THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
Directed by Max Hoehn
Adapted from the original by Max Hoehn & Raymond Blankenhorn
Directed by Max Hoehn
Adapted from the original by Max Hoehn & Raymond Blankenhorn
The Crew
Amelia Peterson
Anouska Lester
Chloe Kenvin
Eli Keren
Harriet Randell
Jessica Edwards
Laura Wilson
Lottie Bevan
Lucy Anderson
Max Hoehn
Michael Galvin
Minty Wieloch
Rachel Beaconsfield Press
Rosie Hore
Stephen Poole
Stuart Storry
Amelia Peterson Producer
Amelia first came to The Fringe with a school production of ‘Gormenghast’, in which she played Steerpike, but also got a taste for producing and marketing at Edinburgh. Despite having played Woland herself in the past, she has left the acting to the rest of the team this time to focus on producing, following a year as President of her college drama society, which involved allocating funds for different shows and taking on the none-too-simple task of getting the college pantomime on stage in time for Christmas. She has just finished her 2nd year of studying English at New College.
Anouska Lester Costume Design
Anouska has worked in film and theatre in various artistic capacities from Recording Assistant for an independent British film 'Morris: A Life with Bells On' to Wardrobe Assistant at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: Design Assistant for Brecht's 'A RespectableWedding' which performed at The Edinburgh Fringe, Costume Designer for 'The Magic Toyshop' at The Oxford Playhouse, Costume Desinger for 'Antigone', Costume-Maker for the site-commissioned dance show 'Arch' and Wardrobe Supervisor for 'Much Ado About Nothing' at Linbury Studio, London, and The Globe, Neuss. She also designed and created the marketing outfits for the London and Oxford launches of Oxford Fashion Week. She has just completed her first year of studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Chloe Kenvin Choreographer
Chloe is one of our choreographers. She has been dancing and performing for most of her life, having been a cheerleader for the Welsh football team, performed in Disneyland Paris and achieved her dance grades. Her first major piece of choreography was for a production of 'We Will Rock You'. At university Chloe has performed in 'West Side Story' at the Oxford Playhouse, and choreographed a production of 'Rent'. She has enjoyed rehearsing with the Master and Margarita cast and wishes them luck on their tour and is enjoying the break from studying Law at Somerville College, where she has just completed her second year.
Eli Keren Lighting Designer
Eli is our lighting designer for our London and Oxford venues. He spent much more of his year in theatres than in libraries, having served as lighting designer, technician and once even production manager for a total of eight shows across four different Oxford venues over the year. He also acts as technical representative for Lady Margret Hall's the Simpkins Lee theatre, where he has just finished his first year of studying Chemistry.
Harriet Randall Choreographer
Harriet worked with Chloe on group choreography. She was also co-choreographer for a production of 'Rent', and has danced in numerous Oxford shows. She studies Modern Languages at Hertford College, Oxford.
Jessica Edwards Set Design
Jess is our set designer. She is co-director and designer of a new theatre company, Flipping the Bird. In her first year she was awarded nominations for best direction and design in her new adaptation of ‘Sweeney Agonistes’, performed in ‘The Entertainer’ and directed and designed shows with the Oxford Revue comedy sketch group. In her second year she performed in ‘Decadence’ and directed and designed a new adaptation of ‘The Magic Toyshop’ at The Oxford Playhouse, and ‘A New Antigone’. She is currently directing 'Productivity' here at the Fringe (Underbelly) and working on a new film, 'Who the fuck is Quentin Thomas?' and a new company piece, ‘FOUND!’, to be performed in the autumn. She has just finished her second year of studying English at Brasenose College.
Laura Wilson Marketing
Laura is our marketing manager. ‘The Master and Margarita’ is her third venture into marketing after Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ in February 2010 and ‘Measure for Measure’ in May 2010. She also produced both of these shows and worked in the technical box during the performances. Laura directed Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’ and is Treasurer of the Martin Esslin Society, which is the drama society of Keble College. Occasionally, she can be found working towards her degree in English Literature, of which she has just finished her second year.
Lucy Anderson Costume Design
Lucy made the majority of our handmade costumes. She is very excited to be involved in her first OUDS production, ‘The Master and Margarita’, as it has been a challenging and interesting project; very different from anything she has worked on before. Lucy studied Textiles at Oxford High School, and this year has been at Oxford Brookes studying for a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. Next year she will start a 3-year BaHons in Costume with Performance Design course at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. Previous productions that Lucy has worked on include Shakespeare’s ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, ‘Musicals Grease’, ‘Anything Goes’ and ‘Kiss me Kate’, and period pieces ‘Cider with Rosie’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Lucy has really enjoyed working with the talented cast, and wishes them all the best with their runs in London and Edinburgh!
Max Hoehn Director
Max's directing credits include 'The Marriage of Figaro' at The Sheldonian Theatre, The Changeling, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘A Dinner Engagement ‘, ‘Venus and Adonis’, ‘Art’ and ‘Danton's Death’ which was performed at The Edinburgh Fringe. His acting credits include ‘Don Carlos’ at The Oxford Playhouse, The Blue Room, ‘Quills’, ‘Liebelei’ and ‘Art’. Later in the year he will travel to the Opernhaus Zürich to assist with a new production of Rossini's 'Guillaume Tell'. He has just completed his degree in History at The Queen's College, for which he was awarded a First.
Michael Galvin Assistant Producer / Production Manager
This is Michael's first time at the fringe, although he is no stranger to all aspects of the world of drama. He is co-founder of Barbarian Productions, was DSM for an adaptation of ‘The Magic Toyshop’ at The Oxford Playhouse, Co-Director and ‘Nigel’ in an adaptation of ‘The Musgrave Ritual’, presented as a radio play, and Production Manager of a highly acclaimed five star production of Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’. He has also worked on numerous productions in the state of the art QEII Performing Arts Centre in London. He has just completed his first year of studying Philosophy and Psychology at Magdalen College.
Rachel Beaconsfield Press Make-up Design
Rachel has worked as a stage manager, lighting and sound director and most recently as designer, accomplishing a total of 12 plays in the past three years. She has taken two shows to the South Africa Fringe Festival 2009 and has recently worked for the Royal Opera House's set design team, helping to build a design for Aida. Her Oxford productions include ‘West Side Story’, 'The Invention of Love' and 'The Odyssey' at The Oxford Playhouse, ‘Equus’, ‘Bent’ and ‘Knives in Hens’. She is currently working on a production of Peter Shaffer's ‘The Royal Hunt of the Sun’ which will run at Oxford Playhouse in October 2010 as well as this year's Fringe production of 'Wait until Dark'. She has just completed her first year studying Modern Languages at St Peter’s College.
Rosie Hore Choreographer (Raymond's dances)
Rosie is a ballet dancer who trained in Oxford while attending the Oxford High School. She is set to start studying at Cambridge in the Autumn.
Stephen Poole Lighting Design
Stephen is our lighting designer for C Venues, Edinburgh. He is a lighting designer with extensive experience, in genres ranging from high school musicals to Samuel Beckett, and in venues from ten seats up to the 650-seat Oxford Playhouse. A third-year physicist at St Anne's College, he has been involved with over thirty student productions including ‘West Side Story’, ‘Don Carlos’, ‘Sweet Charity’, ‘The Madness of George III’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’. As lighting designer for Clockwork's five-star run at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, and technical director of The Oxford Revue for two sell-out productions, he is well placed to bring Soviet Russia to life in Edinburgh 2010.
Stuart Storry Marketing
Stuart has so far played only a small part in the underworld of Oxford drama life, and hasn’t been part of a cast since his secondary school’s prestigious production of 'Henry the Fourth, Part 1’ (it had a red carpet and everything). He has taken the production side of theatre in his stride, having co-produced the comedy sketch show ‘Little Dark’ in the Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford and is looking forward to applying his markting skills to The Edinburgh Fringe. He has just finished his second year of studying English at Keble College.
Unless otherwise stated, all the cast and crew are undergraduates at The University of Oxford.
Amelia first came to The Fringe with a school production of ‘Gormenghast’, in which she played Steerpike, but also got a taste for producing and marketing at Edinburgh. Despite having played Woland herself in the past, she has left the acting to the rest of the team this time to focus on producing, following a year as President of her college drama society, which involved allocating funds for different shows and taking on the none-too-simple task of getting the college pantomime on stage in time for Christmas. She has just finished her 2nd year of studying English at New College.
Anouska Lester Costume Design
Anouska has worked in film and theatre in various artistic capacities from Recording Assistant for an independent British film 'Morris: A Life with Bells On' to Wardrobe Assistant at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: Design Assistant for Brecht's 'A RespectableWedding' which performed at The Edinburgh Fringe, Costume Designer for 'The Magic Toyshop' at The Oxford Playhouse, Costume Desinger for 'Antigone', Costume-Maker for the site-commissioned dance show 'Arch' and Wardrobe Supervisor for 'Much Ado About Nothing' at Linbury Studio, London, and The Globe, Neuss. She also designed and created the marketing outfits for the London and Oxford launches of Oxford Fashion Week. She has just completed her first year of studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Chloe Kenvin Choreographer
Chloe is one of our choreographers. She has been dancing and performing for most of her life, having been a cheerleader for the Welsh football team, performed in Disneyland Paris and achieved her dance grades. Her first major piece of choreography was for a production of 'We Will Rock You'. At university Chloe has performed in 'West Side Story' at the Oxford Playhouse, and choreographed a production of 'Rent'. She has enjoyed rehearsing with the Master and Margarita cast and wishes them luck on their tour and is enjoying the break from studying Law at Somerville College, where she has just completed her second year.
Eli Keren Lighting Designer
Eli is our lighting designer for our London and Oxford venues. He spent much more of his year in theatres than in libraries, having served as lighting designer, technician and once even production manager for a total of eight shows across four different Oxford venues over the year. He also acts as technical representative for Lady Margret Hall's the Simpkins Lee theatre, where he has just finished his first year of studying Chemistry.
Harriet Randall Choreographer
Harriet worked with Chloe on group choreography. She was also co-choreographer for a production of 'Rent', and has danced in numerous Oxford shows. She studies Modern Languages at Hertford College, Oxford.
Jessica Edwards Set Design
Jess is our set designer. She is co-director and designer of a new theatre company, Flipping the Bird. In her first year she was awarded nominations for best direction and design in her new adaptation of ‘Sweeney Agonistes’, performed in ‘The Entertainer’ and directed and designed shows with the Oxford Revue comedy sketch group. In her second year she performed in ‘Decadence’ and directed and designed a new adaptation of ‘The Magic Toyshop’ at The Oxford Playhouse, and ‘A New Antigone’. She is currently directing 'Productivity' here at the Fringe (Underbelly) and working on a new film, 'Who the fuck is Quentin Thomas?' and a new company piece, ‘FOUND!’, to be performed in the autumn. She has just finished her second year of studying English at Brasenose College.
Laura Wilson Marketing
Laura is our marketing manager. ‘The Master and Margarita’ is her third venture into marketing after Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ in February 2010 and ‘Measure for Measure’ in May 2010. She also produced both of these shows and worked in the technical box during the performances. Laura directed Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’ and is Treasurer of the Martin Esslin Society, which is the drama society of Keble College. Occasionally, she can be found working towards her degree in English Literature, of which she has just finished her second year.
Lucy Anderson Costume Design
Lucy made the majority of our handmade costumes. She is very excited to be involved in her first OUDS production, ‘The Master and Margarita’, as it has been a challenging and interesting project; very different from anything she has worked on before. Lucy studied Textiles at Oxford High School, and this year has been at Oxford Brookes studying for a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. Next year she will start a 3-year BaHons in Costume with Performance Design course at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. Previous productions that Lucy has worked on include Shakespeare’s ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, ‘Musicals Grease’, ‘Anything Goes’ and ‘Kiss me Kate’, and period pieces ‘Cider with Rosie’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Lucy has really enjoyed working with the talented cast, and wishes them all the best with their runs in London and Edinburgh!
Max Hoehn Director
Max's directing credits include 'The Marriage of Figaro' at The Sheldonian Theatre, The Changeling, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘A Dinner Engagement ‘, ‘Venus and Adonis’, ‘Art’ and ‘Danton's Death’ which was performed at The Edinburgh Fringe. His acting credits include ‘Don Carlos’ at The Oxford Playhouse, The Blue Room, ‘Quills’, ‘Liebelei’ and ‘Art’. Later in the year he will travel to the Opernhaus Zürich to assist with a new production of Rossini's 'Guillaume Tell'. He has just completed his degree in History at The Queen's College, for which he was awarded a First.
Michael Galvin Assistant Producer / Production Manager
This is Michael's first time at the fringe, although he is no stranger to all aspects of the world of drama. He is co-founder of Barbarian Productions, was DSM for an adaptation of ‘The Magic Toyshop’ at The Oxford Playhouse, Co-Director and ‘Nigel’ in an adaptation of ‘The Musgrave Ritual’, presented as a radio play, and Production Manager of a highly acclaimed five star production of Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’. He has also worked on numerous productions in the state of the art QEII Performing Arts Centre in London. He has just completed his first year of studying Philosophy and Psychology at Magdalen College.
Rachel Beaconsfield Press Make-up Design
Rachel has worked as a stage manager, lighting and sound director and most recently as designer, accomplishing a total of 12 plays in the past three years. She has taken two shows to the South Africa Fringe Festival 2009 and has recently worked for the Royal Opera House's set design team, helping to build a design for Aida. Her Oxford productions include ‘West Side Story’, 'The Invention of Love' and 'The Odyssey' at The Oxford Playhouse, ‘Equus’, ‘Bent’ and ‘Knives in Hens’. She is currently working on a production of Peter Shaffer's ‘The Royal Hunt of the Sun’ which will run at Oxford Playhouse in October 2010 as well as this year's Fringe production of 'Wait until Dark'. She has just completed her first year studying Modern Languages at St Peter’s College.
Rosie Hore Choreographer (Raymond's dances)
Rosie is a ballet dancer who trained in Oxford while attending the Oxford High School. She is set to start studying at Cambridge in the Autumn.
Stephen Poole Lighting Design
Stephen is our lighting designer for C Venues, Edinburgh. He is a lighting designer with extensive experience, in genres ranging from high school musicals to Samuel Beckett, and in venues from ten seats up to the 650-seat Oxford Playhouse. A third-year physicist at St Anne's College, he has been involved with over thirty student productions including ‘West Side Story’, ‘Don Carlos’, ‘Sweet Charity’, ‘The Madness of George III’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’. As lighting designer for Clockwork's five-star run at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, and technical director of The Oxford Revue for two sell-out productions, he is well placed to bring Soviet Russia to life in Edinburgh 2010.
Stuart Storry Marketing
Stuart has so far played only a small part in the underworld of Oxford drama life, and hasn’t been part of a cast since his secondary school’s prestigious production of 'Henry the Fourth, Part 1’ (it had a red carpet and everything). He has taken the production side of theatre in his stride, having co-produced the comedy sketch show ‘Little Dark’ in the Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford and is looking forward to applying his markting skills to The Edinburgh Fringe. He has just finished his second year of studying English at Keble College.
Unless otherwise stated, all the cast and crew are undergraduates at The University of Oxford.
