EMMA NIXON TITUS ANDRONICUS SMOOTH FACED GENTLEMEN BASSIANUS MARTIUS ALARBUS

EMMA NIXON

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 Emma Nixon as Bassianus, Martius and Alarbus. That sounds demanding - best of Luck Emma, from the Kismet Girls.

ABOUT EMMA

Education
	2012, 3 yr. Acting The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Emma received The Acting Prize for Performance on graduating from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) July 2012 with a BA Hons Acting degree. Spotlight page: spotlight.com/1110-5641-6229

Other
She performed in the Olivier Awards 2011 singing in the choir. Workshops: Hannah Waddingham Musical Theatre workshop Nickolas Grace monologue workshop Nickolas Grace physical workshop One on One session with Liza Sadovy Talk with Shaun Prendergast Talk with Jonathan Pryce

SKILLS
Stage Combat,BADC Level 1- Rapier, Dagger & Unarmed - Silver, Swimming, Running, Yoga, Physical Theatre/Mime, Devising, Improvisation, Musical Theatre, Workshop leader, Computer literate. Vocal Range: F, to C" (Belt to E)

Ethnicity	White/Caucasian
Skin Color	White
Hair Length	Shoulder Length
Native accent	English
Accents (UK)	Cockney, Lancashire, Manchester, Northern England, Northern Working Class, RP, Scottish, Southern England, Welsh
Accents (North American)	General American, Southern American
Accents (International)	Dublin, RP
Interested in	Comedy, Commercials, Corporate, Film (Professional), Film (Student), Improvisation, Music Videos, Online, Panto, Presenting, Radio, Rehearsed Readings, Roleplay, Theatre (Fringe), Theatre (Professional), Theatre (Touring), TIE/TYA, TV, Voice Over
Experienced in	Film (Student), Panto, Radio, Theatre (Professional)
General Singing Skills	Solo
Specific Singing Skills	Mezzo-Soprano
General Dance Skills	Ballet, Ballroom, Jazz, Tap
Organisation Membership	Equity
Stage Combat Skills	Yes

CREDITS

Year	Role / Type	Production / Director	Company / Venue
.	.	.	.
2013	Bassianus, Martius, Alarbus Theatre (Tour)	Titus Andronicus Yaz Al-Shaater	Smooth Faced Gentlemen
2013	Woman Film (Student)	Dry Run Adam Hyde	Carrowood - Short Film
2013	Dinah Cooke Film (Short)	White Rabbit David Gowin	Pure Imagination Films
2012	Kay Theatre	Time and the Conways Keith Woodason	LIPA-Senheiser Studio Theatre
2012	Haley Theatre	The Pitchfork Disney Gillian Lemon	LIPA Showcase 2012 PMA Stage LIPA, The Criterion Theatre...
2012	Miranda Film (Student)	Secret Smile Jan Paulo Musni	PowLow Media
2012	Tiffany Theatre	The Danny Crowe Show Olivia Meguer	LIPA Senheiser Studio Theatre
2011	Kate Mullins Musical	Titanic the Musical Sally Rapier and Nick Phillips	LIPA-Paul McCartney Auditorium
2011	Louise - Piano/Forte Radio	Radio Project Peter Darney	LIPA
2011	She Film (Student)	Death and Dancing Maggie Ford	LIPA
2011	Becca Theatre	Rabbit Hole Nathan Luttrull	Theatre de L'Aletoire Senheiser Studio Theatre
2011	Regan Theatre	King Lear Keith Woodason	LIPA
2011	Veshnyakova, Yevlampia Petrovna, Natalia Pavlovna Theatre	Black Snow Max Rubin	LIPA-The Unity Theatre, Liverpool

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

Emma Nixon - plays Bassianus, Martius and Alarbus, Emma graduated from the LIPA in Liverpool this year, where she received the Acting Prize for Performance. We didn’t ask what other acting prizes there are.

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

EMMA SAYS:

"During our rehearsals we started by focusing on physicality and how important that is going to be – particularly when portraying the opposite sex. An exercise I found useful was walking around the room, finding our neutral body positions, then slowly becoming a man we knew. Getting into the mind-frame of a man I found had the most effect on my physicality. Knowing where their tensions lie, and what they may have experienced to bring about how they look or hold themselves."

"What I am beginning to understand is how exciting this gruesome, violent Shakespeare play is. What a great opportunity to let loose our inhibitions and plunge ourselves into the depths of death, blood, gore, death, Romans and death! I can’t wait to start our second week of rehearsals.This prevents that. It also gives the sense of togetherness with the cast – everyone is welcome to put their ideas into the melting pot, be the idea for your character or not."

Ashlea Kaye and Leila Sykes rehearsing Titus Andronicus

The SFG 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.

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.