Socrates and his Clouds. William Lyons

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      Constantine Andronikou – Vocal Supervisor/Casting Director

      Born and raised in Cyprus, Constantine trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Music Theatre) graduating in 2010. He also read Music at the University of Southampton (BA Hons) where he started his training as a Tenor. Constantine has just returned to London after the International Magic Tenors Tour in theatres around Germany. Last summer he performed at the London Olympics Closing Ceremony as part of the Urban Voices Collective. Theatre includes Tonelli in Flahooley (Sadler’s Wells), Soloist in Wonders of the West End (Millfield Theatre), Soloist at Gala (Greenwich Theatre), Vocalist in Cabaret Confidential (Pheasantry), Soloist in Song by Song (Canal Café Theatre) and Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors (White Bear Theatre). Constantine is a member of the West End Gospel Choir.

      Sandra Maturana – Choreographer

      Sandra is a Spanish movement director, director and actor with a strong background in physical theatre. She trained in Spain and completed a MA at RADA. She was a Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic and recently assisted Paul Hunter in the RSC production The Mouse and His Child. She has worked as a movement director in Sinbad (Roundhouse), The Government Inspector (parallel production at the Young Vic), and Seven Angels (The Opera Group). As an actor her credits include the Dreamthinkspeak production In the beginning was the end (Somerset House), The House of Bernarda Alba (The Space), Darkness Cycle (The Place), Danae (Sadler’s Wells) and playing Tinkerbell in the O2’s production of Peter Pan. She has developed excellent movement skills through her training in physical theatre and disciplines such as butoh, contact, aerial work and belly dance.

      Ruth Mariner – Assistant Director

      Ruth Mariner gained an Excellence Scholarship and First Class degree in Music at Goldsmiths (University of London) before taking up a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to complete an MPhil in Musicology. At Cambridge, she specialised in social anthropology of music, supervised by Head of Department, Nicholas Cook. 2012 saw her form Gestalt Arts Opera Company with award-winning composer Toby Young, producing and directing productions with London Symphony Orchestra and at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. She has since completed further directing training at Central School of Speech and Drama and on the Directors Programme at The Young Vic. She is currently working on the libretto for her second opera and enjoys a side-career in journalism, writing for Classical Music Magazine (previously writing for Time Out Hong Kong). She is also a libretti consultant for Oberon Books.

      Ariadne Kritonos – Assistant Designer/Fundraising Manager

      Ariadne Kritonos is a multidisciplinary artist, expressing herself primarily through performance art, installation and collage. Since obtaining a First Class Honours BA in Fine Arts from Middlesex University, she has worked as an assistant director for The Return of the Exile at the Yard Theatre. She is also the dance teacher of Lykion ton Hellinidon of London since 2009, with substantial experience in dancing and performing both in Greece and the UK, including the 2008 performance of Lykion ton Hellinidon of Athens at Herodion Theatre. (AriadneKritonos.blogspot.com)

      Nathalie Gunzlé – Stage Manager

      Nathalie graduated from the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2010 and has since worked as a freelance stage manager in theatre and events as well as a theatre technician, sound and lighting designer on various productions. Stage management credits include: La Bohème (King’s Head Theatre Islington), The Winter’s Tale (Camley Street Natural Park), The Shallow End (Southwark Playhouse), Olga’s Room (Arcola Theatre). DSM credits include: The Rape of Lucretia and The Turn of the Screw (Grimeborn Festival/Arcola Theatre), The Shape of Things (The Gallery Soho), Bed and Sofa and The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (Finborough Theatre) and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Rose Theatre Southbank).

      Sofia Apospori – Associate Producer

      Sofia Apospori is a producer, director and emerging theatre scholar. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies and a MA in Theatre (Applied Theatre) from Royal Holloway; currently, she is completing her PhD thesis on non-visual spectatorship. Sofia specialises in producing work that is accessible to audiences of multiple abilities. She recently produced Rockaby in the Dark, a production for an audience of multiple visual abilities and has produced a number of applied theatre projects, whose context ranges from theatre in health and care to cultural heritage work. She has also been a Visiting Tutor at Royal Holloway.

      Lucy Pattison – Associate Producer

      Lucy works for the National Theatre Studio and as a freelance producer. Producing credits include Nothing is the End of the World (Except the End of the World) (Finborough Theatre), Celebrity Night at Café Red (Trafalgar Studios), A New Way to Pay Old Debts (The Rose, Bankside) and Pinter’s People (Etcetera Theatre). Previously Lucy was Assistant Producer at Theatre503, where she produced The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Meat and Man in the Middle.

      Jennifer Winder-Baggot – Associate Producer (Crowdfunding)

      Jennifer Winder-Baggot studied Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin and remained friends with playwright William Lyons. She went on to earn a MA in Philosophy in Johns Hopkins University. Working as a pharmacist in Dublin, she maintains an interest in the arts. With her husband Stephen, she is a fundraiser for the production. She has worked previously on the Festival of Fools in Dublin 2010, and currently volunteers with the Irish Decorating and Fine Arts Society and is a member of the Garda Ladies Choir.

      Mara Lockowandt – Associate Producer (Education)

      Mara is a theatre practitioner, teacher and academic. She received her MA from King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her PhD in Theatre and Drama from Royal Holloway, University of London. Over the past six years she has worked in arts and education for a number of organisations including RADA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Almeida Theatre, and Refugee Support Network. She has also taught Drama for four years at Royal Holloway. She specialises in designing, facilitating and evaluating creative learning and participatory arts projects with under-served young people in London.

      The Meddlers Theatre Company is dedicated to staging writing from across Europe that probes as well as entertains, that meddles with established attitudes towards the status quo and that ensures that as a society we keep questioning the ways in which we choose to lead our lives.

      Company Director: Melina Theocharidou

      Melina Theocharidou’s presentation of Socrates and his Clouds is the inaugural production by The Meddlers Theatre Company