Rosamunde has led or co-led three major companies, Hijinx Theatre 1990-1993; Theatre Centre, Director, 1993 -2007; Unicorn, Associate Artistic Director, 2007-2011 and is Artistic Director of Pursued By A Bear for whom she recently produced & directed the new play Nothing on Earth by Anna Reynolds, with original music composed by Helen Chadwick, which toured Hertfordshire & UK venues in March 2023.

For the Arcola Theatre, London, she directed New Nigerians by Oladipo Agboluaje as part of the Russian Revolution season (2017). With Patrice Naiambana (Tribal Soul Arts) she then co-produced the Arcola’s first ever UK tour, with a revival of New Nigerians (2018). The award-winning play Love, Bombs and Apples by Hassan Abdulrazzak, was premiered & completed two runs at the Arcola Theatre, toured the UK, and was presented at the Edinburgh Festival with Arab Arts Focus (2017), at the Golden Thread Theatre, San Francisco (2018) and at the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC 2019 World Stages season (AIK Productions/Turtle Key Arts). Other recent credits include Jabala and the Jinn by Asif Khan (AIK/Belgrade/Turtle Key/UK tour). She has worked as a director in India, Romania, Japan and Bangladesh, regularly directs for Goldsmiths, RADA & East 15, and specialises in new writing, often developing new work with Kali Theatre. She collaborated with Michael Mears in 2016, directing his solo play, This Evil Thing (Edinburgh Fringe 2016, UK and USA tours) as well as directing his latest play The Mistake for the Edinburgh Fringe 2022. Currently she is Workshop Director for The Shadow World Musical, music & lyrics by Karl Lewkowicz, book by Hassan Abdulrazzak, which is being developed in association with the Arcola Theatre.

Riko Nakazono is a London based Japanese actor, dancer, puppeteer and singer. Since graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, she has performed internationally and worked with the Oscar, Grammy, and Tony award-winning composer, Stephen Schwartz, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Whole Hog Theatre, English National Opera, Blind Summit, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (Vienna) and The 92nd Street Y (NYC). Theatre credits include My Neighbour Totoro (RSC & Improbable); Miss Saigon (Vienna); Madame Butterfly (ENO); The Garden of Words [R&D](Whole Hog Theatre); and The Secret Silk (Princess Cruises).

Michael Mears’ has been working as a professional actor for four decades, in theatre, film and television. He has worked for all the major theatre companies, including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Peter Hall Company, and performed in London’s West End on numerous occasions, most notably for nine months in the long-running hit The Woman In Black.

TV work includes Sharpes Rifles (three series), The Lenny Henry Show (two series),  Parades End, Sanditon and The Crown.

Film work includes Four Weddings and a Funeral, Little Dorrit, The Good Soldier Schwejk and Last Night In Soho.

He has written three solo plays for the stage and seven solo plays for BBC Radio 4, all of which were performed by himself. His 1990’s play about homelessness, SOUP, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

His recent acclaimed solo play THIS EVIL THING, depicting the struggle of Britain’s WW1 conscientious objectors, was performed by him over 100 times between 2016-2019, in many parts of the UK including at Corpus Playroom, Cambridge in 2017.   

THE MISTAKE is Michael’s first play for two actors.

‘Michael Mears is that rare combination of fine writer and formidable actor.’ (TIME OUT, Bonnie Greer)