People Gretel Kate Fowler Hansel Simon Ross Witch Jamie Brown Woodcutter Ilan Goodman Woodcutter's Wife Imogen Russell Williams Beasts Leopard Vicki Knowland Wolf Bennet Summers Boar Ferdi Koenig
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Kate Fowler
Gretel
Last year Kate was in Berkoff's The Trial (BT), Young Man with Conjunctivitis (Notting Hill Theatre) and took evening courses at the Central School. As a first year english student at Lady Margaret Hall, she is pleased to have found a play which combines her interests in eating cake and sleeping so well.
Simon Ross
Hansel
Simon graduated as a historian from New College last summer, and is currently working as a windsurfing instructor. He swaps his board for the boards in his first theatrical acting in Oxford since Sweeney Todd (Playhouse). Simon can speak, but he just chooses not to.
Jamie Brown
Witch
Jamie Brown is a visiting student in music at St. Hilda's. When not at Oxford she attends Tulane University in New Orleans. She grew up in Kenya, Honduras, and Guatemala, and has been involved in drama and musical theatre regularly since the age of 13. She hopes to compose for musical theatre or film in the future. Otherwise she will pursue a career in international development.
Ilan Goodman
Woodcutter
Ilan is a feisty little first year studying psychology and philosophy at St. Hugh's. He did lots of acting at school and has performed 3 times in the Edinburgh festival. In his first term he directed the St Hugh's cuppers entry (top ten) and in February he will be appearing in Spring Awakening.
Imogen Russell Williams
Woodcutter's Wife
Imogen Russell Williams is a first-year Classics and English student at Magdalen. Before coming to Oxford she directed Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose) and co-directed Travesties (Tom Stoppard). Since being here she has co-directed the Cuppers finalist If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, and objects to playing the Evil Stepmother as this is a virulent piece of type-casting.
Victoria Knowland
Leopard
Vicky is a first year psychology student at Wadham. She is delighted that her oxford debut has presented the oportunity for such character development and symbolic portrayal as the role of leopard has allowed. Before her time at wadham is at an end she hopes to have been cast in roles decpicting each member of the family of big cats, and maybe even climb to such dizzy heights as primate representation.
Bennet Summers
Wolf
Bennet has appeared in, directed, and produced more shows in Oxford than you can count, having been in Oxford for 4 years studying Maths at New College. If you can only count up to 8, that is. To research this part, Bennet has been biting random people in the street for the last two months.
Ferdi Koenig
Boar
Ferdi is a first Year at Wadham. In Oxford, he has appeared as Henry Carr in Tom Stoppard's Travesties, Lord Caversham in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, and as David Craig in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuiness.
Ferdi is very excited to be in his first OFS production. He has never been involved in experimental or movement theatre and is enjoying the experience very much. However his objections to parts of the script has led him to threaten strike action. So far this threat has gone unheeded, so if he is not present you will know why, and he hopes you understand.
Gretel Kate Fowler LMH parsleypanda123@hotmail.com 07905298008 Hansel Simon Ross Ex-New simon@thescillysite.com 07971527701 Witch Jamie Brown St-Hildas jamie8brown@hotmail.com 07816496500 Woodcutter Ilan Goodman St Hugh's ilan.goodman@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk 07950715233 Woodcutter's Wife Imogen Russell Williams Magdalen mogweevil@hotmail.com 07944491895 Leopard Vicki Knowland Wadham victoria.knowland@wadh.ox.ac.uk 07890076064 Wolf Bennet Summers New bennet.summers@new.ox.ac.uk 07779621697 Boar Ferdi Koenig Wadham ferdinand.koening@wadh.ox.ac.uk 07876354500
