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A Doll’s House
Cast and Crew

A Doll's House Cast

Torvald Helmer:    Margaret-Ann Bain
Nora:    Polly Eachus
Nils Krogstad:    Rhoda Ofori-Attah
Christine Linde:    Zimmy Ryan
Dr Rank:    Melissa Woodbridge

A Doll's House Crew

Adaptor:    Sophie Reynolds
Director:    Frances Loy
Movement Director:    Alexandra Baybutt
Set and Lighting Designer:    Will Reynolds
Costume Designer:    Katharine Heath
Sound Designer and Stage Manager:    Fergus Waldron
Environmental Installation:    HalfCut



Margaret-Ann Bain

Torvald Helmer
Margaret-Ann is a graduate of the Drama Studio London and a founding member of the Rough Fiction Ensemble Lab currently developing work to be showcased in early 2011.

Recent film credits include leading roles in Making Ugly dir. Andy Niblo (due for release 2011), and Emma for the LFF graduation short The Dead Are Silent dir. Nikolaj Belzer. Upcoming projects include Out of Control dir. Mumtaz Yildirimlar for MY Production Ltd.

TV credits include the role of Lady Randolph Churchill in Lady Randy – Churchill’s Mother dir. Rob Coldstream for Flame TV/Channel 4 and Liz Henry in Crisis Control dir. Ben Blair for the BBC.

Theatre credits include Kid Simple: a Radio Play in the Flesh dir. James Bounds for Open Plan Productions; It’s A Girl dir. Ruth Rodgers/Julia Stubbs Hughes for Wonderland/Weaver Hughes Ensemble and the International Theatre Festival Bucharest; After Columbus dir. Brendan Murray for Pedlar Productions.

Polly Eachus

Nora
Polly is an East 15 Acting school graduate and her appearances include -
Television:
Janine The Bill ITV Karl Neilson
Hostess BBC Breakfast BBC 1 Dawn Lake
Wanita Ben&Ciaran Show CBBC Guy Lambart
Handrina Big Fun Time Cbeebies Lubna Malik

Commercial:
Indie Chic H.Samuels Outsider Productions David Lodge

Films:
Jane Flowers 1441 Productions Jonathan Grafton
Lexie The Babysitter Link Films Andrew Tidmarsh

Presenting:
Ispeak Video Meteorite Media Harry Scotting

Readings:
Louise Beached Soho Theatre Antony Clarke
Annie The Best way Jacksons street theatre Jamie Allen
Shirley Aviation Heroes Motley Studio’s Amanda Hill

Theatre:
Nora A Doll’s House Theatre Delicatessen Frances Loy
Susan Little Hut EverGreen Productions Tim Luscombe
Kirsty Un-Important history Interrupt the Route Martin Court
Polly Pocket Class and Corruption B&R Productions Christina Harmer-Brown

Kelly Roofless Dab Arts Rebecca Elise
Polly Pocket Class and Corruption Fire Razors Paul Jepson
Dancer Loving to Kill Punch Drunk Vinnie Salles
Denise Hit and Run Lyric Hammersmith Andrew Braidford
Messua Jungle Book Regents Park Antony Tuckey

Corperate:
Sarah Carer and Career The Garnett Foundation Ali Adolph
Ruth I’m not Dead The Garnett Foundation Ali Adolph
Mirabel Raising your Game The Garnett Foundation Nigel Miles- Thomas

Rhoda Ofori-Attah

Nils Krogstad
Rhoda Ofori-Attah trained at the Oxford School of Drama. Since graduating, she has performed at the Arcola, Finborough, Croydon Warehouse, Soho theatre, Theatre 503, Southwark Playhouse and Almeida theatre & Eastern Angles tour where she performed for Tiata Fahodzi in 'In Time' and the Globe last year in 'Romeo and Juliet'. In 2010, Rhoda performed in 'End of the Line' for Knocked for Six (a collective of young writers whom met at the Royal Court's Young Writer's programme). Prior to this, she played Bamidele in 'Otieno' for Metta Theatre company at the Southwark Playhouse which was awarded 4****s in the Times, Time Out and Time Out's Critics' choice. Rhoda has also appeared in 'Rose and Maloney', 'The Bill' and 'Grownups series II'. She is currently workshopping a new play 'Liquid Gold' by new playwright Yvonne Dodoo. 'Liquid Gold' premiered at the Almeida theatre in Tiata Delights 2008.

Zimmy Ryan

Christine Linde
Zimmy trained at LAMDA. Recent theatre credits include: Amy in Breathing Corpses (directed by Sam Potter, Theatre Souk); Lavinia in Titus Andronicus (Camden People's Theatre), We Feel Fine (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Rover (directed by Naomi Jones, Southwark Playhouse), Grimeborn Opera Festival (Arcola), Finchley Road (Theatre 503), and Cake/Mistakes Were Made (Brockley Jack).

Development workshop: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Ben Harrison & Charlie Burnell, PPKG). Short films include: Luria (Philip Morozov, DeusEx
Productions), Grindhouse Romance (Liam Kirby, ArtIntoTrash Films) and
Haven (Paul Philip Green).

Melissa Woodbridge

Dr Rank
Melissa trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has performed with Theatre Royal Bath, Soho Theatre, Hampstead, The King's Head, The Old Red Lion, and The White Bear as well as worked in development at the National Theatre Studios and the Royal Court. She also played in the West End while understudying in "Female of the Species" directed by Roger Michell. She's been in couple of features and comedy pilot shows. This year she has performed with Teatro del Contradizione in Berkoff's "Kvetch" in Milan, shot a short with Tom Conti and helped out a lot of advertisers.




Sophie Reynolds

Adaptor
Sophie Reynolds is a writer and poet; she studied English, Writing and Performance at the University of York, and has since graduated from the Goldsmiths MA programme in Creative and Life Writing. Her work has been published in literary and poetry journals including Magma, The Rialto, Dreamcatcher and Goldfish; her work has also been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ('26 Treasures', 2010).

Sophie has performed her work at venues across London, including the Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall), Poetry Café and the Troubadour, and at regular poetry events including ‘Pipe and Slippers’, ‘The Poetry Shuffle’ and ‘Days of Roses’.

Her first play, The Myth of Apples, was performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre in May 2010, and is currently in development. A Doll’s House is her first full length play, and her first adaptation.

Frances Loy

Director
Frances is one of the founding members and Artistic Directors of Theatre Delicatessen and has directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and Mercury Fur for them.

Other directing credits include: The Yalta Game, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The Grimm Fairy Tales, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Parasites by Westminster Prize Winner Ali Muriel.

Assistant Directing Credits: Prick Up Your Ears, UK Tour and Comedy Theatre, London's West End. Director: Daniel Kramer. Frances is delighted to be assisting Matthew Dunster on Doctor Faustus at the Globe in 2011.

Training includes: Young Director's Annual Course (National Theatre Studio), Director's Summer School and Director's Toolbox (Young Vic), Director's Workshop (NSDF).

Frances has worked extensively in theatre for development and education, including spending 6 months in Malawi devising, directing and touring productions with local rural communities about HIV/AIDS Education, Human Rights and Conservation Issues.

Alexandra Baybutt

Movement Director
Alexandra Baybutt is a movement director and dance artist working in the UK and internationally. Recently she danced in an interdisciplinary performance in Seattle. Now based back in London, she is working with clients facilitating the Bartenieff Fundamental exercises and using Laban Movement Analysis with groups and individuals. She has been thrilled to work with Theatre Delicatessen and Frances Loy again.

For more info see www.alexandrabaybutt.co.uk

Will Reynolds

Set and Lighting Designer
William trained at the Motley Theatre Design School.
For theatre Delicatessen he designed set and lighting for Mercury Fur. Other recent set and lighting designs include Departure Lounge (Waterloo East Theatre), Moonfleece (UK Tour), La Boheme (Palestinian Tour), Just So (Trafalgar Studios), La Voixe Humaine & Le Livre Blanc (Riverside Studios), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre and Theatre Royal Windsor) and Jingo (Finborough Theatre). Recent lighting designs include Hugh The Drover (UK Tour), Daredevas (Southbank Centre & UK Tour), Pulse (The Place Theatre), Sniggle (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and The Magic Flute (Palestinian Tour, Dir. Samuel West).

Katharine Heath

Costume Designer
Katharine is a London-based, Wimbledon School of Art and Central Saint Martins-trained Set and Costume Designer.

Recent set and costume designs include A Christmas Carol (.dash/ Tacit, Theatre Delicatessen), Scaramouche Jones (Tacit, The New Red Lion), Chaika Casino (.dash, Theatre Delicatessen), A Dreamland Sideshow Christmas (The Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate) and La Dispute (Soho Theatre, London).

Recent costume designs include The Man With The Flower In His Mouth (Metta Theatre, Greenwich Theatre), Hamlet (Icarus Theatre, National Tour), Otieno (Metta Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Rip Her To Shreds (Icarus Theatre, Old Red Lion), La Prima Donna (Hellcat Productions, Latitude Festival) and Lift & Separate (Hellcat Productions, V&A Museum).

Fergus Waldron

Sound Designer and Stage Manager
Fergus is a theatre technician who learnt through osmosis in English semi-professional theatre in Brussels where he was brought up.
Sound designs include "So Little Of You Left" & "His Spread Legs" (Risking Enchantment), and "The Yalta Game" at the New Diorama & on tour.
Stage managing credits include "Mercury Fur" by Philip Ridley (theatre delicatessen), "A Winter's Tale" (theatre delicatessen) and "Otieno" at the Southwark Playhouse (Metta Theatre).
Most recently Fergus has worked on "Swap", a short film starring Danny John Jules.
Fergus is excited to be working with his theatre family again.

HalfCut

Environmental Installation
HalfCut consists of three performers - Astor Agustsson, Dan Ball and Joe Iredale - who all graduated
from the European Theatre Arts course at Rose Bruford College. After graduating, the members of
HalfCut have individually worked with various theatre companies, such as Tangled Feet; You, Me
Bum-Bum Train; Bottlefed ensemble; and Mkultra. Since the company’s formation in the summer of
2010, HalfCut have worked closely with Theatre Delicatessen, creating their eponymous performance
installation for TD’s Theatre Souk in September 2010.
HalfCut create immersive and/or interactive experiences, challenging people’s perceptions and
preconceptions, which can be stand-alone installations or concepts which engage with existing
productions.

Last updated November 14th, 2010
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