Glyn's plays have been staged in London, Edinburgh and New York, and include Liberty (Globe Theatre and UK tour); The Lifeblood (British Theatre Guide's 'Best Play on the Fringe', Edinburgh 2004, transferred to Riverside); The Only Girl in the World (Arcola & Hoxton); The Forever Waltz (New York & Edinburgh); Wolfpit (New York & Edinburgh); Broken Journey (Hen and Chickens & New York) and The Best Man (London, and Edinburgh Festival, also a film). He is Resident Playwright for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in New York. Opera libretti include The Girl of Sand (for Elena Langer, Almeida Opera Festival) and Birds (for Edward Dudley Hughes/I Fagiolini, City of London Festival). Works-in-progress include stage adaptations of Euripides' Hecabe, Dostoevsky's The Gambler, a site-specific play drawn from Seneca's Octavia, and libretti based on Paradise Lost (composer Luke Bedford) and on dementia (composer Elena Langer) for the Opera Group. His books of poetry include The Breakage, Time's Fool, The Sugar Mile, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2003; his latest collection Hide Now is published in October by Picador. His Plays One and Plays Two are published by Oberon, and his novel, The Girl Who Was Going to Die, was published this year by Cape.
Trained: Warsaw, Milan and Oxford universities. He was a trainee director at the National Theatre Studio.
Theatre: Le Mariage and Fragile! (Arcola Theatre), Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough Theatre), Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell Theatre), Last Song of the Nightingale and Change of Heart (New End), Twelfth Night (Haugesund Festiviteten, Norway), Company (Oxford Playhouse), The Marys (Southwark Playhouse and Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Still Lives (British Council tour of Italy), A Perfect Ganesh (Gielgud Theatre, RADA), The Way of the World (Rose Bruford), The Seagull and Two for the Seesaw (Old Fire Station, Oxford), Scenes from an Execution, White Chateaux, Artist Descending a Staircase, Last Train from Berlin and Stretching Strindberg (Minerva Theatre, Chichester)
As assistant director: The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company), Heartbreak House and Arcadia (Chichester Festival Theatre).
He has also worked with Franco Zeffirelli on the acclaimed production of Absolutely! {Perhaps} at the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End.
Opera: Manon (Cape Town Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Lucia di Lammermoor as well as Tosca, Madama Butterfly, L'Elisir d'Amore, Don Pasquale (State Theatre, Pretoria), Oberon, Il Trovatore, Ernani and Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Opera Integra), Samson and Dalilah (Vision Opera), Blood Rose (Dulwich Festvial) and a number of projects at the Royal College of Music.
As assistant director: The Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, dir. Francesca Zambello), Katya Kabanova (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, dir. Nikolaus Lehnhoff), Carmen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, dir. David McVicar)
In 2004 Michael was made Artistic Director of the Cherub Company. He also collaborates closely with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
James graduated in Art and Design from Pretoria Technikon, South Africa.
In 1992 he received the Hanekom Bursary for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre.
He worked as a Senior Designer at the State Theatre in Pretoria until the closure in 1996.
Over the years James has designed sets, costumes and lighting for numerous productions in South Africa including Romeo and Juliet (Best Design Vita Award, 1992),The Fantasticks, The Buddy Holly Story and Return to the Forbidden Plan (Regional Vita Award, 1998).
Recent productions include The American Popess, the multimedia dance work Julia with Jeannette Ginslov, The South African Music Awards for the SABC, Lucia di Lammermoor, Cavalleria Rusticana, Il Pagliacci (South African State Theatre), Le Mariage and Fragile! (Arcola)
James has been a guest lecturer for the Entertainment Technology Course at the Twsane University, for the Open Window Art Academy, Boston House College, and for the South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Art, and serves on the Advisory Panel of the Entertainment Technology Course at Twsane University.
Trained: Richard trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Lighting Design: The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer (Arts), The Car Cemetery (Gate), Natural Selection and I Am a Superhero (Theatre503), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studio 2), Plasticine and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Southwark Playhouse), Was He Anyone? (Union), Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (Ripley Castle), The Bald Prima Donna (Etcetera), The Collector, Wolves At The Window, The Four Seasons, Anatol (Arcola), The Death of Cool (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Tempest and Macbeth (Bridewell).
Richard also designs regularly at The Royal Academy of Dance and for The Miniaturists collective. He has worked as an assistant lighting designer at The Swan Theatre, The Royal Festival Hall, The Young Vic and The Trafalgar Studios.
Toby studied Music at Nottingham University and Film Postproduction at Bournemouth Media School, majoring in composition. His music and sound design has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the Birmingham Rep, and numerous London theatres. Mimi and the Stalker is his second collaboration with director Michael Gieleta and his umpteenth with sound designer Ed Lewis! Toby works as a secondary school music teacher, is a member of the band Left with Pictures, and performs regularly at venues throughout London.
Edward studied Music at Oxford University and subsequently trained as a composer and sound designer at the Bournemouth Media School. He has worked on numerous theatre productions as well as for film, television and radio. Recent theatre work includes Le Mariage (Arcola); I Am Falling (The Gate); Mad, Funny, Just (Theatre503); Meetings (Arcola); The London Plays (Old Red Lion); Diary of a Madman (Rosemary Branch); Full Circle (Oval House). He also works as a conductor and music critic.
Trained: University of Manchester, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
As Producer: he is currently working with the Faction on Richard III at the Brockley Jack, and on a new theatre piece based on firsthand accounts of the reality of life in the new democratic South Africa. This is his first production as a producer with Giudecca.
As Actor: Three Hours After Marriage (Union Theatre), Gleaming Dark (Trafalgar Studios), Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic), The 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal Winchester), Tartuffe (Bristol Old Vic), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Caird Studio), The Man With the Flower in his Mouth (Bridewell Theatre), Hamlet (Edinburgh Festival)
Isobel gained a BA (Hons) Music and Drama from the University of Manchester. Her credits as producer include Shakers, Medea, Romeo and Juliet, The Birthday Party, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Glengarry Glen Ross and The American Dream.
At the Edinburgh Festival Isobel has produced Eden's Itch, En-Suite Lies and the award-winning UK Premiere of Jason Robert Brown's Parade. At the Contact Theatre Manchester she has produced Discretion and the Mouthpiece and Female Parts. At the Theatre Royal Winchester she has produced Twelfth Night.
In 2005, Isobel founded Giudecca with whom she has produced Medea, Closer Than Ever, Anything of Worth, Coriolanus, Odette: The Dark Side of Swan Lake, The Siren Song of Stephen J Gould, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing and Salome.
Production voice work including Edward II (BAC, The Place, National Tour), Fragile (Arcola), Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough), Merchant of Venice (Lyric Studio), Le Mariage (Arcola), The Trial (Riverside), Master and Margerita (Menier), Gone Too Far (Royal Court). RP for No Way Out (Cochrane, Riverside).
Private clients including leads at Regents Park, Apollo Victoria, and broadcasters.
Actors' Centre tutor: workshops led include Finding the Character's Voice, Multi-cultural Shakespeare, Vocal Truth for Stage and Screen. Work with Escape Artists, Graeae, Mind the Gap, the Magic Circle. Taught at (including) Arts Educational, Central, Drama Centre, East 15, LAMDA. Trained Central, Bristol & Exeter Universities.
Derval was the co-founder and producer of Trap Door Theatre Company, whose See No Evil was nominated for the 2005 Spirit Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Prior to this she has worked on various television productions for Frontier Films, Dublin including Boys Don't Cry and No Frontiers. This is Derval's second production with Giudecca following Odette: The Dark Side of Swan Lake (Bridewell Theatre). Derval trained as an actress at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has performed at the Bristol Old Vic, English Theatre Vienna, Kings Head Theatre, London and Bridewell Theatre, London.
Trained: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Professional credits include Hangover Square (Finborough Theatre), The Only Girl in the World (Arcola Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal, Winchester), Wheels of a Dream (Dobson Theatre), and Treasure Island (Thornden Hall). Guildhall training credits include Capriccio, Tales from Ovid, Cinderella and La Finta Semplice.
Training: BA in Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.
Theatre: Oh What A Lovely War! (Samuel Beckett Theatre; Newry Town Hall); Doctor Faustus (Players Theatre); Emotional Midget (Smirnoff Underbelly; Dunamaise Arts Centre; Roscommon Arts Centre); Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Players Theatre - Best Director, ISDA Nomination) and Plastic Jesus (24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices).
He has also directed short plays by Rachel Wagstaff and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm for 'The Apathists' at Theatre503.
As Assistant Director: to Steve Marmion (A Date To Remember, Soho Theatre; Lunchtime Lottery, Covent Garden Studio), Angus Jackson (The Conservatory, Old Vic 24 Hour Gala) and Tim Roseman (To My Man, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre). He was a founding writer and performer with the award-winning sketch comedy group The Mercer Island Rodeo, touring to Seattle, Belfast, Cork, Dublin and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007.