Staff and Tutors
DIRECTORS
RÓISÍN MCBRINN
Róisín's most recent work was directing Crestfall at Theatre 503, Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltes at LAMDA and Sleeping
Beauty at the Helix Theatre Dublin. Other projects include The Field (Tricycle); Tejas Verdes (b*spoke at Project Dublin);
Whereabouts (Fishamble Theatre Co); A Thousand Yards (Southwark); References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Arcola); Gompers
(Arcola) and Giants Have Us In Their Books (International Studio Dublin, Nominated Best Production, Dublin Fringe Festival).
Other work includes Smaller as resident director for Kathy Burke (with Dawn French and Alison Moyet on UK tour/West End);
Shoot The Crow as staff director for Robert Delamere (Sonia Friedman/West End); Fuddy Meers as staff director for Angus Jackson
(Scamp /Arts Theatre) and The Quare Fellow as staff director for Kathy Burke (OSC tour). Roisin was resident Asst. Director
at the Donmar (03-04) working with Michael Grandage on After Miss Julie and Caligula as well as Pacific Overtures; Hotel In
Amsterdam and Accidental Death Of An Anarchist. She won the Young Vic/Jerwood Young Director's Award in 2004.
DAVID NEWMAN
Trained at the University of Warwick and the National Theatre Studio Director's
Programme. In 2000 David was awarded an Arts Council Bursary to work as
Trainee Director at Nottingham Playhouse under Giles Croft. He was Resident
Director at Sheffield Theatres working alongside Michael Grandage on the
2003/04 season and assisting Nikolai Foster on A Chorus Line, Anna Mackmin
on The Crucible, Michael Grandage on A Midsummer Nights Dream and Timothy
Sheader on Piaf. As Director: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Sheffield Theatres)
The Jazz Conductor (Sheffield Theatres) Kitty's Story (Nottingham Playhouse,
Roundabout) When the Wind Blows (Southwark Playhouse) Bitter Fruit of Palestine
(Caird Company at Barons Court) I Am a Camera (Caird Company) Angels in
America (Warwick Arts Centre) The Country Wife (Rose Bruford College), selected
for the 50th Sunday Times National Student Drama Festival at the Stephen
Joseph Theatre, The American Clock (Rose Bruford) Twelfth Night (Rose Bruford)
Company (Welsh College of Music and Drama) Also two platform performances
of The Haunted House and Casina by Plautus at the National Theatre (Olivier).
In 2006 David worked for a month as Associate Director at the National Theatre
Studio where he developed new plays by William Gaminara, Diane Samuels and
Joe Fisher. He was also invited to lead a Director's Week on Restoration
Comedy. David is a selector for the National Student Drama Festival.
CAROLINE DEVLIN
Caroline Devlin graduated from The Drama Centre London in 1995 and has enjoyed working at such theatres as The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, where she was a regular member of the company for various seasons playing many parts, including Masha in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Arte O'Neill in Boucicault's The Shaughraun, and Wendy in Barrie’s Peter Pan. She has also played Marina in Pericles (Greenbelt Theatre Company), Michaela in Carmen, Gwen in Merlin (Citizen’s Theatre Company-Glasgow), Miranda/Ariel in The Tempest and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (both Actors From The London Stage). Caroline's television and radio projects include Casualty and The History Man, Ruth Rendell's Lake of Darkness and played alongside Albert Finney in My Uncle Silas. Caroline's more recent theatre projects include Spring Awakening (Union Theatre), Open Ground (Theatro Technis), Roots (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and Creation Theatre Company's productions of Oxford Passion, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing and Othello. Caroline spent the later part of 2009 touring the U.S. with Actors From The London Stage with in a production of King Lear. When not working as an actress, Caroline directs professionally on a wide range of projects, most recently for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Sydenham Arts Festival. Caroline also teaches at many leading London drama schools where she specializes in text analysis, the Stanislavski and Method approaches, and classical text. Caroline is a professional singer working on an acoustic album of ambient Celtic music with Matt Eaton and will later in the year direct in London the rarely-performed Debussy Opera Pelleas et Mellesande.
ADAM MEGGIDO
Adam Meggido studied drama at Birmingham University and trained as an actor at Webber Douglas - although he cites his years with Claude Chagrin (formerly of LeCoq) at the French Institute as the most important part of his training. From 1995-1999 he was a director of Counterpoint Theatre, an innovative company which merged business with the arts. Adam is the Artistic Director of The Sticking Place, a company committed to the development and production of new writing and improvisation. His Sticking Place director credits include: The Lie, Dark Meaning Mouse, Reanimator, The Premature Burial, The Disappearance and two of his own plays - Stress and Best Men - for the Guerrilla Theatre Experiment. He is also the writer/director of Chaos of Delight (Soho Theatre) and Teenager In Love for the National Youth Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Adam is Head of Foundation at the London Academy of Music And Dramatic Art. 'Meggido takes time with his actors to make sense of the words and they deliver them with clarity and a genuine feel for storytelling.' (Time Out)
JASON lAWSON
Jason Lawson studied English and Drama at the University of Leeds and also trained at LAMDA. His directing credits include Christmas Concerts (Chichester Festival Theatre), Charlie & Henry (New End Theatre), Huge, (King’s Head, Edinburgh Pleasance), Sleeve Notes, (Southwark Playhouse, Theatre 503, Union Theatre), Some Afternoons, Red Sky, Blue Sky (Hen & Chickens), Quinto Quarto & The Rose Garden (Union Theatre), Premature Burial (Corsica Arts Studio). As Assistantant director his credits include In A Dark Dark House dir. Michael Attenborough (Almeida Theatre), Triptych dir. Sean Mathias (Southwark Playhouse) and Nicholas Nickleby dir. Jonathan Church & Philip Franks (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, UK Tour). Jason was the Associate Education Director (’05-’06) Southwark Playhouse and is currently an Associate Director for the The Sticking Place Theatre Company.
HAMISH GRAY
Hamish has worked extensively as both a director and actor since training at the Arts Educational School of Acting in 1995.
He was artistic director of Two Colour Theatre Company who were the resident company at the Tabard Theatre for five years where
he directed four Time Out Critic's Choice productions. Hamish also teaches and guest directs at several drama schools.
SIGGI LINDAL
Siggi trained as an actor at the Arts Educational London School of Acting. He has worked extensively as an actor both in the UK and in his native Iceland, working both in traditional text based forms, and in forms more concerned with improvisation and physical embodiment.
Siggi has more than 50 directing credits to his name. From 2000 - 2003 he was the Associate Director of Two Colour Theatre Company, the resident company at the Tabard Theatre. During his residency at the Tabard Theatre many critically acclaimed productions were mounted, both premieres of new work and revivals of forgotten masterpieces.
Siggi has been teaching and directing at drama schools for over a decade. He recently completed an MA in Arts Policy and Management from Birkbeck College, University of London.
Siggi has written, co-written and adapted numerous scripts, translated a number of plays and written several pieces for newspapers. He has worked with a number of new playwrights, both as director of workshop performances of new work and as a script advisor.
PAUL ROBINSON
Paul is Joint Artistic Director of Olivier Award-nominated Theatre503 for whom he has directed Salt Meets Wound, They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina (503/R4) and The Lifesavers (503/Colchester Mercury) for which he received a TMA nomination. Other recent credits include the West End premiere of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye (ETT/Trafalgar Studios) and Breakfast with Mugabe (Bath Theatre Royal). He also directed Who Killed Mr Drum? (Riverside Studios), World's End (Pleasance / Trafalgar Studios) and the West End transfer of Tom Stoppard's Rock & Roll.Having graduated from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he received the Arts Council Bursary at the Manchester Royal Exchange for whom he directed Isolated Children in Far Away Places and Bus Stop. He was further selected to attend the National Theatre Studio's Directors' Course. He was then Staff Director on five consecutive shows at the National Theatre, where he directed Falstaff and Duck Variations. He is a fervent advocate of new writing being the lifeblood of the theatre and has developed new plays at many of the country's leading theatres.