The Company

Jude Alderson

Artistic Director

Jude has worked extensively in theatre and television as a writer, director, performer, composer and musician to critical acclaim. An international trail-blazing female artist breathing new life into work across creative genres.

“A punk Piaf, blessed with a surreal imagination” -
New York Stages. She formed Amazonia to create and produce new music theatre, and collaborate with leading musicians, choreographers and performers. Amazonia offers popular, potent and topical new work and composition, in celebration of the diverse and the subverse.

Steve Edis

Musical Director/Composer

Composed music for numerous performances at the Old Vic, RNT, RSC, Cottesloe and Olivier. These include, among many others: Hamlet, We Happy Few, Measure for Measure and Not About Nightingales (Broadway - music nominated for Drama Desk award in New York).

Arranger/Orchestrator for many more, including: The Boyfriend, HMS Pinafore, Camelot, High Society and Sweet Charity.

Extensive work for TV includes composing for: Every Silver Lining (BBC), Once in a Lifetime (ITV), the cable channel Digital Classics TV.

Arranger/conductor of The Disney Christmas Special (ITV), live music sections of the film Iris (Richard Eyre), and numerous episodes of EastEnders and Holby City (BBC).

Micaela León

Singer Actress

Micaela is a graduate of Trinity College of Music, London. Her recent roles include Desideria in "The Saint of Bleecker St" at the Peacock Theatre, Filipyevna in "Eugene Onegin" at Jackson Lane Theatre, KitKAt-Girl in "Cabaret" at Greeenwich Theatre. She is collaborating with the Curious Chamber Ensemble with whom she's appeared in various concerts in Stockholm, Sweden. "Tiger, Muses and Jasmine" is Micaela's new one-woman show, created with "stream-X" Pianist Ingvo Clauder, written and directed by Jude Alderson featuring songs by Hollaender, Weill, Spoliansky and Heymann.
 

Sarah Niles

Actress

Sarah recently appeared at Leicester Haymarket in To Kill A Mocking Bird, and Bogus Woman. Other work includes: Bessie Smith in Ladies Sing The Blues (The Bridewell London), Lowdown High Notes (Red Ladder Theatre Company), Magic Sky Magic Earth (Pentabus Theatre Company), Pied Piper and Soho Story (Kaboodle Theatre Productions), Black Love (Black Arts Development Project), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Manchester Library Theatre), Touch Of Frost (Yorkshire Television), Good (Capitol Theatre/MMU), Happy End (Capitol Theatre/MMU), Napoli Millionaria(Capitol Theatre/MMU),
All's Well That Ends Well (Capitol Theatre/MMU), Peer Gynt (Capitol Theatre/MMU). Sarah is a professional jazz/funk singer and is currently working on her first album with her band.
 

Kieran Buckeridge

Actor

Theatre credits as an actor include: Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum); Guildenstern and Fortinbras in Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Kipps in The Woman in Black, Inigo Jollifant in The Good Companions and Frank Lubey in All My Sons (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Father Ilyodor in Rasputin (Natural Theatre Co.); Filch and Jimmy in The Threepenny Opera (Bury St. Edmunds Theatre Royal); Scott Summerton in Between Love and Passion (New End Theatre Hampstead); Submarine in A View from the Bridge (Greenwich Theatre) and Thomas Crossing in The Fathering (Courtyard Theatre, London). He was Musical Director for Sleeping Beauty (Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury) and Smoke (Union Theatre, London) and composed music for Cinderella (Albany Empire, Deptford ) and Passport to Spanish (Lion and Unicorn).
 

Togo Igawa

Actor

Born in Tokyo, and came to England in 1983. A founder member of The Black Tent Theatre in Japan. Recently appeared in Eyes Wide Shut with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (Stanley Kubrick). Theatre work includes The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep), Ballad of Yachiyo (RNT & Gate), The Great Highway (Gate), The Rover (RSC), The Fairmaid of the West (RSC), Abe Sada's Dog (BTT). Films include Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh), The Tribe (Stephen Poliakoff), National Achievment Day (Ben Hopkins), Some Other Spring (Peter Duffell). Television includes Dennis Potter’s Karaoke, Murder Most Horrid, Defrosting the Fridge (all for BBC).
 

Jethro Skinner

Actor

Played the lead in Hamlet (dir Michael Dray) for the White Horse Company and toured Germany for a year; the male lead in Romeo and Juliet at Vienna’s English Theatre. Played in Boom Boom Clap, a film previewed at Cannes 2000. Television: Cold Feet for Granada , The Bill, Peak Practise, Eccles in Wire in the Blood, and a cameo lead in City Central for BBC.
 

Mary-Anne Parker

Performer

Mary-Anne’s TV experience includes: Niki in The Bill, Nurse Clare in Eastenders, Tina in 55 Degrees North (BBC1), Amanda in Murder in Mind (BBC1) and Michelle in Wall of Silence (Granada). Mary-Anne was at The English Theatre of Vienna during 2004. She has also appeared in previous productions for the Amazonia Theatre Company, including Ursula in Entartete Musik, and as the narrator for Itinerants
 

Elisa Lasowksi

Performer

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Lisa Hogg

Actress

Born in Belfast, Lisa played Lily in In the Jungle of the City
(Drill Hall & Windsor Festival) . She is also the lead singer with the band Mysora. Most recent appearances include roles in Loyal Women (Royal Court) and Wire in The Blood (LWT). Other TV appearances include The Invisible Man, The Bill
and Brookside.
 

Amy Alderson

Choreographer actress

Amy was trained in the Martha Graham technique and Indian philosophy. She has choreographed Sappho for Xenia at the British Museum and The People’s Opera as part of the Year of the Artist Award 2000. She performed in George Chakravarthi’s award winning piece ‘Shakti’ for the Royal Academy of Arts. Her piece about Indian Goddesses ‘She’ was performed at the Tilburg Festival in 1999.
 

Kyoko Wainai

Costume Designer

Prominent at the Milan Collections and gaining ground on the pan-European fashion scene, Kyoko Wainai's clothes and accessories often present a subtle blend of East and West. As well as creations for her own Anju brand, among others, Ms. Wainai has produced costumes for the theatre in Tokyo. In the Jungle of the City (Drill Hall) is the first time she has designed for the London stage.
 

David Lawrence

Lighting Designer

David's work spans theatre, opera, television, art installations and architectural designs. His opera credits incluide: JENUFA at the English National Opera, La Traviata for the Royal Opera House Stockholm and Teorema at Maggio Musicale di Firenze and the Munchner Biennale. Theatre credits include The Grapes of Wrath at the National Theatre of Turkey, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the KNS Antwerp, The House of Bernarda Alba for Nottingham Playhouse and Julius Caesar for Manchester Royal Exchange. David is an Associate Director of Drama Centre, where he has worked alongside Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes since 1986, designing over 90 productions and he has also designed several productions for George Kimoulis in Athens during the 1980's.
 

Joseph Meager

Set Designer

Joe trained at Wimbledon School of Art and Design, and has worked with Jude in theatre productions from 1994, including Madonna in Slag City (Jack Lyons Theatre Royal Academy of Music) Man of Mode (Oval House) M, the Ancient Myth of Medea (Windsor Festival) Jungle of the City and Entartete Musik ( both at the Drill Hall). Other work includes productions at the Liverpool Everyman, the Royal Opera House and the Red Room.

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