The Godot Company
51 The Cut
London SE1 8LP
020 7633 0599
info@godotcompany.com

John Calder
Co-founder of The Godot Company, John Calder has published in the UK most of the works of Samuel Beckett. Since he founded his publishing house in 1949. By the late 1950s, Calder was publishing a group of new writers who were changing the face of twentieth century literature. One of these was Samuel Beckett; of whom Calder published all his novels, poetry, criticism, and some of his plays. Calder has published some of the best of contemporary British and international dramatists including Adamov, Arrabal, Howard Barker, Steven Berkoff, Edward Bond, Marguerite Duras, Ionesco, Georg Kaiser, David Mercer, Robert McLellan, Robert Pinget, Pirandello, Peter Weiss, Heathcote Williams and Snoo Wilson; as well as works by such writers as Henry Miller and William Burroughs. He is no stranger to controversy – having endured many lengthy legal actions for publishing works accused of libel or obscenity. He recently published his autobiography, Pursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder. John was a personal friend of Samuel Beckett for over 40 years. His influential book The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett is now appearing in other languages.

Sergio Amigo
Award winning Director with over 13 years experience specialising in Beckett and Shakespeare. In 1994 founded La Cabeza Del Jabali, Argentina’s first Shakespeare Company. He has directed Beckett’s Happy Days, Footfalls, Rockaby, Not I, and Act Without Words I & II. Sergio is also an accomplished actor with 26 years’ experience in theatre, television, film and radio. His Beckett voice-over credits includes Neither and other poems for television, and for radio, Ohio Impromptu, Come and Go, Catastrophe and What Were. Additionally, over 13 years experience as drama lecturer and tutor on Beckett and Shakespeare in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Rome and London. He has a twice received the Teatro del Mundo Award for his directorial work in both English and Spanish. Playing Lucky in Waiting for Godot is his acting debut in London.

Tim Hardy
Trained at RADA. In Edinburgh this year:Governor Sladon in the musical Parade. Other theatre includes; RSC: Henry V and Marat Sade for Peter Brook (also on Broadway).
West End and London: Henry IV (Hotspur), Mary Barnes, Melon, Lysistrata (for Peter Hall), Fiddler on the Roof, Judy, Mephisto, Peer Gynt.
For Music Theatre London sang Sarastro (Magic Flute),Don Magnifico (Cenerentola), Bartolo (Figaro), Commendatore (Don Giovanni).
USA: Leontes (Winter's Tale), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) for Actors From The London Stage.
TV includes: Wife of Bath, Galileo (title role), Oscar Wilde, Macbeth, David Manners in Eastenders.
Film includes: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Duellists, Nothing but the Best, Marat Sade.

Michael Howarth
has numerous West End theatre credits which include Belyaev in A Month in the Country, George in A Room With a View, Twelth Night, Hamlet and Richard II with Ian McKellen.
He is a founder member of Portals Theatre Company.
Theatre credits include To Play the King, Surgical Spirit and A Fine Romance.
Film credits include Great Expectations, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Spy Who Loved Me and Lassiter.

Oengus MacNamara
trained at London’s Drama Centre. First worked with the Edwards/MacLiammoir Company at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. He has also worked with many leading British repertory theatres. Roles include Mick in The Dalkey Achieve (for the Hull Truck company). T.V. appearances include Clifford in the BBC production of Henry VI and Richard III. He was a founding member of the London Irish Theatre. One of the original members of the Godot Company, he played Lucky in the company’s first production of Waiting for Godot.

Peter Marinker
Co-founder of The Godot Company, his stage his roles include Bishop Ragman in Seduction of Almighty God (Riverside) Mr. Rooney in All That Fall (BAC) and Pilate in Master & Margharita (BAC), Sleen in Barker’s Early Hours of a Reviled Man (Finborough), Hickey in O’Neil’s The Iceman Cometh (Lyric, Belfast), Jems in Bond’s Have I None (Southwark Playhouse), Antonio in Merchant of Venice (Old Vic), Ellis in Curse of the Starving Class (RSC Barbican), Duke in Are You Lonesome Tonight (Phoenix). Film and TV work include United 93, Love Actually, Event Horizon, Judge Dredd, Emerald Forest and recently he was seen as Ronnie in the L.W.T. series Family. He was dialogue advisor to directors John Boorman and Wolfgang Petersen on several of their films. For the BBC in radio plays and poetry readings he is a familiar voice. Peter is a founding member of the Godot Company and has been reading the prose and poetry of Beckett and other influential writers at Calder’s Bookshop for the past four years.

Jim McManus
has performed in Pinocchio (Arts Theatre), Comic’s Interlude (King’s Head), The Boy’s from Syracuse (Regents Park) and as Tony Hancock in Hancock’s Last Half Hour, which played at eight London theatres including The National. His second one-man show in which he plays Charles Dickens has also toured extensively. Recent T.V. includes Tipping the Velvet and Heartbeat.

Peter Pacey
has played leading roles in many theatres across Britain, Europe and the Far East. Parts include Mr. Hawkes in Afore Night Come (Young Vic) and Jacques in As You Like It (BAC/West Yorkshire Playhouse). He was nominated for Best Actor as Clive in David Edgar’s Saigon Rose in 1979 and received an Edinburgh Fringe First in 2000.
His many films include Indiana Jones III,
T.V. series include William and Mary and radio dramas include Edgar in King Lear. Peter has been an avid fan of Samuel Beckett’s work since the 60’s.

Alison Skilbeck
After Oxford University,six Ayckbourn premieres at Scarborough,also Seagull, Crucible, Old Times.
West End and London: Steaming, Little Lies, Judy, Women of Troy, Arms and The Man, Time and The Conways, The Corn is Green, The Dining Room.
USA with Actors From The London Stage: Rosalind in As You Like It, Paulina in Winter's Tale.
For British Council: Pinter in Morocco,Havel in Hong Kong, Dryden in Spain.
TV includes: Beiderbecke Affair, Head over Heels, Soldier Soldier (all series), Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, New Tricks ('06).
Latest Film: Phantom of the Opera.

Ralph Petty
is an American painter living in France. He studied in California and with Sir Stanley Hayter in Paris. He exhibits principally in American and France and is known for his landscape paintings and an underground vision of contemporary humanity. This is his first professional theatre design. He was assisted by his son Nico.

Boy Actors:

Peter Huhne
recently played John in David Mamet’s The Cryptogram at the Tristian Bates Theatre for the Rose Bruford Directors Showcase and previously played the part of Mammilias and Time in the Oxford Shakespeare Company’s Open Air production of A Winters Tale. He has also been awarded the Drama Prize at Dulwich College Prep School for the past two years.

Adam Rust
is at the Arts Educational School. He has two years of acting experience, performing in the musical Oliver, Robinson Crusoe and other school plays. He is eleven years old.