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ANGELS ASSOCIATES
WHO THEY ARE...
Laura Baggaley - director
Laura has worked with Company of Angels on the Young Directors Programme (2006) with Drama Centre London, the Gap Theatre Project (2007) and the Gap Theatre Project Kennet.
Laura’s training includes the Directors’ Programme at the National Theatre Studio and Katie Mitchell’s Directors’ Course at the National Theatre Studio. Directing credits for children’s theatre include Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon (primary schools tour) and Wind in the Willows (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park).
Laura has also directed plays at the King’s Head, the Art’s Theatre Cambridge and Upstairs at the Gatehouse, and has assisted at the National Theatre, Birmingham Rep and English Touring Theatre. She is artistic director of bagg theatre company.
Adam Barnard - director
Adam is a theatre director and worked with Company of Angels during the Young Angels - Directors, Designers and Writers programme (2007).
He has been artistic director of Activated Image, resident director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, assistant director at the Orange Tree and is part of Old Vic New Voices and the National Theatre Studio directors' programme.
He is currently developing a new adaptation of 1984 with the Old Vic, and preparing for productions of Lie of the Land by Torben Betts (Edinburgh Pleasance), The Mapmaker's Sorrow by Chris Lee (Eklektisk Teater, Copenhagen) and Vasco by Georges Schehadé (Orange Tree).
Oystein Brager - director
Together with Philip Thorne, Oystein founded the performance collective Imploding Fictions, one of the winners of the Young Angels Theatremakers Award (2007/08).
Oystein's directing credits include: Hamletmachine; winner of Premio Claudio Gora 2007 (Rome), Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre, BAC (London), first performance of S.A.T.B. by Meredith Oakes, BAC (London) and Cleansed, Rose Bruford (London). In 2003 he co-wrote The Hitch (Oslo), which won an award in the Norwegian Theatre Council's Playwriting Competition. Oystein has long experience as a workshop leader, and in 2008 he will be teaching improvisation techniques both in Norway and Iran.
Richard Howell - Lighting Designer
Richard first worked with Company of Angels on Sense at Southwark Playhouse in 2009.
Richard trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lighting design work includes productions at The Gate, Trafalgar Studios, Arcola Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, King’s Head, Royal Festival Hall and The Arts Theatre. He recently re-lit an international tour for the Propeller Company in Tokyo, New York, Milan and Rome. Forthcoming lighting design includes ‘Magic Flute’ at the Royal College of Music, Wolves at the Window at 59E59 in New York, and Heroes at The Watermill Theatre. For more information visit www.richardhowell.co.uk.
Max Key - director
Max was assistant director on Company of Angels’ Theatre Café Europe (2007).
He trained on the National Theatre Directors' Course, studied Theatre Directing at the Drama Studio London and Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art and Design.
His directing credits include: Mariana Pineda by Federico Garcia Lorca (Arcola Theatre); Vote By Ballot by Harley Granville Barker (National Theatre – Platforms); Year 10 by Simon Vinnicombe (BAC - Time Out Critics’ Choice Season and European Directors’ Festival in Strasbourg and Rennes (TNB)); and Wilde Tales by Oscar Wilde (Southwark Playhouse).
Jens Peters - director / dramaturge
Jens first worked with Company of Angels on the Young Angels - New Writing programme (2009) directing Myrad - Boy from Bosnia at ALRA.
Jens has worked as Assistant Director in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Lyon and London. He holds an MA in Text & Performance Studies from RADA and Kings College London and is currently researching New German Writing at the University of Exeter for his PhD.
He has been Teaching Assistant for Directing and Dramaturgy at RADA, and is Assistant to the International Associate at the Soho Theatre. Directing credits include: The Waves (RADA and Drill Hall), This Child (Southwark Playhouse; Assistant Director), What Shaz Said (Southwark Playhouse), and The Masculine Law (TARA Arts, SOAS, Amnesty International; co-director).
Christopher Staines - actor / musician
For Company of Angels Chris took part in Theatre Café (2004) and Theatre Café Europe (2007) and will be involved in Theatre Café Sweden and the Gap Theatre Project Kennet in June 2008.
He has performed leading roles at the National Theatre – in Hamlet, Amy’s View and She Stoops to Conquer, a co-production with Out of Joint. He has also appeared in productions at rep theatres across the country and on tour in Europe and America. On television he has acted in Judge John Deed, Foyle’s War, Rosemary and Thyme and This Life.
Nicolas Stinglhamber - trainee producer (Brussels)
Nicolas spent his 3 month-long Erasmus placement with Company of Angels working on Invasion! and Sense in a variety of producing and stage management roles.
Nicolas studied Socio-cultural Animation and Media in Brussels (MA in Social Communication). He has been involved both in education and theatre for several years; working as a student for 2 years at Théâtre de Poche, as well as on various projects with young people in Belgium, Burkina Faso, France, Romania and United Kingdom. Recent work includes a short documentary on Food Sovereignty in Mali.
Mia Theil Have - choreographer / director
Mia is a Danish actor and movement director and has worked with Company of Angels during the Young Angels - New Writing for Children programme 2008 and Theatre Cafe Festival.
In 2002 she joined Odin Teatret directed by Eugenio Barba and has toured world-wide. She was Ophelia at Elsinore Castle '06 and is member of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology). Her latest directing credit is Feast Kakhulu in South Africa September '08 and next show is The Caucasian Chalck Circle in Kathmandu this winter. Mia is based in London where she also works as a movement director.
Philip Thorne - director
Philip is part of the performance collective Imploding Fictions, one of the winners of the Young Angels Theatremakers Award (2007/08).
Directing credits include: Hamletmachine, Cairo International Festival (Egypt), Laboratorium Teatro (Rome), BAC (London). Assistant directing credits include The Ugly One, Royal Court; The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other (researcher), National Theatre; Faust, Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen (Germany). Philip works at the International Department of the Royal Court as a regular script reader. Imploding Fictions were awarded the Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora 2007 in Italy.
Max Webster - director
Max is a freelance director and has worked with Company of Angels during the Young Angels - New Writing for Children programme 2008 and Theatre Cafe Festival.
He studied English Literature at Cambridge University, then trained at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris. In London he has directed the premieres of Dominic Francis’ Finisterre (Theatre503), Desire Caught By The Tail (Arcola Theatre, Grimeborne Festival) and It’s
10pm He’s Late (Tete a Tete Opera at Riverside Studios). He has also directed and taught in Denmark, France, Argentina and South Africa. See www.hungrytigers.org
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