Lie (Vienna).

Filip trained at East 15 Acting School (BA Acting) and Drama Centre (MA in Classical European Acting). He set up Honey-tongued Theatre Productions in 2012 and is one of the co-founders of Midsummer Scene Festival. Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Midsummer Scene) and 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 8Faction Theatre Company), The Rivals (Camden People’s Theatre), Jane Eyre (Brockley Jack) and The Right Ballerina (directed by Matthew Gould). Films include Transmania and radio includes Gino Ginelli Lives (Wireless Theatre Company).

Nicholas trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has toured internationally with The Lord Chamberlains Men, YSC and Icarus Theatre Company. Most recently he completed a tour playing Hamlet. Other credits include: Jericho Creek (Cockpit Theatre) The Tempest (Cornucopia Theatre) The Gin Chronicles (Ed Fringe) Queen Lear (The Tristan Bates) and The Old Room (The White Bear). TV includes: Wings of War, Fear and Delight. He is Artistic Director of Ragged Crow Theatre Company and has written and directed plays in London including Angel Wings (Red Lion Theatre) and The Watching (The White Bear Theatre) He is delighted to be performing in such a wonderful festival.

Amanda trained at The Webber Douglas Academy in London. Theatre roles include Alice in Florian Zeller’s The Lie, Pamela Peabody in Ken Ludwig’s Fox on the Fairway, Mimi in A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie, Charlotte Payne-Townshend in John Morogiello’s Engaging Shaw, Veronica Fairchild in Rich Orloff’s A Capital Affair, Camille in David Foley’s Deadly Murder, Liz in Alastiar Beaton’s Feelgood and Patty in Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee, all for Vienna’s English Theatre. Edna, Lynette Saxon and ArabellaLazenby in Ayckbourn’s trilogy Damsels in Distress, Mrs Sparsit in Stephen Jeffries’ Hard Times(Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Lady Loxfield in JB Priestley’s They Came to a City (Southwark Playhouse), Mary Titterington in the stage adaptation of James Kennaway’s epic Tunes of Glory (Middleground Theatre UK tour), Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, Susan in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (both for UKTT) Anna in Patrick Marber’sCloser (London Classic Theatre Company), Lampito in Germain Greer’s version of Lysistrata (BAC) and most recently Madame Hortense in Jean Anouilh’s The Orchestra (Omnibus Theatre). For London Shakespeare’s Globe she performed scenes and speeches, playing Falstaff, Hermione, Horatio and Richard II, in All Places that the Eye of Heaven Visits, in Westminster Abbey.

Alexander is a Yorkshire-bred actor and musician, who trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Antic Disposition; UK & French Tour / Gray’s Inn Hall, London); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Brighton Open Air Theatre); The Legend of King Arthur (Guildford Shakespeare Company); One Man Two Guvnors and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] (The Old Joint Stock Theatre); Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet (Young Shakespeare Company, UK & Gibraltar Tours); Shakespeare’s Yorkshire (Think:Light Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lancaster Castle Open Air); The Taming of The Shrew (Lancaster Prison). Film credits include: The Walk to Dunkirk (Fresnel Film Productions / Amazon Prime Video); Maria’s Place (Dove Films); The Wastelander Chronicles (Dream It & Blue Yonder Productions). Alexander is also one half of Country/Pop duo Northern Souvenirs.

Sean Aita is delighted to be here in Dubrovnik at the beautiful Fort Lovrjenac. Sean is an award-winning professional director, and playwright who trained originally as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. As Associate Director at the Royal Theatre Northampton, Sean won the Checkout Theatre award for his play Yallery Brown, co-produced with Forkbeard Fantasy which subsequently transferred to Greenwich Theatre. Sean was Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of the celebrated regional touring theatre company Forest Forge, where his work was short-listed for the Stage Awards for Achievement in Regional Theatre. At Forest Forge he produced the company’s first ever international co-production with Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador. As a writer Sean’s play Bin-it won the live event category of the International Visual Communications Association Clarion awards, recognising best practice in communicating the importance of CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate. Sean is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy London, a board member of BH Live, one of the largest entertainment and leisure groups in the South West of England, and a member of Trinity College London’s drama examination panel. He has had an artistic association with Vienna’s English Theatre for the past thirty years, both as a writer and director, and recently directed a highly acclaimed production of Florian Zeller’s The Lie for the theatre’s main house.

Maira is a stage designer, working in theatre, opera and films. She trained at the Central School Of Speech and Drama. She is selected as one of the designers to represent Greece at the prestigious international exhibition of scenography Prague Quadrennial in 2019. She has designed theatre shows and operas in UK and abroad in venues such as Lilian Baylis Studio – Sadler’s Wells, National Theatre Of Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Wiltons Music Hall, Belgrade Theatre, National Theatre Of Northern Greece, Theatre Organisation Of Cyprus, Finborough Theatre, Riverside Studios, Hoxton Hall as well as shows for the Edinburgh, New York and Prague Fringe Festivals and operas for Ryedale Festival. She has collaborated with Drama Colleges such as The Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts designing various end of year student productions and taught lessons at University of the Arts London – Camberwell College Of Arts. In the film industry Maira has worked as a set dresser in many productions at Pinewood, Shepperton and Elstree Studios.

Claire trained at the Guildford School of Acting. She became a Freelance Choreographer based in London for many years, working in regional Theatre, Film and Television. She has fond memories of working with Sir Laurence Olivier rehearsing Vaudeville routines for his final ITV Granada television series Lost Empires and teaching Christopher Lambert and John Turturro to jitterbug in Michael Cimino’s film The Sicilian. In the corporate world she has brought to life vacuum cleaners, washing machines, fridges and freezers for Electrolux, windows for Everest Double Glazing and dancing cars on air castors for Renault. For many years now she has lived on the South Coast of England teaching, directing and choreographing in and around Dorset, most prolifically for Canford School and for the Arts University Bournemouth. Claire has worked as director and choreographer for many local Societies over the years including BBLOC, BOS, All Saints, Caught in the Act, Wand’rin Minstrels, Curtain Up, Impact Theatre and Bournemouth G&S. Claire is delighted to be asked to choreograph the Midsummer Scene production of Romeo and Juliet and to be working with Director Sean Aita again.