Bridgetower

Born London
Training Oxford University, LAMDA
Theatre Directing credits include The Cure at Troy (BAC and Tour), Wild Raspberries (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Iphigenia at Aulis (Playhouse), The Monument (Finborough Theatre), Wolf Game (Union Theatre), The Baltimore Waltz (The Gatehouse), Foreground/Background (Young Vic Studio, On War Programme) and readings at Old Vic New Voices. Resident Director for The Donkey Show (West End, site specific).
Opera Staff Director Ariodante and The Turn of the Screw (ETO), Revival Director Turn of the Screw (OTC)
Other Helen is co-artistic director of award-winning new writing company, Floodtide

Jonathan is from Liverpool and studied at Exeter University and GSMD. Roles include Tolomeo/ Tolomeo (ETO), Bertarido/ Rodelinda (GFO); Amadigi/ Amadigi (Ireland, Paris, NYork); Nireno/ Giulio Cesare (ROH); Les Oiseax de passage (Teatro communale, Bologna); Trinculo/ The Tempest (Strasbourg); Orfeo/ L’Orfeo (Osaka). In concert Jonathan has performed with AAM, OAE, RLPO, RSNO, EBS, Gabrieli Consort, Ulster Orchestra under such conductors as Gardiner, Hickox, Parry, Fischer, Glover, Parrott, Mortensen, Bolton, Bicket. Recordings include Mattheus-Passion (Miller/ Goodwin); Agrippina, (Gardiner); Buxtehude Cantatas (Immerseel); La conversione di Clodoveo (Gester); Israel in Babylon (Fontaine).
Jonathan is baroque specialist at BBIOS. Conducting appearances include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for artist Dorothy Cross/ OTC Dublin; Teseo (ETO). Plans include Orfeo (Akademie fur Alte Musik im Saarland) and Flavio (Lucca).

Born
Brighton

Training
Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts

Opera/Theatre
Director Sweethearts [Finborough Theatre]
Assistant director Daddy Cool [Shaftesbury Theatre]
Assistant director Get Carter [Red Shift Theatre Company]
Director Six Women with Brain Death [Pleasance Dome/Soho Theatre]
Assistant Julius Caesar [Barbican Theatre]
Director The Pied Piper Project [Opera North Education]

Future
Director Enchanted – a new musical [Kings Head Theatre]

Other
Artistic director of Larger than Life productions – www.largerthanlife.info

Born London
Training Oxford University, LAMDA
Theatre Directing credits include The Cure at Troy (BAC and Tour), Wild Raspberries (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Iphigenia at Aulis (Playhouse), The Monument (Finborough Theatre), Wolf Game (Union Theatre), The Baltimore Waltz (The Gatehouse), Foreground/Background (Young Vic Studio, On War Programme) and readings at Old Vic New Voices. Resident Director for The Donkey Show (West End, site specific).
Opera Staff Director Ariodante and The Turn of the Screw (ETO), Revival Director Turn of the Screw (OTC)
Other Helen is co-artistic director of award-winning new writing company, Floodtide

Recent Lighting Design:

Theatre:
Four Men and a Poker Game (Gridiron) Spangleguts (London Bubble); Deptford Stories (National Theatre); Fair (Trafalgar Studios); The 7 Pomegranate Seeds (Oxford Playhouse); The Cure at Troy (Delphi, Greece); The Handsomest Drowned Man (Circus Space); A Square of Sky (The Kosh); Tales from Ovid, A Streetcar Named Desire (GSMD); Strauss Gala (Raymond Gubbay) The Canterville Ghost, Creditors, Judith Bloom (Southwark Playhouse)

Opera:
Bridgetower (City of London Festival): Dido & Aeneas, Jephthe (English Touring Opera);

Relights:
‘0’ (Michael Clark Dance Company); The Vagina Monologues (The Old Vic Theatre/Mark Goucher Ltd.); Ariodante (ETO)

Born
Hackney, East London

Training
London school of singing, GSMD

Awards
Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards for best vocalist for three Consecutive years

Opera/Theatre
Hair
Mandela, Invisible Man

Concerts
Edinburgh jazz Festival: Vocal Suite-Solo voice performance; Phoneheads Dusseldolf Symphonic Orchestra (Tonhalle, Dusseldolf)

Recordings/Broadcasts
5 studio albums: Green Chimney’s; Blessing in Disguise; 23; Victory’s Happy Songbook; Mutual Serenade

Future
Cleveland will be touring with his one man show ‘Vocal Suite’ in 2008!

Born
Nassau, The Bahamas

Training
Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Morley College, London

Opera/Theatre
Sarastro Die Zauberflöte (Opera East, Canada) The King Aida (Sevenoaks Opera) TruLove The Rake’s Progress (Guildford Opera) Sparafucile Rigoletto (Morley Opera, London) Publius La Clemenza di Tito (Morley Opera, London)

Concerts
Stainer Crucifixion (Nassau, The Bahamas); Olivet to Calvary (Nassau, The Bahamas); JS Bach Magnificat (N.S., Canada)

Broadcasts
Finalist, Channel 4’s award winning TV programme Operatunity which aired in 2003

Interviewed by Sean Rafferty and sang live (accompanied by Tony Legge) on Radio 3’s In Tune programme which aired in 2003

Other
Franz is also the composer of Introspection, a 45 minute song cycle at All Souls Church, London in 2003 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bahamian independence.

Born
London

Training
Young Actors Theatre, Weekend Arts College

Isaac has appeared in a number of productions for both the Young
Actors Theatre and the Weekend Arts College. He has also trained in
juggling at the London Youth Circus. Isaac appeared in CITV’s Den of
Doom in February 2007.

Born
London

Education
Loyola Prep School and St Edmund’s College, Herts

Jamal won a scholarship to St Edmund’s College for his abilities as a violinist and as a singer. He is currently appearing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drury Lane Theatre), and has appeared in Whistle Down the Wind (Palace Theatre) and as Joe in Caroline or Change (National Theatre).

Jamal is learning to play the sax, enjoys musicals, the theatre, singing, listening to music, and techno games.