ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MICK GORDON Mick Gordon is Artistic Director of On Theatre and On Film, Head of Directing at E15 and Senior Researcher, Theatre and Mind Unit, Plymouth University. He was Trevor Nunn's Associate Director at the Royal National Theatre and was Director of the National's Transformation Season. Previously he was Artistic Director of London’s Gate Theatre. Awards include Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Peter Brook Award for Most Outstanding Theatre. AS WRITER AND DIRECTOR: On Emotion with Paul Broks (Soho Theatre London), On Religion with AC Grayling, (Soho Theatre London, Europalia Festival Belgium, Lucille Lortel Theatre New York and BBC Radio 4), On Ego with Paul Broks, (Soho Theatre London), On Love in Uzbekistan (Ilkhom Theatre Tashkent), On Love (Gate Theatre London and BBC Radio 4), On Death with Marie de Hennezel (Gate Theatre London and Wellcome Collection). AS DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: The Home Place (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Deep Cut (Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Tricycle Theatre London), Grimms Tales (Dusko Radovic Belgrade/Belgrade Annual Theatre Prize, Best Production), Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Optic Trilogy, A Play in Swedish, English and Italian (Dramatan Theatre Stockholm), War, Lovers, The Real Thing, Betrayal (Strindberg Theatre Stockholm/Critics Award Best Production) A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Walls, Le Pub! (National Theatre London) Monkey! (Young Vic Theatre London), Trust (Royal Court Theatre London), Salome (Riverside Studios London), Godspell (Chichester Festival Theatre), My Fair Lady, Closer, Art (National Theatre Buenos Aires/Three ACE Awards for Best Production), Volunteers, Marathon, Une Tempete (Gate Theatre London), Measure for Measure (English Touring Theatre), Hamlet, The Tales of Hoffman (National Theatre Studio), Renard (National Youth Ballet), The Promise, Arabian Nights (BAC), The Soldiers Tale (Institut Francais), Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Town (Oxford Playhouse). ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER HAYDON Christopher studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Theatre Studio. In 2007 he was the recipient of both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director’s Bursary to spend a year on attachment at the Salisbury Playhouse. AS DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: Monsters (Arcola Theatre May 2009), A Number (Salisbury Playhouse): Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium): Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre). AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello, Touched, What the Butler Saw, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), On Religion (Soho Theatre/On Theatre), The Desire Tree (Oxford Playhouse/Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia) The Found Man (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh). He is also an award winning journalist and has written for The Financial Times, The Scotsman, Prospect Magazine, and The Guardian (online). He is co-editor of the book Conversations on Religion published by Continuum and is currently under commission for a follow up book entitled Conversations on Truth. ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR ATHINA KASIOU Athina’s directing credits include: Karagiozes Exposed (Arcola Theatre, Divaldo Na Pradle Prague, Experimental Stage of National Theatre of Cyprus) Mr Marmalade –stage reading (Finborough Theatre) Tasting Apples/ Who Stole Mee? (Canal Café Theatre) Laba Laba (ISI, Bali) Action by Shepard (Semel Theatre, Boston) Assisting directing credits include: Gianni Schicchi and Yolanta – opera ( Royal Academy of Music) Private Jokes, Public Places ( The New End Theatre) Hamlet, the Outsider (Southwark Playhouse) Our Lady of 121st Street (Speakeasy). Athina holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Middlesex University and a BA from Emerson College, with further training at GITIS Academy of Dramatic Arts Moscow, ISI Indonesian Art Institute in Bali. She is the founder of Open Arts theatre www.openartstheatre.com, with the aim of theatrical international exchange.		ON THEATRE'S BOARD GAVIN IRWIN Gavin Irwin has been involved with On-Theatre since its inception and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is a barrister specialising in financial crime and extradition but also represents young and vulnerable defendants charged with murder, rape and other serious offences. In addition, he teaches advocacy skills to both new and established barristers. Gavin's involvement with On-Theatre provides continuity of management, rigorous financial oversight and an insight into the dynamics of marginalised groups. He is often told to stop meddling in the artistic process. JOSEPH SMITH Currently Executive Producer for Old Vic Productions in London where he represents the company in its role as co-producer of Billy Elliot the Musical in London, Australia and New York. He is also one of the lead producers for the upcoming London production of Spring Awakening. Previous to working for OVP; Associate Producer for Ron Kastner (RJK Productions) in New York where credits include Gypsy, Life x3, Retreat from Moscow and Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Off Broadway, produced Gutenberg! The Musical! at 59e59 in New York that went on to transfer to the Actors Playhouse. Also Off Broadway; Cycling Past the Matterhorn by Deborah Grimberg, starring Shirley Knight and three new plays; Mayhem by Kelly Stuart, Sweetness by Gary Sunshine and Map Makers Sorrow by Chris Lee all at Theatre Row, 42nd Street. Was also a Producer at the Royal National Theatre in London for 10 years where he produced plays both nationally and internationally culminating in producing the Transformation Season with Mick Gordon for Trevor Nunn. The season included 13 world premier productions including the Olivier Award winning Play without Words by Matthew Bourne. ADAM GLASS Having done a drama degree Adam fell into the legal world and is a Partner at the media firm Davenport Lyons. His creative soul has been saved and preserved by his involvement with On Theatre and by playing music for anyone that will listen. NINA STEIGER Nina Steiger is Director of the Writers’ Centre at Soho Theatre. She has worked as a playwright, director, dramaturg and script reader in New York and South Africa, developing new work with companies including Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage and Film and Manhattan Theatre Club. TARA CARRINGTON-HULL Tara is a Producer who has worked extensively for the RSC. Productions include The Crucible (RST - subsequent transfer to The Gielgud Theatre with Thelma Holt and Bill Kenwright), Women Beware Women (Swan Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (RST), Much Ado About Nothing (Swan Theatre - subsequent transfer to the Novello Theatre), King John (Swan Theatre), Winter’s Tale, Pericles (both Swan Theatre), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Courtyard Theatre). New work for the RSC includes Days of Significance by Roy Williams (Swan and Tricycle Theatre), The Indian Boy by Rona Munro (The Cube within the RST), God in Ruins written and directed by Anthony Neilson (Soho Theatre), I’ll Be The Devil by Leo Butler, (Tricycle Theatre) and for their New Work Festival: Trade by Debbie Tucker Green, Nowhere to Belong by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Breakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace (subsequent transfer to the Duchess Theatre with Nica Burns), Postcards from America with Elective Affinities by David Adjimi, Eric Larue by Brett Neveu and The American Pilot by David Grieg. She has also been an Associate Producer for The Peter Hall Company at Theatre Royal Bath. Where plays included: Design for Living, Betrayal, Cuckoos (also The Pit, Barbican), The Fight for Barbara and As You Like It. She was a producer at The Gate Theatre, London (under the Artistic Directors – Mick Gordon and Erica Whyman) and was responsible for 19 productions. She is the Founding Director of The Foundry Production Company. Plays included: The Knocky by Michael Wynne and Happy Valley by Crispin Whittell (The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), In A Little World of Our Own by Gary Mitchell (Donmar Warehouse), Never Land by Phyllis Nagy (Royal Court Theatre at The Ambassadors Theatre). Her forthcoming productions include: The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes by Adriano Shaplin (Wiltons Music Hall), The Cordelia Dream by Marina Carr (Wiltons Music Hall and a regional tour of Othello directed by Kathryn Hunter – all for the RSC.
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