JOANnA NEVIN- PRODUCER/ACTOR
Joanna is a London-based actor and producer. She co-produced last summer’s tour of Much Ado About Nothing in which she also played Beatrice. Joanna trained at Drama Centre London on the MA Classical Acting course. Joanna has played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, Olivia in Twelfth Night (both UK tours), Ruth in About 500 (King’s Head/Union Theatre), Lily Byrne in A Man of No Importance (Arts Theatre, West End), Sandra in Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis), Emily Bronte in Bronte (Gatehouse), Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Ashcroft Theatre) and Susan in The Legend of Lola Montez (Northumberland Theatre Company). Joanna has been an Education Practitioner at the Globe for many years and has directed youth productions of Antigone, The Bacchae and Medea.
Joanna is represented by 21st Century Actor’s Management.
MARTIN SOUTH- PRODUCER/ACTOR
Martin South is a London-based actor who has appeared most recently in The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre) in the West End. Martin directed our national tour of Macbeth (in which he also played King Duncan) and co-produced our tour of Much Ado About Nothing in which he played Benedick. He performed in 1133, Kit Green’s punchy and provocative reworking of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. Other roles include Y in Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis) and Mr Rochester in Bronte (Gatehouse).
In 2022, he completed filming for Misanthropos, an adaptation of Timon of Athens, currently in post-production. And in 2021, he created Remembrance, an immersive audio drama taking place in Abney Park cemetery, which is still available at https://echoes.xyz/
Martin is represented by 21st Century Actor’s Management.
SIMONA HUGHES- DIRECTOR
Simona graduated from her MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2019, (with Distinction). Simona directed our 2024 production of Much Ado About Nothing. She was an Artistic Director of the Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington from 2021-2024. Simona wrote and directed the play About 500, (The King’s Head Theatre, The Union Theatre, The Omnibus theatre) which was nominated for 3 awards. Other directing credits include Helen Edmundson’s Coram Boy (Minack Theatre), James Graham’s Labour of Love (Tower Theatre), Martin Sherman’s A Passage To India, (Tower Theatre), Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis) and Polly Teale’s Brontë (Gatehouse). Simona has directed short plays at Theatre 503, The Bread and Roses, VAULT festival, Flourish Festival, the Arcola Outside and The Pit (Barbican). Simona also directs for The Primary Shakespeare Company.
CAST
Katrina Michaels - Rebecca Sharp
Katrina Michaels is delighted to be working with Moving Parts again, having performed in last year’s Much Ado About Nothing. A proud Tisch, NYU graduate, her credits include: Offie-winning Best New Musical La Maupin; No For An Answer (Arcola); A Hanukkah Carol (Round House), Peter and the Starcatcher (Orlando Shakespeare); Little Shop of Horrors / Pride and Prejudice (Creede Rep); Hoi Polloi (Off Broadway); Tribes / Spelling Bee (Florida Rep); The 39 Steps (Depot Theatre); Twelfth Night (Colonial Shakespeare); Dracula (13th St Rep); Cabaret (Broward Stage Door); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); and Rhinoceros (Inwood Shakespeare). This summer she will also be performing in Places I Never Think About (Omnibus/Brighton Fringe) and with the London Accordion Orchestra at the World Music Festival in Austria. IG: katmichaels27
Anna Blackburn- Amelia Sedley
Anna is a London-based actor and Standing Ovation award-winning director. She trained across London and Italy with Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company, receiving an equivalent First Class BA (Hons) in Acting and Theatre-Making. Previous to this, she obtained a First Class BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Exeter.
Her theatre acting credits include: Pride and Prejudice* [*Sort Of] (Vienna’s English Theatre) Antigone (KINGDOM/Get Out Of My Space), The Play with Speeches (Brockley Jack/The Gatehouse), Persephone (Brighton Fringe), Romeo & Juliet (The Churchill Theatre, Bromley), Coram Boy (The Minack Theatre), Around the World in 80 Days (Vienna’s English Theatre), A Cratchit’s Christmas Carol (The Beacon/Get Out Of My Space).
Her screen acting credits include: Northanger Abbey (in production), Sister Boniface (BBC), Jack in the Box – The Rising (Fowler Media) and The Ripple Effect (Brother Film/SoBS).
Jahrhys Greenidge- George Osborne & Ensemble
Jahrhys Greenidge is an award winning performer who has an insatiable passion for the arts. having decided to pursue acting in 2023, he has already made great leaps in his career by performing in several short films, commercials for the likes of Just Dance and TNT Sports, and has made his on stage debut as Fettah in the musical Bacha Posh, which was such a hit that he won the Bitesize Festival ‘Runner Up: Best Performance Award’. Overall, Jahrhys loves people and the stories they hold. He believes it’s his job as an actor to convey those stories with authenticity and truth.
Tom Beattie- William Dobbin & Ensemble
Tom is a recent graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating from the BA Acting course in 2023.
Since graduating, Tom has been fortunate enough to have worked with Sir Ian McKellen in a rehearsed reading project and also made his professional theatre debut as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the New Wolsey Theatre and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
He is very excited to be a part of Vanity Fair and such an amazing company!
Joanna Nevine- Rawdon Crawley & Ensemble (see biog above)
Martin South - Lord Steyne & Ensemble (see biog above)
Keith Hill - Mr Sedley & Ensemble
Keith Hill used to work unsocial hours for appalling pay in a widely misunderstood job. Two decades ago he packed it in and returned to acting, since when he has made films, toured widely (Death and The Maiden, Fagin?), done lots of weekly rep (Yes, Prime Minister, The Railway Children, Secret Garden, Educating Rita), appeared on BBC Radio 3 in Angela Carter, recorded audiobooks, and played Benjamin Britten in Suffolk. He has appeared often in the East Anglian new-writing festival, Ink, and regularly records early modern dramatists for the Beyond Shakespeare podcast. He is about to launch a semi-improvised, interactive piece about Thomas Paine, to stand alongside his existing similar pieces about Christopher Wren, William Herschel and General Lavalier Mercer, all of which have been sponsored by major charitable institutions.
Andy Canadine - Sir Pitt Crawley & Ensemble
Andy moved into professional acting in 2022 following a successful career in primary school education as a Teacher and Headteacher.
He recently appeared in Macbeth (Nottingham Shakespeare Company). Previous theatre credits include touring productions Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth (Moving Parts Theatre Company) and The Taming of the Shrew (Drama Impact). He also appeared in Norman Balon- It’s All True (Shaftesbury Theatre).
Screen credits include 2024 European Independent Film Festival award-shortlisted short, The Eliminating, dir. Mengqing Xia, and Red Cross Campaign Advert (TV).
Anaïs Tran Ngoc - Rawdie & Ensemble (Musician)
Anaïs Tran Ngoc is both a classical violinist and an Irish traditional music fiddle player. She has completed violin performance diplomas in France and played in several traditional music groups both in the UK and France. This has led her to perform repertoire in the Shakespeare’s Globe and Cadogan Hall as well as internationally in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark and China. Thanks to this duality of musical cultures, Anaïs loves to embark on new musical adventures and she is overjoyed to be playing in her first theatre show.
CREatives
Composer/Musical Director- Tamara Douglas-Morris
Tamara is a composer of theatre, film and concert music.
She earned her MFA in Film Composition in the US. Whilst living there she composed music for three Shakespearean productions for BAFTA/LA and the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble.
Theatre credits include Odd Shaped Balls (Edinburgh Fringe and Old Red Lion), The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Minack Theatre), A Passage to India & The Little Prince (Tower Theatre) and Jubilee Voices (Arcola Outside). Her concert works have been performed at The Hackney Proms, Islington Town Hall, Sutton House and The Old Church.
Tamara teaches cello in Stoke Newington, is a member of the LLM Orchestra and a founding member of Uccelli Strings.
Movement Director – Nevana Stojkov
Nevena is an Offie award nominated movement director, holding an MFA in Movement Direction and Teaching from RCSSD. Nevena also works as a choreographer and teacher of movement, theatre and dance. Nevena’s work is influenced by her training in theatre, Hip Hop and urban social dance styles plus Musical Theatre.
Theatre as movement director includes: The Lonely Londoners (Kiln Theatre/Jermyn Street Theatre); The Girl in the Machine (Young Vic); You’re So F***ing Croydon (Edinburgh Fringe/Croydonites Festival/Omnibus Theatre); Weeverfish, Waterlilies (RCSSD); She Kills Monsters, Our Town (GSA); Machinal (Orange Tree); Coram Boy (Tower Theatre/Minack Theatre); The Boy Who Fell in a Book, Lizard Evidilleh Marmarok, The Little Prince (Tower Theatre) and On the Line (Camden People’s Theatre).
Theatre as Choreographer includes: Much Ado About Nothing (Moving Parts Theatre), In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields (RCSSD) and Labour of Love (Tower Theatre).
Costume Design - Anna Pearshouse
Anna Pearshouse is a costume designer and maker, with a degree in Theatre Design from Central Saint Martins, and a diverse career spanning theatre, education, and fine art. She has designed costumes for over a dozen productions at Latimer Upper School, among them The Tempest, Dr Faustus, Sweet Charity & The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and currently works as a specialist textile technician at Camden School for Girls. Previously Anna worked at The Victoria & Albert museum with their Museum Handling Collection. Anna also collaborates regularly with fine artists Cathie Pilkington and Laura Ford in helping to bring their creative visions to life through expert craftsmanship
Set Design - Freya Alexander & Lily Baik
Freya Alexander is a designer of theatre sets and exhibitions.
She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2023 and has since been involved with many creative projects in London, including theatre, festival and film.
Set design credits: The Passenger (Finborough Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (The Big House Theatre Company); The Dark Room, Out of Sorts (Tower Theatre), Heroes (theSpace Edinburgh festival), There’s No Place like Grove (The Tabernacle)
Film includes County Lines, dir Henry Blake
She is currently leading on the stage design for ‘Chasing Hares’ by Sonali Bhattacharyya at the Tower Theatre.
Her studies in sculpture, fine art and sustainable practice informs the work that she creates.
Lily is a London – based performance designer. She designs spaces and visuals including the set and costume for the theatre performances. She trained at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the arts London. (with distinction)
Theatre credit includes costume design in Desire Lines (Southbank Centre Winter Light Festival), set and costume design in Hypnagogic (The Place), projection design in Candida (Lyric Hammersmith), set design in Territory Marking (Platform Theatre), set design in Jerusalem (Capital City College King’s Cross) set and costume design associate in The Passenger (Finborough Theatre), set and costume design associate in Whole (the UK touring show), set design assistant in The Ice at The End of The World (Omnibus Theatre) and set and costume design assistant in Space Girl (Lewisham Youth Theatre) etc.
Music Video includes art department in Dua Lipa’s Dance the Night Away – Barbie Soundtrack (Warner Bros) etc.