»Nicholas Allen 

   Nicholas Allen - Founder. Nick was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He gained extensive theatrical and musical training both at Rugby and at Sussex. He started working for ›Vienna’s English Theatre‹ in 1967. From 1971 to 1986 he toured all over Austria, creating and organising a nationwide schools touring operation. He hs worked for Austrian Radio as actor, speaker, author and translator and was also area-editor for a major American guide-book to Austria.

From 1986 to 1989 Nicholas Allen worked as assistant to his mentor: co- founder of ›Vienna’s English Theatre‹, Prof. Dr. Franz Schafranek, O.B.E. He remained responsible for the school touring operation and, in 1989, returned to touring all year round, as well as writing and directing. In 1991 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and the Arts.

In February 2001 he was awarded Austrian citizenship, shortly after the publication of plays written for pupils of all ages, to perform in class and in public. MORE BACKGROUND HERE.


»Sean Aita 

   Sean Aita - Director. Sean trained as an actor at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently worked for over ten years as a professional actor taking leading roles in the West End, repertory theatre, in film and television, and in touring productions across Europe.

Notable Shakespearean productions include an appearance in Ingmar Bergman’s Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre, King Lear at the Bristol Old Vic, Twelfth Night at the Northcott, Exter, and Macbeth on BBC Radio Four.  

As a director he spent three years as Associate Director at the Royal Theatre, Northampton, where his production Yallery Brown was awarded the Checkout Theatre Award in 2000. As Artistic Director of regional touring company Forest Forge Sean’s work was shortlisted for the Stage Awards for Achievement in Regional Theatre.  

Recent Shakespeare productions as a director include As You Like It  set in the “Summer of Love” and performed in the grounds of the University of Surrey for the Guildford Shakespeare Festival. Currently a Senior Lecturer in Acting at the Arts University College in Bournemouth he has written several papers on intercultural communication through theatre, and is completing a book on performance archetypes for screen actors. Sean won the International Visual Communication Clarion Award in 2009 for his touring educational production Bin It.

»Roberta Brown

  Roberta Brown Born in the US, Roberta Brown trained in London at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and with the Society of British Fight Directors. After beginning a career in theatre, including three seasons with Vienna's English Theatre, she moved back to the States to work in film. Her swordplay credits for film include  Charlie's Angels and Boudica, and for television ER, Queen of Swords, and The District.  Fight direction in the- atre includes multiple productions of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night as well as the LA premier of Fortinbras.  She has also trained actors in several Holly- wood acting schools, including at the Lee Strasberg Studio. More about Ms. Brown's work can be found at www.robertabrown.com

Other contributors.

   Eric Lomas Eric began his theatre career with the Westcountry Theatre Company in the UK. After his return to Austria, he founded his own Youth Theatre, producing, directing and designing shows ranging from Shakespeare to Strindberg, Frisch and Brecht.

Since September 2004, he has been working as a professional actor, stage manager and technical director for the International Theatre, Vienna. Roles have included George Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer- price-winning play Our Town and Christopher Wren in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap as well as Fred and Young Scrooge in their annual production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Apart from his own artistic work, Eric also works extensively in Theatre-in-Education and teaches English for the LSR of Lower Austria.

For the European Youth Theatre, he has appeared as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew. In addition to his acting credits, Eric has gotten more and more involved with the company's administrative work, assisting in the preparatory processes and stage managing the actual performances. The Tempest will be Eric's fourth production with the EYT.

   Rudolph Wojta was born and educated in Vienna. After completing his studies he joined the weekly newspaper ›Wochenpresse‹ as writer for theatre and cultural affairs. Later he also focussed on art history and the international art and museum scene. In 1979 he became co-founder and first editor of ›Wiener‹ before subsequently returning to the ›Wochenpresse‹.

He gained first-hand theatre experience as a young man working backstage with prominent stage- designers at theatres including Die Komödianten am Börseplatz. In 2002 he was responsible for the staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Murau as well as Twelfth Night the following year.

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