Maggie Robson 
Producer

Maggie, previously a financial services lawyer who retrained as an actress and singer, is co-founder of Atlas Productions Limited and has produced and appeared in two of its productions, The Polish Play (Elzbieta) and Entertaining Morocco (Anne). As producer she co-produced with Look-At-Me Productions, on behalf of Atlas, “Boys Life”, the Pulitzer nominated play by Howard Korder. Acting credits also include: Volumnia (Coriolanus), Adriana (Comedy of Errors), Maria (Twelfth Night), Phebe (As You Like It), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Mariana (Measure for Measure); Maggie May Doorley (Portia Coughlan); portrayals of QC Elizabeth Lawson and Dr. Ruby Schwartz (Those who Trespass Against Us – The Victoria Climbie Enquiry); Mary (Caught in the Net); Aase (Peer Gynt); Brenda (Road), and in musicals: Sara-Jane Moore (Assassins); Lady Overcoat (Jack The Ripper), Adelaide (Guys & Dolls), Dolly Levi (Hello Dolly). Maggie is also a voiceover artist and performs cabaret.

Alison Atkinson

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: The Short Story of Katherine Mansfield at the Westminster Studio Theatre and at New Zealand House in London. The Polish Play, produced by Atlas and directed by Sonia Ritter, premiered at the Cockpit Theatre, London. Entertaining Morocco, also produced by Atlas, directed by Sonia Ritter, premiered at Theatro Technis, London. Love and the Gentle Heart: The Story of Dante and Beatrice/The Story of Abelard and Heloise, produced by Atlas and directed by Sarah Finch premiered in London at the Italian Cultural Institute and St Pancras Old Church. Alison has written two new one-act plays: Salome/Solaris and Atlas aims to mount a production of these plays in Autumn 2010. Alison has revised Entertaining Morocco and the play is due to tour in Morocco and the United Kingdom in April 2011.

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: Arraygnment of Paris (Hampton Court Palace); Entertaining Morocco (Theatro Technis); Lilies on the Land (National Tour); Death of an Actress (Southwark Playhouse); The Real Hans Sachs (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House); The Crystal Den (New End Theatre); Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta, Dr Faustus and The Roaring Girl (Rose Theatre Site); Spring's Glorie, The Old Wives Tale and Old Summer's Last Will and Testament (Shakespeare's Globe). Music for Television and Radio includes BBC Restoration (BBC2), Vic Reeves' Rogues (Discovery Channel); Howard Goodall's How Music Works (Channel 4) In Tune & The Early Music Show (Radio 3); King Lear and Boxing Day (Radio 4).

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.

Sarah has worked as an actress for the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in seven of their productions, including: Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well and Poppy. 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 (Second Sight, Pickwick Papers, Hollyoaks, Campion) Film (Man Dancin, Guby Gubit, Imbroglio) and radio (Faust, The King Must Die), even a couple of jobs for Walt Disney Pictures!

Sarah is bi-lingual and works in Italy with a performing arts company with whom she has directed Streetlight (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.

Callum trained at Mountview Theatre School and Riga Academy, Latvia.
He has just finished a run in the West End of The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre). Other credits include Atlas Production’s Entertaining Morocco (Theatro Technis), Romeo & Juliet and King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe and The Globe, Tokyo), Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse), Espana in the Works (Royal Opera House), Private Lives, Intimate Exchanges and Wait Until Dark (Theatre Royal, Margate), A Phoenix Too Frequent (Chichester and Canterbury Festival); National tours of The Moonstone, The Thrity Nine Steps, Macbeth, The Miser, Arms and The Man, What Maisey Knew, The Tempest: with the Original Shakespeare Company – The Merchant of Venice, A Midsommer Nights Dreame, Henry VI, As You Like It, King John, Twelfe Night, Cymbeline, The Comedie of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo & Juliet.
As a founder member of the Lions part theatre company, Callum has also played in The Arraygnment of Paris, Lord Haye’s Wedding, Spring’s Glorie, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, Twelfe Night, Syr John Ffalstaffe in Love, The Dark is Light Enough, The Boy With The Cart, By Christopher!, The Olde Wives Tale, The Fifteen Minute Gunpowder Plot, May Games, Twelfth Night Mumming, St George & The Dragon, Everyman.
Radio and film and television includes Fitzrovia Radio Hour (FBC), Much Ado About Something (ABC/BBC), Hutch (C4) The Gunpowder Treason(BBC2), Unknown Soldiers (BBC2), Royal Deaths & Diseases (C4), London- The Greatest City (C4), Family Business (BBC1), The Tower(C4), Forza Del Destino (Radio3) The Tombs of Southwark (Radio 4), The Fourth Angel(Norstar/Rafford Films).

Stage Design includes: Beauty and the Beast and The Nose with Michael Boyd at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. For Crescent Theatre Birmingham: Our Country's Good, The Recruiting Officer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleeping Beauty, The BFG and Kindertransport. West London Opera: Romeo and Juliet.

BA hons in Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art.
Jess has been an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer since graduating in 1978. In this period, work has included AV design and production, graphics and illustration for events and conferences, storyboards, cartoons and rather more commercial visuals than he could ever count. He is currently illustrating a number of books and publications for the National Autistic Society. Jess has illustrated publicity material and programmes for Atlas' The Polish Play, Entertaining Morocco and Love and the Gentle Heart.