Dinner Cast Biographies

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Howard HornerHoward Horner – Lars

This is Howard’s first involvement with KDC, and he is very excited to be involved. Howard acted throughout school and University, and since graduating has performed in various shows in and around London, including The Massacre at Paris (The Rose Playhouse) and The Troublesome Reign of King John with Shakespeare’s Globe (Inner Temple). This Summer he will performing in Dead Man’s Cell Phone at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Matthew JordanMatthew Jordan – Mike

Originally from Skegness, Matthew is 22 years old and work as a chef, and graduated last year from Royal Holloway, University of London with a degree in politics where he also acted in several productions.

 

Ben AntoniadesBen Antoniades – The Waiter

Ben is currently at college studying for a Level 3 diploma in Drama where he has just finished his first year. He used to be in PQA (Pauline Quirke Academy) where he performed in the show Bugsy Malone playing Fat Sam. He is also currently performing in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, alongside his duties as the Waiter.

Frances McGonigleFrances McGonigle – Paige

This is Frances’ first KDC performance and she is excited to bring the role of the neurotic Paige to life. Frances is a member of South London Theatre, where she has performed in Henry V and Timon of Athens. While studying drama at university, she performed in another juicy role as Eve from Neil Labutes “The shape of Things”. Frances now works in education where she teaches drama workshops and interactive storytelling. She is very much looking forward to being back on stage this summer.

Jess AndersonJess Anderson – Wynne

Jess loves to talk about herself in the third person. She likes long walks on the beach, is partial to a profiterole and will happily take payment for autographs in the form of gin after the show. Oh go on, Jess dares you.

 

Charlie BaileyCharlie Bailey – Hal

Charlie has been training with ‘W1Workshops’ for the past two years and plans to apply for Drama School in the near future. Credits Include: Ajax in ‘Tiger & The Gates’, Reggie in ‘The Accrington Pals’ & ‘Mismatched’. He has immensely enjoyed working with the Cast & Creative Team of this production.

Anna TsekourasAnna Tsekouras – Siân

It’s only thanks to her day job as a magazine editor and journalist that Anna has been kept from performing for her favourite theatre company, KDC. Having studied Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia, while balancing a degree in Law and Psychology (then followed by a quarter life crisis and career change into journalism) – she has always been drawn back to the stage, preferring the job tittle of “starving artist” to “overpaid lawyer”. Trained in dance and movement, she has performed in a string of theatre productions (Macbeth; The Crucible) and has also featured in TV (Under the Cover) as well as presenting various lifestyle and entertainment TV segments back in Oz. She is now thrilled to be back and performing with KDC in this killer comedy.

New Writing Round Table 21 May

Following the success of the last roundtable, we’ll be running the final play readings of the season at the Hoop and Grapes in Farringdon Street (3 mins from Blackfriars) on Thursday, May 21 from 7pm.

They are completely free and everyone is welcome to attend.

Cruel Brittania by Steve Booth

Five schoolchildren deal with pressures of modern life in the only way they know how to – murder and drug taking.

Royal Peas by Matthew Partridge

Its 2035 and King George VIII is about to marry his fiancé. However, the law stipulates that all royal brides need to pass one little test.

Dinner Cast List

Dinner written by Moira Buffini, directed by Chris Davis is performing 23-27 June 2015, at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town. The cast is as follows:

Paige – Frances McGonigle
Lars – Howard Horner
Wynne – Jess Anderson
Hal – Charlie Bailey
Siân – Anna Tsekouras
Mike – Matthew Jordan
The Waiter – Ben Antoniades

Assistant Director – Hayley Cameron

The Arsonists Cast List

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The Arsonists, written by Max Frisch, translated by Alastair Beaton, directed by Andy Marchant is performing 7-11 July 2015 at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town. The cast is as follows:

Biedermann – Adam Moulder
Babette – Alannah King
Eisenring – Martin Hojeberg
Schmitz – James McKendrick
Anna – Fanny Klefelt

Chorus
Aiofe Deane
Chris O’Dea
Clodagh Eyres
Martina Messing
Michelle-Louise Wright
Poppy Cockburn

 

New Writing Round Table 8 May

The New Writing Round Tables continue this Friday from 7pm at the Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon. We will be reading:

Tied to the Vicarage by Bob Eckhard
Vicar-and-wife team James and Karen are moving back to the Vicarage to hide the fact that they’ve been illicitly sub-letting it to their sister-in-law Julia. Sadly, Julia wasn’t quite honest about the type of business she’s been running.

Respawn by Susan Gray
Two identities are trying to find peace with their pasts and present, which has been drastically changed through the process of uploading consciousnesses. Can they prove that immortality doesn’t have to be a hard sell?

Summer Season 2015 Audition Notices

Two dark and darkly funny plays of domestic terror and suburban morality!

First play up, from 23 to 27 June will be the amazing Moira Buffini’s deliciously twisted Dinner, the awkwardness of a tense and “civilised” dinner party pushed to about as far as it can go. Dinner will be directed by Chris Davis and assistant directed by Hayley Cameron. Read the full audition notice

The second play of the season, with a week’s gap between them, will run from 7 to 11 July, and will be the incendiary moral play without morals, The Arsonists, by Max Frisch, translated by Alistair Beaton, and directed by Andy Marchant. Read the full audition notice

Audition nights are Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 May, with callbacks on the 9 at Cleanbreak Studios, Patshull Road, Kentish Town. Both initial audition nights are free to attend, with no registration required and no preparation needed. The callbacks are invitation only, and we will let you know if we want to see more of you by Friday evening.

 

Summer Season 2015 Auditions

There have been a few delays in being able to officially provide you with the titles of our Summer Season at the Lion and Unicorn. The delays are unfortunately still ongoing, due to both the tight turnaround from our Spring Season, certain unavailabilities, and a series of outstanding queries with various licensors.

I know this will be frustrating for you, as it is frustrating for us at KDC Theatre to not be able to confirm this information in a timely manner, but I can assure you of this:

Both myself, as one of the season’s directors, Chris (as the other) and his AD, Hayley, have been working to swiftly resolve the issue and have come up with several exciting titles which we have been actively pursuing. We have also worked hard to ensure that these titles have an equal and broad range of roles for both male and female players of all ages. The plan from both of us was always that there would be nothing you as auditionees needed to prepare.

We intend to make an announcement later in the week regarding the Summer Season, so please keep your eyes peeled!

Andy Marchant
KDC Theatre Artistic Director

All In The Timing Cast and Crew Biographies

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Cast

Aoife DAoife Deane
Aoife has returned to drama (the on stage variety) after a 10 year hiatus.In real life she is a passionate weight loss dietitian/coach. However since being cast as Bernie in Sexual Perversity in Chicago she wonders is it her true calling in life to be a rough alpha male who hates bitches and sounds strangely like Mr T.

CharishmaCharishma Nanwani
Charishma is thrilled to be cast in a KDC production. Having a life-long stammer and no drama experience, she never thought it would be possible to go into acting. So she is very grateful for this wonderful opportunity and cannot think of a better group of delightful strangers with whom to share the experience. Off the stage, Charishma is pursuing a career in law and policy.

Clara MCiara Murray
Ciara is not Beyoncé so could you all please stop asking.

 

 

 

Franki GFranki Georgiou
Having been part of the group that took Keeping in Touch with Temptation to the Camden Fringe Festival in 2014; Franki is very excited to have joined a second play with KDC. She’s thrilled to be involved with dead Russians, a few monkeys, small time thieves and some serial daters. And that’s just the cast!

Frankie WFrankie Wade
This is Frankie’s first ever theatre performance. He is absolutely loving being a part of KDC and cannot wait to perform All In The Timing.

 

 

Henry H 2Henry Williamson
Shockingly underprepared with a susceptibility to ornithology.

 

 

 

Katy TKaty Treble
This is Katy’s third performance with KDC. She is super excited to be playing both a monkey and Trotsky (amongst other delights). What more could a girl want? Apart from maybe some cheese. Brie preferably. Mmm cheese.

 

Kaustubh VKaustubh Vaidya
A Mechanical Engineer by profession with passion for acting. Originally from India with the experience of performing in amateur theatre groups back home. Associated with London based Indian theatre groups as well and looking forward to the new challenge of performing in English for the first time with KDC! Thrilled be a part of hilarious comedy in which it is ‘ALL IN THE TIMING’!

Kim M 2Kim Morrison
Age 7 Kim was cast as Mary in her school nativity play, in rehearsal five the so-called ‘director’ removed all her lines after she ‘took a risk’ and tried smothering the baby Jesus with the box of Myrr. Kim is not sure why she is continually cast as the psychotic girlfriend but thinks the repression of these early impulses may have been a contributing factor. She wants people to know she is just an average girl with an overactive imagination and a semi-automatic revolver.

Peter CPeter Cabrera
Peter began acting at school and followed on at University. Since moving to London in 2007, he has acted in and produced a number of plays, including producing Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You for KDC Theatre in 2012 and playing Napoleon in George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny at the Bridewell Theatre. In 2013, he played the Runner in The 17 Greatest Dates of Matthew Reading, an independently-produced feature film. Last year, he played Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband for KDC and Captain Valere in Tartuffe at the Courtyard Theatre for Nomadic Theatrical Productions, which he also produced.

Crew

Kat-sqKat Wootton
Kat earns her rather scary reputation as a demanding, stern, and possibly slightly obsessive taskmaster; ask anyone who was in Hamlet (2013). She has been keeping actors under her thumb and on their toes for KDC since 2012. When not directing theatre, she makes short films, pops up as an actor in indie films (Alternative Dating, 17 Greatest Dates of Matthew Reading) and KDC plays (Casual Encounters, The Walls are Watching (2014)) and finds time for a day job in TV. She’s excited to be bringing the bizarre and hugely American world of David Ives to the KDC audience, and hopes that folks will be as delighted as they will be baffled.

Andy MarchantAndy Marchant
Andy is a repeat offender at KDC Theatre,  having written,  directed and acted in numerous shows, most recently the KDC Halloween show The Walls Are Watching,  and auditioning on behalf of the company as Bottom for the RSC. He is fond of of madcap plays such as All In The Timing,  and feels he is now ready to supervise monkeys…

Fozia KFozia Khaliq
Fozia enjoys busying herself with creative endeavours – working across film, theatre and art. This is her fourth production with KDC and will certainly not be the last.

 

 

Asma MAsma Mani
Having acted and assistant directed with KDC on several occasions since 2012, Asma is looking forward to working out what a stage manager does. She understands it has something to do with props. And people. Asma is a David Ives enthusiast – she was so delighted by the wit and charm of his writing on first reading almost 18 months ago that she is still dating the person who introduced her to his plays.