MA THEATRE DIRECTING 2018/19

Séimí Campbell

Training: Trinity College Dublin/ The Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, The Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Hungary, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London

As Director: Currently: Daisy by Caroline Kay, What About Us? by Siofra O’Donovan

Credits include: Songs For A New World, by Jason Robert Brown (The London Palladium/ West End transfer to Vaudeville Theatre), Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown (streamed production, The Other Place), My Son Pinocchio by Stephen Schwartz (Southwark Playhouse), Oliver! by Lionel Bart (An Grianan Theatre, Ireland), Mozart by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze (Mountview), An Triail by Maireád Ní Ghráda (Abbey Arts, Ireland)

As Assistant: Currently: Associate Director Breakfast On Pluto (Birmingham Rep/ Donmar), Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre, West End), Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican), Amour (Charing Cross Theatre)

Celeste

Celeste studied Drama, Applied Theatre and Education at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Performance and Culture at Goldsmith’s. Working in participatory theatre, Celeste has produced a variety of pieces whilst working with organisations such as Arts Admin, Cardboard Citizens, Nomad Projects, Tower Hamlets and the City of London Corporation. Whilst studying an MA in Theatre Directing at Mountview, Celeste has assisted Lekan Lawal on The Fear by Roy Williams, Paul-Ryan Carberry on Half a Sixpence and Lucy Foster on Thomas, which was part of the 2019 Vault festival. Celeste’s directing credits include: Inside: Out (Aldgate Square festival), Winsome Whispers (Phytology), Chicken Soup (Brady Arts Centre).

Peter Cieply

Peter is a director and actor originally from Chicago. In the UK, he co-directed Title and Deed for Farnham Maltings. Chicago directing: Five Flights (Immediate Theatre); Under Milk Wood (Barto Productions); Waiting for Godot (CT20 Ensemble). Assistant directing: The Skin of Our Teeth (Goodman Theatre) and Brontë (Remy Bumppo Theatre). San Francisco directing: Keep the Yuletide Gay (Theatre Q). Peter also has worked as an actor at numerous companies in Chicago and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Catherine Cranfield

Catherine is a Theatre Director, playwright and actor. She is the co-founder and director of theatre company Theatre Unlocked. Unlocked’s debut play Flushed, which was written and directed by Catherine, has performed to sell-out audiences, received multiple awards and numerous five star reviews. Flushed has toured multiple UK venues, including Underbelly at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe, and the Barbican Centre in London. Catherine studied Drama at Manchester University, and is currently studying for an MA in Theatre Directing at Mountview.

Jasper Frost

Jasper is a theatre director, writer, and the Artistic Director of award-winning company Caged Bird Theatre. His recent production of Neon toured the UK and won The Stagedoor Audience Favourite Award. Before training in Theatre Directing at Mountview, he studied for a degree in English and Drama at the University of Exeter. Directing credits include: Neon (Caged Bird Theatre, National Tour), Collective Rage (Mountview), For Love (OSO Arts Centre), hnnnngggdaddy: a sketch show about fatherhood (Adoorable Productions/Thornlea Studios), Ross and Rachel (The Street Gallery at IAIS) and Birdland (Roborough Studios).

Spike Hart

Spike previously directed Urinetown the Musical at the Michael Tippett Centre, Bath. At Mountview he assisted on a production of As You Like It and directed productions of Mike Bartlett’s Bull and Paul Sellar’s Worlds End. Spike now works as a Theatre Manager and Lecturer of Drama in Plymouth.

Will Holyhead

Will studied English at King’s College London. He is Co-Artistic Director of Cyphers Theatre Company.

Directing credits include: Megaball (NT Lets Play), The Three Musketeers (Pleasance), Every You Every Me (Catalyst), How I Learned to Drive (Mountview).

He is Resident Director on the international tour of Bartlett Sher’s Tony and Olivier Award winning production of The King and I.

Other Assistant/Associate credits include: Curtains (West End/UK Tour), Tell Me on a Sunday (UK Tour), Orlando (Nuffield Southampton Theatres).

Alastair Norton

Alastair has worked as a theatre director for the last five years both regionally, in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Credits include: The Last Five Years (Seagull and Wolf Productions), Speed The Plow (Mountview), Rent (SSMTC), The Snow Queen (C Theatre, Assistant Director, Ed. Fringe), Woyzeck (KDC), Playhouse Creatures (Network Theatre), Pornography (SEDOS, Assistant Director), Something Inside So Strong (Goldsmiths UOL, World Premiere). Alastair runs his own theatre company Seagull and Wolf Productions.

Jacopo Panizza

Jacopo is an Italian writer and director for theatre and film. After studying acting and literature in Milan, he began working with various theatre professionals, culminating in assistant directing the revival and national tour of Medea directed by Luca Ronconi (Piccolo Teatro, 2018). While at Mountview, he assisted on productions directed by Charlotte Westenra, Adam Welsh, and Richard Vincent. For his UK professional debut, he directed I Woke Up Feeling Electric, staged at the Hope Theatre.

www.jacopopanizza.com