Cast

Louis Dempsey - MAN in Lovers:Winners, ANDY in Lovers:Losers, DON in War

Louis, who hales from Dublin, first made his impact on London’s West End stage in the critically acclaimed play “Stones in His Pockets”. He then toured this play internationally and received unanimous rave reviews. Other theatre credits include “The Romans In Britain” for the Sheffield Crucible, “Some Voices” for The Young Vic, “Wing And A Prayer” at BAC, “Last Apache Reunion” for Tobacco Factory Bristol, “Brothers Of The Brush” for Liverpool Everyman and “Romeo and Juliet” for Solent Peoples Theatre. Film credits include: “Revolver”, “The Last Drop”, “Omagh” and “Troy”. In 2001, Louis co-wrote and starred in the feature film “Shooters”, opposite an esteemed cast which included: Adrian Dunbar, Gerard Butler, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffydd and Melanie Lynskey. Television credits include: “Holby City”, “Dream Team”, “Sea Of Souls”, “The Bill” and “Magistrates”.

Tilly Gaunt - MAG in Lovers:Winners, BONNY in War

Tilly started her career at the National Youth Theatre, and subsequently trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she won the Peter Akerman Comedy Award. Theatre includes: national tours of “Charley´s Aunt”,“Why Not Stay For Breakfast” and "Caught In The Net" at The Mill at Sonning, “Reunion/ Dark Pony” by Mamet at King’s Head, “Noises Off” (Royal National Theatre production, national tour and Piccadilly Theatre), "The Memory Of Water" at Nuffield Theatre/ Guildford and "Silence" at The National Theatre Studio. Television credits include: “The Bill”, “The Knock”, “People Like Us”, “Holby City” and “The South Bank Show” directed by Ken Russell. For radio, Tilly won the Carleton Hobbs Award for Radio 1998 and spent 9 months with BBC Radio Rep. She has recorded over 70 plays including and various live comedy radio shows including “Think The Unthinkable”. Tilly has previously worked with A Million Freds, as Debbie in the 2004 production of “The Real Thing” by Stoppard.

Patricia Leventon - CISSY in Lovers:Losers

Patricia was trained in Dublin at Gaiety School of Acting. She is no stranger to Stockholm: With the group Rhyme & Reason, of which she was a co-founder, she toured Sweden visiting Stockholm, Gothenburg, Uppsala , Lund etc., She played her one woman show Molly Bloom from James Joyce’s Ulysses at Stockholm’s Kulturhusset as well as touring worldwide from the Arctic Circle to the Antipodes winning the Critics Award for Excellence.
Recent theatre includes The House of Bernarda Alba, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Royal National Theatre), The Three Sisters (Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Rob C Williamson Company), The Colleen Bawn (Royal Exchange), The Dybuk (BAC), Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Ballad of Wolves (Gate Theatre). Ex- member BBC Radio Drama Company. Recent radio: Hippomania, A Nice Little Trip to Spain, Westway, Dr. Who, Mildew Manor,The Comeback . TV includes The March, Touch of Frost, Ruby Wax Show, The Big Smoke. Films include: Borstal Boy, Between Dreams, Seven Days, When Harry Met Sally (2005 stage production video). Red Lion Square, Valveman and Seven Days.

Katherine Manners - SEMIRA in War

Katherine trained at the Central school of Speech and Drama, London.
Theatre includes: Coram Boy, The House of Bernada Alba, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the National Theatre London. King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford on Avon, London and European tour, The Master Builder in the West End and on tour, Dracula and Amadeus at the Derby Playhouse. TV includes: Casualty for the BBC.

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Eugene O'Hare - IVAN in War; JOE in Lovers:Winners

Work in theatre includes: Translations by Brian Friel at the National Theatre, London; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Next Big Thing and Orson’s Shadow at the Old Vic Studios, London; In the Sweat and Teechers by John Godber at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Lucky in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Grand Opera House, Belfast; Memoirs of a Dead Man at the Edinburgh Festival; King Lear and The Rhymers of |Eldrich with the late Séan Hollywood
TV and film includes: Waking the Dead, Pies Day, The Road, Nothing Personal, Dabiel Cares.
Radio includes: The Hiding Fair and The Blazing East.

Alva Semple - MRS WILSON in Lovers:Losers

After a lifetime teaching, Alva took a postgraduate course at Webber Douglas Academy as a (very) mature student. Since then she has played in musicals at Battersea Arts Centre, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Southwold Summer Theatre with Jill Freud. She has also toured Ireland with Brian Friel’s "Lovers" and made films for Anglia Television and the BBC. Her one woman shows include "Through Irish Eyes" and "Nun Better".

Janine Ulfane - ANNA in War, WOMAN in Lovers:Winners, HANNAH in Lovers:Losers

Recent work includes, in Stockholm: Annie in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing”; Emma in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” (award-winning performance), both Strindberg’s Intima Teater, and Princess in Nick Grosso's "a play in swedish english and italian". In the UK: the one-woman show “The Guests” by Ronald Harwood (UK première); Suzanne in Jean Anouilh’s “The Orchestra”, also on BBC Radio 3; W2 in Beckett’s “Play”; Boo in “Blue Window” by Craig Lucas (UK première); Marliss in Steppling’s “The Dream Coast” and Hester in the award-winning South African production of “Hello & Goodbye” by Athol Fugard.

Production Team

Soutra Gilmour - Set Designer

Soutra Gilmour graduated from Wimbledon School of Art with First Class Honours. Since graduating she has done a wide variety of design work in theatre, opera and film. Theatre includes: "Peter Pan" (The Tramway, Glasgow); "Antigone" (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet" (English Shakespeare Company touring) "Cinderella" and "Hansel and Gretel" (Unicorn Arts); "My Mother Said I Never Should" (Derby Playhouse); "Forty Years On", "Real Inspector Hound" and "Black Comedy" (Northcott Theatre, Exeter); "Fool for Love" (English Touring Theatre); "The Birthday Party" (Sheffield Crucible); "Hand in Hand" (Hampstead Theatre); "The Winter's Tale," "The Woman Who Swallowed a Pin" (Southwark Playhouse); "Sun is Shining" (King's Head); "Tear from a Glass Eye", "Les Justes", "Box of Bananas", "Ion and Witness" (The Gate, London); "The Shadow of a Boy" (Royal National Theatre). Opera includes: "La Bohème" (Opera Ireland touring); "Eight Songs for a Mad King" (world tour); "El Cimarron" (QEH, Southbank); "Bathtime" (ENO Studio); "Twice Through the Heart" (Lowry Centre Salford); "A Better Place" (ENO London Coliseum). Films include: "Amazing Grace" (Parallax Films, C4), "Silent Grace" (Irish Screen).

Linus Fellbom - Light Designer

Linus started his career as a light designer, at the tender age of 18, at the Strindberg Theatre Festival in Stockholm in 1995. Since then, he has done more than a hundred different productions as a light designer. Linus has worked at most of Sweden's theatres and he has also worked in various international theatre- and operahouses, such as Oldenburg, Berlin, Innsbruck, Riga, Lodz, Warszawa, London, Cape Town, Oslo and Copenhagen. In October 2005, Linus made his much acclaimed debut as a director with a play by Lucas Svensson, "Sympathy For The Devil) at the Strindberg's Intima Teater in Stockholm. In the autumn of 2006, he has been invited to direct Shakespeare's "Richard III" at Riksteatern in Sweden. "War" and "Lovers" is Linus' second collaboration with A Million Freds Productions.

Mark Bouman - Costume Designer

Mark was born in The Netherlands and is now resident in the UK; he studied theatre/costume design at Wimbledon School of Art (BA Hons). Costume Design for Theatre includes Aladdin (The Old Vic 2004 & 2005), An Epitaph for George Dillon (Comedy Theatre), Hamlet (UK Tour and New Ambassadors Theatre, West End), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK Tour), Romeo & Juliet (UK Tour and Hong Kong), King Lear (Old Vic & UK Tour), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (UK Tour), John Gabriel Borkman (UK Tour), Love Labours Lost (UK Tour) and Twelfth Night (UK Tour), all for English Touring Theatre. Cabaret (Chichester Festival Theatre); Twelfth Night and Bravely Fought the Queen (Border Crossings); 1000 Broken Mirrors (Oval House). Design for Opera includes Idomeneo, La Boheme (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) Don Giovanni & Marriage of Figaro (Garsington); Marriage of Figaro (Stowe); The Tsarina’s Shoes (Guildhall) and Leonore (Bologna Opera, Italy). Television design credits include numerous commercials, The Lenny Henry Show, Comic Relief, Mike and Angelo and Pottermus Park. Mark also received an Olivier Award Nomination for Best Costume Design and Voudou Nation (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Leif Jordansson - Composer

Born in Trollhättan 1960. Autodidact. Has been working as a composer/musician since 1986 but also as lyricist, and translator of Tangos from Argentina, Fados from Portugal, Tom Waits and romances from 20th century composers. As a composer he has been working mainly with music for theatre and ballet,both in Sweden and abroad, and has also written original music for silent movies! Leif has collaborated with A Million Freds Productions on all four Swedish productions. Recent work includes: SHOCKHEADED PETER (by Julian Crouch & Phelim McDermot), directed by Kajsa Giertz, Park Theatre, Stockholm (2005), in which Leif did all musical arrangements, lead the orchestra as well as acted, and STJÄRNAN ÖVER LAPPLAND (“The Star over Lapland” by Staffan Göthe. Teater Brunnsgatan 4, Sthlm 2005): Composer for piano, accordeon, electric guitar and radio . Leif is also Artistic Director for The Great Learning Orchestra, a meeting point for freelance musicians interested in discovering experimental music. The group has between 15 and 80 members depending on the circumstances, and has collaborated with Gavin Bryars, Dave Smith, Terry Riley and others.

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