Hannah Douglas (Sue)
Hannah was recently long-listed for a BIFA for Breakthrough Performance and won Best Actress at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival for her role in feature film ‘LAPWING’ (Urban Apache Films/Bulldog Film Distribution), which is out now in select UK cinemas and major streaming platforms, such Amazon, Apple TV and Sky Cinema. Other film and TV credits include award-winning short film GOING COUNTRY (BFI Network/Inceptive Films), CLOWNFACE (Hellbound Media/Amazon Prime US), MOGUE (Channel 4/Random Acts), LITTLE DORRIT (BBC) and award-winning film U WANT ME 2 KILL HIM? (Anonymous Content/Bad Hat Harry Productions/Netflix UK). Hannah has performed in many theatre productions, all over the UK and internationally. Some of her theatre credits include Pride & Prejudice (The Courtyard Theatre); Othello (TNT/ADGE International tour); ORPHEUS & EURYDICE (Insane Root Theatre Co); A Christmas Carol (UK tour); BIG BROTHER BLITZKRIEG (Bitter Pill/Kings Head); Ghosts (Sell-A-Door); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and THE TEMPEST (The Faction). She also played opposite Blake in new play, HOPELESS ROMANTICS at The Courtyard Theatre last summer, with Andrea as assistant director! She is looking forward to working with them both again. |
Blake Aidan (Mike)
Blake trained at The Poor School, graduating in 2018. Since then, he has appeared in several short films including Subscribe. Like. Follow. (2018), Quoggers (2019) and One Night Stand Up (2019). He has also appeared in The Cherry Orchard (2017), Lady Windermere’s Fan (2018), Four Loyalty Cards (2018), Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at the London County Hall (2018/19) and Saturday Afternoon Down The White Cube (2021). Blake has also worked with Andrea and Hannah before in Hopeless Romantics at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford (2021), so he is very excited to be working with them again and Mateus for the first time. Blake is also a stand-up comedian and can be found performing at several venues around London. He is currently planning to host his own regular comedy night starting in 2022. |
Andrea Lavio / Co-Director & Co-Producer
Andrea is a Swiss director based in London. Theatre Credits: He co-directed THE INTERNSHIP, an online production, which was officially selected at Digitally Charged Festival and Capsule Film Festival (2020). He assisted Nick Lane on HOPELESS ROMANTICS (The Courtyard - 2021) and Ronja Siljander on THE WORKMAN'S WIFE (Corbet Theatre - 2020). Film Credits: LA DECOUVERTE DU BIBIMBAP (Jury Prize at Concours - Mon Ouest à Moi - 2015), THE REVOLUTION OF THE CAPSULES (Official Selection at Mercury Online Festival - 2020), A NATURAL CHANCE and PAINS (both officially selected at Courts Carouge Festival - 2019). Andrea was also nominated for the 2021 Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Category: Directing). He graduated from East 15 Acting School with a BA in World Performance and an MA in Theatre Directing. |
Mateus Monteiro / Co-Director & Co-Producer
Mateus Monteiro is an emerging Brazilian Theatre Director, based in London since 2019, where he obtained his MA in Theatre Directing at East 15 Acting School. During this time he had the opportunity of having classes and participating in workshops with celebrated artists like Matthew Lloyd, Lindsey Turner, Didi Hopkins, John Wright, Philip Ridley, Harry Burton, Matthew Xia and Simon Usher. Right after finishing his masters, he took part in the Theatre Session 2020, hosted by Innopraktika & Russian Seasons School in partnership with the renowned GITIS Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, in Moscow. Since 2013, he has been working as a Director and an Assistant Director in several successful productions. In 2016, he was shortlisted for an Arte Qualidade Brasil Award in the category of Best Drama Director, for his work in the play A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard. |
Flavio GRAFF / Set & Costume Designer
Flavio Graff is an award-winning multimedia artist and producer based in London. He received the Golden Triga Award for the installation The Perfect Cook for the Souls of our World, part of the Brazilian exhibition in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space in 2011. Since 2001 he has been designing, creating and producing both his own works and for prestigious production companies. His work combines costumes, installation, performance, videoart, film, music, dance, poetry and dramaturgy where the focus is the experience that can emerge from creative action between the audience, subjective space and narratives. He has developed concepts about different kinds of interactive participation and how it can stimulate the receiver’s perceptions and their own creative processes. This artistic research has resulted in striking contemporary artworks with new developments focusing on the subjective experience. His most recent project is the screenplay for the feature film Saleswoman of Illusions, in partnership with the production company Cine - in the funding process. |
David Hewson / Sound Designer
David is a musical director, composer, and sound-designer. He holds a first-class degree in Actor-Musicianship from Rose Bruford College. He is the MD of acclaimed actor-musician theatre company DumbWise. For DumbWise he has composed original music for ‘Faust’ (UK National Tour, Greenwich Theatre) , ‘Twisted Christmas’ (Liverpool Playhouse) and a new punk-rock adaptation of Euripides’ ‘Electra’ (Bunker theatre). He was also MD/Arranger for ‘Matchgirls’ ( Wilton's Music Hall) . Other recent work as composer includes ‘Macbeth’ at the Stafford Shakespeare Festival and ‘The Accidental Time Traveller’, a new musical written for British Youth Music Theatre. David teaches and directs extensively on the actor-musician course at Mountview Academy and recently completed an MA in Composition for Film and Television at Bristol University. |
Ros CHASE / Lighting Designer
Ros is a freelance Lighting Designer alongside her studies at Guildhall School on the Theatre Technology course. Ros is passionate about theatre and the arts, especially as a form of education, inspiration, and inclusivity. She enjoys exploring how creative disciplines can transform atmosphere and aid the delivery of a story, captivating the audience and making it accessible to all. Her designs are vivid and symbolic, using colour and intensity as a subtle way to portray messages. Recent Lighting Design credits include: ‘Dick Whittington’ by TuckShop & Dir. by Chris Clegg; Phoenix Theatre, West End, December - January 2021/2; StoneCrabs Young Directors Festival; Southwark Playhouse, September 2021; ’For a Palestinian’, Written & Dir. by Aaron Kilercioglu; Camden People’s Theatre, October - November 2021; ‘Dog’, by Francesca Pazniokas & Dir. by Morgan Lee Drayton Arms Theatre, October 2021 |
MAGALI JEGER / Assistant Director
Magali is a multi-lingual Belgian theatre maker and performer, based in London. During her studies at East 15, Magali assisted various international directors in their productions at The Clifftown Theatre and in 2021, she produced her own play “A Blue Something” at The Space Arts Centre. Apart from theatre-making, Magali also loves performing and has thus appeared in productions at The Drayton Arms Theatre, The Bridewell Theatre and The King Alfred Phoenix Theatre. Currently, Magali is performing on The Polar Express in Oxford. In the next year she will produce her new play, publish her first book and work as an assistant director in The Vaults production of In The Heat of the Night. |
BEN MONKS / Producing Mentor
Ben is the executive director of Improbable. Before that he was the co-founder of theatre company Supporting Wall, and produced the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Bartlett's Bull with the Young Vic and world premieres of five plays by Philip Ridley, including Dark Vanilla Jungle, Tender Napalm and Radiant Vermin. Ben has been producer for the Women Centre Stage Festival at the National Theatre and Birds Eye View, the UK's Festival of women filmmakers at BFI Southbank, Curzon and the Barbican; and has worked for the Koestler Trust delivering arts mentoring for prisoners and secure patients. He is a trustee of Sphinx Theatre and the Multi-Story Orchestra. |