The Winter's Tale
Actor Biographies
ERIN BRODIE (HERMIONE / PERDITA / EMILIA / MOPSA)
Erin began her theatrical career at age sixteen as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. She studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she received the Newton Blick Award upon graduation. Since then she has been seen as Carol in David Mamet’s Oleanna, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Phebe in As You Like It, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Juliet in a radio play version of Romeo and Juliet, Hanna in Hanna and Hannah, and Nevenka in Once Were Mothers at London’s Orange Tree Theatre. She recently returned from touring Peter Pan across Asia.
Erin has also taught Shakespeare extensively around the UK, including working with inmates in high security prisons, teenagers in Bath, and drama games at weekends to children aged four to sixteen.
Academic Interests: Verse, Voice, Movement/Physicalization, Text Analysis, Group Warm-ups, Group Trust Exercises, Team Building
MATTHEW DOUGLAS (ARCHIDAMUS / POLIXENES / FLORIZEL / AUTOLYCUS)
Matthew trained at the University of Birmingham and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
For the RSC he appeared in Hecuba and King Lear (directed by Declan Donnellan). Other Shakespeare credits include Hamlet (Birmingham Rep) and Othello (Cheek By Jowl; World Tour). Other theatre includes: She Stoops To Conquer (Birmingham Rep/Tour), The Big House (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Salt Meets Wound and The Man Who Argued Himself To Death (Theatre 503), 1.60.3600 (Regents Park) and A Murder Is Announced (Theatre Royal).
TV includes: Trial and Retribution XIV, After Thomas, The Great Escape, The Untold Story and Fridge Magnets.
WILLIAM HOYLAND (CAMILLO / ANTIGONUS / SECOND GENTLEMAN)
William Hoyland was trained at the Drama Centre. He spent his early theatre career at the National Theatre and the Royal Court in contemporary plays of the 1970s. Since then he has returned to the National several times – most recently in A Streetcar Names Desire with Glenn Close. He has also worked extensively in regional theatre and in the West End. He has appeared in all the Tricycle Theatre’s tribunal plays—establishing the genre of verbatim theatre—which included playing Donald Rumsfeld in Guantanamo (seen on Capitol Hill).
Mr. Hoyland has appeared in over 100 British television productions. Film appearances include Gandhi, The Return of the Jedi, For Your Eyes Only, Plenty, Hell Boy, and most recently in Woody Allen’s Scoop and A Mighty Heart (with Angelina Jolie).
Academic interests: Improvisation, Vebatim Theatre
ROBERT MOUNTFORD (LEONTES / OLD SHEPHERD/ TIME / FIRST GENTLEMAN)
Robert is delighted to be returning to AFTLS after appearing in Hamlet during the Fall of 2006 tour. He trained at RADA where he won the Lillian Bayliss Scholarship Award.
Shakespeare work: Prospero in The Tempest, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Orlando in As You Like It, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and for the RSC Solario in a World Tour of The Merchant of Venice. Other theatre includes: Enemy of the People (Ibsen), East is East (Khna Din), The Penal Colony (Kafka), Medea (Euripides), and has played Baron Munchausen and Gandhi.
TV and Film work includes: Channel 4’s award-winning drama North Square, EastEnders, Everything I Know About Men, The World According to Bex, London’s Burning, Torn, Artificial Light, The Homecoming and The History of India.
Academic Interests: Shakespeare Text Analysis and Performance
EUNICE ROBERTS (PAULINA / MAMILLIUS / DORCAS / DION / MARINER / THIRD GENTLEMAN)
Eunice trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked both nationally and internationally in theatre, television and film, playing such roles as: Elmire in Tartuffe, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Rita in Educating Rita and Alba in Bernarda Alba. On PBS she has been seen in Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, and Midsomer Murders. She has taught, acted and directed at campuses throughout the USA, including Santa Monica College, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Texas-Austin. During 2005-2006 she was the Visiting Head of Theatre at Vassar College, New York. Earlier this year she toured the US with her own devised solo piece …one, two, three… based on Twelfth Night. Eunice has toured previously with AFTLS, being seen as Beatrice/Don John/Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, Lafew/Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well, the Nurse/Prince in Romeo and Juliet, Titania/Hermia in A Midsumer Night’s Dream, Viola/Sebastian in Twelfth Night and as Hermione/Perdita in a previous tour of The Winter’s Tale.
Academic Interests: Shakespeare, Modern Drama, Self-devised Scripts, Directing, Role Play, Period Drama, High Comedy, Period Costume