CAST AND CREW

BILL Wright, police sergeant	Andrew Cullum (2006) Laurence Saunders (2008)
JOHN Moseley, police officer	Peter Collis
ALMA Stone, Albanian researcher from Tirana	Tina Hofman
LEKA Trimi, Albanian asylum seeker from Kosova	Richard Attlee (2006) Andrew Cullum (2008)
WOMAN	Tina Hofman
BARTENDER	Peter Collis
MAN	Andrew Cullum (2006) Laurence Saunders (2008)
PARAMEDIC	David Wake

Director & Designer - Marcus Fernando

Production Advisor - Duška Radosavljevic (2006)

Stage Manager & Website Designer - David Wake

Movement - Tina Hofman

Music - Mark Taylor

	Gëzim Alpion is originally from Albania. He received a PhD from the University of Durham, UK, in 1997. Gëzim is a versatile academic, writer, playwright, reviewer, journalist, and a media, political and culture analyst. In his hard-hitting tragedy Vouchers (2001), Gëzim tackles the emotive issue of refugees and asylum seekers in Britain. Directed by Serbian-born dramaturg Dr Duška Radosavljevic, the play was first performed in the UK at the Festival of Contemporary European Plays in Huddersfield in March 2002. In the controversial play If Only the Dead Could Listen (Globic Press, 2008), Gëzim turns his attention once more to the treatment of asylum seekers in Britain. Directed by Marcus Fernando, If Only the Dead Could Listen was first performed by the Dreamscape Theatre Company on February, 7^th and 8^th, 2006, at the MAC Theatre, Birmingham, UK. The 2006 performances were sponsored by the Arts Council England and the Birmingham and Midland Institute, and the 2008 performances at the MAC Theatre and the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton, UK, by r:evolve, a Consortium of the Arena Theatre, the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), and Black Country Touring. Gëzim’s books include: Foreigner Complex: Essays about Egypt (2002), Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? (Routledge, 2007 & 2008) and Encounters with Civilizations: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa (Meteor Books, 2008). Gëzim is currently Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham. Email: g.i.alpion@bham.ac.uk; Website:www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/staff/alpion.shtml.
	Richard Attlee’s theatre includes The Young Visiters (Lewes Lit. Festival and Tour), Postcards from Maupassant (Old Red Lion), The Clearing (Shared Experience), Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Winter's Tale (Method and Madness), Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble), Julius Caesar, The Tempest and Volpone (English Shakespeare Company), A Matter of Chance (The Kosh) and seasons at Chester, York and Exeter. Television and film includes Midsomer Murders, Ultimate Force, Casualty, The Bill and Topsy-Turvy. On BBC Radio 4, Richard plays Kenton in The Archers. Email:richard.attlee@btopenworld.com.
	Peter Collis trained at the Birmingham Theatre School, (where he won the Victor Heath Cup for outstanding student), and is delighted to be joining this exciting project.  Peter recently played Hamlet for Heartbreak productions’ national tour and previous roles for them include: Tybalt & Friar Lawrence in Romeo & Juliet, Demetrius & Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, & Baptista in Taming of the Shrew. His other Shakespearian roles include: Macbeth, Macduff, Malcolm, Duncan & Seyton in five different productions of Macbeth. Alonso in The Tempest, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Sebastian in Twelfth Night, The King of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Laertes in Hamlet, Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet. Other credits include: William in William the Bard, Kenneth in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, the Monster in Frankenstein, and Lord Darnley in BBC1’s Historyonics. Email: peter@collisp.fsnet.co.uk .
	Andrew Cullum has spent the last five summers on open air tours. Most recently he played Leonato in Heartbreak's Much Ado About Nothing, which was set in 1945. He played parts as diverse as Mr Bennett and Lady Catherine in Illyria's Pride and Prejudice in 2004 and in previous years for Heartbreak played Ford and Fenton in Merry Wives of Windsor, the title role in Richard III and Hortensio/Sly in Taming of the Shrew. Other theatre work includes The Last Laugh for Eastern Angles, in which Andrew played a Max Miller style stand up comic. Blackpool & Parrish for Mouthpiece, and Merchant of Venice for Geg Theatre. TV appearances include Eastenders as the Bank Manager who wouldn’t lend Alfie Moon any money, Emmerdale, as a surveyor working for the King family, several episodes of Brum, Waterworld, and the Narration in Sent to Coventry. Films: Briefcase, a psycholigical thriller in which Andrew plays the bad guy, and The Witches Hammer, which is still in production.
	Marcus Fernando: Born in Dorchester, half Sri Lankan, moved to America, raised in Guernsey and living in Birmingham, Marcus Fernando also spends much of his time pursuing theatrical pursuits in Canada, Croatia and New Zealand. He began his professional career as an actor over 21 years ago, after completing his training in Birmingham, UK. He has since worked with major companies throughout the country, including the National Theatre, Hammersmith Lyric and Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, as well as touring as an actor-musician with the musical Buddy, and with companies such as Middle Ground Theatre, Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and Illyria. As a director, Marcus has worked for several companies, many of them based in this region. He has directed major national tours such as Romeo and Juliet, Gulliver’s Travels and Ali Baba, as well as smaller touring productions such as The Snow Queen and Blackpool and Parrish. In 2006 he took a production of Full of Sound and Fury to New Zealand with Dreamscape Theatre, and recently directed the British première of Tempest Fugit. Email: Marcus_fernando@hotmail.com.
	Tina Hofman was born and raised in Croatia.  Tina now lives in Birmingham, UK.  She started her training in Zagreb and came to London to specialise in Physical Theatre at The Desmond Jones School.  Later she also enrolled Rose Bruford College, and in 2007 Tina trained in Commedia dell’Arte with Antonio Fava.  As a performer she has worked in England, as well as in Croatia, Bosnia, France, Canada and New Zealand.  In 2001 she became the artistic director for Dreamsurf Theatre, directing The Lover by Harold Pinter, which won great acclaim across Canada.  Since then she has continued to work with Dreamscape, both as a director of movement and as a performer.  Tina has worked as a Theatre tutor in Birmingham, as well as at Birkbeck College in London.  She recently appeared in the premiere of Tempest Fugit in London, King of the Castle at the Midlands Arts Centre, the controversial Damnee Manon, Sacree Sandra in Winnipeg, Canada and Full of Sound and Fury at the Wellington Festival in New Zealand.  In March Tina is starting a UK tour of Red, Wine and Canvas with Mouthpiece Theatre. Email:tina_hofmann@yahoo.com.
	Duška Radosavljevic has worked as a dramaturg, teacher and theatre critic. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she was based in the north of England for over twelve years where she collaborated with a number of young theatre companies as a performer and director as well as working as a dramaturg with the NSDF, West Yorkshire Playhouse and New Writing North. She was the Dramaturg at Northern Stage and Newcastle University for three years and has written over 500 reviews for The Stage Newspaper. For two years she was involved with the Festival of Contemporary European Plays (FestCEP) in Huddersfield, UK, where in 2002 she directed Gëzim Alpion’s controversial play Vouchers. In 2004 Duška produced a translation of the Serbian play Huddersfield by Ugljesa Sajtinac for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, which was then adapted for a US performance at Victory Gardens Upstairs Studio, Chicago in 2006. After spending a year at the RSC as an education practitioner, Duška currently holds a Teaching Fellowship at the Drama Department, University of Bristol. Email:duska@lycos.com.
	Laurence Saunders trained at Birmingham Theatre. Theatre includes Brasher in Ron Hutchinson’s prison drama Lags (Time Out Critics’ Choice season); David Maxwell in David Edgar’s Destiny (BAC); Gary in Queer Counsel (national tour); Joe Orton in Diary of a Somebody (Second City Theatre – banned in Burton on Trent!); numerous Transmissions festivals (Birmingham Rep); a fair bit of Shakespeare (Macduff, Rosencrantz, Demetrius and Lysander); and John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest in Shanghai. Recently he’s been involved with the development of a new play by neuropsychologist and writer Paul Broks, which has been commissioned by the RSC. Recent screen work includes Andy Statham in Doctors (BBC1), The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (BBC2), the feature film, Veiled Existence, which premiered at the Festival de Cannes 2007, Stand Up, which also played at Cannes 2007, several comedy TV pilots with Rapid Pictures and Iniquity, a thriller featuring Marcus Fernando and Andrew Cullum. He’s also appeared in numerous radio dramas on BBC Radio Four, BBC7 and the Asian Network. His band, Narodni Trida, has had its post rock instrumentals featured on film soundtracks, at book launches and at art exhibitions in Britain and NYC, and his more straightforward rock band, Boomshadow, is currently making waves on the Midlands alternative circuit. Email: laurencesaunders@hotmail.com; Webstie:www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/8450-0168-0757.
	Mark Taylor created all the music and sound design for the play If Only the Dead Could Listen. Mark’s company, Chameleon Music, was formed in 1994 and specializes in creating original music and sound design for a wide variety of media – TV, live theatre, radio, advertising, corporate presentations, film. In the last 14 years, Chameleon Music has provided music and general sound design for productions all over the world – USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Panama, Ireland, and mainland Europe. Recent clients have included BBC, MSN, Chevrolet and the new US sci-fi series Altered Sanctuary. As well as working directly for individual clients, Mark is a composer contributor to a number of prominent online production Companies including Freeplaymusic.com (New York) and Productiontrax.com (Arizona). Email:mark@chameleonmusic.co.uk; Website:www.chameleonmusic.co.uk.
	David Wake is an award-winning playwright. He has written and directed a number of plays for He’s Spartacus, including Meeting Disorder (2007 tour), Inveigle (2007) and two one-act plays, Stockholm and Groom, went to the Edinburgh Fringe (2005). He has also directed William Shakespeare’s Richard III and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (‘...a truly gripping and innovative production...’ – Evening Mail). Tina Hoffman directed his play Journeys (2004) and Mark Webster directed A Right Pair (2007). He has founded and run a number of writing for performance groups. His stage-managing/technician experience includes Macbeth, Santa’s Winter Wonderland and the L.A. Writers’ Centre production of Colm Byrne’s Choke Point in which he lit Hollywood stars. As an actor, his last six roles have been Richard III, policeman, policeman, policeman, policeman, and Hamlet. The second production of If Only The Dead Could Listen saw him return as a policeman before playing a Prince again in Satre’s Les Mains Sales. Email:davidwake@blueyonder.co.uk; Website: www.davidwake.com.