Our Team

People

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  Tamsin Shasha Artistic Director

  Tamsin is an award-winning performer, writer and director.  She trained at Oxford School of Drama, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and National Centre for Circus Arts. She co-founded AOD Actors of Dionysus in 1993 and for them has worked as producer, performer, director and movement coach

  Tamsin has collaborated on the majority of AOD Actors of Dionysus's productions working with many leading physical theatre and dance practitioners including Marcello Magni (Complicité), with whom she co-directed Oedipus, Thea Barnes (Phoenix Dance) on Antigone and George Mann (Theatre Ad Infinitum) on Helen. She co-wrote and performed in the solo aerial drama Bacchic (national and international tour) working with award-winning director Jonathan Young, with whom she co-wrote Helen. She has played many tragic and comic roles for the company including Medea, Antigone, Dionysus and Lysistrata and she directed a new version of the latter for a national tour in 2016. Other theatre credits include Misterioso (Riverside Studios) and The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray (West End). She produced and directed AOD Actors of Dionysus's production of Antigone in 2017 after co-producing She Denied Nothing for the Brighton Fringe in association with Faye Hughes.

  She won a Fringe First at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 with the feminist aerial drama, Everything I See I Swallow which she co-wrote with Maisy Taylor and co-devised with Helen Tennison. The show was commissioned by The Lowry and funded by Arts Council England.

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  Mark Katz Education Officer

  Mark trained at the Academy for Live and Recorded Arts. He has performed in many of AOD Actors of Dionysus's productions including Electra, Trojan Women, Antigone, Grave Gifts, Medea and Lysistrata. Mark designs and runs workshops for aod and other organisations in the UK and abroad and specialises in Greek drama and modern comedy.

  He devises and runs the educational workshops for aod which are designed to a teacher’s specific requirements and are ‘fun, physical and always relevant’. He also works regularly in the corporate world as a trainer and role-player. His numerous other acting credits include: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations, The Tempest and The Jungle Book, The Mousetrap and many others.

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  Izzy Grout Administrator

  Izzy is currently completing an MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge. Alongside her degree, Izzy is passionate about the creative arts has directed and performed in shows at the Edinburgh and Camden Fringe and beyond.

  Izzy is passionate about using the Classical world in innovative ways to tell new stories, and to facilitate education and self-development in young people. She often participates in access and outreach schemes, work she is excited to be continuing with AOD Actors of Dionysus.