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The Company:

DAVID BAIRD (Music) was born in Canada and trained there and in Wales mainly on the production staff of the Welsh National Opera and Drama Company, was a co-founder/director of Cardiff Lab Theatre, and Artistic Director of both Doppelganger Theatre and Handspan Theatre Australia. He is a regularly published writer, composer of soundtracks for television and radio and won the Celtic Film Festival for the feature film Trisgel with Paul Turner. David is also a puppet master, has directed workshops for Shared Experience Theatre, written music for London Bubble, Cardboard Citizens and the RSC and directed at Shakespeare's Globe. His many books include Shakespeare at the Globe and the best selling A Thousand Paths series. He is the current Artistic Director of The Cambridge Shakespeare Company. For theatre nomad: Macbeth, The Tempest, At Break of Day, Casanova and Hamlet.

LUKE DIXON (Artistic Director) is a director, teacher and academic. As a director he is internationally known for both his innovative productions of Shakespeare and his site-specific performances. Luke's productions for theatre nomad have been seen around the world from the Rocky Mountains to the plains of Siberia and the deserts of Southern Africa. As a teacher he has run workshops and training programmes in Asia, Africa, North and South America, throughout Europe and in the UK. As an academic his doctoral thesis was in the performance of gender and he has published widely on that subject as well as on multi-lingual and multi-cultural performance and the nature of acting. His book, Play Acting a groundbreaking multi-cultural approach to the training of performers, is published by Methuen. Luke is also Artistic Director of the London International Workshop Festival.

NOËL GREIG (Artistic Associate) was born in 1944 and was educated at Skegness Grammar School and the University of London, Kings College. He graduated in 1966 with a BA Hons in History. Since 1966 Noël has worked in the theatre as actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and tutor in acting and writing. He has been involved with a number of companies on a long-term basis over the years, including: The Royal Court, Red Ladder Theatre, Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Theatre Centre Young People's Theatre, Gay Sweatshop, The General Will, Inter-Action, The Brighton Combination.
Plays published:
As Time Goes By (London: GMP, 1981, reprinted Goldsmiths 1998)
The Dear Love of Comrades (London: GMP 1981, reprinted Methuen 1989)
Poppies (London GMP 1983)
Do We Ever See Grace? (Cambridge University Press 1989)
Rainbow's Ending (Cambridge University Press 1989)
Final Cargo (Nelson 1994)
Plague of Innocence (Methuen 1994)

BECKY HALL (Associate Director) trained at London University, Central School of Speech and Drama, Lecoq and has an MSc in Adult Learning and Training from City University London. Her ten years of acting experience includes touring with Mikron Theatre in England and Cinderella at The Drill Hall London. She has worked extensively as a workshop leader and director developing programmes in performing gender, acting for actors, assertiveness training, storytelling, stage fighting and speaker training. She was Artistic Director of 'A' Team Arts – a community arts organisation in London's East End for two and a half years. Becky also writes and produces CDs of stories with music for children with her company Sweetpea and the Gob. For theatre nomad she has acted in Macbeth, Shakesqueer, Hamlet (title role), Twelfth Night, Survivors and As You Like It (Rosalind) and co-directed the revival of Twelfth Night.

JANE TURNER (Choreographer) started taking classes in the traditional dance theatre forms aged 3. After graduating from Middlesex University she danced with the Scala Ballet in Barcelona. Early experimentations in the dance world included teaching in a Rudolph Steiner school in Germany, creating and producing the Community Dance Journal DICE, taking an MA in Performing Arts, and choreographing and dancing with a group at the Brixton Fridge nightclub. She formed TURNING WORLDS dancetheatre co. in 1990 and has created and toured eight full-length works for the company in the UK and Europe. Solo and independent performances include The Living Boneyard with Lisa Cochrane for the Halifax New Dance Festival in Canada and Stoffe I-IV four solo dances to new compositions by Andreas Koeper. Film/tv/video works include Carmen (S4C/BBC2), The James Bond film Goldeneye, and Soho Square (Channel 4/ British Arts Council).Interdisciplinary and site-specific works include Joy of Return (1994) a Barclays New Stages Brighton Festival production; a dance/film installation as part of The Recurring Technicolor Dream event at the ICA (1997), It's a Wonderful Life at Marylebone Station. Since 1999 she has been investigating the science-art interface with scientists, artists and new interactive technologies at the CAMAC centre, France and the ICA London. For theatre nomad Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Casanova, Berlin Brecht, Sick Heart River.

LIZ TURNER (Executive Director) has worked for Triumph Productions, Ambassador's Theatre Group, The Deal Theatre Project, The Kent Shakespeare Project and the Theatre Royal Margate. She has been Drama Advisor to Education Otherwise in Kent and Artistic Director of the Astor Theatre Arts Centre, Deal. She is currently Project Manager for the International Workshop Festival.
For theatre nomad she was the Executive Director of: Macbeth, Miss Julie, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Survivors, Homage a Yves Klein, Shakespeare Tango, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It, At Break of Day, Tambora, Ghetto Goats, La Pucelle and Pericles.

CURRENT SHOW | NEWS | WORKSHOPS | REVIEWS | WHO ARE WE? | COMPANY HISTORY | LINKS | HOME | EMAIL


DAVID BAIRD (Music) was born in Canada and trained there and in Wales mainly on the production staff of the Welsh National Opera and Drama Company, was a co-founder/director of Cardiff Lab Theatre, and Artistic Director of both Doppelganger Theatre and Handspan Theatre Australia. He is a regularly published writer, composer of soundtracks for television and radio and won the Celtic Film Festival for the feature film Trisgel with Paul Turner. David is also a puppet master, has directed workshops for Shared Experience Theatre, written music for London Bubble, Cardboard Citizens and the RSC and directed at Shakespeare's Globe. His many books include Shakespeare at the Globe and the best selling A Thousand Paths series. He is the current Artistic Director of The Cambridge Shakespeare Company. For theatre nomad: Macbeth, The Tempest, At Break of Day, Casanova and Hamlet.
	LUKE DIXON (Artistic Director) is a director, teacher and academic. As a director he is internationally known for both his innovative productions of Shakespeare and his site-specific performances. Luke's productions for theatre nomad have been seen around the world from the Rocky Mountains to the plains of Siberia and the deserts of Southern Africa. As a teacher he has run workshops and training programmes in Asia, Africa, North and South America, throughout Europe and in the UK. As an academic his doctoral thesis was in the performance of gender and he has published widely on that subject as well as on multi-lingual and multi-cultural performance and the nature of acting. His book, Play Acting a groundbreaking multi-cultural approach to the training of performers, is published by Methuen. Luke is also Artistic Director of the London International Workshop Festival.
NOËL GREIG (Artistic Associate) was born in 1944 and was educated at Skegness Grammar School and the University of London, Kings College. He graduated in 1966 with a BA Hons in History. Since 1966 Noël has worked in the theatre as actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and tutor in acting and writing. He has been involved with a number of companies on a long-term basis over the years, including: The Royal Court, Red Ladder Theatre, Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Theatre Centre Young People's Theatre, Gay Sweatshop, The General Will, Inter-Action, The Brighton Combination. Plays published: As Time Goes By (London: GMP, 1981, reprinted Goldsmiths 1998) The Dear Love of Comrades (London: GMP 1981, reprinted Methuen 1989) Poppies (London GMP 1983) Do We Ever See Grace? (Cambridge University Press 1989) Rainbow's Ending (Cambridge University Press 1989) Final Cargo (Nelson 1994) Plague of Innocence (Methuen 1994)
	BECKY HALL (Associate Director) trained at London University, Central School of Speech and Drama, Lecoq and has an MSc in Adult Learning and Training from City University London. Her ten years of acting experience includes touring with Mikron Theatre in England and Cinderella at The Drill Hall London. She has worked extensively as a workshop leader and director developing programmes in performing gender, acting for actors, assertiveness training, storytelling, stage fighting and speaker training. She was Artistic Director of 'A' Team Arts – a community arts organisation in London's East End for two and a half years. Becky also writes and produces CDs of stories with music for children with her company Sweetpea and the Gob. For theatre nomad she has acted in Macbeth, Shakesqueer, Hamlet (title role), Twelfth Night, Survivors and As You Like It (Rosalind) and co-directed the revival of Twelfth Night.
JANE TURNER (Choreographer) started taking classes in the traditional dance theatre forms aged 3. After graduating from Middlesex University she danced with the Scala Ballet in Barcelona. Early experimentations in the dance world included teaching in a Rudolph Steiner school in Germany, creating and producing the Community Dance Journal DICE, taking an MA in Performing Arts, and choreographing and dancing with a group at the Brixton Fridge nightclub. She formed TURNING WORLDS dancetheatre co. in 1990 and has created and toured eight full-length works for the company in the UK and Europe. Solo and independent performances include The Living Boneyard with Lisa Cochrane for the Halifax New Dance Festival in Canada and Stoffe I-IV four solo dances to new compositions by Andreas Koeper. Film/tv/video works include Carmen (S4C/BBC2), The James Bond film Goldeneye, and Soho Square (Channel 4/ British Arts Council).Interdisciplinary and site-specific works include Joy of Return (1994) a Barclays New Stages Brighton Festival production; a dance/film installation as part of The Recurring Technicolor Dream event at the ICA (1997), It's a Wonderful Life at Marylebone Station. Since 1999 she has been investigating the science-art interface with scientists, artists and new interactive technologies at the CAMAC centre, France and the ICA London. For theatre nomad Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Casanova, Berlin Brecht, Sick Heart River.
	LIZ TURNER (Executive Director) has worked for Triumph Productions, Ambassador's Theatre Group, The Deal Theatre Project, The Kent Shakespeare Project and the Theatre Royal Margate. She has been Drama Advisor to Education Otherwise in Kent and Artistic Director of the Astor Theatre Arts Centre, Deal. She is currently Project Manager for the International Workshop Festival. For theatre nomad she was the Executive Director of: Macbeth, Miss Julie, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Survivors, Homage a Yves Klein, Shakespeare Tango, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It, At Break of Day, Tambora, Ghetto Goats, La Pucelle and Pericles.