(KATIE)
Natacha is a psychologist with a longstanding passion for theatre, which began during her high school years. She recently graduated from the University of Luxembourg, where she completed her master’s thesis on theatre-based entertainment education. She is the founder, scenario writer, director and coordinator of the ‘BelvalExpress Theater’ at the University of Luxembourg.
Since 2019, Natacha has written and directed several plays with psychological themes, including ‘At the Dinner Table’, ‘Broken’, ‘Mirrored, Reflected & Reversed’, ‘Endless Lies’, ‘My Mental Misfortune’, ‘Fear Mission Control Center: Fight or Flight’, ‘Blameworthy’, and ‘The Philautia Paradox’.
The BelvalExpress Theater was awarded the Student Initiative Award in 2021 by the University of Luxembourg.
From 2021 to 2022, Natacha collaborated as a first-time director with the founder of the Courage Film Collective on three short-movies. Additionally, she acted in the German short film ‘Marie auf dem Mond’.
(DYLAN)
Alessandro Stasi is a 20 year old actor of Italian origin with an upbringing in Luxembourg. He played the title role in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the Shakespeare Schools Festival in London when he was only 13, and is currently studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). This is his second appearance in a BGT production after his interpretation of Joseph Rosenbaum in ‘We Happy Few’, directed by Tony Kingston.
Alessandro has interpreted a variety of roles, such as Ulysses (Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’) and Bellinda (George Etherege’s ‘The Man of Mode’), as well as playing Marcus, Deric, Gwyn, Boy (Moira Buffini’s ‘Loveplay’) in 3 different languages. His most recent project was ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’; a play directed by Neil Bettles, devised by ThickSkin in collaboration with LIPA actors.
Throughout his school period, he achieved the ‘Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing Arts Triple Award with a Triple Distinction*’, as well as accomplishing with Distinction both the ‘Certificate in Performance: Acting Solo’ Grades 6,7 and 8 with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and the ‘Cycle I de Art Dramatique et Diction’ with the Conservatoire National de la Ville de Luxembourg. Alessandro has been cast in lead roles performed in school, including musicals (‘Fame’, ‘Bugsy Malone’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’) and dramas such as ‘Immaculate’ and ‘The Names I Have Known You By’, which the company presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022.
Alessandro is a versatile, multilingual actor presently aiming for his Bachelor’s degree in Acting, whilst also getting a taste of Acting for Screen and Television through small projects and short films in order to properly prepare for the performing arts industry.
(ADDITIONAL ROLES)
Josie is a student at the International School of Luxembourg (ISL), where she has performed in several musicals, including Into The Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story, and Les Miserables. She also acted in the plays Monsters and The It, which were performed at FEST (Festical of English-Language School Theatre). Josie is enrolled in IB Theatre and has recieved multiple LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) awards with distinction. In 2022, she worked as a stage-hand in the BGT’s Di And Viv And Rose and participated in the workshop programme to help develop I Can’t Tell You - But You Feel It. In March this year she also played the role of “Sybil” in the BGT’s production of Daisy Pulls It Off.
In November she will be appearing in the Pirate Productions performances of The Sound of Music and in December in the ISL production of Chicago.
(ADDITIONAL ROLES)
Gilles ?rst started doing theater through the English Drama option in his school, where he played in “15 Reasons not to be in a Play” ,which was performed at FEST (Festival of English-Language School Theatre) in 2024, and “Imagination”. He then joined the BGT for a role in the LEAPA Murder mystery "Murder on the Moselle" in June 2024, written by June Lowery and performed on the Princesse Marie-Astrid. He has recently taken part in two workshops helping to further develop a new BGT play by Hanne Siebens.
(AUTHOR)
Ferelith Kingston has been making theatre since 2018. She holds a B.A in musical theatre and recently completed her MA in Theatre Practice at UCD and The Gaiety School of Acting. She has directed a variety of work across the UK, Ireland and Luxembourg. Her recent credits include Showering (written by Cora Frank, Tara Theatre, London, 2022), This Started As A Letter To My Ex (written by Danny O'Leary, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 2023) and Di and Viv and Rose (written by Amelia Bullmore, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, 2022).
She is also an experienced drama teacher having taught drama at schools like The European School of Luxembourg and is currently a teacher for The Gaiety School of Acting's Young Gaiety program.
Her writing credits include projects such as the children's play The Ugly Duckling (Guildhall Theatre, Portsmouth, 2020), the musical Double Date! (White Swan Studio, Portsmouth, 2019) and the short play Rehearsal Etiquette (online with TheStageUk, 2020 and the Kinoler, Kahler, Luxembourg, 2021). More recently her work in progress script, The Good Guy?, won the special mention by the jury award for The Prix Laurence 2023. She is currently working as the director on Cora Frank's new play "Marriage With Benefits" which will be premiered at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024.
(DIRECTOR)
Tony did his M.A. at St Andrews University in the mid-1980s. Since starting work as a director with Foundation Theatre on the London Fringe in 1986, he has directed over 100 shows. He moved to Berlin in 1989 with his wife June, where they co-founded the BGT English Theatre Company in 1991. The BGT became a regular feature on the off-theatre circuit there, performing a wide range of plays by English-language authors. In the early 2000s the company began visiting Luxembourg on a regular basis and since 2006 has been based exclusively in Luxembourg. Tony splits his time between running multiple theatre classes in schools around Luxembourg and directing for the BGT. Through his work in schools here, he has become convinced of the high level of theatrical ability among young people and is committed to promoting new and promising talent through the BGT. In 2018 he co-founded the “Festival of English Language School Theatre” (FEST) and is currently chair of the organising committee for the event (https://www.fest.lu/). In recent years, he has also become a strong advocate of putting women centre stage, promoting work by women writers and producing plays which feature mainly or exclusively female actors. Recent examples of this are The Best Of Men - The Worst Of Men, The Road to Huntsville, We Happy Few and Di and Viv and Rose & Daisy Pulls It Off. The Good Guy is the latest show on this theme and he is excited to be working again with such a talented team of performers.
