Propeller is an all male theatre production company based in England

Richard Clothier

Richard trained at Mountview Theatre School and Ecole Jacques Lecoq.

Theatre work includes:

The Tempest, The Browning Version, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Hindle Wakes, Dead of Night, End of the World Romance, Grace, Take Away, Tango at the End of Winter, The Taming of the Shrew, Like Candyfloss, King Lear, Steven and Coriolanus. For the RSC: The Alchemist, The Virtuoso, The Dybbuk, The Two Gentleman of Verona, Hamlet, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice. Richard has worked on several productions at the Watermill, including Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, and Rose Rage. TV and film: Columbus, Don't be Afraid, Tango With Ninagawa, The Knock, Midsomer Murders, Without Motives and In Search of the Brontes.

Simon Scardifield

Simon studied modern languages at Cambridge University, and then trained at Guildhall and with Philippe Gaulier.

Apart from Rose Rage and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Propeller, Simon has played Romeo at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, and Eric in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls at the Garrick Theatre, as well as appearing in Goodnight Children Everywhere and Twelfth Night for the RSC, and The Cherry Orchard for ETT. Other stage work includes Spring Awakening at BAC, Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi at the New Vic Theatre, Paradise Lost at the Bristol Old Vic and, most recently, on tour and at BAM, New York in A Passage to India with Shared Experience. Screen credits include, inevitably, Casualty and Soldier Soldier; also Monsignor Renard, and the feature film High Heels and Low Lifes. On the radio: The Constant Prince, Antony and Clepoatra, The Weight of Water, The Marseilles Trilogy and The Pyramid, amongst others. In the Summer of 2004 Simon made his directorial debut, helping The Bearded Ladies to success at the Edinburgh Festival.

Tam Williams

Tam trained at Guildford School of Acting in London.

His theatre credits include 'Doublecut', Mill at Sonning, Barnaby in 'The Matchmaker' Chichester Festival Theatre, Rutland, Vyner in 'Henry V1 The Battle for The Throne' and 'The Park' both for The Royal Shakespear Compnay, and West End, Damis in 'Tartuffe' Mobil tour, Prince Hal in 'Chimes at Miinight' Chichester Festoval Hall, Jimmy in 'Remember This' Royal National Theatre, Claudio in 'Much Ado About Nothing'and Lysander in 'A Mid Summer Night's Dream' at Regent's Park Open Air, Harev in 'Gamblers' Kings Head/BAC, Kit in 'French Without tears' Northcott Theatre, Desmond in 'Dark Corners' Windsor Theatre Royal;Donalbain/Young Siward in 'Macbeth' West End, Robin Conway in 'Time & The Conways' UK No 1 Tour.

Film and Television include: 'Backwaters', 'The Trench' (Support Lead) BBC Films, 'A Time to Love' (lead), 'Unforgettable', 'War Poem', Martin Chuzzlewit' (BBC), Linda La Plante's 'Killer Net' (lead) 'Casualty' (BBC), 'Silent Witness' (BBC), Dance to the Music of Time (Ch4), Cold Enough for Snow (BBC), Anorak (BBC Screen One), Starhunter 2300 and 'Heatbeat' for Yorkshire TV.

Vince Leigh

Vincent's most recent role was as Hero in Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forumn at The National Theatre.

Vincent has appeared previously at
the Watermill in Edward Hall's productions of Rose Rage, Twelfth Night and Othello and also in Rose Rage in the West End. Other theatre includes: for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Porter in Henry VIII, Don Alexandro in The Spanish Tragedy, Roman Captain in Cymbeline, George Seacoal in Much Ado About Nothing and Cinna/Stato in Julias Ceasar. Also, Is there Life After High School (Bridewell), Gary in Dead Guilty (Apollo), Lysistrata (London and Greek Festival at Epidaurus), The Fly (Garrick), The Ten Commandments (The Place), Maxwell (West End), Moll Flanders (Lyric Hammersmith), Tutenkhamun (Imagination), Just So (Tricycle), Cats (West End), No Remission (Edinburgh). Television includes: Family Affairs, Jonathan Creek, Broken Heart, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, One Foot in the Grave, and That Sunday (nominated for BAFTA Award 1995).

Bob Barret

Trained at Guildford School of Music and Drama.

Recent theatre includes: Horatio in Hamlet (Thelma Holt Productions - Bite '04, Barbican and tour); the Colonel in Journey's End (West End); John Reid in After the Dance (Oxford Stage Company - nominated Best Supporting Actor 2003 TMA Regional Theatre Awards).

Other theatre includes: Victory/ Guys and Dolls/ Dancing at Lughnasa/ Recruiting Officer/ Of Mice and Men (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh). (Uncle) Vanya/ The Castle/ Hated Night Fall (The Wrestling School). Hamlet (Greenwich). St. Joan (Birmingham Rep). Comedians (Belgrade, Coventry). Cyrans de Bergerac (West End). School for Scandal (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Damned for Despair (Gate).

TV includes: Eastenders/ Absolutely Fabulous/ Casualty/ The Cazater Chronicles/ Invasion: Earth / Inspector Alleyn Series (BBC). The 10th Kingdom. Wonderful You (Hartswood). Rich Tea and Sympathy (YTV). The Bill/ Bad Girls/ Ruth Rendell Mysteries/ Unsuitable Jobs for Women (ITV).

Film Includes: Shakespeare in Love

Jules Werner

Jules trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

He joined Propeller four years ago, understudying the entire company in Rose Rage and then playing Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Other theatre credits include Hamlet, Jerry in Pinter's Betrayal, Danceny in a French production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Philip in Orphans by Lyle Kessler and the 1st Murderer in a Luxembourg open-air production of Macbeth. Film and television credits include Peter Greenaway's 81/2 Women, 30 Years to Life for Canadian TV and the BBC's Spooks. He has just appeared in Michael Radford's film version of The Merchant of Venice.

Tony Bell

Tony was born in Nottingham and trained at Lancaster University and Webber Douglas.

Tony recently went to Japan to be in Red Demon for Hiclkenoda and directed The Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night at Alra Drama School. Other theatre credits include Ghostward at the Almedia, Bouncers for Hull Truck, The Mysteries at Bolton. For the Watermill UP 'n' Under, Travels With My Aunt, Far From the Madding Crowd, and with Watermill Propeller, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Rose Rage and A Mid Summer Night's Dream. Tony has toured America in Macbeth for AFTLS and South East Asia with Watermill Propeller.

Television work includes: Holby City, The Bill, Peak Practice, EastEnders, Doctors, Dream Team, Trial and Retribution V, and Trail of Guilt. Radio includes Into Exile, Love Among the Haystacks and Travels in Italy, a collection of short stories by D H Lawrence. Tony also teaches at Shakespeare's Globe and in schools and colleges in London and Berkshire.

James Tucker

Theatre: At The Watermill; Katherine/The Boy in Henry V, Viola in Twelfth Night. Peter Quince in A Mid Summer Night's Dream (Sheffield Crucible), Player Queen in Hamlet (Glasgow Citizens), Curio in Twelfth Night. Adrian in The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse), Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard (English Touring Theatre), Jimmy in Shadowlands, Castelli in The Hinge of the World (Yvonne Arnaud Guildford), Uriah Heep in David Copperfield (UK) Tour).

For the RSC: Golding in Eastward Ho!, Prince Charles in Edward III, Pedro in The Island Princess, Prepasso in The Malcontent, William Lucy/Peter Thump/Tutor/Catesby in Henry VI parts 1,2 and 3, Catesby in Richard III, Mr Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Mooncalf in Bartholomew Fair, Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Froth in Measure for Measure, Peter in Seeds Under Stones.

In London: Hamlet (Bite04 at the Barbican) The Jacobean Season (Gielgud Theatre), A Woman of No Importance (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), A Month in the Country (Albery Theatre), Life Under Water (Man in the Moon), The Ghost Train (Lyric, Hammersmith).

TV: Silent Witness (BBC), Agatha - A life in Pictures (BBC).

Alasdair Craig

Alisdair trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

His theatre work includes playing Tony Blear in, 'The Madness of George Dubya', 'A Weapons Inspector Calls' and 'Guantanamo Baywatch', The New Players Theatre, directed by Justin Butcher. Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Comedy Theatre and The Brooklyn Academy of Music (B.A.M New York), Jack Absolute in 'The Rivals' at The Theatre Royal Bath, Mutius in 'Voices' at The Oxford Playhouse, Jack in 'Under Covers' at The Old Operating Theatre, Lord Byron in 'Of Bright and Dark' at The White Bear Theatre, 'Getting Attention' at The Tristan Bates Theatre.

His work Film work includes: 'P.O.V' a feature Film directed by Tom Clark 'Lawless Heart' (Evening Standard Best Screenplay 2002) for Martin Pope Productions, 'Bad Pear Day' for Abadi Films, 'Big Fat Zero' for Euphoric Productions and '24' for Phobic Productions.

Adam Levy

Adam's theatre credits include: The Kindness Of Strangers (Liverpool Everyman); Edmond and Henry V (National theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Regent's Park); Crossing Jerusalem (Tricycle Theatre); Beauty and The Beast, Henry IV Part 1, Back to Methusalah and Richard II (RSC); The Jew of Malta (Almeida) and Conversations With My Father (Old Vic).Television includes: Rome (H.B.O.); 10th Kingdom, McCallum, Call Red and Chillers Prophesy. Film includes: The Sin Eater; Gladiator; Being Considered and The Governess.

Chris Myles

Chris read Modern Languages at Oxford University before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Last autumn he was Neville in "Neville's Island" at the Watermill and before that Bertolt Brecht in "Marieluise" at The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Previously for Propeller he has appeared at The Watermill, on national and international tours and in the West End in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Rose Rage", "Twelfth Night", "Comedy of Errors" and "Henry V". Also for the Watermill "The Adventures of Mr. Toad" Other theatre includes: "Insignificance"(Einstein), "Hamlet"(Horatio), "Dr. Faustus"(Mephistopheles), "Romeo and Juliet"(Benvolio), "The Merchant of Venice", "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"(Guildenstern), "Macbeth", all for Wildcard Theatre Company; "The Devil's Disciple", "The Applecart", "Cock of the Walk" "Shaw Cornered"(A Germ and Shakespeare amongst others), "Mrs. Warren's Profession", "People in Cages" "Cold Comfort Farm", "You Never Can Tell", for Michael Friend Productions; in London, "Coffee" for Garrulous at the Latchmere "Epitaph for the Whales" and "Ballard of Wolves" at the Gate, "The Tenth Man" at the New End, and "Screaming Eagles" at the Finborough Arms. He was also Hitler in a reading of "Geneva" at The Theatre Museum. Film includes "Lip up Fatty", "Vigo", "The Score" "Little Joe's Bad Trip" and "Number One Cat with Two Legs." Chris is a local councillor in Hackney, East London.

Edward Hall

Director

Theatre includes: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (National Theatre), Calico (Duke of York's), Edmond (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, Watermill Theatre, UK Tour - TMA Award for Best Touring Production), The Hinge of the World (Guildford), Macbeth (Albery Theatre), Rose Rage adapted with Roger Warren from Henry VI parts I, II and III (Haymarket Theatre,Watermill Theatre, UK/International Tour and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre - Olivier Award Nomination for Best Director and TMA Award for Best Touring Production), The Constant Wife (Apollo), Putting It Together (Chichester), Julius Caesar (RSC), Tantalus (Denver Centre and UK Tour), Henry V (RSC - The South Bank Show Award for Theatre for "The Histories"), Twelfth Night (Watermill - Winner of the TMA/Barclays Theatre Best Director Award), Sacred Heart (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), Celaine (Hampstead Theatre), The Two Gentleman of Verona (RSC), The Comedy of Errors and Henry V (Watermill, Pleasance Theatre London, RSC, The Other Place, Stratford and International Tour), That Good Night (Yvonne Arnaud Tour), Othello (Watermill and the Tokyo Globe), Richard III (Tokyo Globe), Cain (Minerva Studio, Chichester), Bare Knuckle Selling (Edinburgh Festival).

His production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which played in London at the Comedy Theatre in 2003, went on to play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in early 2004, where both he and the production were nominated for Drama Desk Awards.

His production of Rose Rage which he directed for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2003, transferred to the Duke's Theatre in New York in September 2004. It recently won four Jeff Awards including Best Play, Best Director and Best Ensemble Cast.

Television includes: Safari Strife (Cutting Edge, Channel 4) and Richard III (NHK in Japan).

His radio productions include Dear Exile, Eveline, Into Exile (all for Radio 4).

Michael Pavelka

Designer

Michael trained at Wimbledon School of Art, where he has since returned to lead the Design for Performance www.wimbledon.ac.uk course.

Michael has designed some 150 productions, most of which have been new plays or new musicals. His work includes two shows for the late Lindsey Anderson: The Fishing Trip and Holiday, Old Vic Theatre. Also The Life of Galileo (Best Design Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards), A Midsummer Night's Dream (winner Best Production MEN Awards) also The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Library Theatre Manchester.

His ongoing work with Edward Hall and the Propeller Company includes productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Henry V and the adaptation of Henry VI plays, Rose Rage, at the Watermill Theatre, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre which transferred to New York and earned him Best Costume Design nomination at Chicago's Jeff Awards. Other productions in the West End include; The Constant Wife, How the Other Loves, Other People's Money, Leonardo, Blues in the Night performed in Dublin, New York, Tokyo after two West End seasons and Macbeth.

Michael co-produced a Young People's Shakespeare Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and has since designed the first African language Mother Courage and Her Children in Kampala, at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC and Grahamstown Festival, South Africa.

Designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company include, The Odyssey, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V and Julius Caesar.

Ben Ormerod

Lighting Designer

Theatre includes The Watermill's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( also Brooklyn Academy New York, West End ); Rose Rage ( also Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Duke Theatre New York, West End ) and Twelfth Night as well as all four plays in the current Spanish Golden Age season and Julius Caesar, Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Revenger's Tragedy (Royal Shakespeare Company); Headcase (RSC, Soho Theatre, Coventry Belgrade); Pinter's adaptation of Remembrance of Things Past, Uncle Vanya, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Bent, At Our Table, The Winter's Tale, The Colleen Bawn ( Royal National Theatre); Sean Bean's Macbeth, Calico, The Constant Wife, The Winslow Boy (West End); Hinge of The World (Yvonne Arnaud); John Gabriel Borkman, Ghosts and The Caretaker (ETT); Resurrection (Lichfield Garrick); Enemy of the People (Theatr Clwyd); Journey to the West (Tara Arts Trilogy) ; The Nest (Living Pictures) and Murder (Gate). Other International Theatre includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid Theatre, Broadway, Sydney, Toronto, West End); Oedipus Tyrannos (Epidaurus); The Father (Athens); Silence, Silence, Silence (Slovenia); Ole Bornedal's Macbeth (Denmark); the World premieres of Tom Murphy's The Wake at the Abbey Theatre, Dubli n (& Edinburgh Festival) and The House (also Abbey) and Made In China and Lonesome West (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin). Dance includes See Blue Through (Ballet Gulbenkian, Lisbon and Phoenix Dance Company); Tender Hooks and Outsight (Ballet Gulbenkian); I Remember Red (Cullberg Ballet); A Streetcar Named Desire (Northern Ballet Theatre); Ibi l'ohun (Brest) and God's Plenty (Rambert).

Opera work includes the World premiere of Michael Berkley's Baa Baa Black Sheep (Opera North/BBC 2); Punch and Judy (Aldeburgh , Berlin and Vienna); The Coronation of Poppea (Japan) and Il Trovatore (Scottish Opera). He is also currently lighting the Calico Textiles Museum, Ahmedebad, has just made his directing debut on Athol Fugard's Dimetos at the Gate Theatre, London and is about to direct Macbeth for E15 Drama School.

Roger Warren

Text Editor

Roger Warren's numerous publications include books about A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shakespeare's Late Plays in performance, and editions of Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Henry VI Part Two, and Pericles for the Oxford Shakespeare series.

His theatre work includes extensive collaboration with Peter Hall at the National Theatre, at Stratford-upon-Avon, at the new Rose theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames, and for his American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles.

His collaborations with Edward Hall include Julius Caesar at Stratford in 2001, and both A Midsummer Night's Dream Rose Rage, at the Watermill, on tour and in the West End.

Matt Flynn