Leadership Team

Adam Nichols - Artistic Director and Co-Founder

Adam Nichols is rapidly approaching his theatrical half century as actor, director and designer with credits across the country from Guildford to Edinburgh via London, St Albans, Stratford upon Avon and Durham. His acting career peaked early as one of the princes murdered by Anthony Sher in the seminal Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard III in 1985. Since then his favourite roles have included Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger and Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard (pictured). Adam is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of OVO, for whom he has directed Romeo and Juliet, The New World Order, As You Like It, Macbeth, Closer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night, Celebration/Party Time and All's Well That Ends Well. 

Imogen de la Bere - Co-Director

Imogen de la Bere is a writer and director who spent her formative years in New Zealand, the last fifteen as a respected, if controversial, theatre critic. Since moving back to England, she has had three novels published by Jonathan Cape and directed seven plays for OVO (Mountain Language, The Cherry Orchard, A Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing and All's Well That Ends Well). Imogen's first venture as a playwright, Playing Faustus, was premiered by OVO in 2010 in a production that she also directed.