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2007 British International Theatre (BRIT) Program Guest Artists
January 8 -
February 26, 2007
John McEnery
was born in Birmingham on 1 November, 1943. His first
professional job was with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool which he
joined when he was 20 years old and where he spent three seasons.
Whilst at the Everyman he was invited to join the National Theatre
Company of Great Britain which he did in 1966, playing every type of
part in a wide variety of classical and modern plays. He has also
played leading parts at the Nottingham Playhouse and Royal Lyceum
Edinburgh during 1972 and 1973. He spent the 1979/80 season with the
RSC appearing in Twlefth Night, Nicholas Nickleby, Othello, and
Merry Wives of Windsor.
John McEnery
trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
January 8 - February 26, 2007
Jo Cameron
Brown - Voice dialect
coach.
January 8 - February 26, 2007
TIM WOODWARD
TIM WOODWARD trained at RADA before commencing his
career at The Citizens Theatre Glasgow. Theatre
credits include; Ten Rounds at the Tricycle Theatre,
Hamlet at The Globe Theatre, Anthony & Cleopatra and
As You Like it for the RSC, The Colour of Justice at
the Tricycle Theatre, Burning Blue at the Haymarket
and Ambassadors Theatre, Medea a the Almeida and on
Broadway and An Awfully Big Adventure at the
Liverpool Playhouse.
Extensive TV includes; The Secret Road to Nuremberg,
Poirot, Murphy’s Law, Murder Squad, Midsomer
Murders, Blue Murder, Vanity Fair, The Bill, Silent
Witness, Heartbeat VI, Prime Suspect, Pie in The
Sky, Absolutely Fabulous and many others. Film
credits include; Enemy of the Unseen, K19- The Widow
Maker, The Scarlet Letter, Kind David and The
Europeans.
2006 British International Theatre (BRIT) Program Guest Artists
Tim Carroll | Director (in residence January 9 - January 20)
Tim will teach workshops in Shakespearean verse.
Tamara Harvey | Director ( In residence January 9 - February 27)
Tamara Harvey will direct USF Theatre students in William Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet
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Tamara’s
theatre credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Shakespeare
Theatre of New Jersey, USA); the premiere of Who’s The Daddy (King’s
Head Theatre, London); Odysseus (RADA); The Golden Ass
(University of South Florida, USA); Sitting Pretty (Watford Palace
Theatre); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Assembly Rooms Edinburgh
and West End – Co-Director with Terry Johnson); Much Ado About Nothing
(Shakespeare’s Globe); Markings (premiere, Southwark Playhouse and
Traverse, Edinburgh); A Tempestade (Associate Director, Teatro Sao
Luiz, Lisbon); Young Emma (premiere, Finborough Theatre, London);
Daylight Spirits (Mercury Musicals workshop at the Arts Theatre); The
Graduate (UK Tour); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (UK
premiere, Finborough Theatre, London); La Traviata (co-director,
English Touring Opera). She has been assistant director on numerous
productions, including Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Golden
Ass and Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe, Sweet Panic and
Life x 3 in the West End and La Finta Giardintera and Sárka
& Osud at Garsington Opera. She is a graduate of the University of
Bristol and trained as a directing intern at the Shakespeare Theatre of New
Jersey.
Sian Williams | Choreographer (in residence February 1 - February
28)
Sian will teach masterclasses in 'Movement for the Theatre' and choreograph the BRIT production of
Romeo and Juliet.
Siân trained at the London College
of Dance and Drama. She founded the Kosh dance theatre company with Michael
Merwitzer in 1982 and has performed in all its productions. Choreography and
theatre awards include the Manchester Evening News Dance Theatre Award,
Cairo Experimental Theatre Award, New York Film & Television Festival Bronze
Medal, Best Foreign Theatre Presentation in Chile. Siân has been Master of
Dance for the Globe Theatre Company since the year 2000. Other work includes
performing in Opera North’s La Traviata; choreography for ENO’s A Better
Place; choreography for RSAMD’s production of Stravinsky’s Renard;
choreography for the Gate Theatre’s Marieluise; Movement Director of the
Royal Shakespeare Company on The Winter’s Tale, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, As
You Like It and Jubilee. Siân recently performed in Twentieth-Century Girls
and directed A Square of Sky for The Kosh. Siân was Master of Dance for the
Globe Theatre’s 2005 productions of The Tempest, The Storm and The Winter’s
Tale and performed in both The Tempest and The Storm. Siân is currently
working with the Kosh in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre and
director Richard Wilson on the development of a new dance theatre
production.
Yolanda Vazquez |
Voice Coach (in residence January 16 - January 27)
She will work with BRIT students on voice prep.
Yolanda trained at
the Drama Centre London under the auspices of Christopher Fettes and Yat
Malgrem. She has worked extensively in theatre, television and film, her
latest credits include: Pinochet’s Progress ( BBC ) Hermione in The
Winter’s Tale, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Queen Elizabeth in
Richard III, (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)Titania in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (RSC).
Yolanda is a
freelance practitioner at Shakespeare’s Globe and works across all ages
including MA, undergraduates students and international outreach. Since
2003 she has also worked for the PDLL department at Central School Of Speech
and Drama leading courses on Shakespeare and Acting.
2005 British International Theatre (BRIT) Program Guest Artists
Tim Carroll | Director (in residence January 10 - January 21, 2005)
Tim Carroll, 2003 BRIT guest artist, returns to direct and teach USF theatre students.
 
Tim Carroll working with students during the 2003 BRIT Program
Tim Carroll began his career with the English Shakespeare Company, for whom he directed Julius Caesar, Cymbeline and The Tempest. As Associate Director of the Northcott Theatre in Exeter (1994-5) he directed many productions including Amadeus, The Last Yankee, Charley's Aunt, Abigail's Party and several new plays. Since then he has been a guest director at many theatres: most recently he directed W.S. Gilbert's Engaged for the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Since 1997 he has directed three productions in Hungary: The Clearing; Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards and The Duchess of Malfi. This year he directed The Tempest in Lisbon.
His first opera production was for Kent Opera in 1994: Benjamin Britten's The Prodigal Son. He is now Director of Productions for Kent Opera, for whom he has staged Purcell in the Theatre (1995), Monteverdi's Orfeo (1997/8), Handel's Acis and Galatea (2002) and Britten's Albert Herring (2003). Other operas include Eight Songs for a Mad King (Maxwell Davies), El Cimarron (Henze) and Twice Through The Heart (Turnage) for Psappha Modern Music Ensemble. At the Gran Teatre de Liceu, Barcelona since 1999 he has staged three Sarah Walker shows: Cabaret Classico, The Divine Sarah and White Christmas, as well as Britten's Five Canticles. In 2003 he directed Monteverdi's il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria for the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh and at Shakespeare's Globe.
Tim Carroll is Associate Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, where he has directed Peter Oswald's Augustine's Oak in 1999, The Two Noble Kinsmen in 2000, and Macbeth in 2001. In 2002 his production of Twelfth Night won Evening Standard, Time Out, Critics' Circle and Olivier Awards, and in 2003 Twelfth Night was revived for a record-breaking run at the Globe, followed by a tour of the United States. He also directed The Golden Ass, a new verse play by Peter Oswald. Last year at the Globe he directed Richard II and Dido, Queen of Carthage. This year he directed Romeo and Juliet.
Tamara Harvey | Director ( In residence February 4 - March 4, 2005)
Tamara Harvey will direct USF Theatre students in Oswald's The Golden Ass)
Tamara Harvey has directed and assisted directed at some of England's most renowned theatrical venues such as Shakespear's Globe Theatre and Gielgud Theatre in London. Her directing has taken her across Europe and across the Atlantic to direct at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in 2000. We are honored to have her here with us directing this year's BRIT program.
Sian Williams | Choreographer (in residence February 7 - February 18, 2005)
Sian will teach masterclasses in 'Movement for the Theatre' and choreograph the BRIT production of The Golden Ass.
Ms. Williams will lead a dance masterclass for USF Theatre students.
Ms. Williams is co-founder of The Kosh, an arts production company in England. The Kosh creates live physical performance events and video productions. Founded in 1982, the aim of The Kosh is to make the arts accessible and through the arts provide life-enhancing experiences. Dancers, actors, writers, designers and educationalists are involved in devising original theatre performances and video productions.
Laura Hopkins | Designer (in-residency February 21 - February 25, 2005)
Laura will lead a workshop for USF Theatre design students.
Laura trained in interior design and at the Motley theatre design course. She designs for theatre, opera and dance, and has collaborated on numerous devised pieces. She is also the Environmental Engineer of the International Necronautical Society (www.necronauts.org).
Recent work includes: Faustus and Othello (nominated for TMA award), both for Northampton Royal; The INS Broadcasting Unit (ICA); Elixir of Love (New Zealand Opera) and The Master and Margarita (NYT).
Previous work includes: Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Golden Ass and Macbeth (all at Shakespeare¹s Globe); Cosi Fan Tutte (English National Opera); Mister Heracles (TMA award for Best Design), Dealers Choice, Kes and Betrayal (all West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Reckoning and Office (both Soho); Cinderella, the musical, and Hamlet (both Bristol Old Vic); Swan Lake Re-mixed (Volkoper, Vienna); Falstaff (ENO/Opera North); Breath, Boom and Bailegangaire (both Royal Court); Look Back in Anger and Crimes of the Heart (both Royal Exchange); The Rake¹s Progress (WNO). Devised work includes: Clair de Luz, If We Shadows, Blood, Never Better, A Plague on Both your Houses and Maps for Lost Lovers.
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2004 British International Theatre (BRIT) Program Guest Artists
Margarete Forsyth | Director and Designer for TheatreUSF's The Tempest
Studied at Erlangen University in Germany and trained as a designer on the Motley Design Course in London. In 1994 she won a Time Out Award as Artistic Director of Greenwich Studio Theatre and was nominated as Best Director in the London Fringe Awards, and in 1995 was runner up to the Royal Court in the Peter Brook Empty Space awards. Recent work as director includes: the cabaret opera Send for Mr Plim, Spring Awakening, The Nun, and Mozart's early opera Bastien and Bastienne, all at Battersea Arts Centre, What Now, Little Man? at Greenwich Theatre, Goethe's Faust, Brecht's The Life of Galileo, Büchner's Danton's Death (all Young Vic). As designer: Three Sisters by Chekhov and the "sequel" Three Sisters 2 by the South African playwright Reza de Wit (Orange Tree, Richmond), Koltes' Roberto Zucco (RADA). She has also directed at the Edinburgh Festival, the ICA, the baroque Markgrafentheater Erlangen in Germany, the Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury, the Berlin cabaret venue Bar Jeder Vernunft, at most of London's leading theatre schools, and many times for Carlos Opera.
Julian Forsyth | Actor; will play Prospero in TheatreUSF's The Tempest
Theatre appearances include: for the Royal Shakespeare ompany: Measure for Measure and The Blue Angel, directed by Trevor Nunn; for the multi-award-winning Almeida Theatre in London: The Silver Tassie, Lulu and Scenes from an Execution with Glenda Jackson, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (National Theatre), The Diary of Anne Frank (Tour), Oedipus (Royal Exchange), A Midsummer Night's Dream, St Joan, Les Miserables, Martin Guerre, The Blue Angel (all London's West End), Fagin in Oliver! (Sadler's Wells, London), Macbeth with Corin Redgrave (BAC London), Dr Manette in Tale of Two Cities (adapted and directed by Matthew Francis for Greenwich Theatre), Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles adapted by Simon Williams, A Doll's House for Sir Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough, and the operas Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata for Music Theatre London. TV includes appearances in the long-running series Holby City, EastEnders and Poirot.As Associate Director of Greenwich Studio Theatre Julian won a Time Out Award and the London Fringe Best Director Award for his translations and adaptations of plays from Germany, Denmark, France, Austria and Switzerland. He also directs and teaches regularly at some of London's leading theatre schools.
Mel Churcher | Teaching Voice/Speech for TheatreUSF's The Tempest
As an actor, Mel's credits included Jill in Equus for the Royal National Theatre, Hermia in Midsummer Night's Dream for the New Shakespeare Company at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre as well as numerous television roles in series such as Upstairs, Downstairs, Duchess of Duke Street and Edward VII. She has worked for many years in drama schools and theatres including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange and London's West End and has been resident Voice Coach at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for the last eight years. Internationally she has run workshops in the USA, Croatia, Norway, Singapore, Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic. Mel is currently on the council of the British Voice Association. Coaching on movies includes The Secret Garden, The Fifth Element, Joan of Arc, Madeline, The Count of Monte Cristo, Snatch, Harry Potter (The Quidditch match!), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 102 Dalmations, The Hole, The Forsyte Saga (TV) and - not yet released - Danny the Dog with Jet Li, Tristan and Isolde, and Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur. Mel's book Acting for Film: Truth 24 Times a Second was published by Virgin Books in 2003.
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