 Gwendolen : Ginnie Watson
John (Jack) Worthing : Michael Rickwood
Algernon : Barnaby Apps
Cecily Elisabeth Ingham
Lady Bracknell Sophie Nahmias
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Ginnie Watson : Gwendolen
Ginnie Watson was born in England, but lived all over the place like in Rhode Island, USA and Amsterdam before settling in France at the age of fifteen. French mother, English father makes her a real cross between the so British and tellement Français culture!
She has always taken part in school plays and decided to become an actress at the age of fourteen, on her arrival in France she perfected her French and after succeeding her BAC, came to Paris to start her new life, and new school!
First year at the Cours Florent drama school, then le Cours Viriot, where she remained for three years. After a successful end of year audition, Ginnie entered several acting publicity agencies and did a few television commercials, this year though has been a rather busy year for her! She was in two short movies, two television commercials, and is actually on stage every Monday night in a play called CALL ME CALL GIRL, at the Theatre de la Providence.
She is an "artiste complete" as they say in France, because Ginnie is also a singer and performs regularly in Paris. A soft tone of folk and melody is what her music inspires and the best is to just sit back and enjoy! Ginnie loves the musical culture and might take the opportunity to travel and work in other countries where musical plays are at their best, after all she's been a globetrotter since her most tender years.
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Michael Rickwood : John (Jack) Worthing
Michael trained at The Drama Centre London and graduated in 2001 with a first class honours degree. On leaving Drama school he took part in the William Poel festival at the globe theatre in which he played Ferdinand in the Dutchess of Malfi. Upon his work there he was invited to play in two read performaces of untouched city comedies by Thomas Middleton and John Webster. Later that year he was invited to join 'concentric circles' a theatre company dedicated to the development of young actors financed by Anthony Hopkins and Pierce Brosnan and headed by director (and former principle of drama centre London) Christopher Fettes.
The first production, ' Phaedra' by Jean Racine was produced at the Riverside studios Hammersmith. The second production, 'Othello' by William Shakespeare in which he played 'Roderigo' was produced at the Haymarket theatre Basingstoke and subsequently toured Bath Theatre Royal and Theatre Keswick in the Lake district. Some of his other work includes: playing twice for Edinburgh festival including playing the 2002 festival hit 'the straight man' at the pleasance courtyard, playing 'galliard' in the feigned courtesans directed by Beverly Blankenship at the 'old red lion' and various commercial and corporate projects including working for the BBC. Michael has also written two plays 'Usher' and 'Circle line' and is working on his third.
Since moving to Paris Michael has already studied a trimester with Amy Weber at the Bilingual Acting Workshop and is about to commence shooting on a short film 'six degrees' in Paris in July.
In December Michael travelled to Cuba and during his visit made a donation of thirty sheets of lighting gels for the Theatro de Americanos in Havana.
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Barnaby Apps : Algernon
Born of actor parents Barnaby Apps was raised in both London & the west of France. He moved to Paris in 1990 to persue his acting ambitions & after spending a year in a little private theatre school in 1992, he managed to pass the entry examination to the conservatoire of the 10th arrondisment where he stayed for the next three years. Although Barnaby has always hated football his first part on stage was that of Chris England’s soccer crazed Bill in « an evening with Gary Liniker » which entailed much viewing of the previous world cup during rehearsals.
He then went on to perform for various Paris based companies in plays by the likes of Harold Pinter, Arthur Schnitzer,William Congreve & William Shakespear as well as lesser known authors like Allen Rosset, Jean-Louis Bihoreau & Katherine Kollman. Barnaby has also had small parts in films & TV series where he played alongside Jean Lefebvre, Venessa Paradie& Roger Daltry. This is Barnaby’s second collaboration with the Theatre en Anglais - as he played the part of Sherlock Holmes in last years production of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<:b>. This year in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST he gets to play the wonderful roles of Algernon Moncrieff and Miss Prism !
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Elisabeth Ingham : Cecily
Elizabeth studied performing arts in London for three years at the Mountview
Theater School. She then came to Paris to work for company ACT where she
played a range of characters including Lucie Manette in The Tale of Two
Cities, Gwinevere and Allison in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Mrs Casper
in Kes, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Ernest, and Pandora in The
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
Staying in France she has also had the opportunity to work with Bernard Rapp
in his latest film OUn petit jeu sans consequence,followed by a key role in
the publicity campaign for Mikado working for the director Christopher Van
Reiss. She is currently rehearsing a one woman devised piece about Mary
Shelley and Frankenstein to be presented later in the year.
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Sophie Nahmias : Lady Bracknell
C’est dans une troupe universitaire que Sophie a développé son amour du théâtre. Tout d’abord avec Antoine et Cléopâtre de Shakespeare puis en créant deux spectacles Vagabondages et Mais en Corps dans le cadre des rencontres internationales d’ethnologie.
Son dernier spectacle, Trois Monologues de Jennifer Johnston où elle interprétait Christine, est issu de la traduction collective des trois comédiens et du metteur en scène. Il a pour toile de fond le conflit entre Protestants et Catholiques en Irlande du Sud. Il sera repris la saison prochaine.
Elle a également joué Wendla dans L’éveil du Printemps de Wedekind, Litaniques de Jacques Rebotier (spectacle pour lequel l’auteur lui-même les a félicités), ADifferent Day de Dick Turner, ... Elle a participé à de nombreuses lectures publiques : Le désir attrapé par la queue de Pablo Picasso, extraits de Perec,…
Elle a par ailleurs participé aux rencontres internationales de théâtre en Corse sous la direction de Robin Rennucci à l’été 2004.
C’est la troisième année qu’elle travaille avec le Théâtre en Anglais. Sa première collaboration fut en tant qu’assistante metteur en scène lors de la création du spectacle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes en 2004, puis comme responsable de tournée de Pygmalion de Bernard Shaw (2005) et de Frankenstein de Mary Shelley (2006).
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