VIVIENNE ACHEAMPONG TITUS ANDRONICUS SMOOTH FACED GENTLEMEN AARON

VIVIENNE ACHEAMPONG

Art, music, dance, the stage - these are the kismet girls....

They're limbering up for another all female UK tour, and this time romance gives way to bloodshed: Ladies and gentlemen, the Smooth faces present to you: TITUS ANDRONICUS. For 2013 introducing Vivienne Acheampong as Aaron. Best of luck Vivienne, from the Kismet Girls.

CREDITS

Year	Role / Type	Production / Director	Company / Venue
.	.	.	.
2012	Dawn Film (Short)	Black Book Pamela Nomvete	Foughtnight Production
2009	Josephine Theatre	SANTA'S NOT COMING TO TOWN	Hen and Chickens Theatre
2008	Various Rehearsed Reading	YOU NEED SOME OF THIS Gene David Kirk	Theatre 503
2008	Lead woman Film (Student)	SWANS Samantha Harrie	The National Film and Television School
2008	Yvonne Rehearsed Reading	BEEN SO LONG Che Walker	Theatre Royal, Stratford East
2008	Woman opposite Hugh Laurie Commercial	VIRGIN MEDIA SET Tony Goldwyn	Lucky Strike
2007	Angel Corporate	THE MALL	The Edge Picture Company
2007	Various Rehearsed Reading	LET'S GET IT ON Mariel-Baistow Claire	The Bush Theatre
2007	Various Roles Radio	THE CINNAMON TREE Annabel Greenleaf	BBC Radio

ABOUT VIVIENNE

Ethnicity	Black/African
Skin Color	Black
Hair Length	Short to Medium
Native accent	English
Accents (UK)	Cockney, Liverpudlian, London, Manchester, Northern England, RP, South London
Accents (North American)	General American, New York City, Southern American, Texas
Accents (International)	African (West), Nigerian, RP, West-Indian
Languages Spoken	English
Interested in	Comedy, Film (Professional), Film (Student), Radio, Rehearsed Readings, Theatre (Fringe), Theatre (Professional), Theatre (Touring), TV, Voice Over
Experienced in	Rehearsed Readings, Theatre (Professional)
Specific Singing Skills	Mezzo-Soprano

playing age	27
height	5' 7" (1.70 m)
weight	11st. 5lb. (72kg)
hair color	Brown
eye color	Black
build	Slim

2013 THE SMOOTH FACED PLAYERS: TITUS ANDRONICUS CAST - In alphabetical order


Vivienne Acheampong	Fran Binefa	Madeline Gould	Ashlea Kaye


Henri Merriam	Emma Nixon	Leila Sykes	Stella Taylor

TITUS ANDRONICUS PLAYER

Vivienne Acheampong plays Aaron. Viv is a London born actress from Ghanian heritage, she trained at East 15 Acting School. She’s just been confirmed for the first heat of the Funny Woman awards.

TITUS ANDRONICUS CREW - In alphabetical order

Yaz Al-Shaater – Director

Anna Beecher – Dramaturg

Tom Crawshaw - Dramaturg

Celia Dugua - Lighting

Kirsty Fox - Associate Producer

Amy Gunn – Stage Management

Jacob Hughes - Designer

Rachel Illingsworth – Assistant Director

James Percival - Sound

These are the smooth faces of a troupe of ladies who prefer to act out the parts of gentlemen. Don't they know when they are onto a good thing? Okay, seriously, this troupe are truly superb and deserve as much support as we can give them. The productions that the SFG players intend staging in the future, are classic renditions of Shakespeare's works in traditional costume, which sets them apart from other all female troupes in the US and elsewhere (good as they are) - as one might expect from the qualifications and experience of the members. They are Kismet Girls through and through.

Ashlea Kaye and Leila Sykes rehearsing Titus Andronicus

These girls are serious actors carrying off the parts of their male counterparts so well, that you may well believe they are men. That is the opinion of many people who have seen their shows. Moreover, the acting is of such a high caliber that any advocate of Shakespeare will appreciate the performance for the performance and not because the players are all female - although that inevitably adds to the mystique - and that extra layer of spice is bound to draw audiences wherever they perform.

2012 THE SMOOTH FACED PLAYERS: ROMEO & JULIET CAST - In alphabetical order


Mariam Bell	Camina Bernhardt	Fran Binefa	Carly Jukes


Ashlea Kaye	Kayleigh McDonald	Henri Merriam	Leila Sykes

VIV SAYS:

"After the first week of socks down pants (men, I don’t know how you do it!) aggressive tail pulling and thoughts on the play, another great week was about to commence with the lovely gents newly armed with the knowledge of which characters we would be playing. I am playing Aaron."

"The week started as it meant to go on, with a thorough analysis: looking at the characters and and translating the text. As an actor who loves Shakespeare, I still find it scary when you have to ‘translate it into modern language’. With Shakespeare, every word counts. Having a ‘gist’ is not good enough and Yaz’s precise way of working shares this ethos."

"This extensive analysis has made me fall in love with the play over again. The state of society at the time, family conflicts, status, power… and this doesn’t even touch the sides. It’s so much more than just blood and guts and I can’t wait to get going!"

Smooth Faced Gentlemen are one of the UK's most prodigious all-female Shakespeare troupes. Formed in 2012, this female ensemble perform fast-paced, dynamic productions of Shakespeare's much-loved classics. Thier approach, which marries tradition with innovation, seeks to dismantle the audience's preconceptions of the Bard's work. Through the prism of an all-female cast Smooth Faced Gentlemen examine the mastery with which Shakespeare pictures humanity - a humanity which an actor can explore and share whether male or female.