Kate Sagovsky - Artistic Director
Kate completed a postgraduate diploma in Dance Studies at Laban, after graduating from the MA course in Movement Studies at The Central School of Speech and Drama (Distinction) in 2007, and completing a degree in English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford (First Class Hons) in 2006. With Freefall she has directed Not For Sale (Camden People’s Theatre; Pleasance Courtyard) and Towards the Void (Bonnie Bird, Laban). She has also directed Borough Market by Luke Norris (Camden People’s Theatre; Pleasance Dome); Chinese Takeaway (ICA as part of The Accidental Festival); Love’s Labour’s Lost for the OUDS/Thelma Holt Japan Tour 2007 (Metropolitan Arts Centre, Tokyo; College Gardens, Westminster Abbey, London; The Dell, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and Merton College Gardens, Oxford); Tongues by Sam Shepherd (Burton Taylor Theatre); The Compartment by Johnny Speight (Burton Taylor Theatre); The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (The Michael Pilch Studio Theatre); Some Voices by Joe Penhall (Old Fire Station, Oxford); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen’s College Gardens, Oxford) and Mugged by Andrew Payne (Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford; Castle Arts Centre, Wellingborough as part of the NT Shell Connections Festival). As a movement director: The Unspeakable (Tristan Bates); Chantecleer and Pertelotte by Dougie Blaxland (Hen and Chickens); Three Sisters by Chekhov (Oxford Playhouse); Cyrano trans. by Anthony Burgess (Oxford Playhouse); and Trojan Women trans. by Avery Willis (Oxford Playhouse) in which she also played the role of Kassandra; Semi-Monde by Noel Coward (Embassy Theatre); The Wedding Party by Judith Herzbeg (Embassy Theatre); Madonna Kebab (Embassy Theatre); Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton (Oxford Playhouse); and Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton (Greenwich Theatre). She was President of Balliol Drama Society, a founding member of Freefall Dance and OUDS Education and Access co-officer, in which role she led access workshops for both primary and secondary schools. Before Oxford she directed productions of My Fair Lady, Medea, Stepping Out, and Table Manners and assisted in the Cambridge Arts Theatre Education Department and, more recently, she has worked as an Assistant Director on the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays. She is associate director of Urban Exchange Youth Theatre and worked as co-director on the 2007 tour of Flesh by Ambrose Hogan (Westminster Abbey; St John’s Princes Street, Edinburgh).
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Jack Hawkins - Producer
Jack has just graduated from the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art. Before drama school he studied law at Oxford University, graduating in 2007 with First Class Honours. While at university he performed in various plays, including King Ferdinand in Love's Labour's Lost, which toured to Japan as part of the OUDS/Thelma Holt Japan Tour 2006. In 2005 he attended the British American Drama Academy's Summer in Oxford course on a scholarship. Jack is a founding member of Freefall, and in 2007 he produced Freefall Theatre's devised work Not For Sale in London and Edinburgh. He fell into producing after being the president of his college's student union in 2006 and the Marketing Manager for The Roman Actor (2005) and the OUDS Japan Tour (2006). In 2009 he started the creative media production company Rusty Productions (http://www.rustyproductions.co.uk), concentrating on short film production (http://www.rustyshorts.com) His acting CV can be found here: Spotlight: 8135-0167-3325
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Joe Wild - Performer
Joe is a founding member of Freefall, co-devising and performing in Not For Sale. He completed a BA (Hons) at Laban, and has since studied LeCoq Clowning, Native American Mask Clown and Action Theatre. Joe is physical performer, choreographer and mask maker, creating work for theatre, screen and site specific locations. He is a founder member of 'HuBe' and 'Explorer' live-art collectives creating and performing in Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, San Marino and the UK. Recent projects include the development, organisation and performance within Audiovisualmomentum, a triple bill of dance, theatre and sonic art as part of Brighton Festival Fringe, 2007 May, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton. The direction and design and performance within 'Homelife' (March 2007) performed in Ungkulturdagarna Dance festival, Stockholm, Sweden, and The Auditorium, Fucecchio, Italy. Under the Direction of Firenza Guidi he performed A Piece of monologue by Samuel Beckett, Milan University Beckett conference December 2006 and in Fine Line by Angela Woodhouse, 2006 November, the Bonnie Bird theatre, London. He also works extensively with Firenza Guidi, assisting, choreographing, teaching and performing in many projects over the last 3 years. He was a member of National Youth Theatre of Wales, National Youth Dance Wales and Dynion Male Dance Company. He is at present creating masks and choreographing a collaborative project with Swiss Band/Performance Artists 'Les Reines Prochaines' to be performed in Basel in October of this year.
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Heather Oliver - Executive Producer
Heather is the Press Officer for Glyndebourne Productions. She graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in English Literature and Language. While at university she produced a number of shows, inlcuding The Oxford Revue which ran in Edinburgh (Smirnoff Underbelly 2005), the OUDS/Thelma Holt Ltd Japan Tour 2006 (Westminister Abbey, London; The Dell Theatre, Stratford; Merton College Gardens, Oxford; Metropolitan Arts Space, Tokyo) and A Doll’s House (Moser Theatre, Oxford; Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames). She has had various acting roles at Oxford, including Rosalind in As You Like It (Christ Chuch College and Said Amphitheatre, Oxford), Laurencia in Fuente Ovejuna (Oxford Playhouse) and Mary Queen of Scots in Mary Stuart (O’Reilly Theatre, Oxford). She was the founding member of Sausage Productions, the Drama Editor of The Cherwell newspaper and a reviewer of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005 for the Fest newspaper. She was the President and Treasurer of the Univ Players Drama Society and the Executive Producer of the Oxford Revue in 2004-6. Edmund McKay - Designer Edmund McKay is a founding member of Freefall and undertook both set and lighting design for Not For Sale, as well as preliminary design for the upcoming project Ceasefire: Pieces for Piece, after completing an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama. Previously Edmund graduated from Aberystwyth University with a BA Honours in Drama. He designed and built two performance installations, ‘Labyrinth Project’ and ‘Snow White Installation’ whilst in Aberystwyth. He was the Set and Lighting Designer for the production of Jim Cartwrights Road at Theatr Y Castel Aberystwyth, and Assistant Director and Lighting Designer for Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations at Emily Davies Studio, Richard Cheshire’s productions of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2005), and Peter Shaffer’s Amedeus (2006) at the Aberystwyth Art Centre, At CCSD he was involved with the work of Mint Motel and Isolated Response, a company who have recently gone on to create visual and sound installations in Shunt Vaults, London.
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Danielle Meehan - Performer
Danielle is a founding member of Freefall, and co-devised and performed in Not For Sale after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama with an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice: Performing in 2007. She is also a trained dance teacher and has choreographed and danced in a wide variety of shows across London, in venues such as Broadway Theatre and the London Palladium. She has performed for large international events at Wembley Stadium, such as Rugby World Cup and Coca Cola play offs. She has performed and written for pieces which were performed for the Winchester Hat Fair and Winchester Royal. She played the role of Mercutio Juliet at the John Stripe Theatre in 'A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet' and performed at the Winchester Royal in 'Potatoes and Other Less Beautiful Apples', and the Winchester Art Centre in 'Let Me Take Off My Shoes to Peel and Cry’. She performed in Handspan at the New Studio, CSSD and at the ICA as part of The Accidental Festival 2007. She has recently returned from living and working in New York.
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Zoilo Lobera - Performer & Puppet Design and Construction
Zoilo is a founding member of Freefall, and co-devised and performed in Not For Sale, also taking on the role of puppet maker and co-ordinator. Zoilo is an Actor-Puppeteer trained in Spain, Scotland and England, where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Puppetry from the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, July 2007. He has collaborated with, amongst others, Perhilion Company, Puppet State, Puppet Lab, Döppel Gang, Theatre Rites, The Little Angel, Tessellate Theatre and Rouge28 Theatre performing, building puppets and puppeteering. His current research is an examination of the potential of puppets when used in an educational context, for which he has been working in Spain.
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Leanne Davis - Performer/Co-Administrator
Leanne is a founding member of Freefall, and co-devised and performed in Not For Sale. She graduated from the MA in Acting for Screen at Central School of Speech and Drama with distinction, having previously graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA (hons) in Business Management. With over ten years theatre experience and LAMDA acting awards to Gold Medallion (gained with Honours), most notable theatre performances include Merry in Class, Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream, Abigail in The Crucible, Jo in Help!, Squealer in Animal Farm, Magwitch in Great Expectations and Mary McGinty in Once a Catholic. Screen performances include Sandy in Blue Surge, Genevieve in Olives, Lainy in Monkey Boy, Nellie in The Come Down and 'A' in The Box. As well as being a member of the National Youth Theatre, Leanne also represented the North East at The Performer of the Millenium Festival hosted by The British Federation of Speech and Drama.
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Edmund McKay - Designer
Edmund McKay is a founding member of Freefall and undertook both set and lighting design for Not For Sale, as well as preliminary design for the upcoming project Ceasefire: Pieces for Piece, after completing an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama. Previously Edmund graduated from Aberystwyth University with a BA Honours in Drama. He designed and built two performance installations, ‘Labyrinth Project’ and ‘Snow White Installation’ whilst in Aberystwyth. He was the Set and Lighting Designer for the production of Jim Cartwrights Road at Theatr Y Castel Aberystwyth, and Assistant Director and Lighting Designer for Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations at Emily Davies Studio, Richard Cheshire’s productions of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2005), and Peter Shaffer’s Amedeus (2006) at the Aberystwyth Art Centre, At CCSD he was involved with the work of Mint Motel and Isolated Response, a company who have recently gone on to create visual and sound installations in Shunt, London.
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Elena Pavlidou - Performer
Elena is a founding member of Freefall, and co-devised and performed in Not For Sale. Elena completed an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice: Performing at the Central School of Speech and Drama, having previously studied in International and European Studies at Pantion University in Athens, and attended Athens Odeon Drama School from which she graduated in 2005. Since then she has taken part in various performances such as: 'AIDS' (Nicosia and Limassol), 'Ten Years of Performing' (Studio Ledra, Athens), 'The Three Penny Opera' (Studio Ledra- Athens), 'Ta Odika Paidia' (Theatro Stoa- Athens), 'War Gifts' (Theatre Dionysos - Nicosia/Cyprus and Astragali Teatro- Lecce/Italy)', 'White Nights' (Nicosia-Cyprus). She has acted as an extra in the movie 'The Brides' (dir. Pantelis Voulgaris) and performed and co-directed in the video-dance 'On my own way'. Recently she has been working both in France and Cyprus.
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Amadeo Rosenheim - Performer
Amadeo is a founding member of Freefall, and co-devised and performed in Not For Sale. Amadeo trained as an actor at the RESAD in Madrid where he gained a BA specialising in Physical Theatre. He came to London in 2004 and studied Corporeal Mime in the Ecole de Mime Corporeal Dramatique and then completed an MA in Movement Studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he has since worked as a visiting movement tutor. As a performer, theatre credits include: Quasida (Vicente Sancho; Middlesex Univ.), Oedipus (Ricardo Gaete; Conway Hall), Convidados al Alcazar (Maite Hernangomez, Segovia, Spain), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jose Piris, Madrid and Barcelona), The Water Station which received the Best Creation Award in the International Theatre Festival of Warsaw (Soledad Garre, Madrid and Warsaw), Transit (Begoña Fernandez, Madrid). Currently he is developing community and educational art projects between Mexico and Europe as part of the ITZA initiative.
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Cristian Solimeno - Performer
Cristian Solimeno is a dancer, actor, screenwriter and director. He is currently undertaking a postgraduate diploma in Dance Studies at Laban. His acting credits include Footballers Wives, Beauty and Tunnel of Love for ITV, BBC's Vicar of Dibley and the feature films, Rogue Trader, Dead Babies and Unstoppable. He wrote and directed plays for the theatre group Firewater Productions. Additional writing credits include Tame for Channel 4. He has directed programmes for Channel 4 and has just completed the feature film This Is What It Is. He is involved in the research and development of Freefall’s Towards the Void, and performed in the work-in-progress showing at the Bonnie Bird.
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