Director
Gerald Garutti
gerald.garutti@robertozucco.com
Producer
Dheepa Swami
dheepa.swami@robertozucco.com
Assistant Director
Alfie Spencer
alfie.spencer@robertozucco.com
Set Designer
Sabin Anca
sabin.anca1@robertozucco.com
Lighting Designer
Tom White
website
tom.white@robertozucco.com
Technical Director
John Dilley
john.dilley@robertozucco.com
Asst. Technical Director
Lucy Gibson
lucy.gibson@robertozucco.com
Publicity
Polly Griffiths
polly.griffiths@robertozucco.com
Website and design of promotional material
State of Design
stateofdesign@robertozucco.com
Production
CAD’S Ali Nunn
ali.nunn@robertozucco.com
Stage Manager
MiriamGillinson
miriam.gillinson@robertozucco.com
Music Composer
Jonathan Styles
jonathan.styles@robertozucco.com
Sound Designer
Alex Wilber
alex.wilber@robertozucco.com
Costume Designer
Sarah Pearcey
sarah.pearcey@robertozucco.com
Props
Emma Newton
emma.newton@robertozucco.com
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BIOGRAPHIES
Gerald Garutti- Director
gerald.garutti@robertozucco.com
Gerald is currently a student on sabbatical from the Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (1998-2004) and Lector in French at Trinity College. He worked for a year and a half in the French Government as speechwriter of the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Laurent Fabius as member of his cabinet. He has also started a Ph.D. in Drama concerned with Utopia in Brecht’s plays. Drama is indeed his passion and he considers it a focal point for his other academic interests. He has studied it in two Parisian schools, the Cours Simon and a Conservatoire. He has been involved in 15 plays in Paris as both an actor and director, including some crazy English ones like The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio). He is very happy to be in Cambridge this year, where people act as well in real life as on the stage. In English, he has played the parts of the Magistrate in Lysistrata (Bat’s), Sly the Beggar in The Taming of the Shrew (Marlowe production, Arts Theatre), and the lead part of the Mayor in The Government Inspector (Madhouse production, ADC Theatre). In French (apologises, but only once in the U.K.), he has played the lead part of Theseus in Phedre (Corpus Playroom) and taken the play on tour to Paris (Sorbonne University, ENS Ulm) and Lyon (Theatre Kantor, ENS). Probably as schizophrenic as Zucco, he is determined retain his divided self and to maintain a double life as an academic and professional in drama, as actor and director. He has loved to torture his amazing Zucco cast and crew with his strange and demanding ideas, exercises, rehearsals and accent. There is only one thing he can promise: he will be doing it all again. To prevent it, you can e-mail him at the above e-mail address.
Alfie Spencer- Assistant Director
alfie.spencer@robertozucco.com
Alfie is a first-year philosophy undergraduate at Christ’s. He wants to spend most of his time writing generally theoretical pamphlets and playing backgammon. He actually spends his time trying to feed, cloth and co-ordinate a crazy continental director and some very busy thespians. He directed the CADS show Habeas Corpus, which was later pilfered by the ADC, and is planning to present some absurdist plays next year. Other interests include Chinese and Jackie Chan
Dheepa Swami- Producer
dheepa.swami@robertozucco.com
Dheepa is a final year management student at John’s. She discovered the world of theatre relatively late having produced her first show Dinner at Marguerite’s last term. Dheepa seems to spend most of her time as producer writing and receiving endless emails and preventing others from spending money. Her next project is producing a Downing Mayweek show of Pride and Prejudice which she is very much looking forward too.
Sabin Anca- Set Designer
sabin.anca1@robertozucco.com
Sabin read architecture at Cambridge. He now practises in the city while also pursuing an interest in theatrical design and production. He has been designing sets for a wide variety of shows ranging from classical Greek drama to Shakespeare, to 20th century Expressionism, Absurdism and Theatre of Cruelty.
Tom White- Lighting Designer
tom.white@robertozucco.com
Tom spends too much time in theatres. Having been involved with eight different shows last term, he hopes to cut down a little and find some time to do work for exams. His previous projects include The Love Of The Nightingale, Ulichenaya Lastochka and Davka.
Polly Griffiths- Publicity
polly.griffiths@robertozucco.com
Currently Marketing Officer at Cambridge Arts Theatre, Polly has worked within the entertainment industry for 5 years, having started working for the BBC as Programming Assistant, then going on to work for Arts Theatre as Marketing Assistant in 2000, then as Officer in 2002. This has included marketing, press and public relations work; events management; doing ridiculous things in costume and as a local girl often becoming the visiting company’s social secretary. She has acquired several TMA Arts Marketing courses and is currently completing a certificate in Marketing from the Chartered Institute.
John Dilley- Technical Director
john.dilley@robertozucco.com
John is a first year CompSci at Clare. Before this show, he has been involved in four shows at the ADC, including Dinner at Marguerite’s, which he technical_directed, and the two week musical Gypsy, which he LXed. This will be John’s first mainshow as TD, and he’s looking forward to it.
Lucy Gibson- Assistant Technical Director
lucy.gibson@robertozucco.com
Lucy technical directed Dance to my Tune the Cambridge Christian Musicals society Lent term 2003 and has organised stuff backstage at school. This is the first time she has been involved in a show at the ADC and she has really enjoyed_the technical challenges of Roberto Zucco.
Jonathan Styles- Musical Director and Composer jonathan.styles@robertozucco.com
Jonathan is in his second year reading Music at Trinity College. He previously provided music for Dryden’s production of Macbeth (January 2003) and has performed improvised accompaniments on violin and viola for contemporary dance shows at the ADC (November 2002) and at Queen’s (March 2003).
Alex Wilber- Sound Designer
alex.wilber@robertozucco.com
Alex is a second-year chemist at John’s. After acting in a number of plays in his youthful school years, and one at Cambridge, he decided to see if he could find a less demanding way to weasel into the theatre scene. As a result he explored sound on The Silliad and is looking forward to being in charge of the sound effects for Roberto Zucco.
Miriam Gillinson- Stage Manager
miriam.gillinson@robertozucco.com
Miriam is a first Year English student at Downing. She directed the Downing Freshers’ play Stags and Hens and has since discovered stage managing, having_done ‘Dinner@M’, a smoker, ‘Footlights Spring Revue - Have you seen Sarah Brown? and Love Between the Shelves’
Sarah Pearcey- Costume
sarah.pearcey@robertozucco.com
Sarah Pearcey is a second year NatSci from Sidney Sussex College. After working on West Side Story last term, this is her first production as costume designer. She relished the opportunity to bring her sewing machine up to Cambridge_for exam term- after all sewing is more useful than physics, right??
Emma Newton- Props
emma.newton@robertozucco.com
Emma is a third year at Selwyn and has acted in a fair few productions at school, including Bugsey Malone and Guys and Dolls. She also toured Europe with a county production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, acting a lighting/props/makeup assistant (general busy-body!) At Cambridge, Emma has been a technical assistant for Dinner at Marguerite’s and is now applying her skills to props for Roberto Zucco.
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