Biographies

Bianca Mastrominico is an actor, writer and director born in Naples (Italy), where she received her first apprentiship at her family theatre, Teatro Sancarluccio, a 30 year old subsidised fringe theatre, working in all aspects of theatre craft from a very young age.
From the age of fourteen, she toured Festivals and venues in Italy, France, Switzerland and Greece with her parents company as lighting designer, assistant director and actor.
She studied Drama at the University of Naples and playwriting with Josè Sanchis Sinisterra (Spain) and Michèl Azama (France), at “Prima del Teatro - European Drama School” in San Miniato, Pisa.
As actor and director, she trained in biomechanics with Nikolai Karpov (GITIS, Moscow), with Julia Varley and Eugenio Barba (Odin Teatret), improvisation with Keith Johnstone in London, in Indian Chau dance and Kalaripayattu martial arts with Milòn Mela and Abani Biswas, collaborator of Jerzy Grotowski for "Theatre of Sources", in Calcutta, India, amongst others.
In 1994 she devised UnderTeatro, a subsidised Festival for young professional Italian theatre companies held annually in Naples.
She has devised, directed and acted in shows based on many classical and contemporary authors, as well as on her own writing, and has led educational projects for schools in Italy and workshops for Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), University of Exeter, University of Plymouth and many colleges across the UK.
Her play Mèlos Tango has been edited by Teatro di Pisa for “I Quaderni di Prima del Teatro” and she has written for several Italian theatre magazines and newspapers. An article on the character of Judy from the Life of Punch project has been published in the 8th issue of “The Open Page”, the Magdalena Project journal of women’s thoughts, questions and visions for theatre, edited by Odin Teatret Forlag.

John Dean is an actor and director born in Exeter (UK) and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), with further training at Gardzienice Theatre Association (Poland), The Lab (London), and with Keith Johnstone (London) and Odin Teatret (Università del Teatro Eurasiano, Scilla, Italy).
He worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre Studio, Nottingham Playhouse (with Silviu Purcarete), Theatr Clwyd, The Gate Theatre (with Sarah Kane), and others.
As teacher/director he has worked for Shakespeare’s Globe, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Rose Bruford College (London), Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), National Academy of Dramatic Art (Rome), Prima del Teatro – European School for the Art of the Actor (Pisa).

Massimo Alì Mohammad was born in Naples, and studies at Istituto Universitario “L’Orientale”.
After a self-taught apprenticeship in digital film editing, his first short dates to 2000 in collaboration with the Neapolitan association “Il Cerriglio”, for who he edited two short films (“Gekailelc” by Pasquale Faraco and Renato Muro, winner of the Naples Film Festival 2002 as best short, and “Residui” by Roberto Asturaro).
Following this collaboration he wrote and edited his first self-produced short “Solo nel ricordo”, the story of an old man who lives just for the memory of his deceased wife. “Stelle e stringhe”, his second short, was born out of a zero budget project, in collaboration with Paolo Di Sarcina, Neapolitan composer and bassist, who also composed three original pieces for the soundtrack.
Following this short he has dedicated himself to the filming and editing of performances for Teatro Sancarluccio di Napoli, and later for Organic Theatre, for whom he filmed and documented the Devon tour of Sheepskin.