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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0516bc00egerdp.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Century Gothic" ><B>Atlas Productions</B></FONT>      <A NAME="top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atlas Productions"><U>Home</U></A>        |     <B>About Us</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Work"><U>Our Work</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Current Projects"><U>Current Projects</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atlas Management"><U>Atlas Management</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us Links"><U>Contact Us & Links</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>About Us</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Alison Atkinson</B></div> <div> Co-Founder of Atlas Productions Limited</div> <div> Playwright</div> <bR> <div> Alison is a New Zealander, resident in the UK.  She trained at the Academy Drama School and has attended playwriting workshops at the National Theatre Studio.  She wrote and appeared in her one woman play:  <I>The Short Story of Katherine Mansfield </I>at the Westminster Studio Theatre and at New Zealand House in London. <I>The Polish Play</I>, produced by Atlas and directed by Sonia Ritter, premiered at the Cockpit Theatre, London.  <I>Entertaining Morocco</I>, also produced by Atlas, directed by Sonia Ritter, premiered at Theatro Technis, London. There was a rehearsed reading by <B>the Lions part </B>theatre company of Alison's play, 1212, at the Jerwood Space. Alison collaborated with Rebus Touring Arts in a work-in-progress production of her new play <I>La Vita Nuova </I>which was performed at Stowe School. </div> <bR> <div> Alison has written <I>Love and the Gentle Heart: The Story of Dante and Beatrice </I>and  <I>The Story of Abelard and Heloise </I>and these plays will be touring in the UK in autumn 2008.    </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11ef7110.jpg" border=0 width="247" height="273" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="6">Tamsin Lewis</B></div> <div> Music Director:  <I>Love and the Gentle Heart</I></div> <bR> <div> Tamsin Lewis studied violin at the Florence Conservatoire before reading Classics and Italian at Oxford.   She has written, arranged, directed and played music for many theatre productions, including: <I>Arraygnment of Paris </I>(Hampton Court Palace); <I>Entertaining Morocco </I>(Theatro Technis); <I>Lilies on the Land </I>(National Tour); <I>Death of an Actress </I>(Southwark Playhouse); <I>The Real Hans Sachs </I>(Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House); <I>The Crystal Den </I>(New End Theatre); <I>Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta, Dr Faustus </I>and <I>The Roaring Girl </I>(Rose Theatre Site); <I>Spring's Glorie, The Old Wives Tale </I>and <I>Old Summer's Last Will and Testament </I>(Shakespeare's Globe). Music for Television and Radio includes BBC <I>Restoration </I>(BBC2), <I>Vic Reeves' Rogues </I>(Discovery Channel); Howard Goodall's <I>How Music Works </I>(Channel 4) <I>In Tune & The Early Music Show </I>(Radio 3); <I>King Lear  </I>and <I>Boxing Day </I>(Radio 4). </div> <bR> <div> Tamsin is a member of <B>the Lions part </B>theatre company.  She performs frequently on violin, viols, lute and harp and directs the Early music consort, <B>Passamezzo</B>.</div> <bR> <div> Tamsin is also a freelance consultant on historical music, costume and dance and is a researcher for the University of Toronto's Records of Early English Drama Project and for Rondo Music Publishing.  Particular areas of expertise are popular music and song, broadside ballads, iconography and theatre music in early modern England.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11bae050.jpg" border=0 width="174" height="261" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="6"></B><B>Sarah Finch </B></div> <div> Director:  <I>Love and the Gentle Heart</I></div> <bR> <div> Sarah has worked as an actress for the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in seven of their productions, including:  <I>Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well </I>and <I>Poppy</I>.  She has appeared in the West End and in Regents Park playing a variety of parts from Juliet to Miss Julie! She has also done television series (<I>Second Sight, Pickwick Papers, Hollyoaks, Campion</I>) Film (<I>Man Dancin, Guby Gubit, Imbroglio</I>) and radio (<I>Faust, The King Must Die</I>), even a couple of jobs for Walt Disney Pictures!</div> <bR> <div> Sarah has worked as a director on various education projects for Shakespeare's Globe (<I>Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet</I>), and also created site-specific theatre pieces for Dramart, in both Spain (<I>El Cid</I>) and Greece (<I>The Odyssey</I>)</div> <bR> <div> Sarah is bi-lingual and works in Italy with a performing arts company with whom she has directed <I>Streetlight </I>(a musical) and is currently working on the development of their next musical, as yet untitled. Sarah directed Alison's Vita Nuova, for Rebus Touring Arts in 2007.</div> <bR> <div> Sarah is a founder member of <B>the Lions part</B>. The company received a grant to create a play about Land Girls in World War II: <I>Lilies on the Land</I>, which was devised by the company and toured very successfully.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="121b9f00.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="240" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Century Gothic" ><B>Grahame Edwards</B></FONT></div> <div> Stage Designer:  <I>Love and the Gentle Heart</I></div> <bR> <div> Grahame has a BA Honours in Fine Art from Coventry University.  He trained in stage design at Croydon College, obtaining a Post Graduate Diploma in Stage Design in 1983. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Teaching qualifications:</I></div> <div> Adult and Further Education teaching qualification 1989</div> <div> PGCE Art and Design teaching qulaification 1996  </div> <bR> <div> Stage Design includes: <I>Beauty and the Beast </I>and <I>The Nose</I> with Michael Boyd at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.  For Crescent Theatre Birmingham:  <I>Our Country's Good, The Recruiting Officer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleeping Beauty, The BFG </I>and <I>Kindertransport.  </I>West London Opera:  <I>Romeo and Juliet.</I></div> <div> For Atlas Productions Limited:  <I>Entertaining Morocco.</I></div> <div>  </div> <div> Grahame is also an actor and has in the last few years toured the one man show <I>Moscow Stations</I>, played classical roles such as Macbeth and Prospero for the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival and toured in the national tour of <I>Blackbird.   </I>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="141b9ea0.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="234" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Raewyn Lippert</B></div> <div> Actor:   Love and the Gentle Heart </div> <div> Astralabe/Gemma</div> <bR> <div> Raewyn trained at the Oxford School of Drama and has performed in both the UK and New Zealand. Professional Credits include: Hermia in <I>A Midsummer Night’s Dream </I>(Hever Castle); Louisa in <I>Gradgrind </I>and Penelope (plus several others, including the Cyclops!) in <I>The Odyssey </I>(Icon Theatre); <I>Me & My Monsters </I>(Pop-Up Theatre); <I>Big School </I>(Belgrade Coventry); Cassandra in <I>Trojan Women </I>and Jocasta in <I>Oedipus </I>(both for Actors of Dionysus); Miranda in <I>The Tempest </I>(Creation Theatre); and Fecund Theatre’s award-winning <I>27</I>. Other theatre includes <I>Closer</I>, the Kiwi comedy <I>Four Cities </I>(both for the Fortune Theatre, NZ); <I>4.48 Psychosis </I>and several plays for children.</div> <bR> <div> Film work includes Lead Soldier in <I>The Nutcracker </I>directed by Christine Edzard; Lucy in <I>Hello You</I>; and several short films. Raewyn has also worked in radio drama for BBC Radio 4.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="146b9070.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="263" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0">Peter Kenny</B></div> <div> Actor:  Love and the Gentle Heart</div> <div> Abelard/Dante</div> <bR> <div> Peter Kenny is an actor and singer.  On Film and Television he played “Sir Charles Mordaunt” in <I>Scandalous Women </I>for the BBC and “Henry” in <I>The Takeout </I>directed by Jamie Thraves for Channel 4 Film.  In the theatre Peter has worked for, The Royal Shakespeare Co. The Coventry Belgrade and The Orange Tree.   Roles for the RSC include “Ferdy” in <I>A Patriot For Me</I>, and “Cromwell” in Henry VIII during <I>the Complete Works</I> season.   As a member of A&BC Theatre Co. he has toured the world in various productions including <I>St Joan </I>for which he also composed the music, and <I>The Tempest </I>playing “Stephano”.  He has worked extensively in the audio world including a year with the BBC Radio Drama Co.  He has recorded a wide range of Audio Books, titles include: <I>Face </I>and <I>Refugee Boy </I>for Benjamin Zephania; <I>Starter for Ten </I>by David Nichol; <I>Revolution Day </I>by Rageh Omah and most recently <I>The Steep Approach to Garbadale</I>, and <I>The Wasp Factory </I>by Iain Banks, for which he has received much critical acclaim.  He is a regular voice artist on the Direct.gov.uk/kids website, an educational site for children.  As Part of his touring work he has taught voice production and musical skills in colleges across Europe, Hong Kong and the US.  He is a founder member of the Early Music group Passamezzo with whom he has recorded two CD’s.                     </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Ugo Bentivegna</B></div> <div> (Ugo Mastorna)</div> <div> Actor:  Love and the Gentle Heart</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="144b9020.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="258" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> English:</div> <div> Ugo Bentivegna has worked as an actor for many Italian theatre companies. He has worked on several Italian fiction films with different roles, and performed voices for radio and documentaries.  Ugo has worked as a director on various theatre perfomances around Italy.   He also teaches acting for children and adults in Rome, and has experience as assistant director and Artistic consultant.  </div> <bR> <div> Italian:</div> <div> Ugo Bentivegna, nato a Palermo il 14/11/1978, inizia i suoi studi come attore presso la scuola di teatro Teates diretta dal maestro Michele Perriera. Nel 1998  si trasferisce a Roma, dove inizia a studiare lettere moderne e discipline dello spettacolo nella facoltà di lettere dell’università “La Sapienza” di Roma, si laurea nel 2003 con 110/110. Nel 1998  fonda a Roma il laboratorio teatrale Rataplab che diventerà dal 2000 compagna teatrale, con la quale porta in scena diversi spettacoli da lui stesso diretti. Durante gli anni dell’università partecipa a diversi stage e workshops con maestri e registi da tutta Europa, inizia inoltre a conoscere l’ambiente del cinema partecipando , dapprima, come attore, poi come regista egli stesso, a diversi cortometraggi. Laureatosi nel 2003 si trasferisce  a Londra per due anni dove studia recitazione in inglese e collabora come assistente alla regia per una delle compagnie presenti all’interno del Globe di Londra. Nell’estate del 2004 vince una borsa di studio per il TVI actor’s studio di Los Angeles che gli offrirà la possibilità i partecipare ad uno stage intensivo con attori e registi provenienti da tutto il mondo.</div> <bR> <div> Tornato a Roma nel giugno del 2005 inizia a collaborare come speaker per diverse radio locali,per tre mesi è impegnato come stagista all’interno di una redazione di Sat2000 per un programma che si occupa di Cinema , teatro, musica e letteratura. Nel maggio 2006 direge “Refugees uno spettacolo dallo stesso ideato e diretto che andrà in scena al Meta Teatro (trastevere) Roma, nell’estate 2006 partecipa come assistente volontario ad un film di K. Zanussi “Il sole Nero”, interpreta poi un ruolo per la fiction “Neti Ieri” della luxevide, segue un ruolo nella fiction “Un medico in famiglia” e un'altra partecipazione in “I cesaroni”;alla fine dello scorso anno inizia la sua collaborazione con la Polfemo srl (cassa di produzione) quindi con l'organizzazione del premio Golden Graal, recentissima la sua collaborazione con RADIOCINEVOX  una nuova webradio che si occuperà di cinema, teatro e arte in genere.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Christina Scoleri</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Century Gothic" ><IMG SRC="159c8c60.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="198" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> Poetry Dancer:  The Story of Dante and Beatrice</div> <bR> <div> Cristina obtained her Diploma in Classical and Modern Dance in 1996 from the “Dionisos” Dance School in Siderno, Italy.  She has subsequently attended courses in tribal dance, belly dance and modern jazz.</div> <bR> <div> Cristina has performed in several musicals including “All that Jazz”, “West Side Story”, “Cats” and “Hair”.  She danced at the National Festival: “Musica e Architettura” which took place in Gerace in 2003. In the same year, she danced in the play: “Variazioni Sulla Follia”, directed by Ugo Bentivegna.  In 2004 she choreographed for the play “L’eroe di Pentadattilo” directed by Giovanni Anfuso.</div> <bR> <div> Cristina teaches dance to young children.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="About Us"><U>click here to return to top of page</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>