2012 Company Profiles

PAUL CURRIER

ACTOR

"Paul Currier’s sensitive performance emphasises a refinement of voice and courtesy that makes him a much more persuasive love-object for the women." Jeremy Kingston, THE TIMES on Uncle Vanya.

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SASKIA PORTWAY

Since its first season in 2000, Saskia has appeared in many productions for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory under Andrew Hilton’s direction. Uncle Vanya was her first job as assistant director for SATTF's first co-production with Bristol Old Vic.

For SATTF (as actress): Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard, Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, Desdemona in Othello, Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Beatrice Joanna in The Changeling, Lady Macduff/Witch in Macbeth, Rosalind in As You Like It, Marianna/Juliet in Measure for Measure, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Regan in King Lear.

Theatre elsewhere includes: Marianna in Measure for Measure (National Theatre), Queen
Elisabeth/Prince Edward in Richard III (Ludlow Festival and The Northcott).

TV & Radio includes: The Giblet Boys (ITV), Doctors (BBC), Elisabeth Bennet (Radio 4), Poetry Please (Radio 4), Paris Brothel (BBC4).