Georgina Sherrington
Theatre Development Coordinator
Georgina graduated with a B.A. in English Literature
from Princeton University in 2008, her thesis focused on Elizabethan
Stage History. At Princeton, Georgina worked as President of the
Princeton Shakespeare Company for two years, producing two seasons
of five shows. As a director Georgina has worked on several productions
of Shakespeare's plays, including assisting Tracy Bersley's adaptation
of A Winter's Tale for
The Princeton University Theatre Department in 2008. Georgina is
also a working actress and became a child star playing the lead in
the long running television series Worst Witch and
most recently played Desdemona for The Charlens Company in Los Angeles.
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Robert J
Williamson
Artistic Director
Robert was born in Yorkshire, and trained at
RADA, where he played Berowne in Love's
Labour's Lost. He is
the founder of the British Shakespeare Company, as well as the
Edinburgh, Brighton, Holland Park, Birmingham, Leicester, Kew
Gardens, Nottingham, Oxford and Leeds Shakespeare Festivals.
After establishing his Company and becoming the most successful
open-air producer of Shakespeare in the country, in 2003 he played
both Touchstone in As You Like It and the title role in Hamlet,
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Both productions transferred
to the West End at the Holland Park Theatre, making Robert one of the
only actor-managers in history to take a self-directed Hamlet into
London’s West End.
His other Shakespearean actor-director credits
include: title roles in Henry V and Macbeth, Benedick in Much
Ado About Nothing, Feste in Twelfth
Night, Petruchio in The Taming of
the Shrew,
Orlando and Jacques in As You Like It, Mercutio in Romeo
and Juliet and Oberon/Theseus in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. For three successful
years, Robert created and produced the Holland Park Shakespeare Festival
in London's West End, and in 2006 the BSC became an international force
in Shakespeare performance, as Robert took the Company to Norway to
begin an annual festival at the billionaire philanthropist Petter Olsen's
theatre on his estate in Ramme Gaard.
In 2007, Robert moved into film,
beginning work on Sweet Swan of Avon, a major feature drama-documentary,
in which he has directed and acted in a series of extracts from Shakespeare’s
works. The film will receive a major international cinema release in
2010. In 2006 Robert's campaign for a National
Shakespeare Day received
huge press and cross-party support, and his idea for educational Shakespeare
Packs has recently become government policy. Robert has dedicated his
entire working life to both his Company and to the works of William
Shakespeare. While he has lived in London for 18 years, he is now relocating
himself and the BSC to his native Yorkshire, in order to dedicate his
time to the construction of a replica of Shakespeare's Rose Theatre.
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