About us
Sonia Ritter
Sonia Ritter studied at Birmingham University and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has worked extensively as an actor in Theatre, Repertory, Television and Radio. Parts include Thark (Cherry Buck) Lyric Hammersmith, The Last Yankee (Patricia) Leicester, The House of Bernada Alba (Martirio) Nottingham, The Storm (Katya) Bristol, Lion in The Streets (Sue/Jo) Hamstead. With the RSC parts include The New Inn (Frank), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), Happy End (Lilian), Taming of the Shrew (Biondello). At Shakespeare's Globe: Merchant of Venice (Nerissa), The Honest Whore (Infelice) and As You Like It (Audrey). For the Original Shakespeare Company: King John (Constance), Henry the Sixth (Margaret), As You Like It (Rosalind). Other recent credits include for TV: Dance To the Music of Time, Bramwell, Kid in the Corner, Eastenders, Casualty, Peak Practice, George Eliot in The Victorians and BBC Radio: Poems By Post, Voluspa, Diary of a Provincial Lady. She recorded Henry the Sixth (Queen Elizabeth) or Archangel's Complete Shakespeare. She has recently filmed 12 Books that Changed the World (ITV)
Sonia is artistic director for the Lions part, creating annual theatre-based seasonal festivals on Bankside, Southwark (Twelfth Night, May Games and October Plenty) also for Shakespeare's Globe, Isle of Man Festival 2000, Chichester and Winchester Festivals. For these, she researched and directed rarely performed folk plays and 16/17th Century texts including Hans Sachs Fastnachtsspiele, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Springs Glorie, The Olde Wives Tale and The Marriage of Wit and Wisdome, receiving an award from the Society of Theatre Research. She has directed at Theatro Technis, New Hampstead Theatre, the Rose Theatre Site, Isle of Man Festival 2000, the Globe Millennium Festival and Edinburgh Festival. Plays include Twelfth Night, Dr Faustus, A Sleep of Prisoners, Good Morning? (Times Award 2001), The Crystal Den, Entertaining Morocco, The Year Clock with Tim Laycock touring the South West 2001-2 and after: Lilies on the Land: National tour with the Lions part Summer 2003. Also The Comedie of Errors: St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival Canada 2004. Taste by Louise Page: Chipping Norton and Le Preau Festival, Vire, France 2005 and The Rape of Lucrece with the Lions part at St Bartholemew's Church, London in 2005.
