British American Drama Academy

Ian Wooldridge (Dean)
Ian Wooldridge was Artistic Director of the touring company of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre from 1978 -84 and Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh from 1984 -93. His many productions include the Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man by Shaw, Death of a Salesman and View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, The Three Sisters by Chekhov, Tartuffe by Molière and The House of Bernarda Alba by Lorca. In 1997 he directed The Taming of the Shrew for the Southern Shakespeare Festival in Florida and in 1999 he directed The Merry Wives of Windsor for the same festival. In Spring 2000 he directed Much Ado About Nothing for Cornell University and The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Heart of Amerca Festival in Kansas City. 2005: Directed Wozzeck in Santiago, Chile. His adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is published by Nick Hem Books. Dean of BADA since 1996.

	Norman Ayrton
Norman Ayrton was appointed Assistant Principal of LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) in 1954, he served as Principal from 1966 -72 and was Dean of BADA from 1985-96. He has worked extensively as a teacher and director in Australia and the United States where he joined the faculty of the Julliard School Lincoln Centre in New York in 1974. He has been guest director at many universities and festivals.

Mick Barnfather
Mick Barnfather is a key member of Theatre de Complicité, Trained with Desmond Jones, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux. For the Theatre de Complicité he has perfomed in Light, The Chairs, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, The Visit, Please, Please, Please and Food Stuff He has worked with Toucan Theatre Company, directed plays for the Hot House Theatre and appeared many times on television.

	Selina Cadell
Selina Cadell has starred in many Royal National Theatre productions, including Noises Off, As you Like It, The Cherry Orchard, The Duchess of Malfi, The Madness of George III, Pericles and Stanley in which she also starred with Anthony Sher in New York. She has also performed in the 2005 season at Chichester, Midsummer Night’s Dream in the West End, Sam Mendes’ productions of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night in London New York and has participated in ACTER tours throughout the United States

Christopher Cook
Christopher Cook is a broadcaster and journalist who has written, presented and produced many arts, feature and documentary programmes for Radios 2,3,4 including Kaleidoscope and Critics Forum and the World Service. He has produced and researched several documentary programmes for television including Camerons Country, The Philpott File and Yesterday's Witness for the BBC and The Writing on the Wall for Channel 4. Publications: The Lion and the Dragon: British Voices from the China Coast (Hamish Hamilton 1985), the Dilys Powell Reader (OUP 1991) and Genetics & Health co-authored with Dr. Ron Zimmern (Nuffield Trust 2000).

	Paola Dionisotti
Paola Dionisotti was actress of the Year in 2001 for Further than the Furthest Thing. She has starred in many productions for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Camino Real (RSC), Measure for Measure (RSC), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Goldoni Trilogy (National), The Wandering Jew (National), Moscow Gold (RSC), Richard II (National) and Ninagawa's production of Peer Gynt. She has also starred in The Relapse at the Chichester Festival and King Lear at the Old Vic. Her movies include The Sailor's Return and Sakharov. She recently directed Two Sisters and a Piano for the Riverside Studios and has just finished starring in David Greig’s If Destroyed True on tour and at London’s Chocolate Factory.

Lynn Farleigh
Lynn Farleigh's recent theatre work includes One Under (Tricycle Theatre), The Entertainer (Southampton) The Family Reunion (RSC) and The Prince of Homburg and (RSC, and on tour, including the US). Film and TV work includes Pride and Prejudice, two series of Wycliffe and A Fairytale A True Story. She has directed Don Juan Comes Back, Macbeth and Under Milk Wood for BADA. For National she has starred in The Mysteries, The Crucible, Inadmissable Evidence and Brand. She has also starred in The Homecoming on Broadway.

	John Gorrie
John Gorrie has worked extensively for the BBC and Britain's independent television companies. For the BBC he has directed several Wednesday Plays, Plays for Today, and Plays of the Month. He directed and wrote the series Edward VII starring Timothy West, seen on PBS in the USA. In addition he wrote and directed Lillie the story of Lillie Langtree also seen on PBS. He has directed several episodes of Rumpole of Bailey and also three Shakespeare plays for BBC TV, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and The Tempest. Recently, he directed Helen Mirren in Cause Celebre, a number of Ruth Rendell mysteries, episodes of the Sherlock Holmes series and also Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Mike Loades
Mike Loades has been teaching stage fighting since 1981. He was Master of Combat at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and the London Theatre School, He is also an expert on firearms, period horsemanship and archery. He recently completed a TV series for Channel 4 on the history of combat.

	Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman first appeared in The Comedy of Errors (RSC) for which he won the Best Newcomer Award in 1983. He starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and After the Fall at the National and won Best Supporting Actor Award in 1992 for his performance in Angels in America. He won the Olivier Award as Best Actor in a Musical for Sondheim's Assasins ('93) and was nominated as Best Actor of the Year for Hysteria (Royal Court, '94). Other theatre work includes Broken Glass, Guys and Dolls and Summerfolk, Art (Broadway and West End) and Chicago (West End). He won the Olivier Actor of the Year Award for his performance as Shylock in Trevor Nunn's The Merchant of Venice. Last year he completed a hugely acclaimed run of Tartuffe on Broadway, starred as Richard lll (RSC) and in The Birthday Party in the West End.

Jessica Higgs
Jessica Higgs has studied at Central School of Speech and Drama prior to working as a freelance Voice Teacher. She has worked on many productions in London and elsewhere including the musical "Mamma Mia". She has taught Mountview Theatre School, Middlesex University and Rose Bruford College and has directed a number of productions for Tandem Theatre Company.

Jackie Matthews
Jackie Matthews was trained as a dancer and dance teacher and choreogorapher and subsequently trained at the Guildhall School as teacher of movement for actors and is a Member of the American Academy of Dance. She has also taught ballet, Graham Technique and Gymnastics. She is currently Head of Movement at RADA and prior to this taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and LAMDA. She was Master of Movement for the Globe Theatre and recently supervised the Movement for the current production of Twelfth Night running at the Open Air theatre in Regents Park. Jackie also supervised their movement for the RNT's production of Further than the Furthest Thing and for The Lost Boy for the BBC.

	Diana Quick
Having starred in Lear and The Sea by Edward Bond at the Royal Court, she has also played Beatrice -Joanna in The Changeling and Anne Bonney in Anne Bonney and Mary Read at the RSC. At the National Theatre, she starred in Plunder and played Cressida in Troilus and Cressida. She also appeared in Phaedra Brittanica by Racine/Tony Harrison, played Olympia in Tamburlaine and Peggy in Map of the World and most recently in Peter Hall’s You Never Can Tell.. Her movies include Max Mon Amour directed by Oshima, and she starred in television's Brideshead Revisited. She regularly performs her one- woman show, Woman Destroyed, based on the work of Simone de Beauvoir.

Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw won Actress of the Year Award in 1989 for her performance in Electra, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, for whom she has also starred as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew. For the Royal National Theatre, she starred in The Good Person of Setzuan and for the Old Vic she starred in As You Like It. She gave an award-winning performance in Machinal at the Royal National Theatre, directed by Stephen Daldry, and starred as Richard in Richard II and Way of the World, directed by Phyllida Lloyd also at the Royal National Theatre. She starred in the highly acclaimed Hedda Garbler. Her movies include My Left Foot, Mountains of the Moon, Three Men and a Little Lady, Cloak and Diaper, and Super Mario Bros. She has taught regularly for BADA in London and Oxford. She recently performed The Waste Land on BBC television and various theatres in Canada and the United States and made her directorial debut with Widowers' House for the Royal National Theatre. Most recently she has starred in Medea, which toured Europe and the US, Julius Caeser (Barbican), and featured in the first three Harry Potter films.

	Mark Wing-Davey
Mark Wing-Davey has directed world-wide, recently Dirty Dancing in Australia, West Side Story in South Africa, in America, Angels in America (ACT), Provoked Wife (Berkley Rep), Blood Wedding (La Jolla Playhouse), Troilus and Cressida and Henry V (Central Park), 36 Views (Public theater) and Mad Forest (winner of Obie Award & LA Drama Critics Dramalogue Award); in the UK Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National) and Bat Boy The Musical in the West End. He was the artistic director of London's Actors Centre from 1998 to 2002.

Leo Wringer
Leo Wringer has performed regularly for the RSC, recently as Lear's Fool in King Lear and Prince of Verona in Romeo and Juliet. He played the King of Athens in Deborah Warner's Medea (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and in the West End) and has toured England, Ireland, Mexico, the US and the Indian sub-continent for the RSC. He played Camillo in Simon McBurney's The Winter's Tale for the Complicite tour of the UK and Australia. He recently appeared as Cinna the Poet in Deborah Warner's Julius Caesar at the Barbican.

	Deborah Warner
Deborah Warner recently directed the acclaimed production of “Julius Caesar” (Bite Barbican Season, starring Ralph Fiennes). She was voted Director of the Year for the RSC’s “Titus Andronicus” (with Brian Cox) and ”Electra” (with Fiona Shaw) and “Hedda Gabler” (Abbey Dublin, with Fiona Shaw). Other productions include “King John” (RSC), and for the RNT, ”King Lear”, “The Good Person of Setzuan, “The Powerbook” and ”Richard II”. She also directed “The Waste Land” in Canada, the US, London and Adelaide, “Corialunus” (Salzberg Festival), ”Medea” in New York, Paris and London and the Angel Project in New York. Operas include “Don Giovani” and “Fidelio” (both Glyndebourne). “Wozzeck” (Opera North), “Paul Bunyan” (English National Opera) and “Media” in Dublin and London. In 1999 she directed her first film “Last September”.