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Noa Bodner (Hanna Löwenfeld)

 

 NOA BODNER trained in her home country of Israel and did a further year of post Graduate training at the Royal Academy of Music, Musical Theatre Course in London.  Stage credits in Israel and the UK include: The Fool/Edward Bond (Mary Lamb) at the Cock Tavern, The House of Mirrors & Hearts (Anna) at the Arcola Theatre and Edinburgh Festival.May Contain Nuts at the Hen&Chicken in Islington. Lead Singer in the Sadler's Wells / Raymond Gubbay production of Latin Fever in the West End (2009) and on tour (2010). Hair (Jeannie), Telemachus Clay, Once Upon a Mattress,The Hostage, My Fair Lady at the Library Theatre Israel . Les Miserables, Israeli Opera House  (Understudy Cossette), A Little Night Music (Charlotte), The Baker’s Wife (Denise), The Importance of Being Earnest, Fallen Angels at the Royal Academy. Over The Threshold, Canal Café Theatre, Mum Me? Tristan Bates Theatre. Universal Language and Sexual Perversities in Connecticut  at the Landor Theatre. 

Workshops: Anya/The Dreamweaver by John Farndon (Donmar Warehouse) and Irish by Mike Dixon (Royal Academy of Music)

Television  and Film appearances include:The Crossmaker, David Anderson. Ruby Films/Film4 Chatroom, Hideo Nakata, BBC/HBO Rome and BBC Nuclear Race.

Elton John Gala Concert at the Royal Opera House, BBC, (Backing Vocalist).  Noa is a recording artist who collaborates with different musicians on various projects.

Victoria Corlass (Margarete Meier)

 

VICTORIA CORLASS, originally from Hull , trained at Mountview Theatre Academy , following an English degree at Warwick University . Recent credits include Calonice in Lysistrata (Lion & Unicorn Theatre), Salome (Camden Roundhouse) and Ruth in Speedtrap (Eyebrow Productions). She also played Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and Gonzala in The Tempest (both at Warwick Arts Centre). A previous member of the National Youth Theatre and National Youth Music Theatre, she toured for three years with the original version of Whistle Down The Wind (including such venues as Lilian Baylis Theatre (Sadler's Wells), the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre). She also performed with the cast on Blue Peter and at the Royal Albert Hall. She will next be appearing in the UK tour of Peppa Pig!  

 

Kate Glover, Writer (Elisabeth Löwenfeld)

 

 KATE GLOVER Kate Glover is an accomplished actor and playwright.  Her most recent theatre work was in The Trojan Women at the Cock Tavern Theatre, playing Hecuba.  Before that, she was in Julius Caesar at The Scoop, as the Soothsayer, Cinna the Poet and other roles in an exciting ensemble production for the 2010 Bardathon in October.  In July, she starred as Elisabeth Löwenfeld in Judenfrei: Love and Death in Hitler's Germany, a role that she will reprise in January. In October 2009, she was Alice in Two Week Wait. In April the same year, she took over the part of Ann in The Cocktail Hour (English Theatre of Hamburg).  Earlier, 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.  

She began writing plays over twenty years years ago.  Her recent plays include A Passionate Englishman (about William Penn), Evelina (an adaptation based on the novel by Fanny Burney), and Five Eleven or The Powder Treason, which coincided with the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. All these plays were produced in London, some continuing on tour, and enjoyed much positive feedback.  An African’s Blood opened within days of the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Act of Parliament abolishing the Slave Trade and toured nationally in 2007 and 2008.  Kate founded Historia Theatre Company (Registered Charity 1099807) with a view to putting on plays that have their source or inspiration in history.  Kate spent the earlier years of her career as a History teacher, before training as an actor.  

Rachel Sternberg (Anita Löwenfeld)

 

RACHEL STERNBERG studied English at Cambridge University and trained at the National Youth Theatre and Drama Studio London. Previous work includes: The Fringe First nominated Amy Evans’ Strike (Edinburgh Fringe and Courtyard, Covent Garden), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orange Tree Theatre), One Flea Spare (BAC), Broken (Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich) When Wendy Grew Up (Unicorn Theatre).

Rachel regularly voices various characters for EFS, Listening Books and computer games. She can currently be heard as the voice of Hermione in the video game Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Rachel also works as a writer and 2009 saw the critically acclaimed production of Negative Space at The New End, which she wrote with author, Jemma Wayne.

 

Tim Thomas (Dr Aladar Meier)

 

 TIM THOMAS studied Social Anthropology at Oxford University. He has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Young Vic and many reps as well as performing his own one-man cabaret shows. Film appearances include Four Weddings And A Funeral and on TV he featured in Seeing Red. A keen interest in music has lead to a parallel career as a singer/songwriter in the Blues tradition.  A claim to fame is that he co-wrote and sang the celebrated theme tune for the TV series Rainbow.  A keen gardener and photographer Tim has travelled widely and in recent times his pictures have been exhibited both in London and abroad.  His current passion is writing musicals, the first foray into that area being A Date With Destiny, a spectacular combination of musical theatre and Variety, which was recently performed at The Oval House Theatre.

Anthony Wolfe (Philipp Meier)

 

 ANTHONY WOLFE trained as a mature student at East 15 Acting School. Since graduating in July 2004, his UK stage credits include Capulet, Romeo & Juliet (British Touring Shakespeare), Beast, Beauty and the Beast Pantomime Tour, Man in Bus Stopping (The Space), Mannequin, Evening Primrose (Lilian Bayliss Theatre), Ash, Basic (Hen&Chickens Theatre), Colin, Between Worlds (Union Theatre) and Avi, Bar-mitzvah Boy (Oval House). He was a also regular performer with the leading childrens theatre company, Freshwater. Overseas he has performed for Simply Theatre (Geneva) as Mr Kranky in George's Marvellous Medicine, and the Play Group (Teatro Nuvole, Italy) as Dracula in Dracula, and most recently as Jim Hawkins in the comedy Treasure Island. On screen Anthony has taken featured roles as well as the lead in several films and shorts which include Mr Kewell, The Supply Teacher (All Enquiries Productions), Chuck, the German Lawyer, Dear Steven Spielberg (Low Fat Films), Fancy, Quietus (Screen East/British Film Council), The Third Invited Guest, Gospel of Thomas (Popmorphic) and Dad, The Advent (Big Book Media). Commercials include Nissan, Sony Playstation and a very long running campaign for Listerine.

Suneeda Maruthiyil (Stage Manager)

 

 SUNEEDA MARUTHIYIL, a 2009 graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Suneeda Maruthiyil is delighted to join Historia Theatre Company as the Designer and Stage Manager of Judenfrei. 

Prior to embarking on the Technical Theatre course, she worked in Events Management, IT and Charity Fundraising.
The minimalistic design for Judenfrei is suggestive of the light and airy Cafe where Philipp and Hannah meet.  It encapsulate themes of love, relationships and the Art Deco style of the time.


Show credentials include:
Design:  Loveplay (Jacksons Lane), Dying For It (The Pleasance), A Woman Alone (Brockly Jack), A Perfect Ganesh (The Courtyard), Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco (New Wimbledon Studio), Marat/Sade - Asst Designer (The Pleasance)
Stage Management:  Desert Boy (The Albany),  Permission (The Courtyard Studio), Our Boys (The Tabard), Widows (Oval House),  Edinburgh Fringe (The Pleasance), Twelfth Night, Daisy Pulls It Off, Skin Of Our Teeth (LOST Theatre)

Tom Scott (Director)

 TOM SCOTT has directed well over 100 professional productions including A Night In November (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds; Quay Theatre, Sudbury; Etcetera Theatre, London) and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (New End Theatre, London). From 1991-2006 he was the Artistic Director of Eye Theatre, Suffolk, where his favourite productions included Oleanna, Speed-The-Plow, Shrivings, An Inspector Calls, As You Like It, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Norman Conquests, Miss Julie, Love Child, Pygmalion and Hedda Gabler. Tom has recently established Eye Theatre Company to present London productions and national tours.
SIMEON MILLER (Lighting)  Graduating from Mountview Academy in 2010, specialising in Lighting & Design, Simeon has over 4 years experience in the industry in Lighting and AV. Recent Lighting Design Credits include Plague: The musical, Piramania: the Musical and Could it be Forever at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe festival, Motortown (Student Role - Jacksons Lane), State Fair and Generous (The Finborough). Other recent credits include AV Designer for The Boy I Love (Hoxton Hall) and Associate Lighting Designer for The Drowsy Chaperone (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).

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