Adrian has been involved with performing arts for most of his life. He has performed in several musical productions such as Oliver! Grease, Les Miserables in concert and was Wild Bill Hickcock in Calamity Jane. He has also taken part in productions of The Gondoliers and the Diversity 21 concert which opened the Odyssey Arena in 2000.
Adrian has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama from Queens University. During his time there he performed in several plays which included Beowulf, Romeo and Juliet and The Government Inspector. He also performed in the NSDF awarding winning play The Laramie Project which featured in the Belfast Festival at Queens
For many years Adrian has been a proud member of the Ulster Youth Choir which has toured to Dublin, Scotland, Paris and featured in the last night of the Proms in the Park of 2004 at Belfast City Hall. Other roles he has appeared in are Jerry in Dancing at Lughnasa Frank in Rebecca
His film credits include The Morning After and features in Give My Head Peace, Dry your eyes, Modern Fairytales and a History of Carrickfergus Castle.
In relation to the Theatre Knights Adrian has been heavily involved with the groups work since its beginnings back in October 2005. From then he has been, at one time or another, a Director, Producer, Designer and Set Master in the various productions the Theatre Knights have brought to the stage. Although he has been the former Co-ordinator of the group, Adrian’s true passion has been acting and has undertaken an acting role in each play with his most major roles to date being Perre Vidal in The Wooing of the She-Wolf and Creon in Antigone.
Patrick works in IT by day and is a playwright by night. He is also working on a crime/mystery novel. He used to perform and write poetry as part of the Crescent Arts Centre led by the late Mairtin Crawford. In more recent years, his creative attention has turned to narrative and short film making as part of Screenwriters Inc. (Morten's Fort 2006). Inspired by the one-act play format that took Chicago by storm in 2006, he is concentrating on both long and short theatre pieces. He has had stories published in Electric Acorn, The Big Spoon and Fortnight. He lives in Belfast.
I joined 'The Delphic Players' 6 years ago. The group was founded by Louis Muinzer over 30 years ago, and specialised in productions of W. B. Yeats plays. I appeared in many of these and in other one act plays. The Delphics joined with The Knights of the Round Table and performed various Carol Ann Duffy pieces on the nights of the 'The Singing Detective' performances. The Delphics also performed two Murder Mystery pieces, one for charity, and the other for a corporate event. I played Francesca in my first Knights' production - Ruth Kennedy's play 'The Glasshouse. Subsequently I performed in 'The Vagina Monologues' with women from various groups including the Delphics and the Knights. Most recently I performed with The Delphics in Caryl Churchill's one act play 'Three more Sleepless Nights', and have been cast in the forthcoming Knights production 'Reservoir Cats'.
Dave Crowe graduated from Queens University Belfast in 2005 with a 2:1 honours degree in Drama (maj.) and Film (min.). He specialises in technical areas of theatre production, lighting and sound design and operation but has experience in various other aspects of theatre production including directing and acting.
Dave first joined the Theatre Knights when he was cast in the role of Prattfall in “The Wooing of the She-Wolf”. He is now the head of the Theatre Knights technical team.
Outside of the Theatre Knights, Dave is head of PA at Gateway Church in Carrickfergus where he also plays drums and percussion and occasionally leads worship. He also sings in an acoustic covers band called “Coffee and the Utopian Marshmallow” who really must be seen to be believed.
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Ruth Kennedy was born in Belfast in 1980. She graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 2003 and again in 2004 with a Master’s Degree. Since graduating from University, Ruth has worked with adults with special educational needs and has directed her own first play In the Glasshouse. In the Glasshouse was performed at the Culterlann centre, Old Museum arts centre and Crescent Arts Centre in November 2006. Ruth writes prose and poetry as well as drama and has published a poetry book with Lapwing press. Her poetry book was reviewed in Poetry Ireland.
I joined the Knights of the Round Table through my friend Thomas Muinzer who grabbed me on the way up the Ormeau road and asked me if I would like to start up a writer’s group with the collective. Since then the Knights has become an important part of my life and has given me a way to access my own dreams and ambitions as a writer. I organised the Knight’s writer’s group for about a year and had the wonderful experience of being able to share my ideas and my hopes with people I trusted. I have come to love these people dearly and they are what really makes the Knights important to me.
When I joined the Knights I had come through a difficult history of mental illness. The Knights helped me to experience fun and friendship again, as well as finding a place to reach out to others who have had similar problems. I feel that I did this through directing my first play with Theatre Knights. This play was called In the Glasshouse and was about bi-polar disorder. Doing this play with Theatre Knights has been the single most hopeful event in my life and has changed me in so many ways. I enclose a copy of the play, as well as some poems from my book The Orchard Corner and a chapter from my first novel The Trouble with Loving Amy.
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Edelle McMahon is 29 and lives in Belfast. She is currently completing a PhD in psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. Edelle got involved with Theatre Knights when she was cast as ‘Naomi’ in their production of ‘The Glass House’ by Ruth Kennedy.
Her first love is singing, and she regularly performs both in Belfast and further afield- she recently travelled to both France and China to sing with Clasac Festival Group from Dublin. Although Edelle’s musical roots are singing in church and traditional Sean nÓs singing, her style is a blend of Sean nÓs, jazz, country and folk. She accompanies herself on guitar and also plays the Bodhrán.
Originally from Emyvale in Co. Monaghan, she began performing with local performance and dramatics groups at the age of 7. Although living in Belfast, she still performs in the Glaslough Musical Society’s annual charity show, both as a singer and stand-up comedienne.
An Irish dancer for over 20 years, she has won titles at both Ulster and All-Ireland levels, and has competed at the World Dancing Championships. She is a member of the Emyvale branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann.
Her previous acting experience includes playing the part of ‘Amanda’ in Geoff Gatt’s ‘Hippo’s in the Shower’ in 2005, and playing ‘Polly Brown’ in a production of ‘The Boyfriend’ in 1995.
Thomas L Muinzer was a founder member of Theatre Knights (2003). He wrote the group’s first play, The Singing Psychiatrist, and performed the part of Dr Dominick McClelland; he did front of house for the second Theatre Knights production, “In the Glass House”. He played the character of Death in the third Theatre Knights production, “The Wooing of the She-Wolf”.
He is also a member of the Theatre Knights Committee and of their Fundraising Committee.
TL Muinzer’s other Knights of the Round Table Arts Collective activities: Founder member of the Nights at the Round Table bookgroup, Founder member of Knights Writers (the collective’s writers’ group), Member of the Knights Art Group, Organizer of the twice-monthly “Knights nights” at the Pavilion Bar on Belfast’s Ormeau Road, the collective’s main performance-based social event.
My name is Jo – short for “Joke”, which in Flemish means “little Jo” (may this prompt a small smile when you meet me!).
“Tomorrow I will be God, today I am Napoleon” – somehow I feel that these lyrics (from one of my favourite Dutch songs) applied to me as a child: I have always had an enormous interest in playing someone else… That interest brought me to the Academy, an institute I was closely connected to for ten years: I learned about acting (through acting), poetry, staging drama and putting together (poetic) performances. It brought me many parts, with many groups, in several languages and it brought me in the company or under the guidance of so many beautiful minds…
My passion for theatre only grew over the years and when I came to Belfast it was one of the first things I looked and longed for: a theatre troupe to be part of. And so it was that in November 2006, shortly after meeting a lovely bunch of fun and quirky people called “the Knights”, I featured as Rebecca in a production entitled “In the Glasshouse” written and directed by Ruth Kennedy. This play made me realise that I wanted to try my hand at directing again.
So, I was presented with an opportunity and a challenge: “The Wooing of the She-Wolf” is the biggest production I have ever had under my wing. I felt privileged to have had a cast of 18, a fabulous musician, an incredible costume maker and lots of lovely volunteers to help me bring the story alive.
“Antigone” proved to be a dream come true for me: I had always wanted to stage my own version of this Greek Tragedy, and our group worked very hard to make it a thriving project and a dynamic experience – for the group this play represented a huge learning curve. That is what I like about the Theatre Knights: we learn as we go along, and I feel we are slowly but surely growing wiser when it comes to displaying our many talents. After the success of She-Wolf, I was appointed Theatre Knights Co-ordinator and it is my aim to do justice to that title by expanding our pool of talent, developing good artistic practices and motivating a committee of wonderful people. When I take a seat at our collective’s round table, and I look around I know that I have not only found a troupe of artists, but a group of like-minded souls. Tomorrow we’ll be Merlin, but today we’re Arthur!
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Lindsay Charrington has recently take
n up the position of Assistant Coordinator for the Theatre Knights. A relatively new member of the group Lindsay brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience of theatre, as well as a passion and enthusiasm for the arts.
She graduated from Queens in 2003 with a degree in Drama following the completion of an HND in Performing Arts at the Belfast Institute. She spent a year in America studying Business and the Arts and completed an internship at The Stage School in Jackson Mississippi.
Her theatre roles to date include Lady Macbeth “Macbeth”, De Nizza “Royal Hunt of the Sun”, Dorinda “The Beaux Strategem”, Rick “Wildest Dreams”, Petra “An Enemy of the People” And Catherine “A View from the Bridge”
She has also done a range of Voice over work and television commercials including campaigns for St. Patrick’s Day, Belfast City Council, Health Promotion Agency, and Tayto
Her credits in film and television continue to grow as she looks forward to being a part of the developing theatre and film industry in Northern Ireland.
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