Director/Producer: Katherine Hong

Katherine Hong is a third year undergraduate reading Literae Humaniores at Oriel College, specializing in philosophy and Classical literature. She has performed in various amateur productions, but the Hippolytus marks her thrilling first venture into Oxford drama. She has an academic interest in Greek tragedy and has studied and written on the historical development of tragedy and the ancient theatre-space. Since receiving the beginners’ Greek declamation prize at Bryanston in 2013, she has developed a passion for the sound of Greek and sees the play as an opportunity to perform some of the most beautiful and lyrical lines in the Classical corpus. She is the founder and president of Paideia Productions, which funds and promotes the production of Classical drama at Oxford. She is a classically trained oil painter, pianist, and flautist.

 

Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Jenny Lee

Jennifer is a second year Classical Archaeology and Ancient History undergraduate student at Lincoln. Previous production credits in Oxford: Assistant Stage Manager for 'His Dark Materials: Part I' (Keble O'Reilly, MT 2014) and 'His Dark Materials: Part II' (O'Reilly TT 2015). Stage Manager for 'The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs' (Burton Taylor, HT 2015). Jennifer is thrilled to be venturing into her first assistant directing credit and stage managing Hippolytus.

 

Tech Manager: Anna Mowbray

Anna Mowbray is a 1st Year PPE student at New College.  She recently did the lighting for the New College MCR Garden Play, Hay Fever, and a staged reading of Paradise Lost in New College Chapel.  Before coming up to Oxford she did lighting design for Rushdie's Haroon and the Sea of Stories, and for an adaption of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

 

Marketing Manager: Nehal Gupta

Nehal Gupta is a third year Engineering student at Oriel College. She has worked with events for HUMSoc and OxFest. She has extensive experience in planning, organizing, marketing and executing events at a large scale, as well as in computer programming. She is working with a start-up company as a Social Media and Marketing Intern in New York which helps museums and art festivals connect with their audiences and hopes to apply these skills profitably for the production of the Hippolytus.

 

Production Designer: Serena Yagoub

 

Production Manager/Co-Production Designer: Maya Ghose

Maya Ghose is a first year undergraduate reading in 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) in Michaelmas. Before Oxford, she was on the board of 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.

 

Language Advisor: Jack Noutch

Jack finished his undergraduate Classics degree in June, for which he studied Greek and Latin literature and specialised in Greek Tragedy. He acted in a handful of productions while at Oxford including: Brian in Asking the Questions (Cuppers BT, MT10), Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd(Pembroke College HT11), Orestes in the Oxford Greek Play Clytemnestra(Oxford Playhouse MT11), and King Arthur in Sir Gawain and the Greek Giant (HT14). He dabbled in some other drama-related activities, including a spell as a co-director and as language advisor for the 2014 Oxford Greek Play The Furies.

 

Sub-titles Manager: Jack Ashton

Jack Ashton is a third year undergraduate reading Literae Humaniores at Magdalen College. He was the Surtitles Manager for the Oxford Greek Play in 2014.  

 

Composer: John Young

John, from Suffolk, has a background in both classical and jazz music genres, playing piano and violin and composing from a young age. His early musical development was aided by being a violinist in the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain for five years and then by getting into the junior Royal Academy of Music as a violinist and composer. After winning a piano scholarship with international concert pianist Richard Meyrick, he benefitted from regular tuition in London and from residential courses with acclaimed Russian concert pianists Maria Nemtsova and Veronika Illyinskaya, which led to a distinction in his ATCL piano diploma. In 2013 he won the West Suffolk Young Musician of the Year award on piano, after being a finalist on both instruments, and he will be performing Mozart’s double piano concerto at the UBS bank centre in London in November. His interest in jazz resulted in his participation in two summer schools with the National Youth Jazz Collective, where he had tuition from professionals such as Dave Holland, Mike Walker and Nikki Iles. More recently he took part in two masterclasses with renowned saxophonist Tim Garland, and he hopes his role in Oxford’s JazzSoc committee will bring more opportunities. His eclectic musical experience has given birth to a unique amalgamation in his compositional style, which has enabled him to cover more ground in his passion for film soundtracks.

 

Production Consultant: Dionysios Kyropoulos

Dionysios is currently studying for the DPhil in Music at New College, University of Oxford. He read music at City University London while having performance tuition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Dean and graduated in 2012 at the top of his class. He was awarded the MPhil in Music Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2014, for which he was funded by a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation, and grants from the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the South Square Trust. During the academic year 2012-13 Dionysios acted as the tutor of the City Opera Ensemble and gave undergraduate music students theoretical and practical training in operatic performance, and directed a successful production that explored Italian opera through the centuries, which was later revived for the university’s summer music festival. In the summer of 2013 and 2014 he worked as a tutor of Baroque gesture for the Baroque Opera Studio at the University of Burgos in Spain, and he led a workshop of seventeenth-century acting and singing in February 2014. In July 2013 he directed a performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Teatro Principal de Burgos, and in July 2014 he directed a Purcell double-bill of The Indian Queen and Dido and Aeneas. Other directing work includes Partenope and Rodelinda by Handel, Livetta e Tracollo by Pergolesi for Clare College Music Society in Cambridge, and Molière’s comedy The Doctor in Spite of Himself in the Burton Taylor Studio of Oxford Playhouse. In May 2015 he will be directing Timothy Kraemer’s children’s opera Ulysses and the Wooden Horse in High Wycombe, in June 2015 Coward’s comedy Hay Fever in Oxford, in July 2015 Cavalli’s opera Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne in Burgos, in October 2015 Handel’s Tamerlano in High Wycombe, and in November 2015 Purcell’s Dioclesian in Oxford.

 

For research interests and further bibliography see www.kyropoulos.com.