The Boss of It All. Lars von Trier
BOLTON METTE
Anna trained at The Oxford School of Drama.
Theatre credits include: King Lear (RSC UK/US Tour); Malaise Trio (Camden People’s Theatre); Short Cuts (Live Theatre); Exterminating Angel (Future Ruins, UK tour/London); Blood & Money (Northern Stage); Whisky Galore! (Northumberland Theatre Company); The Playboy of the Western World (Nuffield Theatre).
TV credits include: Our World War, Doctors, George Gently (BBC); Vera, Emmerdale (ITV).
Film credits include: Hector (Victor Productions Ltd).
GERRY HOWELL KRISTOFFER
Gerry is an actor, writer and comedian. He has written a number of plays including War and Honey, The Fantastic Reality of Frederick Goodge and most recently Horror Vacui.
His solo comedy shows include Gerry Howell: Glorious Invention and Seriousnessmus.
This year he will be taking his new show Gerry Howell’s Portal of Discovery to the Edinburgh Festival.
Acting roles include Estragon in Waiting for Godot, Joey in The Homecoming and Bobby Gould in Speed the Plow.
KATE KORDEL LISE
Kate graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2009.
Her recent credits include Marya in On The High Road (Urgent Theatre); Faith Sandish in Hollywood Squares (GroupM); Lise in The Boss of It All (Assembly Roxy); Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Sotto Voce, Sloane Square); The Enchanted Trail (Bad Physics/Rose Theatre Kingston); Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Orange Tree Theatre); Courtesan in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Lady in Richard II (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); Bianca in Taming of the Shrew (World Tour); Alice in Hobson’s Choice (World Tour); Frau Kurten in Normal (Brewery Theatre); Forced Entertainment’s The Voices (Warwick Art Centre); Lady Grey at Sam Wanamaker Festival (The Globe).
Kate has also worked on a variety of voiceovers, audio books and radio dramas.
TOM MCHUGH NALLE/FINNUR
Tom trained at RADA.
Recent professional engagements include The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock (Curve Theatre, Leicester & Brits off Broadway, New York); The Seagull (Manchester Library Theatre, The Lowry); Exterminating Angel (Nuffield, Southampton); Tombestone Tales (Arcola); Closer (Warwick Arts Centre); Malaise Trio (Camden Peoples Theatre).
Film and short films credits include: Locked Up, Animal and The Guest House.
Radio plays include: A Dance to the Music of Time (Radio 4) and 60 Second Romance (Radio 4).
JAMES RIGBY GORM / INTERPRETER
James studied English at Warwick University before training at LAMDA. Productions included Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs, Death and The Maiden, Marat Sade, Kes, Othello, and Measure for Measure.
Professional engagements include Les Misérables (Manchester Palace Theatre); Oliver! (London Palladium); Wizard of Oz (Haymarket Basingstoke); Eric’s (Liverpool Everyman); The Floods (BAC); Pages (Union Theatre); Love Bites (Southwark Playhouse); The Lost Souls of Soho (Kensal Green Gallery); David (Arcola Theatre); Exterminating Angel (The Lowry, Mercury Colchester, Southampton Nuffield); Every Word (Liverpool Everyman); Fragments (Riverside Studios); The Railway Children (Waterloo Station - Olivier Award-winning production); The Boss of It All (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh).
He has taken part in rehearsed readings at Soho Theatre, BAFTA and Jermyn Street.
Short films credits include: Locked Up, Gourmet, Mrs Johnson and The Fool’s Prayer.
CLAUS REISS VOICE
Claus was born in the Danish island of Samso. Best described as a ‘Danish bagpipe comedian’ Claus has been playing the bagpipes since 2008 and performing comedy since 2004 – with several years’ experience performing his unique brand of comedy on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe circuit.
In August 2012 he won the World Championships in Glasgow for Solo Piping (grade 2). He has also performed live for many years with the chart-topping band Infernal, who are best known for their hit From Paris to Berlin and attended Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013 with his show A Danish Bagpipe Comedian. Claus is also the very first person in the world to do a parachute jump in a kilt while playing the bagpipes.
Tom McHugh, Ross Armstrong and Gerry Howell
Ross Armstrong
Anna Bolton, Tom McHugh, Gerry Howell, Kate Kordel and James Rigby
James Rigby, Anna Bolton, Tom McHugh and Kate Kordel
Production Photography by Pamela Raith
LARS VON TRIER
WRITER
Danish-born Lars von Trier is one of the most famous and talked about filmmakers today. He studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). His subsequent features Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991) have been equally ambitious both thematically and visually, though his international fame is most likely to be based on The Kingdom (1994), a TV soap opera blending hospital drama, ghost story and Twin Peaks-style surrealism.
Previous film credits include: Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay, Antichrist, Melancholia and most recently Nymphomaniac. His film comedy The Boss of It All was well received critically, and was nominated for two Bodil Awards, three Robert Festival Honours and the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
JACK MCNAMARA
ADAPTER AND DIRECTOR
Jack has been Artistic Director of New Perspectives since 2012.
Productions for the company include The Boss of It All by Lars von Trier (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh & Soho Theatre); The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock by David Rudkin (Brits off Broadway, New York & UK Tour); and Him With His Foot In His Mouth by Saul Bellow (UK tour).
Previous productions as director include Exterminating Angel (Basement Brighton/Pleasance Edinburgh/UK tour); Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett (The Rest is Noise Festival, Southbank Centre); The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo (London Literature Festival, Southbank Centre); Malaise Trio (Camden People’s Theatre); Instructions for John Howell by Julio Cortazar (Nursery Festival); Betrayal by Harold Pinter (Nuffield, Southampton); The Blind by Maurice Maeterlinck (Arcola Theatre); Lucid Dreams for Higher Living (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Valparaiso by Don DeLillo (Old Red Lion); A Cool Million by Nathanael West (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Warwick Arts Centre).
Previously Jack was Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and director on attachment at the Nuffield Theatre Southampton under the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.
He currently also runs the experimental theatre company Future Ruins.
LILY ARNOLD
DESIGNER
Lily trained at Wimbledon College of Art.