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Park Theatre and Stop The War Coalition present
Myths of War
Kika Markham
Film credits include: Franklyn, Paint It Yellow, The Fever, Esther Khan, Killing Me Softly, Wonderland, A Very British Coup, The Innocent, Outland, Anne and Muriel, Operation Outbreak, Blood of Hussein, Nor Oit.
Television credits include: Fearless, New Tricks, Mr Selfridge, Secret State, Holby City, Call the Midwife, Einstein and Eddington, Party Animals, Lord Longford, Messiah, The Line of Beauty, Dirty Filthy Love, Born and Bred, Canterbury Tales: The Man of Law’s Tale, Forsythe Saga, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Waking the Dead, Touching Evil, Woman in White, Trail and Retribution, Kavanagh QC, Takin’ Over the Asylum, Cracker, The Bill, Chronicles of the Young Indiana Jones, The Good Guys, A Woman At War, Poirot, Van Der Valk, Arms and the Man, Return of Sherlock Holmes, Black Silk, Blade On A Feather, Edward VIII & Mrs Simpson, Clouds of Glory, Double Dare, The Basement.
Theatre credits include: Lena in Escaped Alone The Royal Court, UK Tour and BAM New York, Rebecca Nurse in The Cruicible Bristol Old Vic, Karen Frick in The Last Yankee The Print Room, Amira Hass in On The Record The Arcola, Beth in Tribes Royal Court, Sheila in You, Me and Wii, Lillian in Bloody Wimmin, The Queen in Battle of the Bags all part of Women, Power and Politics Tricycle Theatre, Nina Bawden/ Solicitor in The Permanent Way, Out of Joint/ National Theatre, Portia in Julius Caesar, Homebody/ Kabul, Young Vic ****Nominated for What’s On Stage Best Solo Performance 2002****, Various roles in The Vagina Monologues, Ambassadors Theatre, Evelyn in A Wedding Story, Soho Theatre & Tour, Hilde in Song at Twilight, Gielgud Theatre, The Homebody in Homebody/ Kabul for Moving Theatre, Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl and Akhmatova in Real Writing, Riverside Studios, Anna in Black Sail, White Sail, Gate Theatre, Hannah in The Flag, Bridge Lane, Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day,The Bush Theatre, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Theatr Clywd and The Haymarket, Veronika in Blow on Blow, Soho Poly, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Thorndike, Ocatavia in Anthony and Cleopatra, Haymarket, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Nina in The Seagull, Nottingham Playhouse, Abigail in Time Present, Royal Court & Duke of Yorks, Viola in Twelfth Night, Royal Court.
Mark Rylance
Mark was born in England in 1960 and emigrated with his family to America in 1962. He lived in Connecticut until 1969 and then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he lived until returning to London in 1978.
Mark trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1978-1980) under Hugh Cruttwell, and The Glasgow Citizens Theatre gave him his first job in 1980, a year in repertoire, a trip to the carnival in Venice with Goldoni, and an Equity card.
Recent theatre includes: Ron in Nice Fish in America and London, co-authored with the Minnesota poet Louis Jenkins, directed by Claire van Kampen; King Philippe V in Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen, directed by John Dove; the Countess Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Richard in Richard III, directed by Tim Carroll; Johnny “Rooster” Byron in Jerusalem directed by Ian Rickson; Valere in La Bete and Robert in Boeing Boeing, both directed by Matthew Warchus.
Recent film work includes Chris Nolan’s Dunkirk, to be released summer 2017, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, and Bridge of Spies. He is heard as Flop in Bing Bunny, and played Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall directed by Peter Kosminsky. both for the BBC. He will appear in Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One, due for release in 2018.
Mark was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (1996-2006) and during his career has acted in over 50 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He is an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple Hall in London; trustee of The Shakespearean Authorship Trust; an ambassador of SURVIVAL the movement for tribal peoples; and a patron of PEACE DIRECT, working for non-violent resolution of conflict. In 2017 he was knighted by HRH Prince William for services to Drama.