SPECIAL - Tricolore Easter Stories: 2. The Kind Teacher

Tricolore Theatre Company in collaboration with The Catholic Performing Arts Association (CaAPA) and GHIRELLI present Eastertide Stories, airing on Tuesdays and Thursday at 3:30pm from 9 April to 9th May on Radio Maria England. 2. THE KIND TEACHER Writer: PENNY CULLIFORD Penny is a playwright, author and speaker. Her plays include Warden Pie, The Gingerbread Man, The Golden Chain, Saffron Hill, A Boy Called Porro, and Grimaldi’s Last Act for Tricolore Theatre company. She also wrote the Theodora’s Diary books, The Art of Standing Still and a children’s novel based on her play, A Boy Called Porro. Reader: JONATHAN COOTE An actor for many years on stage, screen and radio, Jonathan’s favourite roles have included Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. His West End appearances include Yes, Prime Minister, The Audience, Witness for the Prosecution. At the National Theatre he has appeared in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Home, Emil and the Detectives, Our Country’s Good, As You Like It. When theatres re-opened after lockdown, he toured a one-man play called The Man with the Golden Pen as James Bond author, Ian Fleming. An immersive audio recreation of an 18th Century Chocolate House which he wrote and produced is currently running at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Television appearances include: Stephen, The Crown, Casualty.. Radio/Audio: Publish and Be Damn’d (BBC) Six Degrees of Assassination (Audible), The Diary Of River Song (Big Finish) and numerous audio books. Reader: KENNETH MICHAELS Kenneth Michaels is an actor and director and has worked in theatre, radio, television and film and has taught in several drama schools. As an actor he has toured extensively in the UK and Europe in works from Shakespeare to pantomime, Pinter to Agatha Christie. Kenneth works as a specialist ESOL teacher, working with refugees supporting their English learning. He is also the Secretary of the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaAPA). Reader: NADIA OSTACCHINI Nadia is an actor, theatre producer, voice over artist, secretary & carer! She was born in London of Italian parentage, trained as an actor and is the Artistic Director of Tricolore Theatre Company whose first dual-language English/Italian storybook based on Jesus’s parables was published last year. She has enjoyed Tricolore’s collaboration with Radio Maria for Eastertide Stories as well as Advent Adventures last year & looks forward to reading: ‘A Boy Called Porro’ to Radio Maria’s younger listeners over the radio this Christmas. Website: www.tricolore.org.uk