Andrei Biziorek - Artistic Director

Andrei is a director and acting teacher. He has spent 20 years working between Poland, the UK, the US and Australia. In Poland he worked with companies including Gardzienice, Song of the Goat Theatre and was a member of Polish company Teatr ZAR, based at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, until 2007. He has taught acting and directed at numerous drama schools in the UK and abroad – the last eight years primarily at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. For the past four years he has been working intensively with the Demidov Organic Acting technique in collaboration with Russian director, acting teacher and colleague Andrei Malaev-Babel, Head of Acting at FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Florida, US. As a result of this collaboration Andrei founded the London Demidov Studio in 2018. He was artistic director of Waving Not Drowning until 2013, and he founded The Tribe Theatre Collective, based in London, in 2019. The company’s first project is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, performed at The Cockpit Theatre in June 2019.

Hattie Seaton - Actor

Hattie completed her BA in Acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2016. Her roles included Perdita in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, Helen Sutherland in The Pitman Painters, Maria in Twelfth Night, and Sasha in Chekhov’s Ivanov. Other theatre has included War Whores at the Courtyard Theatre, and a Hamlet reading (Linsey Turner). Hattie has appeared in the short films Ghostlight (LAMDA), and Sophie and the Danegeld (Michael Wood-Wilson). Her television work has included an episode in season 5 of Skins. She joins The Tribe Theatre Collective for the production of Crime and Punishment, in which she is playing Sonia.

Tori Zdovc - Actor

Tori started her performing career in her native Slovenia, before moving to London at age 16. In London she studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, specialising in devising with Cass Fleming. Work created there included Caucus, exploring the Syrian refugee crisis. After graduating from Goldsmith’s, Tori worked on a devised piece with Theatre Counterpoint, called Am I Pretty?, exploring beauty standards and aesthetic pressures in today’s society. In 2017 Tori completed an MA in Classical Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, specialising in Shakespeare, the Greeks and the work of Anton Chekhov. Tori joins The Tribe Theatre Collective for the production of Crime and Punishment. She will play the characters Alyona and Lizaveta.

Benjamin Way - Actor

Benjamin is a graduate of the MA Classical Acting course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes: Hamlet in Hamlet (UK/European tour); Rosalind in As You Like It (UK/European tour); Westmoreland/Poins/Shallow/Mortimer/Lancaster in Henry IV (Parts 1&2) (UK/European tour); The Artist in Verity (Young Vic Directors Program); Lysander/Demetrius/Puck (U/S) in The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne); Orlando in As You Like It (The Commandery); Pasha in Purge (Arcola); Hermann in The Queen of Spades (Arcola); Disciple in The Globe Mysteries (Shakespeare's Globe); The Body in Head Performance (The Hole); David Cameron in Not The Language of Politics But The Politics of Language (RCA); Rick/Gloria in The Primrose Hill Ladies Club (The Courtyard Theatre); Dan in Last Orders (tour); Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC's Dell/Courtyard Theatre Foyer); JJ in This Could Be The Last Time (St. Andrew Holborn's Crypt); John/James in Your Nation Loves You (Old Vic Tunnels/Lyric Hammersmith); Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (The Webber Douglas Studio). Film includes: Billy Malone in Kill Kane. Benjamin joins The Tribe Theatre Collective to play Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenjaminWay

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Andrew Laithwaite - Actor

Andrew is a recent graduate from LAMDA. Before his training, he completed a BA in History & Politics at the University of Oxford, during which he acted in professional and student venues across Oxford, as well as performing on the West End. His credits stretch from playing leading roles in musicals, such as Sweeney in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, to playing a multiplicity of character roles in an ensemble production of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Oxford Playhouse. He also toured Japan and the UK in the role of Sir Toby Belch in the Thelma Holt/Cameron Mackintosh OUDS production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. After Oxford and before his training at LAMDA, Andrew completed short courses at Bristol Old Vic and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, while also appearing in Channel 4’s Random Acts. He has taken two shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe, and is currently collaborating on another Fringe production for 2019. He is a skilled singer, with a strong background in music. Andrew is playing the characters Porfiry Petrovich and Marmeladov in Crime and Punishment.

Marilena Sitaropoulou - Assistant Director

Marilena is a performer-director-choreographer from Greece and her work identifies as devised, physical theatre. Her background is in contemporary and classical ballet dance. In 2017 she completed her BA in the Theatre Arts Department of The American College of Greece with a minor in Dance. She is currently doing the MFA Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She debuted her Solo Show ‘’Night Out’’ in London last July 2018 which she devised and performed. Marilena received an Award of Recognition for her short movement improvisation film ’conf-lict-dential’, in the Best Shorts competition, CA in December 2018. Marilena joins The Tribe for Crime and Punishment.

Sophia Mavromichalis - Set and Costume Design

Sophia is a passionate set and costume designer based in London. She instinctively gravitated towards theatre and film from an early age, which naturally led her to study BA Design for Stage at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2018. In 2017 she co-founded a new theatre production company called ‘The Young Quill’ with another three Central students, which stages plays in the UK and Greece in collaboration with emerging playwrights and actors. She is extremely fascinated by period design both for theatre and film. Sophia is designing for Crime and Punishment.

Matt Whale - Lighting Designer

Matt is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His design credits include: Performance Preparation Academy Third Year Performance For Musical Theatre Showcase (The Other Palace), Performance Preparation Academy Third Year Acting For Stage and Screen Showcase (Soho Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Southport Theatre & Convention Centre), Made in Dagenham (Eve Lyons Studio), A Chorus Line (Eve Lyons Studio), Read All About It (Abbey Theatre Nuneaton), A Chorus Line (Embassy Theatre), Strawberry Starburst (The Vaults), Cinderella (Grimsby Auditorium), Frontline (Abbey Theatre Nuneaton), Em (Webber Douglas Studio), Fame (Bridewell Theatre), Aladdin (Grimsby Auditorium), Twisted Tales (Abbey Theatre Nuneaton), Legends (Bedworth Civic Hall) and West Side Story (Albany Theatre Coventry). Associate Lighting Design Credits: Memoirs of a Sailor (Sheikh Al-Jaber Ahmad Cultural Centre). Relight Credits: The Unreturning (UK Tour / LD: Zoe Spurr) and The First Hippo on the Moon (UK Tour / LD: Matt Daw). Matt joins The Tribe to design Crime and Punishment at The Cockpit Theatre. His other upcoming work includes The Pajama Game (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre).

Bartosz Radziszewski – Artist Consultant

Bartosz holds diploma in Conservation, and studied Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He was a founding member of the art group Polish Mirova. From 2004 to 2009 he studied Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Wrocław. For many years Bartosz cooperated with Polish company Theatre Zar - the resident company of Grotowski Institute in Poland. Bartosz took part in creating lighting design, colouring the set, and operating lights for all four of the company’s performances - in Poland and for international tours. Since 2012 Bartosz has been an assistant at the department of Painting and Sculpture within the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. Bartosz’s artistic work includes painting, objects, installations, drawings and photography. His work has been presented internationally at over 80 exhibitions. Together with Kamila Klamut and Ewa Pasikowska, Bartosz cocreated the theatre project Camille. He holds a PhD in the domain of art, and he works and lives in Wrocław. Bartosz kindly gifted one of his paintings as both inspiration and as the basis for the poster and promotional material for Crime and Punishment.

Megan Sayers - Costume and Set Assistant

Currently studying costume construction at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Megan has spent the final year of her degree developing skills in breaking down costumes. She hopes to develop and apply these skills in the industry for both theatre and film. Alongside this Megan has a deep interest in supervising costume for theatre and completed a placement as the trainee costume supervisor on the Garsington Opera 2018. She hopes to explore this role further as she enjoys working alongside designers, in order to make their vision a reality. Megan joins The Tribe for Crime and Punishment.

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