Company Members

Kate Nicholls is an author, biologist, liberal art educator, feminist, and mother of five. She was born into theatrical family and enjoyed a successful acting career, with mutiple appearances on the UK television, and on West End, the Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, before choosing to study evolutionary biology. She was mentored by Richard Dawkins. She moved to Botswana to raise her children in a developing country and lived in the wilderness researching lions in the Okavango Delta for over a decade. During this time, she homeschooled her four younger children in a tented camp, with no access to the internet. Travers (15), Angus (14) Maisie (12) wrote a book The Lion Children, with some help from Oakley (8) published by Orion in 2001. Her children graduated from ‘lion school’ to universities in the States and Europe. Kate’s passion for independent lifelong learning led her to establish an educational consultancy specialising in developing bespoke curricula.
Her memoir Under the Camelthorn Tree was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2019. Under the Camelthorn Tree
The Maternal Element, about Maria Mendeleeva ( Dmitri’s mother) is her first novel and is being published by Salt Publishing in 2026. The Maternal Element
She is currently writing a collection of short stories.

Ms. Michael angel Johnson’s plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Amherst, New Haven, and other places across the U. S. The Apartment earned Michael angel the honor of special participant at the O’Neill Theatre Centre. Her play The Price of Solitude was a finalist in the National ten-Minute Play contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has worked with Mabou Mines and 52nd Street Project. Making It Right, Put A Woman on A Pedestal, StatueFest, June 18, 2021.

Shadows was a finalist at Athena Film Festival. Her screenplays: Seasons-semi-finalist in The Chesterfield Film/Writer’s Project, The Letters-semi-finalist Writemovies.com, The Tower- Honorable Mention Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and Wild Fires- finalist at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. Her stories and essays: “The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art” (On The Issues Magazine). She is a member of The League of Professional Theatre Woman, a member of New York Women in Film & Television, and HONOR ROLL. She is an Associate Professor at Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) and formerly at New York University. She is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama in Playwrighting.
http://www.michaelangeljohnson.com/

Ian McNeice trained at LAMDA (1971-1974).

After a few years in Regional Theatre he was asked to join the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
For 4 years. Ending with the 9 hour version of “Nicholas Nickelby” on Broadway.

Ian McNeice’s television breakthrough was as Harcourt in the award-winning series Edge of Darkness with Bob Peck. He played the alcoholic sous chef Gustave La Roche on the television series Chef! opposite Lenny Henry and went on to appear in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune as the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen with William Hurt a role he later reprised for the 2003 sequel Children of Dune with Susan Sarandon. His television appearances have included all nine series of Doc Martin with Martin Clunes, in which he plays Bert Large. He appears as the Newsreader in the HBO/BBC historical drama series Rome from 2005 onwards. McNeice has also appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road with Anthony Hopkins, Day of the Dead with Ving Rames, No Escape with Ray Liotta, From Hell with Jonnie Depp and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain with Hugh Grant. His breakthrough into American films occurred when he played Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls opposite Jim Carrey (1995). He played the Nazi Gerhard Klopfer in the 2001 BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy with Stanly Tucci and Kenneth Branagh. Since then, he has been in Around the World in 80 Days with Jackie Chan (2004) and the 2005 supernatural thriller White Noise with Michael Keaton. He also appeared as Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donnie Osmond and Joan Collins.

He had a cameo role as Joachim von Kortzfleisch, a German general who refused to put his troops under the command of officers plotting to depose Hitler’s government, in Valkyrie playing opposite Tom Cruise. Recently he was in The Man who invented Christmas with Dan Stevens. He appeared as Winston Churchill in four episodes of Doctor Who in 2010 and 2011; he had previously played Churchill in the 2008 premiere production of the Howard Brenton’s play Never So Good at the National Theatre, and later played him again in the 2012 stage version of The King’s Speech at Wyndhams Theatre in the West End. Recently he played Cardinal Wolesley at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Henry V111.

In July 2022 he was in the 10th and Final Episode of Doc Martin as Bert Large.

Since then he was Alfred Hitchcock in a Mini Series of the Life of Carey Grant called “Archie”

Also he appeared as Louis XV111 in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.

His recent Theatre appearance was as Alfred Hitchcock (again!) in the play “Double Feature” at the Hampstead Theatre. The play was about Hitchcock’s tempestuous relationship with Tippi Hedren whilst making the movie “Marnie”. Joanna Vanderham played Tippi.

During his over four decade career, films claimed him as the Antichrist (Franco Macalousso) in the Apocalypse trilogy produced by Cloud Ten Pictures (Revelation (1999), Tribulation (2000) and Judgment (2001)), and TV has him best known for his starring roles in the NBC action series Stingray (1986), which ran for two seasons, and as the title hitman who becomes a target himself in the one-season Matrix (1993).

Although he developed an interest in acting in high school, he chose to study psychology at the University of Toronto. The acting bug bit again, however, and he was soon drawn to various Canadian theatre groups in the 1970s. During this time, he became artistic director for the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, at the same time building up his classical resume at the Stratford Shakespeare !

Member of the Actor’s Studio. Alumnus of Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts. An unsung screen talent of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Margotta now puts his talent to work by bringing the Stanislavski\\Strasberg method to other actors and artists by teaching. In the 1990s, he taught at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City, Michael is also an accomplished Theater director with several acclaimed productions under his belt.

Dominic Albert Edward Minghella is a British television producer and screenwriter. His most successful project has been the creation of the ITV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)) network comedy-drama series Doc Martin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Martin), starring Martin Clunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Clunes), which began in 2004.

The main character’s surname, Ellingham, is an anagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagram)of the Minghella family name. Minghella was also the chief writer and show runner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_runner) of BBC One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One)’s 2006 production Robin Hood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(BBC)), produced independently for the BBC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) by Tiger Aspect Productions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Aspect_Productions).

Mr Minghella is also an accomplished playwright and is looking forward to collaborate with TITOI .

Daniel McVicar is an American actor and director whose work spans theater, film, and television in the United States and Italy. His training includes studies at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), with Stella Adler in Los Angeles, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, shaping a rigorous approach to text, character, and performance.

His theatrical work in the United States includes classical productions such as Othello, performed alongside Christopher McDonald and directed by David Perry. Theater remains central to his artistic practice.

In Italy, McVicar has developed a parallel theatrical life, performing in both Italian and English. He is the creator and performer of Un Americano a Torino.

Alongside his stage work, McVicar is widely known for his work in television. He appeared for 22 years on the still-running series The Bold and the Beautiful, the most widely watched daily television series in the world. His screen work also includes roles in several other television series, and a film career spanning more than 25 feature films in international productions.

Giulia Pizziol is an Italian Emerging Theatre maker based in Edinburgh and Italy.

She graduated from Queen Margaret University with a BA (Hons) in Drama in 2024.
She works between stage management, set design and production management.
She is currently Executive Producer on the fourth edition of the Gateway Writing Festival in Edinburgh which will take place in November.

She currently works as a Stage Technician at the Festival Theatre.