Edward Hall (Director) directed the 2009 production of Richard N. Goodwin's Two Men of Florence for the Huntington. He is artistic director of Propeller Theatre Company and Hampstead Theatre, where his production of Shelagh Stephenson's Enlightenment recently premiered. His Propeller credits include The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, world tour; Drama Desk Award nomination in New York), The Winter's Tale (UK and world tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, Watermill Theatre Newbury, UK tour, BAM New York; Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Director and Best Production in New York), Rose Rage adapted with Roger Warren from Henry VI parts I, II, and III (Haymarket Theatre, The Watermill Theatre, UKand international tours, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Duke's Theatre New York; Olivier Award nomination for Best Director; recipient of four Jeff Awards including Best Play, Best Director, and Best Ensemble Cast in Chicago), Twelfth Night (The Watermill Theatre Newbury), The Comedy of Errors and Henry V (Watermill Theatre Newbury, Pleasance Theatre London, Royal Shakespeare Company: The Other Place, Stratford, international tour), and Othello (Watermill Theatre Newbury and the Tokyo Globe). His other theatre work includes The Deep Blue Sea with Greta Scaatchi (Vaudeville Theatre), For Services Rendered (Watermill Theatre Newbury), Mark Ravenhill's Dick Whittington (Barbican), A Streetcar Named Desire with Natasha Richardson and John C. Reilly (Roundabout Theatre Company), Once in a Lifetime with David Suchet, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Edmond with Kenneth Branagh (National Theatre), Calico (Duke of York's), The Hinge of the World (Guildford), Macbeth with Sean Bean and Samantha Bond (Albery Theatre), The Constant Wife (Apollo), Putting it Together (Chichester), Julius Caesar, Henry V, and The Two Gentleman of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company), Tantalus (Denver Centre, UK tour), iSacred Heart (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), Celaine (Hampstead Theatre), That Good Night (Yvonne Arnaud Tour), Richard III (Tokyo Globe), and Cain (Minerva Studio, Chichester). Mr. Hall's television credits include "Strike Back" and "Spooks" (US title: "MI5," 2009 and 2010 BAFTA Award nomination for Best Drama Series), among many others. He is also an associate at the National Theatre, The Old Vic, and the Watermill Theatre.

Tony Bell (Pinch / Queen Margaret) has recent theatre credits that include The Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre and tour); Treasure Island (Haymarket Theatre); The English Game (UK tour); The Conservatory (Old Red Lion); and Don Quixote (West Yorkshire Playhouse). For Propeller he has appeared in Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, UK and international tours); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, UK and international tours); The Winter's Tale (The Watermill Theatre, UK tour); Rose Rage (Haymarket Theatre); and Henry V and The Comedy of Errors (The Watermill Theatre, international tour). Other credits include The Bee (Soho Theatre and Tokyo), Breakfast With Johnny Wilkinson (Menier Chocolate Factory), A Man for All Seasons (Haymarket Theatre), Red Demon (Tokyo), Ghostward (Almeida Theatre), Bouncers (Hull Truck Theatre), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and The Promised Land (Sheffield Crucible), Angel Among the Trees (Nottingham Playhouse), as well as Macbeth, Perfect Days, Up 'n' Under, Travels with My Aunt, A Doll's House, The Mysteries, Derek, and Celebration. Mr. Bell also has numerous television and radio credits.

Kelsey Brookfield (Courtesan / Lord Rivers, Duchess of York) has recent credits that include Alice in the Walled Garden (Sixteen Feet Productions), Women Beware Women (National Theatre), The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Propeller: UK and international tours), Don't You Leave Me Here (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and Ernest and Pale Moon (Soho Theatre). Film and television credits include the short film Play the Game and "Law & Order." Radio credits include "Incident" (BBC). Mr. Brookfield trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, during which he appeared in The American Clock, A Clockwork Orange, Tartuffe, The Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well (Redgrave Theatre and tour), and Macbeth.

Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (Antipholus of Syracuse / Sir Richard Ratcliffe) has recent theatre credits that include Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (Liverpool Playhouse and tour), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Northampton Royal Theatre), For King and Country (ACT), Deep Blue Sea (Bath/Vaudeville Theatre, London), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Royal Lyceum Theatre), Faust (Royal Lyceum Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Nottingham Playhouse), and Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre). For Propeller he has appeared in The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (The Old Vic and BAM New York), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, UK and international tour), and Rose Rage, Henry V, and The Comedy of Errors (The Watermill Theatre). Other credits include Three Girls in Blue (White Bear), The Prince's Play (Royal National Theatre), Reader (Traverse Theatre), Henry VI (Royal Shakespeare Company), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Byre). Mr. Bruce-Lockhart has numerous film and television credits. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Wayne Cater (Balthasar / Bishop of Ely) has theatre credits that include Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, UK tour, West End, Toronto), Hamlet (Wales Theatre Company; 2005 Theatre in Wales Award Best Actor nomination), Aladdin (OMTC Productions, Welsh tour), Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (UK open-air tour), Arden of Faversham, Pygmalion, Noises Off, Mary Stuart, The Suicide, Arcadia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and A Christmas Carol (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), The Taming of the Shrew (Thelma Holt Ltd, Plymouth Theatre Royal, UK tour), Italian Idol (Old Fire Station, Oxford), Y Byd Yn Bedwar (one-man show at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, written by Mr. Carer), Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl, international tour, West End), Under Milk Wood, Volpone, Guys and Dolls, and Peter Pan (National Theatre), Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Jubilee, Roman Actor, Eastward Ho!, and Edward III (Royal Shakespeare Company). Mr. Cater was a member of the RSC's Jacobethan Season in Stratford and the West End, which received the 2003 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. He has numerous film and television credits and has also written and directed three short films (A Dog's Life, Your Numbers Up, and Line Engaged). In 2006, he set up his own theatre company, Open Season Productions, where he produced and directed Tony Marchant's Raspberry as the company's first production.

Richard Clothier (The Duke of Ephesus / King Richard III) is a long-standing member of Propeller, where his appearances include The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Rose Rage, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, and The Merchant of Venice. His other theatre credits include Enlightenment (Hampstead
Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Salisbury Playhouse), The Promise (Orange Tree), For Services Rendered (The Watermill Theatre), Troilus and Cressida (Royal Shakespeare Company, Edinburgh Festival), And Then There Were None (Gielgud Theatre), A Doll's House (Birmingham Rep and tour), The Tempest (Sheffield Crucible), The Browning Version (Theatre Royal Bath and tour), Grace (Edinburgh Festival and tour), Coriolanus (Mermaid Theatre), Salome (US tour including BAM New York), King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, The Dybbuk, and The Tempest (RSC/ Stratford); Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Virtuoso, and The Alchemist (RSC/ Barbican); and Tango at the End of Winter (Piccadilly Theatre). His film and television credits include Hippie Hippie Shake, So This is Romance, Bye Bye Columbus, "Above Suspicion," "Law & Order: UK," and "Spooks," among many others.

John Dougall (Aegeon / George Duke of Clarence, Lord Stanley) has appeared with Propeller in The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other theatre credits include Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, and Under the Black Flag (Shakespeare's Globe), Hamlet, Love in a Wood, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Devil is an Ass, Faust, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale, and The Crucible (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Wars of the Roses, Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V ,Henry VI parts I, II, and III, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, and Coriolanus (English Shakespeare Company), Six Characters in Search of an Author (National Theatre of Scotland), The Cherry Orchard (Aldwych), Another Country (Queen's), Saint Joan (Strand), Shadow of a Gunman and John Bull's Other Island (Tricycle), Americans, Rose Bernd, and Professor Bernhardi (Arcola), TheWhite Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory), Doctor Faustus (Greenwich), The Cherry Orchard, Rookery, Nook, and Hay Fever (Oxford Stage Company), Private Lives (Ipswich), Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Bath and tour), and many more. He also has numerous television and radio credits, including over 50 drama productions for BBC Radio. Mr. Dougall trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Richard Frame (Dromio of Syracuse / Murderer, Richard Duke of York) has Propeller credits that include A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice (UK and international tours). Recent theatre credits include London Assurance (National Theatre); I Love You Because (Landor Theatre); Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith);
Me and My Girl (UK tour); Promises, Promises (Sheffield Crucible); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); and Our House (West End). Other theatre work includes The Beggar's Opera and A Chorus of Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic), Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Where's Charley? (Regent's Park), and Sealife (New Vic Studio). Television credits include "Kingdom," "MI High," and "Family Affairs," among others. Mr. Frame trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he was awarded the Peter Akerman Memorial Prize for Comedy.

Robert Hands (Adriana / King Edward IV, Earl of Richmond) has recent theatre credits that include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Propeller: Comedy Theatre, London, UK and international tours), Rose Rage (Propeller: Haymarket Theatre and UK tour), Balmoral (Theatre Royal Bath), Spamalot (Palace Theatre), The Schumann Plan (Hampstead), Chicago (Adelphi Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales Theatre), Lady Windermere's Fan (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Arcadia and The Three Sisters (Chichester Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (English Touring Theatre), The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), Troilus and Cressida and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park Theatre), A View From the Bridge (Greenwich Theatre), Mrs. Warren's Profession (Centreline tour), Tess (Royal Exchange), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Old Vic), Valentine's Day (The Globe and Chichester Theatre), As You Like It (Greenwich Theatre), Walpurgis Night (The Gate), Invisible Friends (National Theatre), and others. His numerous film and television credits include Hippie Hippie Shake, Charlotte Gray, Shine, "Casualty," "Doctor Who," and "Heartbeat." He trained at Bristol Old Vic.

Chris Myles (Aemilia / Duke of Buckingham) has appeared with Propeller for over a decade in the West End and on UK and international tours, including The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, Rose Rage, The Comedy of Errors, and Henry V. Most recently, he appeared as Goebbels at the Arcola Theatre in 1936, a play about the Berlin Olympics. Other theatre credits include Krogstad in A Doll's House (Northern Stage), Shaw Cornered in India, Neville's Island (The Watermill Theatre), and Marieluise (Gate Theatre). Film and television credits include Lip Up Fatty, Vigo, Tuesday Night Story, and the role of Neanderthal for the documentary "Sex and the Neanderthals." He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

David Newman (Luciana / Sir William Catesby) has appeared with Propeller in Pocket Dream (Hampstead Theatre and UK tour), The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK and international tours), and The Canterbury Tales (Northern Broadsides). Other theatre credits include Tintin (Young Vic), Faust (Punchdrunk), Halflife (Blue Elephant), The Wars of the Roses (Northern Broadsides), The Graduate (New Vic Theatre), Heart of a Dog (Assembly Rooms), Mary Stuart (the Union), The Adding Machine (the Courtyard), Gogol's Underdogs (Rogue State Theatre Company), The Waiting Game (King's Head), and Ghosts in the Cottonwoods (Arcola).

Thomas Padden (Angelo / Lord Hastings, Duke of Norfolk) has performed with Propeller in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice (UK and international tours), and Pocket Dream (Hampstead Theatre and UK tour). Recent theatre credits include Oh What a Lovely War (Northern Stage), Privates on Parade (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep), A Christmas Carol (Southwark Playhouse), Merrily We Roll Along (the Watermill), The Cherry Orchard (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), and Macbeth (Regent's Park). Other theatre work includes Lady Be Good and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park), Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare's Globe), James and the Giant Peach (Octagon Theatre), and The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal Bath and tour). He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Mr. Padden is also a graduate of the University of Bristol and spent several seasons with the National Youth Theatre.

Sam Swainsbury (Antipholus of Ephesus / Murderer, Edward Prince of Wales) has Propeller credits that include A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice (UK and international tours). Recent theatre credits include Sandy in Hay Fever (Rose Theatre), A Day at the Racists (Finborough Theatre), and The Rivals (Southwark Playhouse). Mr. Swainsbury received an Ian Charleson Award commendation for his performances in Nozze di Cana (Venice Biennale for Peter Greenaway), Slope (the Tramway), Hysteria (Birmingham Rep), and Burial at Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse and Barbican). Film and television credits include Over the Anvil We Stretch, "Harley Street," and "Jekyll." He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award.

Dominic Tighe (Officer / Queen Elizabeth) has Propeller credits that include Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, UK and international tour). His recent theatre credits that include Aspects of Love (dir. Trevor Nunn, Menier Chocolate Factory), All at Sea (National Theatre Studio), Hot Mikado (dir. Craig Revel Horwood, The Watermill Theatre, UK and international tours), The Importance of Being Earnest (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park), Arden of Faversham (White Bear), Orvin (dir. Alan Ayckbourn, SJT, Scarborough Theatre), Jean de Florette (Centreline Productions), Oklahoma! (NYMT and Peacock Theatre), and The Dreaming (NYMT and Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio). Film and television credits include The Donor, "Penned and Pledged," "Hotel Babylon," and "Footballers' Wives." In 2008, Mr. Tighe received a commendation at the Ian Charleson Awards from the National Theatre and Sunday Times for his work with Propeller. With the vocal quartet Blake, he recorded two albums on Universal Records; their debut album won Album of the Year at the Classical BRIT Awards in 2008. Mr. Tighe trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jon Trenchard (Additional Arrangements and Original Music; Dromio of Ephesus / Lady Anne) has appeared with Propeller in Pocket Dream (Hampstead Theatre and UK tours), A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice (UK and international tours), and The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, UK and international tours). Other theatre credits include Oh,What a Lovely War! (Northern Stage), Sunset Boulevard (the Watermill), Great Expectations (New Vic Theatre), Mack and Mabel (the Watermill, UK tour, the Criterion), the title role in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Belfast Festival), Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse), Sweeney Todd! the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Kabosh Theatre, Irish tour), Leonardo's Last Supper (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), La Ronde (Pentameters Theatre), various pantomimes for Qdos, New World, and Jordan Productions, and the role of Puck in Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Film and television credits include The Da Vinci Code and "My Family." Mr. Trenchard trained at the London Academy of Performing Arts.

Michael Pavelka (Production and Costume Designer) is one of the founding members of Propeller and designed all but one of their productions, including Rose Rage at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater which transferred to The Duke Theatre in New York (nominated for Best Costume Design at Chicago's Jeff Awards). He has designed over 100 productions for the theatre, including two plays for Lindsay Anderson: The Fishing Trip and Holiday (The Old Vic); The Life of Galileo and The Good Soul of Szechuan (Library Theatre, Manchester); and many West End productions including Absurd Person Singular, The Constant Wife, How the Other Half Loves, Other People's Money, Leonardo, Blues in the Night (also Dublin, New York, and Tokyo), Macbeth starring Sean Bean, and A Few Good Men with Rob Lowe (dir. David Esbjornson, Theatre Royal Haymarket). Other theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Gate Theatre, Dublin), The Odyssey, The Two Gentleman of Verona, Henry V, and Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company), and Edmond starring Kenneth Branagh (National Theatre). Mr. Pavelka co-produced a Young People's Shakespeare Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia and designed the first African language Mother Courage and Her Children in Kampala, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, and Grahamstown Festival, RSA. He received the 2009 TMA Best Set Design Award for Propeller's The Merchant of Venice. He trained at Wimbledon College of Art, where he has since returned to lead the design for performance course and is a University of the Arts London reader in theatre.

Roger Warren's (Adaptor) numerous publications include books about A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's late plays in performance, and editions of Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Henry VI Part II, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Pericles for the Oxford Shakespeare series. His theatre work includes extensive collaboration with Peter Hall including, most recently, A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Judi Dench at the Rose, Kingston and The Rivals at the Theatre Royal Bath and the Haymarket Theatre. His collaborations with Edward Hall include Julius Caesar at Stratford in 2001 and Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and Rose Rage, a two-play adaptation of the Henry VI cycle at the Watermill, Newbury, on tour, and in the West End.

Paul Hart (Associate Director) has recent directing credits that include Heroes (Watermill Theatre), John Bull and An Englishman's Fireside (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds), Othello, Twelfth Night, Wasps, Clouds, Romeo and Juliet, and Sleeping Beauty (touring), The Natural Cause (Battersea Arts Centre), Measure for Measure (Pleasance Theatre, Islington), The Tempest (schools tour), and Sons of Bond (Theatre Royal Haymarket). As an assistant/associate director his most recent credits include the recent Broadway production of Red, as well as Dimetos, A Doll's House, A Streetcar Named Desire, Life Is a Dream, and Red (Donmar Warehouse), The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Propeller), They're Playing Our Song (Menier Chocolate Factory), and The Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Mr. Hart trained as a director at Rose Bruford College.

Ben Ormerod (Lighting Designer) previously designed Richard N. Goodwin's Two Men of Florence for the Huntington (IRNE nomination). His previous productions for Propeller include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Rose Rage (also New York/Chicago), The Winter's Tale, and Twelfth Night. Other theatre credits include Onassis (West End, Derby), Zorro! (West End, UK tour, Paris, Japan, Holland), Serious Money and Last Easter (Birmingham Rep), Dimetos (Donmar Warehouse), Treasure Island (Rose Theatre), The Dresser (Watford), The Sanctuary Lamp (b*spoke), Macbeth starring Sean Bean and Legal Fictions (West End), The Last Days of the Reluctant Tyrant (Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Irish Times Theatre Award nomination), The Changeling, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, John Gabriel Borkmann, The Master Builder, The Seagull, Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (ETT), Carmen — the Musical (Pimlico), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid, Galway, Royal Court, Broadway), Macbeth, The Revenger's Tragedy, Henry V, Julius Caesar, and The Spanish Golden Age Season (Royal Shakespeare Company), and Bent, Uncle Vanya, The Winter's Tale, and In Remembrance of Things Past (National Theatre). He also has numerous design credits for both opera and ballet.

Andy Purves (Tour Re-lights Designer) is a lighting designer and creative technician working primarily in visual and movement-based theatre, circus, and on projects in found space. Lighting design projects include Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly, National Theatre of Scotland), Stockholm (Frantic Assembly, Sydney Theatre Company), Babel (Stan Won't Dance), The Erpingham Camp (Hydrocracker, Brighton Festival), Ida Barr and Office Party (Barbican), Frankenstein (Northampton Royal), Home Inverness (National Theatre of Scotland), and Outre and Ren-Sa (Array). He has worked with Spymonkey, Frantic Assembly, National Theatre of Scotland, Circus Space, Brighton Festival, Company FZ, Tangere Arts, and the Greenwich and Docklands Festivals, and on La Clique at The Roundhouse and in the West End. He trained in sound and lighting engineering at the University of Derby and has an M.A. in lighting design and theatre-making from Central School of Speech and Drama, where he also tutors in lighting.

David Gregory (Sound Designer) has recent sound design credits that include Wages of Thin (Old Red Lion; 2010 Off West End Sound Design of the Year nomination), Ordinary Lads (ETC Theatre), Sudden Loss of Dignity (Bush Theatre, Lattitude Festival, UK tour), S-27 (Finborough Theatre), Waiting for Romeo (Pleasance, London, and Edinburgh), Strippers and Gentlemen (ICA), The Zoo (Finborough Theatre), and An Artist and a Mariner (Minack Theatre). As a sound engineer, his most recent credits include Design for Living and The Prisoner of Second Avenue (The Old Vic), The Bridge Project (The Old Vic, Teatro Español Avile's), The Real Thing, Six Degrees of Separation, Inherit the Wind, and The Bridge Project (The Old Vic, Greece Epidaurus), Dancing at Lughnasa, Complicit, The Norman Conquests, Speed-the-Plow, and Gaslight, Birdsong (Comedy Theatre), and many more. He also worked as a production engineer and apprentice for CueOne, building, installing, and maintaining sound systems for theatre productions in the West End and in UK regional and touring venues. Mr. Gregory trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.