Hannah Madsen
Director and Set Design

Hannah is a second year geography student at Hertford. She has worked with Kneehigh Theatre group at her home in Cornwall, as well with the Acorn theatre, both of which encourage alternative productions commercially. She also has worked annually with Golowan Festival and Mazey day, festivals in carnival style in Cornwall, where she has managed festival parade construction, dance choreography and drumming parades. She has also led workshops in withie construction and technique and is a keen artist and photograper. She has a fascination with children’s tales and Disney films. This is her first attempt at directing and set design in Oxford and has failed miserably at disproving the existence of her red-headed temper...

Jude McGowan
Producer

Judith is a fourth year at Trinity studying Maths and Philosophy. Most recently she has production managed Cabaret (OFS HT '01), Little Shop of Horrors (Playhouse HT '00), The Myth of Prometheus, New writing festival (OFS HT '01) and Dracula (OFS MT '01). She produced The Knocky (Trinity TT '01) and Chess (OFS MT '01) and is producer for Company and Copacabana (both OFS).

Seren Griffiths
Production Management

Seren is a second year Archaeology and Anthropology student at Keble. She has helped build, design and costume several productions in her hometown of Cardiff, including both school and semi-professional productions. Since coming to Oxford, she has been responsible for set and costume design for The Seagull (Wadham, MT '00) and Much Ado About Nothing (Keble, HT '01) and was set designer of the Old Fire station production of Dracula (OFS, MT '01)

Chih-Chun Chen
Marketing Manager

Chih-Chun is a second year PPP student at Keble. She has a keen interest in the performing arts and music, and was on the marketing team for Dracula at the OFS in Michaelmas Term 2001.

Jack White
Musical Director

Jack White is a second-year music student at Somerville College. In this academic year Jack has provided music for Cyrano, performed at the OFS last year, and hopes to work with other forcoming productions. Besides getting arrested, Jack has many theatrical ambitions and hopes to work with many more productions if the staff at oddbins will allow him time away from the shop floor where he has become a permanent fixture...

Lauren Elman
Assistant Producer and Assistant Stage Manager

Lauren Elman has decided to get involved in drama at Oxford after having missed it since school. This is her first production since starting her two years at Hertford College studying History, and is enjoying the newly assigned power over people...

Jonathan Gordon
Assistant Director

Jonathan is a second year reading English at Worcester. His acting credits in Oxford include Richard III at the OFS and Travesties at Worcester. He wrote and directed Dracula at the OFS last term. Jonathan is very pleased to be working on 'Hansel and Gretel', not least because it's the only show that has ever afforded such indulgence to his love of cake.

Bennet has been involved at all levels and in all areas of Oxford drama, including as producer of Fred and Madge and Sweeney Todd (both Playhouse). He was also membership secretary of the 1999/2000 OUDS committee, setting up the OUDS website. His most recent publicity and design roles have been as chief graphic designer for Much Ado about Nothing (Playhouse, MT '01), Company (OFS, HT '02), Closer Than Ever (Edinburgh '01), Cabaret (OFS, HT '01), and for the Activated Image theatre company

Lament of Hansel written by Alastair Milne.
Witch's song composed and written by Jamie Brown.

Narration Excerpts from The Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.

All other script by the cast and directors.

Thanks to Hertford Maintenance, Alan Madsen, Margaret Cook, Sarah Kinsella, Arabella Nevilee-Rolfe and Jan Matthews for their support and help.