In our repertoire Jo Bloom is our Helena, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Caliban, and the Nurse, and has performed Shakespeare across the UK and Australia in castles, theatres, cathedrals and botanical gardens. She’s worked with the British Shakespeare Company, Australian Shakespeare Company, and has performed in every production by Come you Spirits, which she founded. Jo also works as an energy healer and plant medicine practitioner.
In our repertoire, Sontaan Hopson plays Hermia, Charmian, Ariel, The Witch, and Juliet. She is a multiple award-winning actress of stage and screen, who has toured theatre across Australia including Sydney Opera House with Oneness – Voice Without Form, as Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, and winning People’s Choice Award for Pride and Prejudice Short and Sweet, as well as playing Juliet, Ariel, Hermia and the Witch with Come you Spirits. Sontaan is also a qualified Spiral Practitioner, emotional clearance facilitator, and energy worker, helping raise the vibrations of all across the globe.
In our repertoire, Charles Mayer is our Demetrius-Oberon-Bottom, Antony, Macbeth, Prospero, and the Friar. He is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a former infantry commander in the British Army. He has performed in many TV and film productions and on the West End stage, Shanghai, and across Australia and New Zealand with State Theatre Company of South Australia and Pop-Up Globe, and is co-founder of Come you Spirits, performing with the other actors in all five productions.
In our repertoire, Ciarán O’Riordan plays Lysander-Puck-Quince, Romeo, Ferdinand and MacDuff. Recent other credits include Waiting For Godot for ACA Company, Grain in the Blood for Virginia Plain Theatre at KXT, Mel Stanwyck in Chimerica (New Theatre), and original plays What Have You Done (Chippen St. Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (Newcastle Fringe, Sydney Folk Festival). He has also devised and directed a pop-up production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Past Shakespeare credits include Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Acting Factory), Pericles in Pericles of Tyre (The Acting Factory), Ned Poins in Henry IV Parts One and Two with Streamed Shakespeare, as well as Silvius in As You Like It and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night as part of ACA’s Graduating Company of 2020.
