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Shakespeare’s Globe include Antony and Cleopatra (1999), Hamlet
(2000) and Troilus and Cressida (2005). His posts include associate
director at Ipswich Theatre (1974-77); staff director at the National
Theatre (1977-81); and director of platforms at the National Theatre
(1981-84). His theater direction includes: The Fawn, She Stoops
to Conquer (National Theatre), Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, King
Lear, Richard III, Hamlet, Skylight and Vincent in Brixton (Shochiku
Company, Japan). In 2000, the Association of Major Theatres of
Japan recognized Giles for services to the Japanese Theatre. In recent
years, Giles has directed The Tempest, Henry V and The Comedy of
Errors at the Blackfriars Theatre in Virginia.
Peter Bray (Rosencrantz / Marcellus / Prince Fortinbras / Osric)
trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. His previous work
for Shakespeare’s Globe includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
His theater credits include: The Boy from Centreville (Pleasance,
Edinburgh Festival); Shooting Rats (Oval House Theatre); Moshing
Lying Down (U.K. Tour); After Violence (Raynes Park Festival);
Stories Project 2 (Southwark Playhouse); Blowing (fanSHEN Theatre
Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Lord Chamberlain’s
Men); Lion Boy workshop (Complicite); and The Heart of Robin Hood
(Royal Shakespeare Company).
Bill Buckhurst’s (director) directing credits include A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe/UAE
tour, Playing Shakespeare); Barbarians, Tinderbox (Tooting Arts
Club); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Stafford Festival Shakespeare); Riff Raff (Arcola); The Vegemite Tales
(West End/Riverside Studios); Normal (The Union); Penetrator, The
Night Before Christmas (Theatre503). As assistant director, his credits
include Get Santa! and Aunt Dan and Lemon (Royal Court). As an
actor, his theater credits include seasons at the Royal Shakespeare
Company, Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe, Propeller, Chichester,
Northampton and Oxford Stage Company. His film and television
credits include Skyfall, World War Z, New Tricks, Spooks, Collision,
Murphy’s Law, EastEnders, Coronation Street, Holby, Bad Girls and
As If.
Ng Choon Ping (assistant text work) was trained at York University
and the Central School of Speech and Drama. His credits for
Shakespeare’s Globe include Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew,
Richard III and Twelfth Night. He specializes in theater direction and
actor training. He directed in Singapore for six years before coming
to the U.K. and is experienced in Shakespeare, Greek and East Asian
Classics. In 2011, he completed the King’s Head trainee director program
in London, debuting with Pure O, a dark piece of comic new
writing about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Alison Convey’s (assistant director) credits as assistant director
include The Madness of George III, Kean (Apollo Theatre and U.K.
tour) and Arsenic and Old Lace (Salisbury Playhouse). Her credits
as director include Three Loops of the Moon (Chichester Festival
Theatre—rehearsed reading); Sweet Engineering of the Lucid Mind
(Hen and Chickens Theatre and Old Red Lion Theatre—winner of
Off Cut Festival 2010 Best Director Award); Playbites, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest (Oxford Playhouse); Amadeus (The North Wall);
Pygmalion (Old Fire Station); The Country Wife (Brasenose Arts
Festival) and The Sound of Music (Shimla, India).
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Dominic Dromgoole was appointed artistic director of Shakespeare’s
Globe in 2006. Since 2006 the Globe has increased its diet of new
work, has begun a small scale touring operation, which now travels
all over the U.K. and Europe, has done two large scale tours of North
America and its first across England, has initiated winter performances
and has filmed many of its productions for distribution in cinemas
and on DVD. During his time at Shakespeare’s Globe, Dromgoole
has directed Shakespeare’s Henry V (2012), Hamlet (2011), Henry IV
Parts 1 and 2 (2010), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2007 and 2009), Romeo
and Juliet (2009), King Lear (2008), Coriolanus and Antony and
Cleopatra (both 2006) as well as Trevor Griffiths’ new play A New
World (2009). He was artistic director of the Oxford Stage Company,
1999-2005 and the Bush Theatre 1990-96, and Director of New Plays
for the Peter Hall Company in 1996/7. In addition, Dromgoole has
directed at the Tricycle Theatre, in the West-End and in America and
Romania. He has written two books The Full Room (Methuen 2001)
and Will and Me (Penguin 2006), has had a column in the New
Statesman and The Guardian, and has written extensively for many
journals, most often the Sunday Times.
Jonathan Fensom’s (set and costume designer) theater credits
include Henry V, The Globe Mysteries, Much Ado About Nothing,
Hamlet, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost
(Shakespeare’s Globe); Goat (Traverse Theatre); Six Degrees of
Separation, National Anthems (Old Vic); Brighton Beach Memoirs
(Watford); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre Dublin); A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canada); Rain Man, Some Girls, Twelfth
Night, Smaller, Blackbird (West End); Swan Lake (San Francisco
Ballet); Journey’s End (West End and Broadway); The American Plan,
Pygmalion (New York); The Homecoming, Big White Fog (Almeida
Theatre); Happy Now?, The Mentalists, Burn, Citizenship, Chatroom
(National Theatre); In the Club, Born Bad, In Arabia We’d All Be
Kings, Abigail’s Party, What the Butler Saw (Hampstead Theatre);
Duck, Talking to Terrorists, The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court);
Kindertransport, Breakfast with Emma (Shared Experience); The
Tempest (Tron Theatre); Crown Matrimonial (Guildford, Tour);
The Faith Healer (The Gate, Dublin and Broadway); God of Hell
(Donmar); M.A.D., Little Baby Nothing (Bush Theatre); Be My Baby
(Soho Theatre); Candide, Charley’s Aunt (Oxford Playhouse); Small
Family Business, Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse);
My Night With Reg, Dealer’s Choice (Birmingham Repertory); After
the Dance, Hay Fever (Oxford Stage Company); So Long Life (Theatre
Royal Bath) and Wozzeck (Birmingham Opera and European tour).
He was associate designer on Disney’s The Lion King, which premiered
at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and has subsequently
opened worldwide. His set design for Journey’s End was
nominated for a Tony Award in 2007.
Miranda Foster (Gertrude / Second Player / Player Queen / Second
Gravedigger) trained at Webber Douglas. Her previous credits at
Shakespeare’s Globe include The God of Soho, Romeo and
Juliet and The Bible. Her other theater credits include The Talented
Mr. Ripley (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Madagascar
(Theatre503); Shraddha (Soho Theatre); Greenwash, The Marrying
of Ann Leete, King Cromwell, Summer Again (Orange Tree Theatre);
Born in the Gardens (Rose Theatre Kingston and Bath Theatre Royal);
Shadow Language (Theatre503); Festen (U.K. Tour); The Memory
of Water (Watford Palace Theatre); The Lucky Ones (Hampstead
Theatre); Pera Palas (The Gate and National Theatre); Love You
Too (Bush Theatre); The People Downstairs (Young Vic); Hamlet, As