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.
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 Stojkov is an Offie award nominated Movement Director
Theatre as Movement Director includes: The Lonely Londoners (Jermyn Street Theatre);You’re So F***ing Croydon (Croydonites Festival and Omnibus Theatre); Waterlilies (RCSSD); She Kills Monsters (GSA); Machinal (Orange Tree); Our Town (GSA); Coram Boy (Tower Theatre/Minack Theatre); The Boy Who Fell in a Book, Lizard Evidilleh Marmarok, The Little Prince (Tower Theatre); On the Line (Camden People’s Theatre);
Theatre as Choreographer includes: In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields (RCSSD); Weeverfish (RCSSD);
Nevena Stojkov graduated with Distincion at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the MFA in Movement: Directing and Teaching.