Cast & Creatives
Ella Loudon is honored to produce this new adaptation of Tina Packer’s Women of Will in her hometown of Edinburgh. Stage credits include Iago in Othello (Harlem Shakespeare) and Indiana Elliott in Robert Ashley’s opera Mother of Us All (dir. R.B. Schlather), alongside three seasons with Shakespeare & Company, where she played Miranda in The Tempest and Phoebe in As You Like It (earning two Berkshire Theater Critics Association nominations), as well as Viola in Twelfth Night and Banquo in Macbeth. On screen, she can be seen this summer in One Night Only (dir. Will Gluck). She also models, draws, sings, writes poetry, and sits on the board of Think Film. She will never pick one thing.
Nigel Gore is thrilled to be working with Ella, Michelle and Siofra on this extraordinary adaptation. Favorite roles include Macbeth, Macbeth, directed by Eric Tucker in Providence and L.A., Gloucester, King Lear, w/Christopher Lloyd; Prospero, The Tempest, w/Ella as Miranda at S&Co; George, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Eliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor), Boston Publick; Dr. Rank, A Doll’s House; TFANA. Col. Brandon, Sense & Sensibility; Dorn, The Seagull; Bedlam. Enobarbus, Antony & Cleopatra; Folger DC. Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Richard, Richard III; Colorado Shakes. Film and TV include Diplomat, FBI Most Wanted, Last Knights, The Brotherhood, Cold Wallet, Bedlam The Series. He is a published poet.
An accomplished playwright, Siofra Dromgoole’s staged works include After Sex, Walk Swiftly & With Purpose, If It Didn’t Matter and Baby, What Blessings. She is an alumna of the prestigious Royal Court Writers Group and Soho Theatre Workshop, and has multiple screen projects in development. Her debut novel will be published in 2027 by Serpent’s Tail.
Michael Sexton is a director, dramaturg, teacher, and former Director of the Public Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2017-2023) and Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society (2005- 2017). Directing credits include Hamlet (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Coriolanus (Red Bull), The Winter’s Tale (Pearl), As You Like It, Henry V (Two River), Titus Andronicus (Public), and new plays by Rinne Groff, Will Eno, Marsha Norman, Caryl Churchill, Ain Gordon, Rogelio Martinez, Kelly Masterson, and Phil Porter. Dramaturg credits include Romeo & Juliet w/Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor (Circle in the Square); Macbeth w/Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga (Longacre Theater), King Lear w/Glenda Jackson (Cort Theater), Hamlet w/Oscar Isaac (The Public), Othello w/David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig (New York Theater Workshop). As a Professor and Visiting Artist: Brooklyn College, Columbia University School of the Arts, Juilliard, NYU Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch Graduate Acting, Princeton, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, UNC Chapel Hill, and the Taconic Correctional Facility.
Paul-Lou Lemieux is a French producer based in New York City and Paris whose work spans film, theater, and immersive multimedia art. After studying film in Nice, France, he moved to the United States and co-founded Insouciant Films in 2022. He has developed a strong reputation for producing boundary-pushing stage works that blend different forms of media. In late 2023, he produced “Untitled, 1970,” a highly innovative multimedia theater piece staged inside a Brooklyn apartment. The immersive production creatively merged live acting with pre-recorded cinematic television segments, allowing the story to flow seamlessly from stage to screen. Building on these theatrical endeavors, Paul-Lou is honoured to be bringing Tina Packer’s “Women of Will” to the Edinburgh Fringe with the Team in August 2026.
Smart Entertainment is a London-based theatre production company specializing in general management, executive producing, production accounting, and consultancy.
Theatre includes: The Lord of the Rings – a musical tale (UK and International Tours); The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Riverside Studios); Interview (Riverside Studios); Hold On To Your Butts (West End and UK Tour); The Unseen (Riverside Studios); Feykom Tarab? Sukkar Ziyada (The Arena, Kuwait); Ali Cook: Principles of Deception (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt Festival); Rehab The Musical (Neon194 and Playground); Nutcracker (Tuff Nutt Jazz Club); Feykom Tarab? A Night with Miami (The Arena, Kuwait and Maraya, Saudi Arabia); The Most Precious of Goods (Marylebone); Glory Ride (Charing Cross and The Other Palace); Grenfell: System Failure (Playground, Tabernacle and Marylebone); Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Vanguard, London); The Wellspring (also tour), Our Lady of Kibeho (Olivier Award-nominee) and The Selfish Giant (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry (Tabernacle and Birmingham Rep); Doctor Who: Time Fracture and The Great Gatsby (Immersive | LDN); Amélie (Criterion); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); and The Gift and Black Men Walking (UK Tours).
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