Mia Smith as Aphrodite

Mia is a third year Classicist at Oriel College. In her first year she acted in As You Like It (Worcester Gardens, TT '14) and Crave (BT Studio, TT '14) and in her second year formed part of the chorus of furies in The Oxford Greek Play's The Furies (Oxford Playhouse, MT '14). This term she will also be acting in Titus Andronicus (Corpus Playroom 3rd week MT '15) and Hamlet (Keble O'Reilly 4th week MT '15)

 

 

 

 

 

Spencer Klavan as Hippolytus :

Spencer Klavan is a second-year MPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at Worcester College. This is his first time onstage in Oxford, but in a shadowy former life across the Western sea he performed such roles as Don Quixote/Cervantes in Man of La Mancha (2014), James Avery in Valhalla (2014), and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (2011. Yes, really). He has also directed a number of productions, including Christopher Shinn's Dying City (2012) and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (2012). He would like to thank Katherine for giving him this opportunity, and his parents for raising him to speak Ancient Greek as a first language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rory Turnbull as the Servant:

Rory Turnbull is a second year undergraduate reading Theology at Oriel College. Although much more of a Latinist than Hellenist, being a committed member of the Oxford Latin Conversation Society, his appetite for Greek tragedy was irreversibly whetted at the Bryanston Greek Summer School, when he appeared in the chorus of Aeschylus’sAgamemnon. This is now his second appearance in the Oxford drama scene, after making his dramatic début as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Oriel last term. His other passions include debating, opera and valiantly attempting to write Shakespearean sonnets in his spare time.​

 

 

 

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Chloe Cheung as Phaedra:

Chloe is a third year undergraduate reading Classics and English at Oriel College.  Recent acting credits include The Oxford Greek Play The Furies (Oxford Playhouse, MT14), As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams (Burton Taylor Studio, HT15), and Killing Hitler (Nuffield Chapel, TT15).  She has also held various roles backstage as Costumes Designer and Stage Manager for Serata Futurista (Burton Taylor Studio, HT15), Assistant Marketing Manager for His Dark Materials: Part II (Keble O'Reilly, TT15) and Director of Twelfth Night (Oriel College Front Quad, TT15).  Furthermore, Chloe's love of theatre extends beyond amateur dramatics: she was a Student Ambassador for the Royal Shakespeare Company in the academic year 2014/2015 and is currently writing her dissertation on Sophocles and Yeats.  

 

 

Jasmine White as the Nurse

Jasmine is an English student at New College. Oxford theatre credits include co-writing and acting in The Historical Resurrection Society, and playing the title role in a new version of Purcell’s The Prophetess, which she also assistant-directed. Jasmine will be returning to the role of the Prophetess for a second production at the Keble O’Reilly in 3rd Week. She is currently co-producing The Fairy Queen, Purcell’s operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which will be performed at the Oxford Playhouse in Trinity 2016. Jasmine has a diploma in acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and a diploma in singing from the London College of Music. She is Outreach Officer for the OUDS committee.

 

 

 

Dominique David-Vincent as Theseus:

Dominique David-Vincent, impersonating Theseus in this play, is a third-year undergraduate reading Classics with Oriental Studies at Somerville College. Having studied theatre from an early age in France, he has recently performed in the intense God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, among others, in Paris. As a student of Indo-European phonology and of Greek historical linguistics, he is deeply interested in the question of pronunciation of ancient languages and therefore saw this play as an excellent opportunity to bring together an artistic desire and an intellectual passion. His interest and his attempts to revive ancient languages have recently led him to receive the First Prize for Latin Declamation (Reading) from the Classics Faculty, Oxford. His experience as a musician and his contact with modern pitch-using languages have also helped him to try and recreate the tones of Ancient Greek in his rendition.

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Hill as the Messenger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lydia Kanari-Naish as Artemis

Lydia Kanari-Naish is a second year Physics undergraduate. Despite being mainly preoccupied with equations and formulae she has always had an interest in classics, having studied Latin and Greek at school. She has been acting since the age of five in various theatre groups; most recently in the Birmingham Young REP. Having studied Greek tragedy for A-level, she is grateful for her first opportunity to combine her interests in theatre and classics in the production of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' at Bryanston Greek Summer School (where she played the part of the deranged Cassandra)- and now in 'Hippolytus'. As a speaker of Modern Greek, Lydia has an interest in the evolution of ancient languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veronica Corsi 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Ghose 
Maya Ghose is a second year undergraduate reading Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Corpus Christi College. She has recently acted as assistant director for String of Pearls (BT Studio, TT’15), stage manager for I Nominate (BT Studio, TT’15), and producer for The Dumbwaiter (BT Studio, HT’ 15). She will also be stage manger for Spring Awakening (O’Reilly MT’ 15) and Doctor Faustus (O’Reilly HT’16). Before Oxford, she was on her school’s theatre committee and directed the Rocky Horror Show (2014) and one-act play Courting 101 (2013). She has stage-managed Ragtime(2014) and The Static (2014) and assistant stage-managed Bat Boy the Musical (2013) in addition to various minor acting roles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jem Jones 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Scanlon 

Catherine Scanlon (Chorus) is a third-year undergraduate reading Psychology and Linguistics at University College.  Although she has appeared in some plays with ancient settings (Esarhaddon: The Substitute King, MT 2014, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, TT 2014), this is her first venture into Ancient Greek drama.  Her other Oxford theatre credits include As You Like It (TT 2015) and Blood Wedding (HT 2015) as well as many productions with the Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imogen Stead 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mia Talfourd-Cook

Mia is a third year undergraduate reading Classics at Jesus College. She has taken part in a number of classical reading competitions before Oxford, but this is her first appearance on the stage since the age of thirteen, when she covered her school theatre in "splurge" in a production of Bugsy Malone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guy Brindley 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac Greenwood 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calum Matthews
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max Ramsay