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Philipp and Hanna meet in a café

 

Philipp receives anonymous warning

 

The Löwenfeld family on Kristallnacht

 

The Meiers contemplate the Löwenfelds' plight

 

Hanna packs for deportation

Hanna resigns herself to her fate

 

Kate Glover (Elisabeth Löwenfeld/Writer)

 

Recent theatre work:  Kate’s most recent theatre work was the role of Alice in Two Week Wait at The King’s Head Theatre (October 2009). In April the same year, she took over the role of Ann in The Cocktail Hour (English Theatre of Hamburg). Previous to this, she played Hannah More in An African’s Blood (National Tour) Phyllis in Alan Ayckbourn’s Seasons Greetings (Arts Depot) Anne Vaux in Five Eleven (Tour) Claire in The Crush, Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest, Signora Hermil  in L’Innocente, Mercedes Golden in Thugs and Sister Helena in The Sound of Music (BAC). Film roles include a Cabinet Minister in Love Actually (2003) and the Mother in Propriety (2006). TV includes  Divorce - The Law and Love Where You Live for the BBC. 

 

Previous plays: An African’s Blood (2007/8) about the abolition of the slave trade,  Five Eleven  (2005) - about the Gunpowder Plot, (Tour), Evelina (2004)  an adaptation of the novel by Fanny Burney (Pentameters Theatre),  A Passionate Englishman (City Of London Festival), Do You Like Being an Aunt? and Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. She founded Historia Theatre Company.

 

 

Emma Hay (Margarete Meier)

Emma completed her MA in Acting at ALRA, The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2009. Since then she has done lots of varied work including playing Joan, Tess’s mother in Tess of the d’Urbervilles at Baron’s Court Theatre and has enjoyed some challenging, albeit gruesome, film roles. Emma has also recently recorded some pieces of new writing for Veni Vidi Theatre Company. 

Before training as an actor Emma had years of experience as a freelance Stage Manager and originally trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has worked and toured over most of the UK and also taught several times for National Youth Theatre Wales but now feels she has ‘come home’ as an actor and is having a great time.

 
 

Carole Carpenter (Hanna Löwenfeld) 

Photo by Bridget McCann

Carole trained at Mountview, after a Masters in Text and Performance at RADA /Kings College London.  Theatre credits include touring her acclaimed solo Jane Austen show The History of England nationally (produced by the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford), the actor/musician productions of Grimms and A Christmas Carol at Trafalgar Studios and New Wimbledon Studio (for which she also composed the scores), Look Back in Anger for the English Theatre of Slovenia, I Ought to be in Pictures (European tour), open air touring productions of Much Ado about Nothing, The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew, Absent Friends (Greenwich Playhouse) and Alice in Wonderland (Library Theatre, Darwen).

Carole also works extensively as a musician (violinist and pianist) and composer.  As well as collaborating with theatre companies and film producers on live music and recorded soundtracks, she regularly plays in bands for musicals, and was recently the solo violinist for the West End run of A Man of No Importance (Arts Theatre, Leicester Square ).  She is currently working as violinist/Musical Director on The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch for FalconGrange Productions (touring and Henley Festival). 

 

Phil Gerrard (Philipp Meier)

Photo by Remy Hunter

Phil trained at the Academy Drama School .  His theatre work includes tours for Michael Friend Productions including St Joan, The Devil’s Disciple, Cock of the Walk, and The Apple Cart.  He has also performed in several shows for Tricolore Theatre Company including the lead role in Pirandello’s The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, an Italian tour of a bilingual adaptation of The Gingerbread Man, and most recently the premiere of Dermot Murphy’s The Condor and the Maiden at the King’s Head Theatre.  Other theatre includes The Libertine (Camden People's Theatre), The Office Party (fluxx Improvised Theatre Company), In the Post (Hackney Empire), Tat and Ted and Ralph (Rosemary Branch Theatre), Buskers (King's Head Theatre), An Inspector Calls (Old Sorting Office, Barnes), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Herald Productions), national tours of Pinocchio, Jane Eyre, and Beyond Reasonable Doubt, and a tour of Slovenia as Cliff in Look Back in Anger.  Television includes Soap Stars Behaving Badly and Balderdash and Piffle.
 

Catherine Potter (Anita Löwenfeld)

Catherine trained at The Oxford School of Drama.  Her theatre credits include: The Waterseller (Old Red Lion), Swimming Naked (Barons Court Theatre), The Meat Cooler (Lion and Unicorn Theatre), Lunch Hour (OSO Arts Centre), A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet (National Tours), Puss In Boots (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), Easy Virtue (Battersea Arts Centre), Summer and Smoke (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford).  She has also performed in various short films and numerous rehearsed readings.
 
 

Julian Bird (Dr Alader Meier)

Photo by Diego Indraccolo

Trained at Central 2004 Julian has a background in psychiatry. TV and film credits include The Tudors (The Bishop of London), The Red Restaurant  (Dir: Jo Shaw) and Cold Burden (Dir: Pouya Tavasoli) . Theatre credits include leading roles in Meslier (‘His presence is entirely convincing’: Scotsman), Dazed and Abused (Edinburgh, London and New York ), The Last Priest (‘Top Five Theatre’ in the Times), Three Sisters (‘His Chebutikin was breathtaking … the highlight of the play’ Remote Goat), Peer Gynt (The Plaisance), Look Back in Anger ( Greenwich ) and As You Like It.
Kayleigh Heathcote

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Recently graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Kayleigh Heathcote has always had an interest in the entertainment industry.  Whilst training at Leeds College of Music, her passion for Stage Management was realised. Credits include; ‘Cooking With Elvis’ Lighting Technician, ‘Anne Frank’ DSM (Tour), ‘Into the Woods’ DSM, ‘The Accrington Pals’ Stage Manager, ‘Acting Showcase’ Stage Manager, ‘The Strip’ ASM, ‘Moving Pictures’ Design Assistant.

Historia gratefully acknowledges the kind agreement of Actors & Writers London to use photographs and text from their web site.

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