The Iphigenia Quartet. Caroline Bird

As You Like It (Wyndhams Theatre London); Reference to Salvador Dali (Arcola Theatre/Young Vic); The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Globe Theatre); Things Fall Apart (West Yorkshire/ Royal Court Theatre); The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre) and The Tempest (Shared Experience).

      Film credits include: Artificial Horizon (Artificial Horizon Limited); Breaking the Bank (Black Hangar Studios); Song for Marion (WH Films); Exorcist: The Beginning (Morgan Creek); Exorcist: Dominion (Morgan Creek USA); The Merchant of Venice (BBC Films); Doctor Sleep (Kismet Films) and Tailor of Panama (Columbia Pictures).

      Television credits include: Capital (Kudos for BBC 1); Eastenders (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Perfect Parents (Granada Television/ITV); Primeval (Impossible Pictures/ITV); Soundproof, Blast! (Films/BBC2); The Bill (Thames Television); Trust (Box TV); In Deep (Valentine Productions); A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television); Casualty (BBC); Family Affairs (Pearson Television); Burnside (Thames Television); The Bill (Thames Television) and Tough Love (Granada Television).

      Radio credits include: The Mother of… (BBC Radio 4) and The Last Supper (BBC Radio 3).

       LOUISE MCMENEMY – MESSENGER & VOICE

      Louise is a Scottish Actor and trained at the Italia Conti Academy on the 3 Year BA (Hons) Acting programme.

      Theatre credits include: See Bob Run (Bread and Roses Theatre); All Things Nice (White Bear Theatre); Boris Godunov and The Ghost Train (The Jack Studio Theatre).

       IPHIGENIA & CLYTEMNESTRA

       ANTHONY BARCLAY – AGAMEMNON & DIRECTOR

      Theatre credits include: Anna Karenina (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Religion & Anarchy: Line Up and Gas (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dear World (Charing Cross Theatre); Oedipus (Spoleto Festival, USA; Nottingham Playhouse; Liverpool Everyman, and Edinburgh Festival); Coalition/Shotgun Civil Partnership in the Rose Garden (Theatre 503); Biblical Tales (New End Hampstead); Road (Lyric Hammersmith); Twelfth Night (Manchester Royal Exchange); Kiss of the Spiderwoman (York Theatre Royal); Credible Witness (Royal Court Theatre); Vurt (Manchester Contact Theatre); La Strada (National Theatre Studio); The Taming of the Shrew (English Touring Theatre); The Iron Man (Young Vic); Assasins (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Regent’s Park) and The Fantastics (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

      Television credits include: Vera (BBC); New Tricks (BBC); Judge John Deed (BBC); Coronation Street (Granada); Mersey Beat (BBC); Lock, Stock (Channel 4); Smack the Pony (Channel 4); Casualty (BBC); Birds of a Feather (BBC); Sorry about Last Night (BBC); Common as Muck (BBC); Love Hurts (BBC) and Screaming (BBC).

      Film credits include: The Life of Jimmy Horton (Harbourmaster Films); No Humans Involved (SFilms); Job’s Dinner (Caravanserai Productions); A Price Worth Paying (Area 17 Films); Devil in Your Details (Rolling Media/Roll 7); Road (Cheeky Pictures); Prix de Rome (PDR Productions); Citizen vs Kane (Streetlight Films) and Red Black (Booblah, Brick and Pin).

       SHANNON TARBET – IPHIGENIA & MAID

      Theatre credits include: The Edge of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); Hotel (National Theatre); A View from the Bridge (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse); Circle Mirror Transformation (Royal Court/Rose Lipman Centre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange); Spur of the Moment (Royal Court Theatre); 66 Books – When You Left I Thought I’d Die But Now I’m Fine (Bush Theatre); The Flooded Grave (Bush Theatre/Latitude Festival); Mary Shelley (Shared Experience); Mogadishu (Manchester Royal Exchange/Lyric Hammersmith); Rapture, Blister, Burn and Skane (Hampstead Theatre).

      Her television credits include: Virtuoso, River, Lewis, Inspector George Gently, Monroe and Silk.

      Her film credits include: Leavey, Look Away, Winter Song and A Promise.

       SUSIE TRAYLING – CLYTEMNESTRA & PROFESSOR

      Susie trained at Drama Studio London, & St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

      Theatre credits include: The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (Liverpool Everyman/ETT Tour); Arthur Miller’s The Hook (Northampton Theatre Royal/ Liverpool Everyman); Vast White Stillness (Brighton Festival); The Crucible, Twelfth Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Thomas Tallis (Globe); Idomeneus, Vanya (Gate Theatre); The Seagull (Manchester Library Theatre); Sons Without Fathers (Platonov) (Belgrade Theatre/Arcola); King John, Richard III, A Soldier in Every Son (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Constant Wife, Private Lives, The Waters of the Moon (Salisbury Playhouse); Anthony & Cleopatra (Nuffield Theatre); Mary Goes First, The Mob (Orange Tree); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre); A Doll’s House, The Portrait of a Lady, Habeus Corpus, Measure for Measure (The Peter Hall Company); Women of Troy, Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Forest (National Theatre); Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Lyceum & Lyric Hammersmith); Skylight (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Closer (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Camera Obscura (Almeida); Hamlet (Northcott Theatre); Edward II (Sheffield Crucible) and Anna Karenina – nominated, Best Actress, Manchester Evening News Awards (Bolton Octagon).

      Film and television credits include: Midsomer Murders – A Christmas Haunting (ITV); Holby City (BBC); We’ll Take Manhattan (BBC); Vera – The Crow Trap (ITV); Doctors (BBC); Emma (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Heartbeat (ITV); Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC); The Bill (ITV); Fragile (Just Films); Fog Bound (Mullholland Films) and All The Queen’s Men (Streamline Productions).

       DWANE WALCOTT – ACHILLES & SOLDIER

      Dwane trained at the Italia Conti Academy.

      Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Barbican); The Twits (Royal Court); Venice Preserv’d (Spectators Guild); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Titus Andronius, A Mad World My Masters, Candide (Royal Shakespeare Company); Damned by Despair (National Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle).

      Television credits include: Tut (Spike TV) and Doctors (BBC).

      Film credits include: Mindhorn (Scottfree/ BBC).

       CREATIVE TEAM

       CAROLINE BIRD – PLAYWRIGHT (AGAMEMNON)

      Caroline’s new stage version of The Wizard of Oz will be Northern Stage’s Christmas production. She is currently under commission to the Old Vic, writing the book and lyrics for a musical version of Dennis the Menace.

      Previous work includes: Sixty-Six Books (The Bush Theatre, 2011); The Trojan Women (Gate Theatre, 2012) and Chamber Piece, Show 3 (Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre season, 2013 & UK tour 2013/2014).

      Caroline was one of ten finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2014. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards in 2013 and for the Shell Woman of the Future Awards in 2011.

      Caroline is an award-winning poet with four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press. She was named one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012.