Recent Events At Collington House (BBC Radio 4).
Theatre credits include: The Deranged Marriage (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Bombay Dreams (Really Useful); Passage to India (Shared Experience); Journey to the West, Revelations, Exodus, Nagwanti, The Bourgeois Gentelhomme (Tara Arts/Tour); The Mahabharata (National Tour); Natural World (Kali Theatre Co.); Hamlet, The Life of Galileo, The Winter’s Tale, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (Library Theatre); Voices on the Wind, Aurangzebe (RNT Studio); The Wind in the Willows (Solent Peoples Theatre); Look Out Here Comes Trouble (Kaboodle); The Rammayana and Travesties.
Television credits include: The Infidel, Doctors, Coronation Street, In The Club, Hollyoaks, Rev, Torchwood, EastEnders, Nighty Night, Handle with Prayer, Waterloo Road, Britz, The Fugitives, Tom & Thomas, Entrapment, Prime Suspect, No Worries, Casualty, Holding On, The Brittas Empire, No Child of Mine and Circle of Deceit.
Radio credits include: Various productions for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.
Clara trained at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Recent theatre credits include The Deranged Marriage and Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre) where she made her professional stage debut.
Whilst at LAMDA she performed in many productions including A Gloriously Mucky Business, A Lie In The Mind, Cabaret, As You Like It, The Seagull and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Clara’s TV credits include: Led Astray (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures) and Gates (Feelgood Fiction).
Theatre credits include: Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Speed (Kali); My Daughter’s Trial (Kali); Tagore’s Women (Kali); Handful of Henna (Sheffield Crucible); Zameen (Kali); The Deranged Marriage (Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre); Something about Simmy (Rifco); Blood Wedding (Theatre Passé Muraille/Toronto) and Romeo and Juliet (Waterspout/Bermuda).
Film credits include: The lead in It’s A Wonderful Afterlife (Gurinder Chadha); My Own Country (Mira Nair); Sex and the City 2 (produced by Sarah Jessica Parker); London Dreams (Bollywood); Amar, Akbar, & Tony (Atul Malholtra) and Death Threat (Toronto Film Festival).
TV credits include: Silent Witness (BBC); Warehouse 13 (US Syfy); The Town (ITV Series); Holby City (BBC); The Bill (Talkback Thames); In a Heartbeat (Disney); Doctors (BBC) and Noddy (BBC).
Mitesh trained at the Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: Banquo in Macbeth (Tara Arts – UK Tour); Paris/Prince in Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Second God in The Good Person of Sichuan (Colchester); Ali Baba in Arabian Nights (Manchester Library Theatre); Toalfish in This Place Means (Greenwich); Chulak in The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Billy in The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (Dukes, Lancaster); Tootles in Peter Pan (New Vic Stoke); Etash in Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon/New Vic Stoke); Mowgli in The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company UK Tour); Beeny in Cloud Pictures (Polka Theatre); Naz in Mercury Fur (Goldsmiths); Simon in Lord of the Flies (Pilot Theatre UK tour); Luke in Meteorite (Hampstead Theatre); Betty/Cathy in Cloud 9 (Queen Mother Theatre) and Leonardo in Blood Wedding (Edinburgh Festival).
Film credits include: Rise of The Footsoldier 2, Syriana, Ghost of Life, Nine Lives London, Alpha Mayall and Lost Night.
Television credits include: Run, Threesome and The Canterbury Tales.
Awards: 2012 Manchester Theatre Award-Best Ensemble – Arabian Nights.
Creative Team Biographies
Neil D’Souza Writer
Neil has written for Theatre and Radio and has been commissioned to write for the TV.
Radio credits include: Four Beats To The Bar (Radio 4) and the long-running series Westway (BBC World Service). Neil’s first play Small Miracle was produced by the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and subsequently transferred to the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn. Television commissions include The Bollywoods – a sitcom for the BBC, and a comedy drama for Granada.
Brigid Larmour Director
Brigid is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Watford Palace Theatre.
Productions directed for the Palace include: Jefferson’s Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker; Love Me Do (co-directed with Shona Morris) and Von Ribbentrop’s Watch by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran; Fourteen by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; Gary Owen’s Perfect Match (part of the Ideal World season), We That Are Left and Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian; Ronald Harwood’s Equally Divided; Charlotte Keatley’s Our Father and My Mother Said I Never Should; Alan Ayckbourn’s Time of My Life and Absent Friends; Shakespeare’s As You Like It; and pantomimes Mother Goose, Robin Hood and Sleeping Beauty (co-directed with Shona Morris), all by Andrew Pollard.
Brigid is a producer, director, dramaturg and teacher with experience in the subsidised and commercial theatre and television. From 1998 to 2006 she was Artistic Director of West End company Act Productions, and adviser to BBC4 Plays. From 1993 to 1998 she directed a series of promenade Shakespeares, Shakespeare Unplugged, for RNT Education.
From 1989 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of Contact Theatre, Manchester, commissioning the first British plays responding to the rave scene (Excess/XS), and the implications of virtual reality (Strange Attractors, a multimedia promenade production, by Manchester poet Kevin Fegan). She trained at the RSC, and as a studio director at Granada TV.
Shona Morris Movement Director/Associate Director
Shona trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq.
Shona is currently Lead Movement Tutor at RADA and has just finished working at the Stratford Festival Theatre in Canada as Head of Movement.
Shona’s recent productions for Watford Palace Theatre include: Jefferson’s Garden (Movement Director); Sleeping Beauty by Andrew Pollard and the premier performance of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s play Love Me Do (both co-directed with Brigid Larmour).
Her recent work as Movement Director includes: Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Diary of Anne Frank, She Stoops to Conquer (2015), King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hay Fever, Mother Courage, King Lear (2014), Romeo & Juliet, Blithe Spirit, Waiting for Godot, The Three Musketeers, Mary Stuart (2013), Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, The Winter’s Tale (2010) and The Birds, The Flies, Agamemnon, Electra, King Lear, Henry VIII (2004 – 2007) (Stratford Festival Theatre); Perfect Match, Override (2013), Our Father, My Mother Said, As You Like It, Lysistrata, The Dresser and An English Tragedy (2009 – 2012) (Watford Palace Theatre); The Snow Spider (2011) (Io Theatre); Atman (2010) (Finborough Theatre); Swine (2009) (National Theatre Studio); Nicholas Nickleby, Twelfth Night (2005 – 2008)
