Actor, Director, Playwright, Shakespeare Text Coach
Founding Co-Artistic Director, Speech of Fire
Co-Founder, The Rebel Alliance Theatre Company
Creator of The Orderly
Location: London, United Kingdom Nationality: New Zealander
directing
Much Ado About Nothing
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Much Ado About Nothing (헛소동)
May 21 - June 5, 2016
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume, Set, and Sound Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
"This year's production, Much Ado About Nothing, goes in a brand new direction for our company. In our tradition of alternating between tragedy and comedy, we are swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction from the dark, technically complex Titus of last year to bring audiences a lively, warm, fast-paced, playful experience, with a design and style reminiscent of Elizabethan stage practice."
Full show video
First Half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfuqKGcm-s
Second Half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOsBtM5b3k
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/much-ado-about-nothing-2016
The Winter's Tale
Seoul Shakespeare Company
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The Winter's Tale (겨울 이야기)
April 15-30, 2017
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume, Set, and Sound Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
Shakespeare's late masterpiece of reconciliation and forgiveness.
One of Shakespeare’s greatest plays: the tragi-comedy and late romance play The Winter’s Tale—a story of jealousy, loss, redemption, forgiveness, and reunion.
In a production that both builds upon and contrasts with the innovations of last year’s Much Ado About Nothing, director Michael Downey brings us two contrasting mythicized worlds of a stark, melancholic, and tragic Sicilia and a joyful, pastoral, comedic Bohemia, and a story that moves from the coldness of winter to the warmth and hope of spring.
(The full video will eventually be available.)
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/up-next-the-winter-s-tale
Garage
Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company (2019)
Seoul Shakespeare Company (2017)
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Garage (차고)
October 13-20, 2019 (Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company co-production)
October 14-22, 2017 (Seoul Shakespeare Company)
Studio SK, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Written by Jason Cutler and the members of Dive Theatre
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Sound Design by Michael Downey and Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Megan Hammond (2017), Lauren Ash-Morgan (2019)
Blood effects by Lauren Ash-Morgan
"This here's an arena."
An original, raw, intimate, and uncompromising piece of contemporary theatre.
More information on Speech of Fire's performance repertoire page:
https://www.speechoffire.org/performance-repertoire
2019 Show Page: https://www.speechoffire.org/garage-2019
2017 Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/garage-oct-14-22-2017-eng
(This show was videorecorded and can be available upon request.)
The Merchant of Venice
Seoul Shakespeare Company
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The Merchant of Venice (베니스의 상인)
April 28, 29 May 5, 6, 12, 13, 2018
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume and Set Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by John Campbell
"Thou shalt have justice more than thou desirest."
Seoul Shakespeare Company presents William Shakespeare's deceptively complex play The Merchant of Venice, exploring the themes of mercy and revenge, prejudice and power, trust and betrayal, and appearance and reality.
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/the-merchant-of-venice-2018
(This show was videorecorded and will eventually be available.)